back from Haspin with CARNAGE

[sarge]

:mad: ME and a few buddies headed for Haspin Frinday morning , we arrived at around 9:00am and were the only ones their , it was great ! we wheeled all day until around 4:00 pm when I climbed a hill that branched into another trail with a very bad drop off. I almost rolled so Jeremy put a strap on my cage so i could ease down off of the drop. I had the Jeep standing on the front axle and the wheels were turned to full lock and BANG ...... finally popped a u-joint . Well no big deal I'll just drive it out and replace it on the trailer ...... on the way out things got alot worse :


took out the ball joints on the pass. side . luckily we were just off the main trail below the end of the drag strip . I caught a ride to the parking lot and drove the Denali and trailer to with in 100' of the Jeep . We winched my Jeep up onto the back of Jeremy's Yota and and drove it to the trailer. Now it sits in my Garage bleeding all over the floor . Going to start the fun on Sunday afternoon , don't know if I'm going to replace just the ball joints or just sling my extra HP30 in it and call it done . Oh and I learned a really good lesson later in the day. I was riding with one of my buddy's and spotting for him on the back bone . I was standing alittle to close and a very large rock came out from under one of his tires and hit me in the leg I have a nice hole in my shin now and one red sock

[xj-up]

Sounds like you had a good day overall. I got there about 7:00pm and wheeled that night with JFISCUS and some friends from Terrain stompers. We had a blast all night. I just put it on its side once that night but, it didn't slow me down.

Sorry, For the poor quality pics.

[scarface]

For such easy trails they seem to make ya break some stupid stuff. Jacob broke the bead when a tree felt it was staying where it was, and he lost a rear shock mount... not to bad.

[sarge]

sweet ! got anymore pics ? I've got a bunch but my photobucket page is not uploading for some reason :mad:

[scarface]

here are a few more

[94Dodge Truggy]

Damn sarge, looks like there was a whole lotta fun to be had. The monte carlo looks like a comfortable ride.

[jfiscus]

fuggin photobuckets not working for me either, didnt see any of yall CORE guys there, I got to Haspin around 6:30pm friday & wheeled till saturday evening.

I tore the rear bumper off, smashed in a rocker (a log rotated & threw the roots under my Jeep), got a dent in the rear 1/4 from a big drop off & blew a bead when the mud was a little harder than I thought. It was a great trip, there was only about 10 total Jeeps & 10 quads all Saturday night, so camping went great. Saturday it got packed & dusty but we tried to stay away from the main trails.

[sarge]

We were leaving about the time you all were getting there . How did Jacob's rig do ? other then the bead and shock mount .

[blazerbrad]

Yep, seen the ol' "broken u-joint takes out the balljoints" several times on the trail. You were lucky to be that close to a trailer.

1. Saw a V-8 YJ do this way far from the main road while climbing a hill. Tried to cobble the balljoints together but there was no way without a welder or something. Wound up removing that front tire and putting a log under if for a skid and dragging it out...took several hours.

2. CJ trying to climb out of a rut. Fortunately we were able to cobble it back together as the balljoints were not completely trashed. He drove it out of the trail.

3. Saw a Blazer on 44" Boggers (and a Dana 44 front!) do this about 5 minutes into the trail. No way we could drag that one out. We were close to town so they ran to Napa and got parts.

[Hybrid]

The rig did great!!! I was really impressed with how it climbed, and i had no engine or fuel injection problems, it ran like a champ, didn't stall once and i put it at some pretty goffy angles that a carb would not be able to handle. The only issue i really have to work out, besides fixing the tire and the shock mount, is the steering. I can't seem to get it adjusted right, I can turn great to the right but i have nothing to the left, and i mean pretty much nothing! I also need a new power steering belt really bad! So sarge here is a question for you, does the power steering belt need to go over the water pump as well or should it just go to the steering pump only? Anyways we had a great time at haspin and Jon's (scarface) rig did impressively well to, especially for open difs! I can't wait to get out on a core trip!

[sarge]

Jacob , welcome to the world of locked front and rear , I have no idea how the belts are supposed to run .

they finally got photobucket running again so here's a few more pics from our group . It was Jeremy ( red/blk 4 runner) , John ( grey YJ ) , Steve ( red YJ ) and me !

[sarge]

and a few more !

[carwash]

that can't be haspin... too dry.

[Hybrid]

Where in haspin were you guys? I have got to find that area when i go back! Looks like a lot of fun!! When we went we just kept going down these narrow trails that forced us through mud hole after mud hole. Which was pretty fun actually!

[sarge]

Several of the hills in the pics were over near "L" tree , we spent alot of time back past the end of the flat track.

Yeh Mike it was really dry in most spots , but there was still alot of spots the were dry on the top and would suck you in .