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my tow took a crap.
Anyone wanna gimme a tow? I don't know if i can drive it cause i won't have shocks until monday. Sad story. You got a tow by chance Cooper?
EDIT: and i'll be working on my toy all day today and tomorrow....gonna be doing my steering and odds and ends. if anyone wants to help out, gimme a call. 220-3108
So are you coming scott?
Okay right now it looks like I'll be driving up there with Ugly in tow. My sister's riding with me (do NOT confuse these two statements), but the tow rig has a back seat, so two people are welcome to it.
CJ's pulling his own rig up there and his girlfriend's got shotgun.
Kate may or may not be going, and may or may not be able to pull somebody? Maybe Kate, Mario and Coop can work something out on the fuel so she won't have any more excuses?
Matt and his buddy are driving themselves?
Willing/able to pull someone?
Mr. Preziden? Kopecki? Kevin? Derek?
leaving from McDonalds at 9am sunday
not able to tow. just in a jeep. might have an open seat if none of my buddies from the corps can go. so maybe an open seat.
In corpus bud, sorry. If I feel up to it I may leave extra early and meet yall there with the ****box... doubtful though.
People going who have sent me their info:
Mario Gonzales
I hope he has fun by himself. Unless other people send me their stuff or at least let me know they are going.:flipoff2:
keep an eye out....the toy is rollin' around.
Just need the hood. I've got a tow too. I'm probably bringing a few friends...but you're still welcome cooper.
EDIT: gonna be working on it tomorrow too. Gimme a call anyone.
I didn't get around to changing the waterpump...but i need to. Maybe someone can help me change it in the parking lot or i'll just plug the weep hole and see how far it gets me.
depending on how my night goes, i'll be at mcdonalds at 9:00-9:30....or i won't be there at all. See you there cooper, if u still wanna ride.
heres some pics
... spent all night making tow bars for the ugly and cjs jeep
finished.................. just to find out the camber was off on the jeep so we had to use a trailer
at alto... annie learned the tamor salute quick.
then i pulled out mario.. to find he broke the front drive shaft... other than that the black truck ran great... and no one broke anything
it was also cjs first trip
stuck again
look at this beast
it was a great time... small group, no stress, just having fun, great drive there and back.. untill.................
made it to the front of the house to drop off jeep, saw steam... and this is what i saw
that makes 5 broken hubs on passenger side... so david i would like to change out my plaque at rudys:flipoff2:
so decided to move it to the drive way to fix it, and while backing up....
hope the people behind us on the highway didnt get hit with a warn hub
was your wheel loose and knocked the hub off when the wheel gave?
the rim ate through the hub like a saw and that was the only thing holding it on the jeep... everything... including the lugs are gone.
i think what happened is that when i was leaving and unlocking the hub i noticed that the lock washers and the bolts were slightly loose.. i think some dirt and water got in there.. then while flat towing it locked there bearing up
Found a tow bar design yall like? But no telescoping?Quote:
Originally posted by J Cooper
finished.................. just to find out the camber was off on the jeep so we had to use a trailer
What happened with ugly's old tow bar?
Cooper, they're in Karnes City but if you want my old d30 parts to fix that you can have em.
what year is it? i need either ones off a 74 narrow trac.. (like that was from) or a scout 44 hub... i have 4 hubs and rotors off the original d30 and like 6 lock outs... but if you have any scout **** or 70s jeeps let me know
81. Got discs and 5 bolt hubs.
na... i got a bunch of those parts sitting in the garage... i need 6 bolt for the new premiums i was putting on
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Originally posted by eight
Found a tow bar design yall like? But no telescoping?
Uglyfab, baby! Would like to make it telescope, but with our design, everything else would have to be made of oddball-size metal so the 2" could slide in the tongue.
I "fixed" mine so that it could be installed with a BFH...and it worked fine, but I'll feel better when I make a new one. I'm all jealous of CJ's bar...can't be building stuff for people that's better than what I build for myself!Quote:
Originally posted by eight
What happened with ugly's old tow bar?[/B]
Coop...that's beautiful!
I knew we couldn't have a trip where no jeeps broke, just a Toyota (cough...er, chevy, cough)
Glad that wheel didn't fly off on the highway...wouldn't have been fun.:(
No pictures of the ugly truck?
pics???
This guy behind you welding is one of my good friend's brothers, i think. His name is Greg Zenner. I'm trying to figure out why in the hell he would be over there when there was work going on, or even why he would be over there period. yall dont hang out with a guy name chris moore to do you? I hope not!
he's my parents' next door neighbor in KW.
and good friends with my sister, who was in town this weekend.
Make sense now?
