Reno and surrounding areas: Official spotted, BS, and meets thread

Planning on going to slickrock next weekend. It's the Poker Run fund raiser for the Joaquin jeep club that maintains the trail. All rig makes/models capable of the trail are invited to participate and support the trail
https://cal4wheel.com/documents/Joaquin-Jeepers-Poker-Run-2022.pdf

 

Have fun! I have a project go-live next weekend so I'm glued to the computer all weekend

 

I would love to, but I grenaded both my rear brakes and I’m waiting on a rear disk convert. The trail was not without hurdles haha.

 

Moonrocks was dead and so nice out!

 

Your front license plate makes me smile.

 

My wife got it for me last christmas and had to put it on the runner!

 

My Ignorance: How does one grenade rear brakes? Clutches, diffs, axle shafts...yes. Rear brakes? Am I missing a special talent?

Also, your rig is badass.

 

you're not the only one, i was wondering myself haha!

 

Maybe some custom 200 series land cruiser one wheel brake for tight corners stuff? That would be pretty sweet.

 

Funny thing is I posted this on the Facebook pages and I’m not even close to the only one haha. At least 6 other guys had the same thing happen, a couple more then once. I guess with the shock relos it can flex to much, lock up the ebrake line, then blow apart.

The result is the same, spontaneous evacuation of fluid and all the components committing suicide. Guess it happens with Jeep rear drums as well. I went ahead and purchased the rear disk conversion.

 

Oh snap! That makes sense though, so yeah. I didn't think about a failure mode like that.

 

Archive reached out and said he thinks he has a solution. He’s going to ship me a test set tomorrow.

Some new type of bracket to hold to the leafs, then unbolt it from the frame.

 

If anyone local is interested.

https://reno.craigslist.org/pts/d/reno-yakima-loadwarrior-basket/7498999096.html

 

I actually just listed some stuff as well.

JBA HD High Caster UCA’s $600ObO

 

My sister was looking for a rack for her heep. I'll send this to her.

 

Decided to keep the ol gal. I had a bunch of people stop to look at it in front of my house and 2 of them told me to not to sell it. My wife told me I can't sell it, so it stays. We'll see when I get something new if we ever drive it...

 

Got the SR8's mounted this weekend. Pics to come. About halfway to lock either way the tires now barely rub on the mudguards. Oh well

 

You can chop a lot of the inner structure of the mudguard away. At least you could on the 2nd gens.

 

I'll try that out. Looking at it, the lift I'll be putting in should get rid of it as there would be a slightly larger gap since they angle away from the tire a bit.