"Wheeler's Anonymous"

That's for damn sure. Currently juggling school, managerial training at work, and researching possible replacements for my tacoma. Can't say I hate it though, nice being productive all the time

 

Thanks

 

Your welcome, good luck. Now get some sleep if you can.

 

Stay away from restaurants today it’s Mother’s day!

Happy Mother’s Day to any Mother’s in here.

See you guys at Drinkwater

 

@1st4x4 I do most of it in 4lo myself but being a manual trans its a bit different for me I think. Once we hit the fire road stretches I put it into 4hi but esp Rowher has many climbs that I find only doable in 4lo. You'll figure out what's best for you when we get there, if one doesn't work then try the other. See you guys there

 

That feeling when you got tools in the bed and it's raining fffffffff-

 

I'm not going to make it today ate something bad last night and have bubble guts stuck on the shitter

 

Aw man sucks. Feel better bro, next time!

 

Awesome trip today with some of the OG Wheelers Anon crew. Even though I struggled a bit haha. About time for a tire upgrade.

Had a god awful popping sound coming from my rear end when flexing over bumps, ruts, rocks, etc. Looked it over briefly on the trail and couldn't figure it out.

Got home and took a closer look and noticed that the bolt holding my drivers side leaf pack to the front hangar was holding on by 2 threads, I could remove it by hand.

Unfortunately, that's the one bolt I couldn't get a torque wrench on when installing my Dakars last month because it sits only an inch or so from the gas tank...can only get a hand wrench on it. Put a generous amount of blue loctite on it tonight and tightened it as much as I could by hand, gonna have to keep an eye on it.

Could've been bad...almost ended up insta-famous like that one dude that lost his axle on Rowher last month

 

Glad you made it home safe on that and sorry for the rookie bailing on you last minute. I hope you all didn't wait to long for him.

 

Thanks, and no worries I saw @1st4x4 's post and PM before getting to the staging area, all good

 

Cool. For getting that bolt for the leaf pack tight. Get that wrench on it and then use you foot/leg to torque that bastard down.

 

Ryan and I are skinny ... hard to get that much strength from the upper body.

 

Whoa whoa whoa who you callin skinny

Good lookin out, I'll give that a shot. @oni06 had a simliar idea that worked to tighten my cam bolts using my floor jack handle + wrench as a sort of makeshift breaker bar. I'll give it a shot if it comes loose again

 

I notified them before the meet time. I'm still stuck on the shitter and probably will be calling in sick tomorrow at work. Everyone else is fine from dinner last night so idk what fucked up my stomach

 

Hope you feel better soon. That's got to be one hell of a imprint of a toilet seat on your ass

 

Thank you. Would you like to see the imprint I'm sure there is one lol.

 

Nah, that's for your old lady to take care of, but thanks for the offer.

 

Food poisoning actually takes a bit longer than 8-12 hours to really hit for most folks. Sorry to hear you're feeling bad. The trail was quite a bit more gnarly than I remember it being, still passable but a few pucker moments!

 

Worst food poisoning I ever had was in Nicaragua....3 days before heading back home. Being so sick you can't move except to vomit out of every orifice for days on end in a 3rd world country while staying in hostels where noone speaks english was quite the experience. As was the 6 hour international flight home...

Montezuma got me good that time. Don't ever drink the water south of the border...