[quote:c3c51bfa31="FarmerMatt"]All I have to say is you guys suck. The whole trip should have been reschedualed because I was not able to make it!!
Glad you guys had a good time. How many XJ's were there this year?
Matt[/quote:c3c51bfa31]
Matt, better to suck than to not make it to Moab.......harvest schmarvest, what if we move the event date into September next year??
There were 50+ XJ's show up during the week, and for the most part, the event was carnage/damage free.....if you don't count a snapped axle or two, several flops by a certain once pristine green RE longarmed XJ, a fragged 242 mainshaft (better than a complete engine overhaul the year before), an autorotating D44 housing, some bent tierods, axle joints, flat tires, and a cracked Mopar bugshield (wah!).
And on a side note, an XJ with an Auburn in the rear can make it appoximately 1/2 way up Hells Gate in 2wd Low, but from there things get a little sketchy......4Low is a much better choice. Long arms with no limiting straps tend to struggle in Mickeys Hottub, as do heavy footed wheelhoppers from AZ, but not nearly as much as tail heavy sandrails.......roll cage passed with honors, all fingers intact.
You can fit 4 Jeeps on Gemini Bridges...maybe even 5, folks from Chicago don't know West from East, Nazi's make angry Jeepers, building a trackbar with stuff found at Home Depot might be a problem, chasing wild geese in the Strike Ravine area gets old....fast, onboard welders rock, onboard air blows.....in a good way, Wookies are easy to teach slickrock driving skills, when chasing Germans through the desert.....leave the windows up, flatulant vetranarians should be left alone and downwind, 3.2 beer makes the visitors whine, portable CB's grow legs if left unattended, thieves should be throttled until limp, roasted Rusty tastes bad, it's easy to lead many followers, but hard to follow too many leaders, JJ smells like Playdough, inbreeders in rental Jeeps are fun to watch, "honey, look what I whittled".......Sean's folks are cool and his junk works pretty good, cell coverage in Moab blows, it's better to be lucky than good, if your gonna be stupid......then you'd better be tough and a bad day wheeling is still better than a good day at work.
If you didn't make it this year, then get yourself scheduled for next year's event cause it will be even better!
XJEEPER
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