Vanimal
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- escondido, ca
so we had an interesting day. first, as we were loading up to go wheeling, the guy i saw on my survailence cameras stealing my jeep's stereo walked by. chased him down for 6-7 blocks while on the phone with the cops, then dealt with the police reports.
so i get finished with that and we get on the trail. about half way in my dog decides to throw down with ocean jet's dog, causing Mike's dog to get some stitches. no clue what started it, but it was probably a jealousy thing. my other dog is a male, so my female dog probably didnt care for Mike's female dog getting along so well with him....
Mike decides to head out, Art and i keep going. i'm the first one to get to the infamous water tank line, and i back up a couple times to get a cleaner shot at it. I can see that Art didn't neccesarily believe me how a few inches off on the line = flop, but i've been there so i decided to trust my gut and realign
Art goes next, and puts his jeep on it's side in the exact same spot i did when i learned the hard way. we now have pretty much identical door dents
so we push him back over and he finally realigns and clears it, then we continue on.
we get through most of the trail without issue then i decide to try an obstical that i havent cleared before, now that i have a working rear locker as of yesterday.
i get partially up it, and it seems like i can clear it so i give it a little bump. something didnt seem right, so i look out the window and i see this:
broke the ears off my shafts, ujoint, seperated my upper ball joint, and popped the lower one out of the inner c.
the housing, inner c, steering knuckle, tie rod, and brakes were fine. i pulled the inner shaft out, changed the upper ball joint, and put the lower back in and we continued. sadly, i had forgotten my tools at home with the car stereo thief fiasco, but Art fortunately saved the day and had everything.
i'm sure Art will come through with some better carnage pictures.
so i get finished with that and we get on the trail. about half way in my dog decides to throw down with ocean jet's dog, causing Mike's dog to get some stitches. no clue what started it, but it was probably a jealousy thing. my other dog is a male, so my female dog probably didnt care for Mike's female dog getting along so well with him....
Mike decides to head out, Art and i keep going. i'm the first one to get to the infamous water tank line, and i back up a couple times to get a cleaner shot at it. I can see that Art didn't neccesarily believe me how a few inches off on the line = flop, but i've been there so i decided to trust my gut and realign
Art goes next, and puts his jeep on it's side in the exact same spot i did when i learned the hard way. we now have pretty much identical door dents
so we push him back over and he finally realigns and clears it, then we continue on.
we get through most of the trail without issue then i decide to try an obstical that i havent cleared before, now that i have a working rear locker as of yesterday.
i get partially up it, and it seems like i can clear it so i give it a little bump. something didnt seem right, so i look out the window and i see this:
broke the ears off my shafts, ujoint, seperated my upper ball joint, and popped the lower one out of the inner c.
the housing, inner c, steering knuckle, tie rod, and brakes were fine. i pulled the inner shaft out, changed the upper ball joint, and put the lower back in and we continued. sadly, i had forgotten my tools at home with the car stereo thief fiasco, but Art fortunately saved the day and had everything.
i'm sure Art will come through with some better carnage pictures.
