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Well I think that could be a plan!! Let me know time and meeting place. I usually meet all the built Jeeps and Yotas I wheel with out there at the shell station on HWY 6 just before turning into Browns camp. Maps and such can be had there. Oh and could ya maybe burn the vids you have of me on a CD? (hopefully ya still got the old ones from the Hilockburn gravel pit) I would like the full quality clips. I can give ya a few bucks for the disc and such.

Yeah it proly would be. Something I've been kicking around for a long time though since the engine in the RX7 died. Be kinda un-subaru, But tossing the front suspension, engine and tranny out of the soob into the RX7 body and wheeling that would proly be bizzar too. (they have a very similar front suspension design, proly not too hard to make it work) Have to mod the Watts linkage in back to lift it though. Make some long arms. (its 4 link) Win the lotto, to make these crazy ideas real. But here we go getting away from the purpose of this thread agin. hehe

Awesome.

I just wish there was a way to have no worry of breakage. Then I'd be all for it. But I'm still of the thought that I'd rather pass up a trail or not do a climb than break an axle. (I know breaking things is part of wheeling, but if a rear axle full on broke like yours did Chaz. It would proly end my wheeling for the season, no extra $$ for the soob these days other than to feed it. So I stay open to be easy on the parts) Of course I proly wouldnt have to worry with my smallish less aggressive tires. Traction on both will proly give before a stub axle...... Maybe I should just put the LSD'ed solid axle out of my RX7 in it..... I think I can get 3.900 gears for it if it's not already....

I'll have to see if I can make it out this sunday. Not quite sure.

Well let me know. I'd like to go out and play too. Could go one evening. Wednesdays and fridays are out for me. But I'm free most other nights. And it stays light later now too.

Thats the gravel pit up on the Colton side. With the big puddle you were going through when we went up with Greg. That climb in the vid is the one with the big holes at the bottom of itall the way in the back. There's just no snow up there anymore.

I did it in my stock wagon. (Well with Pugs. But a 13"er detrmined with a good line picked out could proly do it.) Thing you can't see in the vid is the Subaru 360 swallowing hole on the bottom right of the climb. Gets bigger every time I go there. It is good times though. And I have to fasten my CB antenna better. You can see it flopping around in the vid on the back of the car.

Lookin' good. But I want to know how you are gonna decide which new project to bring to WCSS 10 ?

I've been thinking the same thing for awhile. So I can give it a try and if I don't like the hassle on the street I can just go back to the original. But I enjoy the crap out of it now the way it is and that's what it's all about anyway.

hehe. Cool.

Oh yeah thers no snow going over to the Hilockburn side now. I started over there and ended up just accidently wandering over to the Colton side. We'll have to get a trip going soon. The top of Goat is still not doable (I checked) but it would seem alot of stuff is finaly starting to thaw out.

Yeah, some of it is BLM. Some of the roads I think are logging company owned. (And a gated off part is owned by a gun club) People have been wheeling out there for years though. So as long as they don't go trashing the place and making new trails I think it's all good that we wheel there. There are plenty of trails they go and block off on us. But they also leave lots of them open too. Proly a "This ones fine' but don't want you wheeling through here." type of thing. It's all out between Colton and Goat Mt. And north of Goat Mt. I didn't even really plan on it being much of a wheeling trip when I left the house. But then a bunch of cool trails got hit up. Wish I had gotten more pics of trail action. Hopefully Mike did.

Decided to wander around the Goat Mt. area today to find places to run my R/C rock crawler. (budget wheeler!) Well messed with it for awhile. Took a couple "flex" pics then wandered down a logging road that happens to run all the way around Goat to the Colton side. (Yup I found it Chaz! We can wander all over that place now) Went into a gravel pit and ran across Mike and a decent sized group of rigs. Did a short and nasty hill climb, Hopefully the video of it gets posted. Played around in some mud. Then we went off exploring. Ran down a whole bunch of nice trails. Got a group pic in a gravel pit, and a group pic on a gravel helipad. Found the backside of some gates. (can't keep ya out if you come in the back way, the main paved road was on the other side) Then all headed home. A fun unplanned trip. I think we've wheeled together more by just randomly running into each other on the trails than planned trips. A few pics. Wish I had more but I still need to get a new card for my camera so I was not clicking them like I should have.

When I measured it, it would fit behind the aircleaner, at aircleaner level, in the spot the spare tire used to go. No lift needed. The real problem is rigging some kind of long flexable hoses so you can flip the rad up for filling and checking. But fitting it there is no problem. But mine is an EA81. The Roo in question is an EA82. Not been under the hood of those much but is there less room? Maybe when I do my engine swap I'll do a real test fit (i.e. just stick it in the spot) before putting the rad back in. and put up some pics.

Crap I missed it. That'll teach me to only look in the meet/greet section once a month. :-\

I know a trail like that we can get pics at. Up on Lolo I have some pics in my gallery with a rear tire about a foot and a half in the air. Able to run that one both uphill and downhill. And not by doing the normal "Subaru run up", I like to creep on the trails. All about line selection. I really just need to get a Jeep with 80:1 gearing. Would fit my prefered wheeling style better. I barely have the $$ right now to put a clutch in my rig, let alone a LSD. :-\ Now we need to get back to the outing planning. My clutch isnt fully gone yet! And I'm itching to go out again.

I've had wheels up in the air like that in slop before. Not "quite" as nasty as that but managed to get through. Guess years of always prefering to run the underdog machine in whatever it is I'm doing have gotten me to the point of always finding a way. I'm sure I'll give in and weld up one of these days. But I havn't really found the need to just yet. Guess I'd rather get stuck every now and then rather than risk breaking stub axles. I hate doing repairs on the trail. Plus all the heat, pb blaster, and BFH work in the world has not released either of my rear axles yet for the pavment travel once I weld it. :-\ I've not been to sand lake. Hoping to make down there when you come down. (even put a flag mount on the Soob already) Gas $$$ are starting to make it so I don't want to go much further than the Mt. Hood area any more though.

Couldn't it be mounted flat above the engine with vents in the hood? (maybe a rubber gasket between it and the hood, and the fan blowing down) I run a full size spare so it does not fit under the hood of my GL anymore. I did some measurements and my radiator would fit easy flat above the engine where the old space saver spare was. Just a thought. Could keep possible leaks due to long hoses at bay. Real problem would be filling/checking the coolant. Have to rig some kind of hinge so you could stand it up for that. And hoses that would allow that.

Sign me up! (but you already knew that) You know my rig. 26" tires. Lifted as high as I can without major mods. (did an inch in the back cause I didn't have to drop the diff any and now I carry more gear) "Open diffs for life!" (as a yota driver with 40 something inch tires yelled at TSF a few weeks back as he cleaned a nasty trail) Not afraid to put it places the welded up, mud tired crew thinks twice about.

Classic. One of the reasons I could never co-drive. Reading + moving vehicle = mess.

I may be able to make it on the 15th. Proly gonna try to hit TSF at some point that weekend too.

You could put a piece of thin plexi for the rear window to keep out the rain. Be alot lighter than the glass that was in there.... ...Or just drill some drainholes.

Proly some punk kids, I'm sure. People go out and do all kinds of dumb things in the woods for a good laugh.... unfortunately. :-\

Oh yeah little rubi would beat on a stock soob. That's the reason I passed on it. The guys I was with had seen a stock minivan go down it though (at speed, with lots of crunch), so they figured I had a chance if I didn't mind major body damage. It was fun, lots of slippery mud and rocks.