8.8 almost done, got sliders on the jeep, more stuff



Put new wheel bearings and seals in





sliders

 

love it!

 

What's that gear thing next to the carrier? I have never seen that before?

 

Tone ring the 8.8 was in a abs vehicle

 

LMAO

4 words.

Mesabi Mountain ORV Trail

Still got those black doors Grant if you where going to replace them.

 

thanks man shes come a long way!

^ Hes got it, there is a sensor on top of the pumpkin I am going to put a block off plate on eventually too. For now the wires to the sensor are just cut and I left the sensor in.

Haha right on right on, I will text you, theres a possibility.

For the white jeep, last weekend was the crawl 4 the cure and first time I have ever had the thing up to temp haha. It got a little hot but my dad had the idea to disconnect the a/c so I just left the defrost on and turned it to low so the e-fan ran constantly. Stayed right at 210 for the rest of the day.

Anyways, parents came up, there first time at gilbert, they brought their camper so we didnt have to tent! They just wrapped everything inside because they saw the red mud we would bring back and didnt want it in the camper anywhere



morning line up



high voltage





durango bent his tierod



hit the RTI while waiting for our group to finish lunch



My only real "break". Our 2am idea for the track bar mount since I stretched the front was to weld it in. I forgot to plate the unibody first. I was on a trail called money talks which is a switch back trail, coming up to a drop on the right and you have to turn left up a climb which has some sharp turns. Not even 5 minutes before, a guy sheared the TRE off his track bar, coming to the turn, I lost left steering and noticed my drivers tire sticking a good foor out of the body. I ran 2 beads on the lower part of the track bar mount..the unibody cracked infront of the TB mount and the lower sheet metal had peeled back. Not a huge deal to fix but it bent the TB bracket is what happened. The trail guid ran and got some chain and ratchet straps from another guy and we whipped up this to get me back



I still didnt feel totally safe seeing as it was a huge drop on either side so he pulled me all the way back with his JK which had a 6.1 hemi and pick up box conversion.

we got back to the site and with the 10k lbs straps and a 12lbs sledge we got the bracket back in place and put bolts in and then went and found some guys with a welder and we burned it all in, made a brace out of some angle iron and welded the crack back together.



the next day











first body damage happened on a trail called 1%. Tires were wet and the jeep slid into a rock. whoops

 

I was messing around and slid off a rock and landed hard on the rear driveshaft here:



which caused a retaining clip to pop out of my flange adapter. I was getting wicked vibes over 5mph and I thought the DS was bent. Got it back to camp and found this



popped a clip out of my spare DS, pounded the u-joint back in with a socket and popped the clip in and good to go.

back at the campground





raffle tj many companys donated parts to and river wranglers built. Some guy in eveleth won it







thank god I left my stock tank skid on haha



mom wanted some group pictures so we went out sunday and took some





I convinced mom and dad to try driving. Made for some funny video.





All loaded up and ready for home

 

some stills off my dads camera























My dad driving



All in all it was an awesome weekend. A big thanks again to all the sponsers and those that support the crawl. They raised $105,000 this year alone! Cant wait for next year!

 

i have some friends who were out there the other day, they looked like they had a blast. i would have love to have gone too. :/ I bent my tierod and wrecked an alternator at a friends farm after some big rain. lol I've been wheeling harder since I got a Crotch rocket!

 

What all does that front bumper consist of?

 

Hey very nice build. I have that same front bumper and seeing if you have any picture of the back side were the winch is mounted?

 

its all good theres always next year!

Its 1/4" plate pretty much and ties all in and is protected underneath and up top

thanks man i think theres some earlier in the thread.

 

looks like it was a blast man! I hope to catch that event one day.

 

hell yeah man next year will be bigger and better! actually heading up again this weekend again too

 

Just got back on the computer finally, figured I would share from the last couple of events seeing as the jeep will be going under the knife soon

first things first, i used cheap ball joints the first time around. I figured I went all out on everything ill get mid-grade ball joints..the cap blew up on the upper..so I replaced those. Friend was gonna come in and weld..he didnt show so I sent him this pic on his jeep haha



heres why we never get stuff done





doorless





Traded the black jeep for a mazda protege 5 speed for a daily driver



went to dresser in the fall for the last trail run. wheeled with my buddy and his yj and another guy with a zj. i broke the rear flange adapter after I nail a rock on it







Got stuck there had to get pulled back









heres where i broke



swamped



















put it in storage and it snowed, got the truck stuck trying to get it out, we finally got it out with a bobcat







truck is squatting so bad cause theres an engine in the bed and on the trailer with a tranny. bead leak, fixed my flat with soap and water.