chazmataz
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Nice job! looks good. looks like you have room for mounting your CB under your radio.
we'll have to get together and go wheeling someday so i can see your hatch in person.
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man that was a fun day but i do wish i hadn't broke so early. but its all for the better, it is inside the diff. though. i pulled off the highway at the top where rogers camp is to pull out the other rear axle and heard a thunk and my batt. and some other lights came on. opened the hood and was missing a fan belt looked closer and the idler pulley for the a/c belt was missing looked down where i heard the thunk and theres the pulley and fan belt. so took the a/c belt off put the fan belt back on (it was still good) then pulled the other axle and away we went for home. that a/c pulley couldn't have picked a better place to let go, since we where at hard throttle and in alot of traffic go up to the past just before it let go or on the trail earlier.
got some repairs to do will need to put another diff. in welded not sure if the welds broke or a spider but its an open diff again only with some crunking noises coming out of it hense the reason for taking out both rear axles.
can't wait to do it all over again.
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Yeah we'll be there sunday morning. Only time Chaz and Frank (Guy with the Rubicon) can get the time.
Not gonna run with the Cascade Cruisers, For one I didn't register and wasn't it like $50 entry?
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OK, so Chaz.
He wants to meet up at the shell station on highway 6 on the way to Brown's at 9am sunday.
That cool?
(I generaly show up around 8-8:30 just in case)
that works for me.
i'll call you if something comes up and i can't make it or if i'm running late.
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Hmmm... I wonder if I have that one saved in my GPS... (I downloaded a bunch around me and the Goat/west of Estacada areas)
There is one up near the top of Goat but I went to find it and it seems to be gone. The spot id kinda torn up so it could still be there just buried.
I've been up Squaw a month or so ago, just before WCSS 10. Fun times gettin' to the top. There was a nasty mud hole. And a nasty off camber spot with a Soob swallowing ditch on the low side. And that was when it was dry. Should be pretty hairy getting past the ditch in the rain.
TSF would be fun (And I've been wanting to get some runs in before it starts snowing out there) but close to home could be fun too.
I'll keep an eye on what the guy with the Rubi is gonna do. He was a possibly as well.
I could always go with ya so you could check your stuff, and we could wheel some after/before/during.
well my other thought about going up there was to continue on that road past Squaw lake and see what kind of road it is. i've been on the eastside of that road coming from High Rocks to a point where you had to go under a log and make a hard right up a steep hill and hard left but it was me and my son and it was late on a sunday so we didn't attempt it. but i've been wanting to come that way from the west and see what its like, exploritory run but never gottin to it.
so do you Geocache? we placed one at the summit of Squaw about 3 years ago just haven't made it up there this year to check on it.
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I got the radius blocks in...
Tommorrow I get my brake lines..
Also steering shaft will be lenghtened
All that is left is D/R linkage(tires...install motor/rad..)
Then I can wheel it:banana:
think you will have it ready by sunday?
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well was going to go up to Squaw Mtn. to check on my geocache, it does require a 4wd especially with a locked or welded rear diff., atleast for a subaru.
but TSF sounds good to could go up to Squaw next week.
keep me informed jason.
to bad to see you moving spiffy, goodluck.
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the hatch is looking good greg!
can't wait to see it in action.
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i'm ready to go out! can't wait to see scoobyclimb's hatch. haven't been out in a while. you know me it has to be on a sunday though do to working on saturdays.
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thats a nice looking hatch you got there and at a very good price i might add. sounds about ready to take out to a trail and play.
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nice pics! don't think i have ever been on that side yet or atleast not during the day anyway.
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i may be up for it if you are still going. i don't think i have anything going on yet. i would love to go down there with some soobies.
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Is it possible to change the ring and pinion in the tranny and back diff to 4.11 or 4.44 gears?
the one in the tranny is the problem. this has been brought up several times. its not known for sure if its doable but so far from what i have seen on here in the past its alot of money for machining(the case and the gear shaft plus rehardening) and for the parts themself. i think someone in canada started working on it and had bought brand new gear sets and that was i think a couple of years ago now.
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Only problem is now I try harder things that dont look to difficult locked
Now how is that a problem?
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nice pics!!
one of these days i'll make it down there again.
i would like to go under that cedar tree too, never seen that before.
ya michael , did you get it welded up and how did you like it?
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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....
heck that sounds like alot more work and money to fab, i'd just stay open for now until your able to weld or put a sooby LSD in it. i mean your having fun with it and a good time with just the way it is so heck just stay with it open for now.
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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.
heck yeah it stays lighter longer, sounds good to me. yeah, wednesdays and fridays are out for me too. but this week is pretty much out also. next maybe but it might kind of a last minute thing we'll see, we've been slow at work and they have been booting us out early so if i get off work early next week i'll give you a call.
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sunday sounds good to BUT it is Father's Day so need to see if my family is doing anything first. if not then maybe i'll just see if my dad wants to go
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WOW, that sure doesn't look the same as i remember it.
guess i'll just have to go back up and see.
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thats what its all about is enjoying it.
ya, a welded diff can be a hassle at times, its really not that much though and you can choose to either run locked or not. but the frustration of trying to follow someone up a trail and you hit this one spot that kicks your just right that you can't past and knowing that if you had your diff welded it wouldn't be anything. thats what got me, it started happening way to much.
of course i was running with alot of modded jeeps, toys and various other rigs so i had to keep up with them or be left in the dark. usually didn't run much with stock rigs and the few that did always stayed on the road and waited for the others to come back down what fun is that. well, i didn't want to wait, unless i had broken something and had no choice but then sometimes i wasn't the only one waiting because of that.
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sweet video!!!! nice job jason!!
wheres that at? it doesn't look at all familiar.
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well crap Jason.
i thought about possibly calling you and seeing if you wanted to go wheeling, I'm not that far from you. my parents went out of town for 2 weeks and i've been staying out at their place all week. they live up above Eagle Fern Park just South of you and just west of Wildcat Mtn. would have been real easy to meet you in Estacada.
Dammit! oh well, sounds like you had a good time. pretty cool you met up with Michael. hopefully that video will get posted, would love to see it. if the snow wasn't so bad when we was up there with Greg and Gary i would have taken you guys over to the Hillock Burn side and went home from there. last time i was up there about a month ago with some jeeps we ran into some snow that they and a Land Rover Defender couldn't even get through but we we're close.
anyway, we'll have to work on getting all these portland area soobies together and have a subaru offroad outing. it would be cool to get a bunch of subarus together to go wheelin.
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Ill take that challenge Im in that crew and challenge you to follow me up any trail you pick, dont make it to Oregon much thou
try this with a open Diff soobie
will do a Oregon trip in mid August would like to meet up with you guys ever been to Sand Lake ??
I know i've had my 86" in a few situations like that. but, as usual :-\ , i wish i had the pictures to prove it.
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this BS really sucks! but then i've heard that all these places have been closed for sometime just not inforced i guess. a few years ago i heard that Wildcat was closed and that they we're inforcing it so i stopped going, then i started going up Goat didn't hear anything about there but i do know they closed off some good trails about 3 or 4 years ago. i heard La Dee Flats was closed off a couple of years ago besides some of the old mud pits that have been closed some years ago about 2 years back i think the logging company that was working up when they got done went through and closed off everything but the main road going in there. haven't been out in awhile i think spring was the last time on Goat. might need to go and check things out, curious about Squaw too. but won't get far right now i know it will be snowed in.
sounds good Jason, we all need to get together and go up somewhere. i doubt they will be doing much up in those places as far as inforcing anything until the snow starts melting off. don't really need trails right now, the road will be hard enough as is.