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I get to fall in it again!!! hahaha! When you have to break out the welder to put on new wiper blades....... you know you're working on my Soob. I've always been missing one of the pins. Had to make one. Cotter pin was what the previous owner used to hold the pass side blade together. I didn't like that and it's too late to go find a new one. (I also didn't have the right size bolt around.) Ready for tomarrow.

Should be cool. We are thinking we'll do all the Powerlines, Hogsback, Cedar Tree, some of the Archers, and maybe check out Firebreak 5. Now we just gotta not show up late like we did last time. They hit the trails like 5 minutes before I got there. I plan on getting there earlythis time. I'm gonna pack everything up tomarrow so all I gotta do is drag my butt out to the car sunday morning. Oh yeah and plan on mud. If we gotta strap someone or something it could get sloppy on the feet.

Cool. Have to figure a GTG there sometime.

:slobber: :slobber: :slobber: x 1,000 (I really think that says it all )

Not many action shots. Too busy during the action to get out and take a pic. But I got a couple. Does not show much "action" as I was moving kinda slow. But this is going up Firebreak 5 out at TSF. I love this trail. You get about a mile or so of this. In the pic it looks like you could just go easy up to the right of me. There was a hole and ledge about hood hight. Even a 4" lift would have had my bumper just hitting it like a wall. Best way was up twisting through the notch. (And the most fun) Out at Sand Lake just havin' some fun. Sliced a sidewall that day. Wonder why?..........

Ahhh those are fun tanks. I miss the small collection I had. Just watch the turbo on it. I seem to remember oiling issues. Think there's a kit for it now. IPD can get you all kinds of goodies for it. http://www.ipdusa.com/

So yeah. Who's up? The 4x4 board is getting a little run together an I'm 99.99% gonna tag along. They did one last weekend and had a blast. What it's looking like: http://sore4x4.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3190 Anyone who wants to wheel is welcome to as well. Just so ya know it's a sloppy mess up there. So if ya don't have mud tires, bring lots of determination and a strap. And no fear of smashed body panels, plenty of rocks where we'll be going. I know this is on the same weekend as the HP tree run. Not trying to take away from it. Just not feeling like driving 3 hours (takes me an hour to just get to and through Portland so I can head up that way) to drive up a snowy (or maybe not, the mountain here had most of it melt off. Looks like summer up there) road. So I wanna keep my wheeling every weekend run going. I wheeled every sunday in November (and wed nights). Gotta do the same for December. Last weekend sucked though. I didn't get out till about 3:30 and the trails up the mountain I tried to check out were closed off. So it was a mild evening of only getting to wheel the Lolo Pass stuff. Normal meeting time is 9 am at the Shell station on Hwy6 before the turn for Brown's camp. ================ So it's 9 am SHARP at the Gales Creek Shell station. Just past the pond on the left on hwy 6. Sometimes these guys run it on the dot so we could be already on the trails by 9:10. (I usually show up about 8:30 to be safe) Scoobyclimbs called and is in. Not 100% sure what the other rigs are gonna be. The guy that planned it has a Jeep and a Toyota he wheels. But says it's neither of those, he wants to break in a new rig.

Sounds like a plan will need to be made. Isin't Thurston near Olympia? (trying to thing where the exit # are) I've not been in WA for quite awhile so my knowledge is getting rusty. Used to run up to Seattle every weekend but that was almost 10 years ago.

They can go pretty far. Had mine up in some bad spots and never had it go over. Felt like it could but never an issue.

Looks like a blast. Little too far of a hike though.

Yeah we quit going to the field once paintball got too popular. The general public wanted it to be a family friendly game of tag. They took all the fun out of it. We wanted it to stay a war simulation. Only diff is the guns are not the same and you don't actually die. But we got over that detail. I even remember some guys had rubber knives with paint on them. Sneak up and slit other players throats. The paint grenades were cool too. The kind that actually had an explosive charge in them, the ballon kind were kinda lame. Toss one in through a window in the village they had set up and everyone hidding in the room was screwed. (Two more things they banned) Cool to see a field doing scenarios. I'm hoping the peeps show in fatigues and not those bright rump roast jerseys though.

That second pic I'm actually standing somewhere off in the darkness to the left. Glad I found you guys. Seemed like an extra set of hands/flashlights was all that was needed.

Yeah we always ran 275-300 f.p.s. Any more and you'll have a lot of breaks in the barrel. Eventually the field kept going down till they wanted you about 150 to 200. Had to keep all the soccermoms with thier kids happy. Sucked cause that was a good place. About 20 to 30 acres. They had bases with dug out tunnels. And even a few old military trucks and Jeeps for hauling your butt back into the battle after getting hit when they did the weekend long monster games. Had a gatling style paint gun on the top of one of them.

My grandfather on my dad's side used to dump some of the old oil after an oil change all over the engine compartment of his old Chevy truck. Sounds odd. But we had all lived in MI at the time (salt) and years later when we had gotten the truck from him I realized why. A quick washing with some solvent revealed an engine that looked like new and was easy to work on with no rusted fasteners. He was planning ahead. Though these days. Dumping your old oil all over you vehicles mechanicals and then washing it off in your drivway when it's time to work on it..... Not quite the EPA's first choice on what you should do. My EA81 has developed the perfect balance. It leaks out just enough to keep everything coated on the engine. But it has never left a drop in the driveway.

Using Fwd is what we decided he needed to do. He's getting used to that welded rear end and short wheelbase, alot different than his Outback was. And we anchored the back end to a stump (and winched it up a little). Just in case. And dug out a little just downhill of the front tire. Whipped around nice then. And pulled the stump out. We kinda knew that would happen but it was all that was available close by. He had a few uphill wheels in the air moments with that one. I get mine at crazy angles all the time. But his just got downright scary at points. It's hard to tell in the pic but just to his driver's side is basicly a drop-off. Fun to force a Soob up and down. But not sideways. Hope you can get yours up and running soon. Sorry to hear about the loss.

