NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Ah. Yeah, the road going up is nothing exciting. The trail along the ridge is nice but I have never taken it the whole way or back into the woods. Sadly, it looks like they did some logging up there. A great dispersed camping spot appears to be lost.

 

No enclosure right?

 

Tow mirrors and Trans cooler today.

 

Lol, #CoolTrailmoose

 

Phase one of getting my truck back off-road is complete. I hope these Delta Joints live up to the hype.




I'm glad I decided to replace the bushings at the same time and not attempt to do it on the truck with just a ball joint tool. The drivers side took 3 hours of soaking with WD40, heating and maxing out my little 6 ton Harbor Freight press with a 3ft piece of rebar to get it to break free. You can see where I was about to blow the joint apart before I wised up and found a socket that fit just right to press on the outer portion. The arms were dry as a bone though like they were originally assembled without even a light film of anti-seize, thanks Icon.


Also if anyone is looking buy a new house I highly recommend you look for a place with a flat driveway.

 

I'll second the flat driveway. I spend more time working on my truck at my parent's place than mine, just due to their driveway being flat.

 

Yeah, I already told my wife that the next place we buy either needs to have a flat driveway or a shop with room for a lift... let's go steep driveway .

Luckily mine now isn't so steep that I can't do work in it but it gets real old getting up and chasing sockets all the time when they roll.

 

I just picked up a used Honda ATV (2012 Rancher 420). If you do take your Honda ATV into a shop in the PNW, is there a shop/dealer that you would recommend? The thing is in pretty good shape considering it has 10K farm use miles on it, but these things go forever. but I just want them to change all the fluids/oils (diff, etc) and give it a once over so it can properly live its new life of being a pleasure craft.

 

let us know how they work out. I'd try them out next time on my TC's. They are the same size/compatible right?

 

So far they seem good but I have only driven to the store and back. Sort of, the Icon UCAs have a different size but they make a size to fit the TC and Camburg arms too. If anyone else ends up deciding to install a set of these I have the stupid press adapter (that is nothing but a piece of tube with a plate welded to the end of it) if you want to use it, save yourself $30.

 

Went to Lake Cle Elum today. The last few times I’ve gone I’ve always told myself I wouldn’t be back because of the total shit show it is in the summer. I think this time it’s going to stick.

 

Played around on manatash today been so long since I’ve been up there. The FS or someone had some large equipment up there and blocked off a few of the old roads and the lower or part to the summit trail that ends in the wenas. They have a ton of rocks at lower fork of manatash so looks like they are going to be blocking off a lot of things up there, most of the trail roads still looked open.

Would anyone be interested in a group run from the wenas up to the moon rocks and out tripod and back to Ellensburg sometime?

 

My buddy went to Kachess yesterday and apparently there was a group of 5-6 20 something year old nudist chicks just hanging out doing yoga and shit. You were at the wrong lake

 

yes, but I’m hesitant to do it until late September/early October

 

I think it would be more fun in the wet. From the bottom it’s just rocky till you get to the top then there’s some tight climbs that would be fun/mild hard in the wet. For sure getting pin stripes and I wouldn’t rock an RTT because a few spots is pretty over grown

 

Was there just yesterday and did some rock crawling on the more recently exposed rocks. Water line dropped a bunch in just a month, the last time I was there.

 

Guess everyone went out there too- I was also out on lake cle elum yesterday afternoon. Water level was super low but fun to drive on the rocks and in the mud. Ran into everyone from the gambler 500

 

No wonder. I saw some gambleresque subaru bombing around. What part were you on? We got there early and left early before it became a shit house.

 

probably smart on your end to go early. We were camping out by thorp and made it out around 1pm. Speelyi was a shit show but that was a given. We went on to the lake from the entrance just past wish poosh, but then drove down a bit further into the more recently lowered/muddy area away from the larger crowds where not everyone could drive down to.

what part were you guys at?