jeepboy381
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- Gresham, Or
I ended up getting real lucky and being able to go to Moab in the begining of November, what an experience! I had been helping out down at LandCruisers NW in Portland and they planned a trip down to moab to test out a vehical they had built for the lead singer of Prodigy. He wanted to test out his rig before they shipped it over to Europe so the guys at LCNW decided a Moab trip would be alot of fun and good proving grounds. The FJ had a full exo cage, front and rear bumpers, and rock sliders built by LCNW. Also a TRD supercharger to give 300hp, Atlas 4 speed, ARB front locker, factory electronic locker rear, magnaflow exhaust, total chaos suspension, beadlocks, MTR's, winch, and lots of offroad lights. It worked great! We had the new FJ cruiser, two very well built Toyota's on 37's, a sweet TJ on 37's, and my XJ on 35's.
Everyones rig did great and I was extremely happy with mine even though it had 4.56 gears on 35's with a AX15 stick and a factory low range. My passener rear wheel bearing starting humming real bad on the drive down but I just ignored it and it held up. I need to stiffen up the front suspension a little, lift the rear a little more, and get a 2LOW kit for the 231, everything else was great. The blue Toyota had a crawl box fail but it was warrentied by Trail Tech who sent a replacement ASAP. He only got to wheel for 2 days which kind of sucked.
Moab was awesome and not just for offroad, there is so much to do there if you like the outdoors. We spent 4 full days there and it was not enough. Arches park was incredible as well, I could have hiked around there for days. The wheeling was something else, the rocks provide so much traction that you can drive right up stuff you can't walk up. All the trails have hard challenges and it seems like most you can roll easily if you pick a bad line. A exo cage would be nice to have. The hot tubs are also incredibly steep, the big one was just insane! Here are a small number of pictures, I have not exchanged pictures yet with the other people who went.
Hells Revenge, I forget the name of this climb but it is a narrow ledge up then down with straight drops on the sides.
My XJ, still Hells Revenge.
Keiths FJ.
Hells gate, Matt's early 90's straight axle conversion Toyota.
Hells Gate, very nice TJ in our group.
Big hot tub, the climb was vertical at the top and the water in the bottom was mixed with oil and incredibly slippery. If you stepped in the watter at all you would fall over. Tony tried going up it in the blue Toyota and I tried in my XJ. It was impossible for us with the oil watter in the bottom. We both winched straight up the face, that was a crazy feeling. If the line broke you were in big trouble..
Me in a smaller hot tub, it was still incredibly steep and also had oil watter in the bottom.
As you can see it is incredibly steep.
I some how got up it, everyone else was winched out. My KM2's worked awesome in Moab. Just about any tire works great due to the rocks, they felt like sandpaper.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/Jeepboy381/MOAB08098.jpg
Everyones rig did great and I was extremely happy with mine even though it had 4.56 gears on 35's with a AX15 stick and a factory low range. My passener rear wheel bearing starting humming real bad on the drive down but I just ignored it and it held up. I need to stiffen up the front suspension a little, lift the rear a little more, and get a 2LOW kit for the 231, everything else was great. The blue Toyota had a crawl box fail but it was warrentied by Trail Tech who sent a replacement ASAP. He only got to wheel for 2 days which kind of sucked.
Moab was awesome and not just for offroad, there is so much to do there if you like the outdoors. We spent 4 full days there and it was not enough. Arches park was incredible as well, I could have hiked around there for days. The wheeling was something else, the rocks provide so much traction that you can drive right up stuff you can't walk up. All the trails have hard challenges and it seems like most you can roll easily if you pick a bad line. A exo cage would be nice to have. The hot tubs are also incredibly steep, the big one was just insane! Here are a small number of pictures, I have not exchanged pictures yet with the other people who went.
Hells Revenge, I forget the name of this climb but it is a narrow ledge up then down with straight drops on the sides.
My XJ, still Hells Revenge.
Keiths FJ.
Hells gate, Matt's early 90's straight axle conversion Toyota.
Hells Gate, very nice TJ in our group.
Big hot tub, the climb was vertical at the top and the water in the bottom was mixed with oil and incredibly slippery. If you stepped in the watter at all you would fall over. Tony tried going up it in the blue Toyota and I tried in my XJ. It was impossible for us with the oil watter in the bottom. We both winched straight up the face, that was a crazy feeling. If the line broke you were in big trouble..
Me in a smaller hot tub, it was still incredibly steep and also had oil watter in the bottom.
As you can see it is incredibly steep.
I some how got up it, everyone else was winched out. My KM2's worked awesome in Moab. Just about any tire works great due to the rocks, they felt like sandpaper.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/Jeepboy381/MOAB08098.jpg
