First trail carnage, 15 min into our first trail on Thursday, JB's front drive shaft decided to commit suicide.
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First trail carnage, 15 min into our first trail on Thursday, JB's front drive shaft decided to commit suicide.
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Let me guess. . . he thought the 'trail fix' from Alto would hold, didn't he?
It twisted on the dent from the campground front dig. Slim built me a new one pretty quick
Pretty epic trip. Great turnout. Great weather yesterday and today.
Lessons learned in clayton:
- bronco needs steering
- bronco needs traction aid
- jeep < tree < cooks truck
Already planning for next years trip :gigem:
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i broke both stubs and a pair of hubs, that and i already started tearing down the blazer for the new build
What a great trip. Seth told me he counted about 40 last night. 23 WTWE gifts. I would guess 15-20 rigs??
I hope alot of the newer guys were able to see past the wheeling and get an idea of what the club is about.
The Bronco did pretty much everything I asked it to do. I am not sure what the next step will be.
The weather sucked Wednesday night and all day Thursday, but was great Friday and Saturday.
:beer:
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Lost trailer bearings on one side 30 min outside of Clayton. Chained up the axle and made it to franklin to shoot pigs at Travis' farm and t
hen the other side did the same thing. Dropped it at the farm. Almost home.
I think you lost more than just the bearings on that one!
Klogger report - Friday I shatted a distributor within 10 minutes. We left it to go wheel with other people. I was able to source enough parts to make a distributor and get it running at about 2 am with Fred's help. Saturday wheeled all day, and then around 4:30 I shat an idler pulley on the serp belt. I left it and later drove it on the trailer. This morning I noticed I broke a leaf spring center pin also.
While it was running, it did well for the klogger.
Bastard worked great besides debeading a tire within the first 20 minutes of wheeling because I aired down to far.
After fixing that with the help of the most notorious chevy tire deflator in the club it went up everything I pointed it at.
Cardoc is going to love that Tommy. What does a new axle cost?
I think it is under $150 for a 3500 # axle. Call Trailer wheel and Frame in Houston on 45, they are cheap.
Actually we called John before we left because it looked a little crooked. John came over and took the hubs apart and said that they were fine.
I'm glad that I did that because it at least showed them that I was paying attention and trying to take care of it. A new axle at tractor supply is only $160. I'm willing to buy him a new one because it did happen while I was using it.
We weren't overloading the trailer, and the bearings had been repacked by John in the walmart parking lot before we left. There is no reason why the bearing should have gone out, I think that all of the grease came out because it didn't have any caps on it and toasted the bearings. Or there was too much grease and it held in all of the heat.
Well I played a little hard on Wet & Wild yesterday before heading back to the trailer. Pulled it off the trailer today and both of my autozone blocks on the back axle sheared off their center pins and the axle is tilted upwards
I would say a bronco would be overweight for 7k trailer. Just saying.
it could have happened if he over tightend the spindle nut when he greased the bearings causing them to overheat and then seize
Bronco report:
-battery was dying before we left but it wasn't dead so I couldn't go warranty it at napa. It died on the trail so I warrantied it out at the clayton napa.
-Beat the **** out of the doors. Neither one will open.
-Blew a fuse to the radio and tach.
All in all I was pretty happy with it. I need to figure out the fuel injection problems. I think it's a wiring problem. I redid the computer grounds and it seemed like it fixed the problem. After 30 min on the trail it came back.
Locker held up and i really didn't have any major prolems.
Well he tightened the spindle nut with a pair of channel locks, so if anything they were too loose.
Had a blast out at Clayton and it was great meeting everyone! Thanks again to Busa for letting Amanda and I ride along with him yesterday through all the real trails. Thought i made it out of Clayton with the only damage to my little JK being a mangled exhaust tip, but after driving it all the way home this morning I noticed the back Diff is leaking, hopefully its just a seal i'll look into it more tomorrow. I have tons of pics, Ill post them on facebook tomorrow.
Not necessarily. On trailer axles you tighten the spindle nut until you feel a bit of rotation resistance. Then back it off until the next notch for the cotter pin or retainer clip. At least that is how I have done it. You don't set much pre-load on that bearing at all. Any how, it looks like a lubrication issue to me.
BTW. You are either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid to continue to tow the bronco on three wheels for that distance. I would be pretty leery.
Good time to ditch the blocks!Quote:
Originally Posted by jasonjuch
Hecho en MexicoQuote:
Originally Posted by jasonjuch
incredibly braveQuote:
Originally Posted by 85cj7
we went slow
Thank you Ryan, I would really like to watch you explain to John at cardoc about how he should fix his own ****ing trailer :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by 85cj7
It was a 250 mile trip, with a 5k lbs Bronco and a 2k lbs trailer which is neither long or heavy. This trip was way too awesome to talk about our ride home, and honestly it wasn't that bad. The worst part was walking past the pigs only to have them spook behind us and run away.
Awesome trip :D
if you went through wome water you may have filled up the diff with some water and now stuff is leaking out, you may just need to drain the fluid mix and re fill with good oilQuote:
Originally Posted by KY.
He went through a LOT of water on Friday going up Waterfall.Quote:
Originally Posted by bcolman
Yeah, my D60 is vomiting chocolate milk.
:texas:
This trip could not have been better. Thanks to Chris and his Dad for letting me drive the big green FJ40. Also a big :flipoff2: to the asshats that tried to draw penises on me after I took way to many pulls of the SoCo bottle. I went to sleep at 4 yesterday afternoon and slept until 5 this morning. This means that I slept the same last night as I did the entire trip. Looking forward to next year and seeing everyone again.
The trip was a lot of fun. Thought the JK did solid, trip changed some of my priorities around. Thanks again Travis for lettin me crash in yalls room. Wish I would of got to see a little more of the big rigs wheelin, but I enjoyed it. Have some pics and couple vids of the hill climb challenege ill put up as soon as I can find my phone cord.
Sam- "pleasedontdrawadickonmyfacepleasedontdrawadickonm yfacepleasedontdrawadickonmyface!!" :flipoff2:
I think that gas stations card deal was ****ed, im pretty sure it only charged me a dollar instead of the $25 I got when I left for home
Do your priorities include less flat bills and neon shirts? :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Deluxe
Nah I am just fawking with ya. It was really good to finally get to meet a lot of the young'uns of the club I have seen on the boards. Ya'll all came out and beat on your rigs relentlessly the day I got to see ya'll. That was pretty badass. :gigem:
Tum-tum - When Dave and I passed you and travis y'all were at a walmart gas station? The didge looked way saggy, I guess this explains all that.
I counted about 40 at the gift exchange, and that was without Fred, Landon and crew, and the Higgs.
I did a list of names last night, I think the over 25 guys were about 2-1 :)
Great trip as usual, I'm still semi recovering.
That trip was so much fun! Cant wait to go next year. Well, we've made it to Dumas, Texas without any issues so far besides weather. We are stopped dead in our tracks because all highways north of here into Crawlorado are closed. So, hopefully we will make it home tomorrow. Oh, and the bent rim has been flawless :D
Jeff, it was good meeting you! Cherokee did well, and kudos for not being afraid to wheel something you were going to head out for Colorado in afterwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by 60anny
Motion to change Jeff's screename to "Weeble" or "Wobble" or "JB2". 60anny is dumb
I second the motions to change his screen name