Awesome wheeling pics man! Gives me the itch to get mine of the pavement

 

Thanks! Still more to come, that was only day 1

 

Day 2. Things got a bit more interesting.

It turns out it takes about an hour to cook a Hot Pocket to perfection on the 4.0.














Mike with his ZJ wheeled with us

 

You can make it they said. You'll be fine they said.




Jus chillin

I had no idea I snapped my drag link. No one heard anything, and I went to turn the wheel and it almost did a 360.




We tried ratchet strapping it, but it didn't work

So I'm stuck on this ledge with no steering at all and going back down wasn't an option. So we winched me up by force.





R.I.P. in piece 3 month old drag link



Left the Jeep there and Brandon drove me 80 miles to the only parts store who had one in stock (the 2 in town had nothing till Tuesday)


Wish I brought a For Sale sign

 

2 hours later we got back and I slapped the new one on. Un aligned and I thought I had the steering wheel straight, but it sits 90°off center (still need to fix that)

 

Unseen drop. Slop in front and hitting the hitch at the rear




Made it to the quarry.

 

Rock Fun










Nobody made it up. Jon got close though

 

I have to stop giving into peer pressure

Like a twizzler




Found my horrible clunking and squeaking sound too.





The caps fell right off

 

Rolled FWD fo alittle bit until Jon broke his rear driveshaft too and another guy said he had some, but since Jon had an SYE he couldn't use the stock reae, only front which the guy didn't have. $30 later I'm 4x4 again. Just in time because Brandon messed up his rear locker on a rock ledge and I had to climb around and winch him up.

 

Pretty successful day I'd say.










I broke those, Brandon broke his locker, Jon broke his rear driveshaft aswell, and Mike caught his crossmember on a rock and ripped off some bolts. Good day

 

wow... Fun!!! Do you have a t case drop?

 

Did any of you air down?
It all looks like normal pressure/tire heights from the pics. I was thinking those obstacles look doable without breakage, but if you were using skinny pedal to make up for sponge foot, I can see why.
That link snap was just weird. wonder if you can claim a warranty on it.
Good thing you all made it out, even if it was in pieces. Looks like a really fun trip.

 

No, probably the reason for the U Joint going so bad from the driveline angle

 

I was tons of fun. We all were aired down, went 17psi i believe and Brandon was at 14psi. I use the skinny pedal alot, and I have the least amount of clearance out of all of us, but the wall I was trying to go up was an 80° angle and I have no lockers, but I was stupid and tried anyways. Bounced up and down a few times and the driveshaft broke.

 

I was running 12 PSI all weekend. Still trying lower and lower each trip with the mtrs, They squish a decent bit right now they look pretty low jeeps still sitting on the trailer in my driveway.

Some of that stuff was actually pretty sketchy. One of the verticles just tapping the gas to go up it my suspension unloaded and I was sitting at damn near straight up to the sky until the jeep shifted to the driver and came back down.

Rear locker messing up was entirely my fault, Installing the lunchbox style with the 4.56 gears I had just put in came out to be alot more work then the fronts i've previous done in the past years. Late night and frustation modifying things me and scottie got it in one day and said **** it, 1 spring wasnt fully seated but we couldn't get it back out or to seat properly and I left it. That was the issue. I had no issues with rocks or anything I was previously breaking this trip and I was doing obstacles substantially easier then normal since the axle build, but my neglect lead to failure.

As far as Scottie's breakages, The steering was just crap, I couldn't wheel stock steering the way we wheel that was just prone to break. The driveshaft on the otherhand was pure stupidity. He's Open/open and he just kept trying to bounce up a climb.

As far as Jon breaking a driveshaft, again pure stupidity, bouncing rear tires caught still on throttle boom snap. Ive never had driveshaft issues myself, just axle shafts, but I've resolved that with chromoly.