YELLAHEEP
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- Location
- Littleton, Colorado
Posted by DutchVDub in the original thread:
"Hey guys, I was just up there today. You better have atleast 1 rig with a winch and nobody with less than 33's should be going. When I hit that big water crossing there was a solid sheet of ice on the entire thing a good 1.5 - 3" thick. It took a lot of work for my Jeep to break through all of that. On MSV about 1/3 of the way to Coney is a huge mud hole that I'd never seen before. There was a Wrangler nose down in it with his 33's buried. Going around him sucked because it was really soft and muddy. My jeep instantly buried itself up to the rockers in mud. I had to winch myself through the mud, turn around, and winch the other 2 Jeeps with me through. The rest of the trail was fairly doable, just really slick.
Oh, word of advice. After romping through lots of mud and water in 30* weather, dont trun your Jeep off for an hour while you wait for the quads to go back to the trucks and get you a new Tie Rod assy. All 3 of our Jeepslost their alternators. We got one of them charging again with liberal amounts of brake clean to the alternator to clean it out. Me and my other buddy probably need new alternators. Driving down that pass at 7pm with no lights and running on battery only sucks. We did all make it home safely, and it was a really fun day. It was also very long and a weebit stressful."
Sounds like NO fun to me. I just sold Dutch my last '97+ alternator too so forget it! I ain't playin' in the mud.
Sux.
"Hey guys, I was just up there today. You better have atleast 1 rig with a winch and nobody with less than 33's should be going. When I hit that big water crossing there was a solid sheet of ice on the entire thing a good 1.5 - 3" thick. It took a lot of work for my Jeep to break through all of that. On MSV about 1/3 of the way to Coney is a huge mud hole that I'd never seen before. There was a Wrangler nose down in it with his 33's buried. Going around him sucked because it was really soft and muddy. My jeep instantly buried itself up to the rockers in mud. I had to winch myself through the mud, turn around, and winch the other 2 Jeeps with me through. The rest of the trail was fairly doable, just really slick.
Oh, word of advice. After romping through lots of mud and water in 30* weather, dont trun your Jeep off for an hour while you wait for the quads to go back to the trucks and get you a new Tie Rod assy. All 3 of our Jeepslost their alternators. We got one of them charging again with liberal amounts of brake clean to the alternator to clean it out. Me and my other buddy probably need new alternators. Driving down that pass at 7pm with no lights and running on battery only sucks. We did all make it home safely, and it was a really fun day. It was also very long and a weebit stressful."
Sounds like NO fun to me. I just sold Dutch my last '97+ alternator too so forget it! I ain't playin' in the mud.
Sux.