NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Its not exactly NW, but we settled and started paperwork for a house in Yelm, so its official haha

now we just eagerly await the time and the 50 hr drive to get there. . .

 

@bobsuruncle anyone showing the fight out there tonight?

 

Not sure about north bend proper, I'm hopping around in fall city, live band in one bar, shit smell in the next, and old timers at the frontier. Not sure about the old colonial/road house, which is a little more high end and might have it on.

 

Plenty of us on the Wetside, the goodsiders/eastsiders could use more company.

 

If I didn't have two inguinal hernias (one on each side), I'd help ya...

 

Put your purse down, or do I need to come over and show you how it's done? I just did my CV's a few months ago.

 

Is it off of 39th Ave or close to fairmont? Or close to that area? I used to run around west Seattle/Alki and would see a navy blue taco and had ARB bull bumper with some sort of custom grill and 6" kc's/fog lights behind the grill. iirc if was a navy 05-11 xcab. Can't recall a shell tho.

 

@twalchlii1 Tom, I think Bob just called you a pussy....

 

I'm pretty sure you can have that with an H1 Hummer and buy a house with the left over money - oh yeah and take a year off from work for an extended off-road trip.

 

Don't forget the bad back from the stiff ass suspension while bouncing around in that h1

 

Noted. Well I guess cut that road trip short by a month for suspension upgrades. Lol

 

Lol well to be fair I don't know how the civilian ones we're but the military ones I'm pretty sure had about 1 inch of travel for suspension.

 

I saw a dude driving a military HMMWV in downtown Seattle this weekend and just thought to myself "why"
You couldn't give me one haha.

 

I wanted one when I was a kid. Thought they were bad ass. Then I had to ride in one one from NASNI to Pt. Loma, 32nd Street and the amphib base for two weeks for work. Vowed to avoid those things as much as I could lol.

Definitely one of those things the military designed that are awesome for what they need to do, but the human aspect was an after thought

 

Gave it 1 last shot this morning, wouldn't come out with the tools/ angle / access I had, so I put it back together with a new spider and bearing. On to plan B I guess.

 

Apparently I am, since I couldn't get the axle out.

 

We had to drive from Anchorage to Fairbanks a couple of times. Roughly 6-8 hours but one time took 12 hours because of the weather.

It was funny to see the guy bouncing by as he passed by in Seattle. I couldn't help but laugh

I'd say that's a stretch saying they're awesome for what they need to do haha. They're capable but man does maintenence suck once they start getting issues

 

Hmmm, I wonder what technology could be used to visually figure out how to accomplish this task?!?!? I wonder...

 

anyone been to Elfendahl Pass Staging Area (Tahuya ORV Park)? And weather/terrain wise, would this be a good place to go in January timeframe?

 

Yeah been there a few times. For the most part its easy, how ever they have redone a lot recently to make it harder (and actually worth going). I haven't been since they had just started to redo some trails and the changes they made were great, going to head back soon.
One thing to watch out though is standing water. @Benson X hydrolocked there a few years ago, someone else blew up their rear diff as well. Water can get really deep so I avoid it if I can. Once you go you'll get a sense for what puddles are the really deep ones.