Don't worry...he wasn't working!
yeah that makes sense now....that means you might know scott too. That also means you live on BEAVER LODGE...that is the awesomest street name ever!
Btw looked like a good trip!:D
Is Scott his brother? They moved there when I moved off to college, so I don't know anybody around there real well, but Anne probably knows them all. BTW, PM me greg's email address if you've got it.
Forgot about my trip report:
Yes, it was a fun trip! We rendezvoused at McDonald's at 9am, (well, almost)...got on the road at 10:30, and up to alto without event, after talking to a guy at a gas station who warned us...man, that place is gonna be dangol greasy, man...you guys are gonna get muddy, don't know if you'll be able to do much! Then upon arriving at the place, the owners/operators told us how bad and slippery it was, and how we weren't going to be able to do much except play in the field, so we got out there expecting the worst.
But it wasn't.
Actually, I think the place would be boring if it weren't sloppy. The dark red clay stuff is not slippery, and the washouts and deep creek banks made for some pretty fun "mud crawling."
Everybody had to hit at least a couple mud holes (heck, it was still Alto).
After seeing that the terrain wasn't too tough, kevin went back and got his STOCK bronco and proceeded to beat the snot out of it, and Matt's friend (dang, can't remember your name), grabbed his sweet s-10 and ran it until his thermal linear actuator decided to take a crap.
Mario and Annie (my sister) made a good team, as apparently there was a friendly game of one-upmanship ("watchis"..."betcha won't") going on in the Violent truck. Apparently Mario suggests "you think we can make it through that hole," anne says "you better get some momentum first" (see picture).
After first overextending his slip joint, then smashing a chevy CV, Violent was a donut-spinning monster.
Coop got flexed a little out of his comfort zone, and I think CJ's CJ made the owner happy with his investment. The Ugly truck did alright...nothing special (though I love factory fuel infection :flipoff2: )...and Kopecki and Kate, hey, where were you guys? :flipoff2:
All in all, I think everybody was just happy to be wheeling,
and they lived happily ever after :D
I think i saw your hub on the road. There were a couple of pieces of metal on the road.
I got *really* tired and was about to pull over for an hour or so.
It was a great trip. I'm gonna do a square tube front shaft or tractor slip. Overextending it was too easy. What i think broke the cv was the fact that when i hit the mudhole my shaft compressed so much that it bottomed out and broke the first joint and the bolts...which was why that mudhole stopped me so hard and quickly.
Other than that, it did great. Annie took the liberty of cleaning out the engine. She drove it really well....even worked the shifter like a champ. Engine ran better than i could have asked it to. She needed 2nd gear since Annie wasn't afraid to put the hammer down. It was great to finally get behind the wheel and make sure that everything works and runs great. I'm gonna turn it into a DD here in the coming months. Can't wait for the next trip and really get it goin on. Thanks for letting me borrow the strap and eye, Coop. I'll clean em up and get them back to you soon.
how far back was it, im interested in when it happened and if maybe i could find it
I was ready to pull over in N Zulch instead of falling asleep and crashing two trucks in a ditch. When we hit NZ I decided it was close and I could make it.:D
i slept on the way back :flipoff2:.... i think kevin did a couple times
yeah i was getting a little tired, so i just turned up the radio and was ready to role again. Hey mario do you remember what town you possibly saw the hub we have been trying to figure out when everything blew apart.
speaking of the hub, it looks pretty bad i got the first nut off from inside the hub but the one just before the bearing is frozen in.... any suggestions... besides taking the whole nuckle off to get the shaft out and then cutting off the hub, and removing the spindle and replacing it... in last resort i have a spare d30 in the garage i can pull the whole nuckle from and replace
What are u using to get the nut off? I've got the socket that fits it if you don't. Possibly try a little heat? You won't be able to get the knuckle off w/out takin the shaft out because it has to go down enough to get the balljoint studs out.
i was using a screw driver and hammer like a punch, i used that little torch for a sec... im gonna go out and try it again but i think the socket would work alot better, get some leverage on it... let me know when you get home, i might have to go get that socket
So THAT's how it happened!:DQuote:
Originally posted by stx4wheeler
I heard something grinding back there, so i just turned up the radio and was ready to role again...
I saw it on the west side of madisonville about 4-7 miles before 45. I didn't think anything of it though...i shoulda picked it up for you.
I got so tired i started seein' things in the road and pressing the brake and swerving a bit. Then i fell asleep when a car passed me. I got back service and called some people...which helped.
EDIT: i forgot to add....i've got the guts from a 70s waggy d44 at home. I don't know exactly how great everything is but you can have it if you want.