Tacos in St. Louis area

Actually pretty nice out here.

 

Granted that's two days old, I'll be back up there tonight. Love the OT, but sleep would be nice.

 

OT = Super Cool Truck Thangs

 

Amen. But that is a loooooonnnggg list.

 

Haven't looked on Maps to see where they're at. The trails I want to hir soon are in St. Francois state park, washingtpn state park, St. Joe state park, and Hawn State park

 

Let us know when you're going, I've stomped in quite a few of those parks over the years.

 

Well I was gonna go this morning but I ran into some issues when I was trying to grease my UCAs last night. Basically they started making squeaking/creaking sounds so I went to my garage after a get together with my car club, got the tires off and loosened the uca bolts a little and the grease gun decided to not let go of the fitting. When I got it off it pulled the fitting out too fucking up the threads as well. Took the right uca off and rethreaded the hole and took a grease fitting off of one of the icons and put it on the TC and slapped it back together. So I spent about 2 - 2 1/2 hours doing some greasing instead of like 45 minutes or so

 

You loosen the bolt before pumping new grease in?

 

Yeah that's what the instructions showed that came with the TC UCAs. Made sense to me

 

Yep that way the bushings dont bulge. You can do it will the wheel on also. Kind of a pain.

 

Thought about doing that. Just easier with the wheel off. Gonna check them at the end of the week to make sure everything is still good

 

Should be good there that's north and west of me about an hour

 

Sweet. Gonna try to go to one of them next weekend hopefully

 

On mine they, that being front diff and transfer case if I remember correctly, are mounted on the driver side fender in the engine bay I believe.

St. Francois is neat. I’ve done all the trails there. I still need to get back down to Hawn at some point to do the big loop trail, 10-dig miles, as a “day” hike sometime. The trails I’ve done down there were nice too. Haven’t done any in St. Joe or Washington yet though.

 

Most of the trails I've done have been down in Shawnee national forest. I've been looking for trails that are 5 miles or longer on my Alltrails app got a decent sized list right now

 

The big loop down at Hawn is pretty cool, I’ve technically done a small portion of it. Winds along a rocky creek, for a while, that is excellent for bouldering and all the pine trees are neato too.

 

Is the big loop trail about 12 miles long?

 

10ish.
Depends on how far off the trail you go for pictures/bouldering/chasingyourbuddywhojustthrewyoursandwichitnothewoods

 

I think I might hit this trail this coming weekend

 

https://youtu.be/Q583mWoYIOQ