Yeah I am running about 25 1/2" mud n snows now. They do alright but I want more grip in the gooier stuff and a little bit tougher carcass. Cooper actually makes an all-terrain in my size. (who knew still a sub 27" all-terrain out there?! ) Not as good in the goo as a swamper, but better than what I got and I can keep what I have left of my low end as it's still not too bad. Most of the time I can roll around at about 1,100 rpm in first low and just give it a little blip when it starts to lug and it'll just hop up over stuff. bigo1966: here ya go. http://www.intercotire.com/tires.php?id=10&g=1 Funny though, thay ACTUALLY measure smaller than the 27" swamper SSR. 28" x 14" TSL = 27.4" 27" x 14" SSR = 27.5" Or theres the TSL Radial that fits 14" which is 28.7" http://www.intercotire.com/tires.php?id=14&g=1

Yeah I 'm tying to stick to not going over 27" I watch too many clutches get burned up from 28"+ And I don't do the revving the engine, slipping the clutch kind of wheeling anyway. I try to keep it just off idle and creep around. Little gas when needed. I hate that "just blast it!" style of wheeling. (sometimes ya gotta do it but it take the fun out of it) I like to use a more tactical, skillfull approach to get up a trail. Not just mashing the gas waiting for an axle to break. Really wish we had more gearing options for Soobs. (other than major mods like transfercases) So I wanna keep a cap on tire size. Sometimes I'm tempted to throw the 13"s back on for more challenge and more low end.

Few weeks ago we started a run of wheeling. First went out around Hood River. It was sloppy. The first spot we got to to play at I managed to blow a brake line. And SC got kinda sideways coming down a hill. It was nasty, you could hardly walk without falling on your butt and sliding down the hill. (I know it happend to me) But amazingly the Soobs were still climbing it like it was all tractiony. I'm amazed at how my cheap street tires do in the slop. Not as good as real mud tires but all that shopping for tread pattern payed off. So after fixing my line with vice grips and topping up the fluid. And getting his hatch out of it's "just about to land on it's lid" situation. we continued on for a fun day of wheeling. Only thing that sucked was driving home at night over Mt.Hood and it started trying to snow. With less than perfect brakes. But all part of wheeling. If he would have slid another foot to the driver's side, it would have been over. That's kind of a ledge right there. We were going to just yank the front around down it but managed to winch the back up into the woods instead. Two weeks ago: I'm fuzzy on the area name. But it's south of TSF, west of McMinnville. Scoobyclimbs can fill in the details. But anyway we went out and had some fun in the mud. Not many pics were taken but I had to share. Then I went out his past weekend. Ended up running into Michael Appel and his group out around Goat mountain. But it was late (I was working my way back) And I didn't get any pics of the big rock that popped his bead. Spent a good bit of time in the dark and deep mud getting the tire back on the rim and all was well. Earlier I did find a fun but short trail though. (It was an exploration day). Found a washed out road. Sucked cause I was trying to get to a spot on the map. Then found a trail south of Goat Mt. After two 1/2 hours of rolling around forest roads I finally found a trail. It was short. Not too difficult, but fun enough. A few holes and rocks do get around/over. Ran up it, then back down it. Next weekend?...... Supposed to do a 1:1 run with the guys on the R/C rock crawling board out around Barlow road area and some play areas near the other end. Also got a call from Scoobyclimbs to go wheeling again. Gotta get it all in before the snow saps the fun out of it!!

I used to. Kinda got out of it when it got into too much of the "speedball" type stuff. And more and more rules and kept making us turn our guns further and further down. I always preferred pumps. And sniper type stuff. Could go all day sitting in the mud hidden waiting for a enemy patrol to come by. We'd pop up behind them and wipe 'em out. Even got to play against the MI State Troopers a few times. (they would come out the the field for "training" wanted to see how they did against the unknown civilian element) They hated our group. We always took them out with our dirty warfare. We used to go out and do more of a war simulation type thing. Once the fields got to into the new "how much paint can you spray" fads we all stopped going. Played at my uncles for awhile then a few too many peeps kinda moved on. Still got my old Tracer Deluxe and VM-68 though. Lost my mask in a move and outgrew my fatigues though.

Ouch. Reminds me all my pins are in but I need to pick up some spares so's I got 'em when working on it. Yeah I do R/C. Had just finished up a F4U Corsair. I gave it a bit too much control surface throw though (was still within spec, just at the upper end of it) for a first flight and after about 2-3 minutes had a nice gust throw it off.... I over compensated and it was about 50 or so feet up, about a half second later it was a pile of bits embedded in the ground. Looks like the surviving electronics will be going into my Cessna once I rebuild it. I had fun building it and flying for those few minutes though! Makes me love my Cub that much more. So smooth it has not seen the ground in a bad way in over a year. And I fly it all crazy.

Nice.

This pic I made it up through there no problem. Had the Jeep guys I was with all excited by it. Just another day for the Soob. 83 GL D/R CB AUX backup lights. Overhead lights. GPS. Grill mounted Fog lights. 14" Pugs. Welded rear diff. Full compliment of wheeling gear. Various trail rash. Reworked exhaust. (reworked by rocks, then reworked by me)

Good Times! I like what you did to the front end on the front of the white wagon Scott. May be an idea I'll have to borrow one day.

I know when I'm following him down the road his axles are straight across. The diff isn't any higher. When I was helping him install it there was a moment of "which holes to use?"

Would have joined ya but have wheeling planned for sunday already. And today is going to be spent getting a new plane I just finished building in the air. Yay for test flights!