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Maybe the concept designers can get reassigned to work on some "real world" issues after the showing.
Lowered JL seat mounts will be an aftermarket thing for certain
2019 EJS and SOA National/Sand Hollow prep/trip
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Lowered JL seat mounts will be an aftermarket thing for certain
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I had the cowboy dip and a salad (trying to eat better after the pizza!) so I don’t think I had a great sampling at the DAM brewery. Dip was good though. Beer was very nice ?
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I didn’t look or ask about it. Nena has to go out to get it back on the trailer and drug out of the hills tonight, I’ll try to remember to ask her.
Moabite
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Nena is renting Gladiators already? Do you know if she is just doing it for this week or are they now part of her rental fleet? The photo of the silver one at the shop (which is exactly like the one I plan to order) looks like it might have Michigan plates. I still have not actually seen a Gladiator in the flesh (metal?) but hope to at some point today. I'll be in town shooting a job, but won't be in the Scrambler. I'll drive it to town Thursday and Saturday when there is no chance of rain. It's only allowed to get wet at the car wash.
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These were my two longest days of the week and I’m wrecked. Tried to post a couple times and either got interrupted or it didn’t go through.
Yesterday: Fins-n-things was a great trail, pretty easy but cool scenery and just a lot of fun. Ended up with a dead cooling fan (electric) right near the end of the trail. Got strapped out, let it cool, topped coolant and drove back to town fine. Got replacement at Napa and swapped it in the parking lot next to the BFG garage tent (free tools, parts, mechanics most of the day for anyone) because I was going to cover an event there anyway.
Four wheeler actually got me in a number of shots, which was cool to see. I talked with Stuart (author of the piece) for a long while a couple times, he really liked the Postal.
http://www.fourwheeler.com/events/1904-ejs2019-best-moab-first-time-jeep-trail/
Today: Chicken Corners with BFG/WARN/Ladies Offroad Network. Love the views and even ran into some guy I know. Super easy out/back trail and this was led by Larry McRae of Poison Spyder fame and a rock racer. He turned the return trip into basically a desert race where it was all I could do to keep up in 4th gear low range. Ended up losing a lower rear shock mount in all the high-speed ruckus and had to pull the shock.
I am fed the &@$# up with the Rubicon Express ubolt skids, it’s like the lower shock mounts are meant to either get bent to hell or fall out.
Yesterday: Fins-n-things was a great trail, pretty easy but cool scenery and just a lot of fun. Ended up with a dead cooling fan (electric) right near the end of the trail. Got strapped out, let it cool, topped coolant and drove back to town fine. Got replacement at Napa and swapped it in the parking lot next to the BFG garage tent (free tools, parts, mechanics most of the day for anyone) because I was going to cover an event there anyway.
Four wheeler actually got me in a number of shots, which was cool to see. I talked with Stuart (author of the piece) for a long while a couple times, he really liked the Postal.
http://www.fourwheeler.com/events/1904-ejs2019-best-moab-first-time-jeep-trail/
Today: Chicken Corners with BFG/WARN/Ladies Offroad Network. Love the views and even ran into some guy I know. Super easy out/back trail and this was led by Larry McRae of Poison Spyder fame and a rock racer. He turned the return trip into basically a desert race where it was all I could do to keep up in 4th gear low range. Ended up losing a lower rear shock mount in all the high-speed ruckus and had to pull the shock.
I am fed the &@$# up with the Rubicon Express ubolt skids, it’s like the lower shock mounts are meant to either get bent to hell or fall out.
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Great pics. 4 Wheeler pics we're cool too. Sorry to hear about your mechanical troubles, but you probably had a hand or 2 available out there.
Keep the play by play coming.?
Keep the play by play coming.?
Man I hate that! I have run into this many times on trail rides in my old flat fender ( and Scrambler for that matter) too. Especially when the trail leader is in a newer Jeep, they ride so much smoother, I don't think they realize how beat to $#%* we are getting. Not to mention the further back in line you are is like being in the last car on a roller coaster "cracking the whip".
Looks like an awesome trip...of a lifetime for most!
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There were only a few of us in older rigs and it would have been all good fun for me if I just hadn’t lost the shock bolt. I had a replacement but the threaded nut in the ubolt skid stripped out tightening it with the bolt nearly fully into place
that’s why I ended up just pulling the shock. I just rebuilt the rear spring packs and they’re a massive improvement, they just needed to settle in. So I was actually liking that I was wearing them in some.
Also, much of the “trail” once you’re off the ledges is pretty smooth flat rock and sand, so it wasn’t like it was a non-stop beating, just fast.
I didn’t mean to make it sound like I was necessarily faulting Larry, there was some bouncing but “high-speed ruckus” maybe should have been “high-speed fun”.
Yeah, i didn't mean it quite like that either...as being critical of trail leaders...sometimes it just happens. I have led quite few organized runs back in my Sno*Blind trail ride (West Branch area) days in the 90's. It can be a tough duty, but lots of fun!
93_Fummins
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I've admired pictures of that silver 8 on LTB's for a long time. Not completely sold on the roll bar design as a whole, but slick looking rig nonetheless.
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Major trip highlight getting to check out one of the most perfectly loved Scramblers I’ve ever seen. Fred/Moabite’s crazy beautiful rig 
It was great to meet him and talk for the first time in person as well as see this beautiful Scrambler.
It was great to meet him and talk for the first time in person as well as see this beautiful Scrambler.
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Video is too large to post but hung out with Verne Simons (old friend from my NC days) and got to ride in the yellow Rover he built for UA. Very impressed with the power from the Cummins turbo 2.8.
And Moab Diner still kicks a$$.
Didn’t take a photo of the Rover, just got it in the corner of a shot of their sweet condo (wanted to send to Kate to show her where we’d stay next time
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And Moab Diner still kicks a$$.
Didn’t take a photo of the Rover, just got it in the corner of a shot of their sweet condo (wanted to send to Kate to show her where we’d stay next time
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Yes, message Moabite