| Author | Message | ||
     Wolfridgerider |
Heading to Stony Lonesome in Alabama next week for a little fun! Hope the Hurricane didn't ruin the trails...  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
The Stony Lonesome/Cullman Alabama Jeep Jamboree was the best one I have ever been to. Jim N Nicks catered the whole thing. Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. The first Jamboree I have been to do that. Breakfast was scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, BACON... and some fruit and other crap like that. Lunch: Day one was a choice between smoked ham or brisket sandwich with homemade tater chips, a cookie Day two was a choice between Pulled pork and smoked turkey. Homemade tater chips a cookie and such. Dinner! One night the made fried chicken. The next night was pulled pork and smoked turkey with all the fixins. THE FOOD WAS GREAT. Lodging... SUCKED! The park had old Fema trailers/housing. The "cabin" we stayed in was more like a old reefer the had put a SMALL restroom in and slapped some wood siding on the exterior. The AC was so bad we ended up at Walmart to by a couple of fans. The trails... were wonderful! I almost rolled end over end a couple of times and scared the crap outta myself and the trail guides. Lots and LOTS of rocks. Vertical climbs. Huge ledges and NO mud! (I hate mud) It was dusty and hot, but we had a blast. We were on the trail from 8:30 in the morning until 5 in the evening both days. If you have a Jeep and want to have a great weekend of trail riding. This is the Jamboree to go to.   | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
This Jeep decided to take a little nap and lay on its side for a few winks  | ||
| Crusty |
Here's something you don't see every day:  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
I would drive it! | ||
| Pwnzor |
That last one looks like a Brankin-mobile. That Jeep Jamboree looks like it was a hoot and a half. | ||
| Etennuly |
Hey Mark! Awesome man! | ||
| Etennuly |
Hey Mark! Awesome man! | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Thanks Vern! Thanks Vern! Its hard to tell but he Jeep is laying on its side. It was worse but we had winched it forward a little and reset the winch line. This is what happens when the 4Runner driver says... "Anything you can do, I can do better" Notice, he didn't follow me... I'd say we both won..  | ||
| Crusty |
Here's a Jeep I'd like to own:  | ||
| Etennuly |
No that I like! When I was a kid one of my elder cousins had one of the old Willys pickups. He put a 289 Ford V8 in it. Sweet tire smoking ride! | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Vern... you would be happy to know I have ordered the brackets and DOM tubing to 3 link the front end of my Jeep... Basically going to copy Rusty's Offroad long arm. The rear will be a 4 link once the money tree is back in bloom.  | ||
| Ourdee |
Are you planning on running a third link on the front? | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
That's what I'm doing... 3 linking the front end. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Order Status: Complete reading that and having a tracking number has put me in a rather good mood. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Front long arm is done. Now I'm gathering up the stuff to long arm and triangulate the rear.   | ||
| Thumper74 |
No flex pics? | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
The amount of flex is limited to the shock... Might be time for some coilovers.... Its hard to tell but the front wheel isn't back as far in the before pic... should climb a little better I hope.  | ||
| Etennuly |
Hey Mark. Uh. Damn dude. You have been working on your degree in Jeepin for quite some time now. You are getting right up against that modifier's glass ceiling for staying within a class with limits. Awesome result ! I've enjoyed watching you grow and learn the what for and how to with your Jeep over these years. I'll never forget the conversation and the look of permagrin on your face, the day you took me and Ken for a ride in a totally stock(except for the lawn chair) Jeep, on the back roads in Northern West Virginia, when I recommended a right turn up a creek bed. To your wife I apologize. I knew you were about to have as much fun as you have had being a Bueller, but damn man! Learned Jeep scholar....4.0 ! Congrats my friend. Next step.... No rules trail only truggy or unlimited Jeep. No rules, builder skills, your own ideas of what and how to make it work. Where you trade the expense of parts for the big tools and steel or aluminum stock to build your own low or no cost parts. $2500 for suspension parts can be traded for a good MIG welder, a chop saw and some tubing and plate. Borrow some ideas, put your own spin on them, cut and weld that material stock into something unique. Once you build your first trailing arm, with that little more angle or clearance you could not get from an ordered expensive manufactured part, and you realize the only expense is some big heim joints and time, you will get a satisfaction on the trail beyond what you can imagine now. | ||
| Ourdee |
And just like that, Mark got into free-basing. -> <-Insert Forrest Gump pic. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Hey Vern!... Ya know what this pic means... This plus the 10' piece of 2" DOM tubing I have in the garage and the rear will be done next weekend.  | ||
| Ourdee |
Nice! | ||
| Torquehd |
Feet of DOM tubing... Large Heim joints.... Tig welder.... Plasma cutter.... Are you sure you're talking about low or no cost parts??? The price of any single one of those things has kept me away. For better or worse. | ||
| Etennuly |
Now your into fried bologna sammiches!!! | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
I would love to build a beater J10 or J20 | ||
| Etennuly |
 The latest in my family of Jeep vehicles. 4x4 3.7 V6 auto, I really like this thing. | ||
| 86129squids |
So, I've been noticing a lot of folks farkling up their Jeeps- I've opted the old game where you punch someone in the car when you see a Bug, or whatever car. The new one is "Angry Jeep". More and more Angry Jeeps. Makes me wonder if someone has worked up a "Happy Jeep". Designers have deliberate plans for the look of their products, whether MC's or cages. I've grown weary of all the LED "eyeliner" that seems to be fashionable nowadays, on all these ginormous trucks I see on the roads. I remember when Toyota and Nissan (Datsun?) had their very successful mini-trucks. Now they're all ginormous. (I miss my old Hardbody truck, but been enjoying the umph of a strong V-8. My truck's still relatively small.) Oh, and here's another peeve- WHY do so many of the ginormous truck drivers have exhausts that sound like someone sharting/gargling through a trombone? Maybe it's karma for my teenage years driving a Super Beetle with a stinger. Anyhoo, other than the Angry Jeeps, has anyone seen a Happy Jeep? | ||
| Ourdee |
My Jeep looks like a toaster. It looks like this one.:  Vern, Check the rear dif. for oil level in that Liberty. | ||
| Etennuly |
Funny thing! I named this one "happy Jeep" ! Lol. Just because it is! | ||
| Etennuly |
Just did! Too late. It has a howl. Is the pinion adjustable by removing a shim? |
