I'm back!!,.....and it finally happened,....after two years of wheeling 37's, the D30 finally blew a u-joint and shaft,....not so bad, so I replaced those Friday night, get up Saturday morning and go down the trail on the side of Cable Hill,....sliding just about all the way(really, really, slick), get to the bottom and have to come up a ditch, no worky out of the front wheels
, the front driveshaft is turning, but the wheels ain't, so I get yanked out, get back to the top of the hill, pull the diff cover, and the center pin is broken, (
, sorta but not really), asked around a few people, but alas, no spare center pins for that huge D30
So I strap it to the trailer and lend a hand to Mike and his Huntsville pit crew.
I arrived at about 1400 on Friday, got an hour delay for an accident on the interstate, anyway, the entrance hill is pretty slick and the P/S didn't make it with the Jeep on the trailer, so I back down, and the trailer digs in, can't go back, can't go forward,...unload the Jeep, and get the truck up the hill(should be a fun weekend). Anyway, find me a nice spot to park the trailer and hitch a ride to get the jeep. A little bit later, some people arrive, and I tag along with them.
I only got to do a couple of trails, one was called GrayRock Canyon or something like that, that was pretty easy, I broke in some mud hole, didn't get the name of the trail, but the mudhole was mighty deep and clay-slippery. Saturday morning there were flurries in the air, cloudy and cold.
Mike and his pit crew, he had finished up the loose ends of extending his wheelbase right there.
A couple of vehicles: