Monthly So Cal Off-Road Run

No, that’s his complaint

 

I should have read above

 

lol yeah I wish TC would. As far as the solos go there is only one first gen I know of that has em. He liked em at first. Im curious if he still does.

 

Anyone headed up to big bear tomorrow ? 8-11-2019

 

Big bear I hear

 

I wish. I'm on construction duty at the wife's studio

 

Tell her someone broke down on the trail and you’re the only one close enough to assist them

 

I’m headed up tomorrow am. Going to be leaving vista at 6 or 7 and staying up for the day exploring the area! I’ve never been up there besides like 10 years ago

 

What trail did you have in mind?

 

No specific trail in peticular I’ve never been up there so whichever I come across if possible I’d like to do multiple

 

Go wheelin @AY_ARONTRD

 

LOL yeah that ain't gonna work. Did I mention she's 3+ months pregnant? haha

 

Did pilot rock solo today. Copied the old route kgTaco gave me.....then drove to deli at arrowhead for a beer and pizza.

Wife was terrified but came willingly.



Edit** nobody was out there except an atv, a couple of dirt bikes and razors in the background.

 

If you need help wrenching on your truck, let me know, I'm not far from you, and if I'm free I'm down to come by, bring a few beers, and help out with turning a few wrenches.

 

Help him do his LCA bushings. Everyone bitches and moans about those things but some heat and a bottle jack and they're literally out in minutes. I should have video'd doing mine but I didn't have a spare hand. lol

 

Update: I couldn't pick up the hard line I needed from the dealership since their parts Dept is closed today, and no one, that's right, no one there on a Sunday can get back there to get me the part... But I knocked ouy the rear extended lines, so now all I need to do is replace the part that's actually broken and bleed the brakes... Which due to scheduling won't happen for another two weekends...

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I just got my rig off jack stands yesterday. It spent 3 weeks in the garage. Last trip I stripped the bottom 2 nuts on my diff and it was gushing. Since I had to pull it to fix the leak I sent it back to ECGS. My ARB was one of the ones affected by the bad bonded seal. I wheeled the shit out of it for 2 years before I had to pull it. I also put in grade 12.9 m8 x 1.25 x 40mm button heads into the diff housing. The nuts are grade 10. So, from now on, I'll just keep a few spare nuts handy.

Then I welded some TC spindle gussets to some used spindles and swapped those out. Then I found out my d-ring and rack bushing where shredded. Again. So those got replaced. After I got done with a garage alignment and test drove it I noticed one of my wheels was out of alignment. I quick check of the rack let me know why. My racks got about 1" of play in it so it's fubarred. I ordered up a new one from NAPA and that will go in this weekend. Luckily my next trip isn't planned until the 23rd. It still sucks having my rig down during prime wheeling season. It's the price I pay to play though. lol

 

Yea man it's rough having your truck be out of commission. It's been almost 6 weeks I haven't been able to drive my truck because of this stupid brake line.

 

Which bushings did you go with?