UTAH (and Surrounding Areas) BS Thread

Mass air flow sensor…

that’s just how everyone on here always abbreviated it. Got in the habit of it

 

Ended up fixing speakers. It was the tweeter. What a shit design.

 

Loose connection?

 

First day on the Kokopelli Trail from Grand Junction to Moab. And well it fuckin poured last night, so the trail is a little sloppy in places.

 

Anyone know what the Gooseberry Mesa conditions are right now? Taking an last minute trip to Zion before I miss out for the next 4-5 months.

 

How did the tent do?

 

We looked like a football tonight. It felt good. It’s been 105 years since we last won in the collesium.

Oh, and winning is a lot better than losing.

 

Pretty upset tonight. I’ve been a dishnetwork customer for 20 years. The hopper is by far the best DVR hardware. Dish cancelled ATT sportsnet. No Jazz on Dish. I hate Communist-Cast but I guest I’ll have to settle. I added a TV this summer to my dish and they forced another 24 month contract. I don’t know what to do. It’s going to cost quite a bit of $$$ no matter what option I take.

 

YouTube tv - 85 channels plus local TV channels - $65 a month. Unlimited dvr - we made the change a year ago. You can try it for a couple of weeks for free. Also, no contracts - you can get rid of it if you don't like it and you're not locked in for 2 years.

 

You can just buy a flat paper thin window/wall hanging antenna for like $20-30 and just watch basic TV. Sports highlights are free on Youtube as well.

 

I still have an antenna on the roof pointing line of sight to Farnsworth Peak. I have a TV tuner card on my computer. Also You can plug it into the Dish receiver and get all the OTA programs meshed into the guide.

My issue isn’t just watching TV. I don’t really watch that much. When I sit down to watch TV I don’t surf. I have something specific to watch. Mostly sports of teams I’m interested in. I will probably end up cancelling the multi-sports package to recover some money then pay for futotv or something else that broadcast U of U sports and the Jazz.

 

Cool. Go for it!

 

Wife (Jenn) and I took advantage of the long weekend to do a Utah off roading adventure with the new roof top tent. Plan was to run a 4x4 version of the Kokopelli Bike trail from Fruita CO to Moab. This trail includes portions of Dome Plateau, passes by Top of the World, and heads down the Rose Garden Hill. The full trail is 140 miles with sections of up to 6/10 or difficult.



We ran into a bit of a snag after the first day, so our trip got cut short. But it was still a great time. One thing to note is that the night before we were to start the trail, the Fruita area was expected to get strong thunderstorms. And it did. So we skipped camping that first night. It rained hard and the trail was a muddy sloppy mess for many many miles.


The off roading version starts at the official trailhead, but immediately veers off. And follows random uninspired ranch roads along I-70 for miles. Until it reaches Rabbit Valley, it’s not worth doing. So if you stumble into a gpx just skip the start.

After that, the trail is reasonably scenic, and the terrain varies between super easy smooth dirt road to moderate/hard obstacles, including extremely narrow shelf road sections to large-ish steps. If I were to guess, I’d say the trail is a solid 4/10 or moderate until it crosses 128.

An example of the one of the obstacles is a super narrow section of shelf road that you have to get over a 15” rock on the passenger side. While not sliding into the large boulder on driver.




Note that the Cisco Wash crossing is no longer maintained and completely impassible.




But as the trail heads down to Dewey bridge it follows the Dome Plateau trail, including some easy slick rock driving


and descending the hardest rated obstacles which are 5/10 on that part


It was at this point we ran into trouble.

What the hell is that squeak? Must be mud or gravel in the rotors. See? It goes away with some braking. I popped under the truck several times and couldn’t find anything.

The plan was to check it the next morning after camping just south of Dewey bridge.

Note the trail was so muddy, that even the top of the brand new RTT was muddy.

The next morning after breaking camp, I spent probably 1 1/2 hours on the trail trying to figure out the squeak and rattle that you could feel. Turns out it was a caliper mounting bolt on the drivers side had loosened itself along the trail and fallen out. And the other bolt was loose!

Fuck! Must not have loctite-ed those bolts. So we tightened up the other bolts and tested out the braking. Everything worked fine. So we drove into Moab, 40 miles away, and bought a new bolt at the Carquest store.

With the new bolt installed and loctite applied, we rushed back to see if we could pick up the trail where we left off. Instead of starting at 10am, we decided to start the trail at 2:45. Oh well, it will be fine.

And it was. We decided to run the full lollipop loop. Up the west side, down on the harder east side, with a waypoint named “nasty” we new it would be good fun.



The way up was pretty easy for a 6/10. Too easy. Once you hit the lollipop loop though, it became more difficult. But not too bad, no rear locker use. No spotting needed.

Until the posing ledge at the top that is. Don’t want to drive too far on that one.

The way down on the left side was much more challenging. Big steps. BIG steps. Sliders scraping. Skids and bumpers hitting rock. Jenn spent a fair bit of time out of the truck spotting me.



Total time on TOTW was about 3 hours. So we rushed down Shura Rd towards Dewey bridge to reach same spot we camped at the night before.

Tired from the stupidity of the morning, the drive in and back out of Moab, the challenge of TOTW, we decided to not push our luck and drive the last 1/3 to 1/2 of the Kokopelli trail and just make the 7 hour drive home.


The blue track is what we drove (plus TOTW), the pink is the full route. Looks like I will have to finish the Kokopelli trail another visit to Moab.

 

So me and my sister are planning to go to moab the weekend before xmas. We will be taking a 97 reg cab 4x4 manual hubs, rear locker, hi lift topper, ko2’s 31’s , kings 2.5”, tc uca. What should we expect, tips? Where should we start, now we are more on the softroader overlanding type.

 

ill add im from los angeles, so im thinking of only bringing a heater and not my ac for my shell

 

I feel yeah. DirecTV discontinued Bloomberg about two weeks. The even shittier part is they make almost impossible to bitch about it to anyone who cares.

They are doing their damndest to drive away those of us clinging to the old ways.

 

I’d look on sites like FunTreks.com, jeeptheusa.com, rr4w.com, or trailsoffroad.com to get a sense of trails and ratings. December could have snow?Rain? Reasonable temps? Who knows? So keep an eye on the weather. And there are so many beautiful drives there, from easy to extreme, it’s hard to go wrong.

Though I live in New Mexico, I’ve been to Moab a dozen times or more. It’s popular and busy for a reason. It’s fucking amazing. Even the stupid highways into town are scenic AF.

 

Anyone selling any 17” wheels?

 

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https://classifieds.ksl.com/listing/65603542

 

thanks, just thought I would check with our TW friends first. Gonna be in SLC in 2 weeks