FEELER: Mojave Road - sometime in May???

wtf pics?

 

I believe Juan broke a ball joint, Adam busted his rubber coupling on his intake as it was sucking up some dust, and Chris' both caliper bolts kept coming off because they were stripped.

 

Here is one video, more to come

Don't know why my Go Pro was making that noise. Just put it in mute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdXU2NE9JI

 

Thats fricken crazy man! cant believe there was so much probs

 

Hey guys, I had a blast despite the broken coupling. Hopefully I didn't do any damage. But that trip was fun. So much awesome scenery!! Thanks for leading Vi. I'll upload pics later.

 

More

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH2iptHdu-c

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPW_jMb_d5o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7ZgVAKo5g

 

awesome gopro vids. you were hauling ass

lets see some pics of the trip and the carnage!!!

 

I already fixed it. sorry no pics of the damage

 

Vi was hauling some serious ass. I think most of the go pro vids were 60-70mph. I know I was doing around 60 and I didn't feel comfortable going any faster with my mid travel. Some of those valleys had nasty ruts that would rip your control arms off if you weren't prepaired for them.

 

damn, thats booking it. i hardly ever go that fast, i'm too scared about not having a cage to be going that fast... the smallest thing can spell doom when your going that quick.

props for you guys for having the balls to do it

 

nice! did the bolts just start backing out of your caliper? I didn't know 6 lug tacos broke ball joints also?

 

This was a great trip. Got to meet more cool people and see some amazing scenery. We started the trip off right with some breakfast at Denny's, some sausage and eggs that was served up nice and warm by our waitress "the tranny" - she had the biggest Adam's apple I've ever seen! That was the longest ride I have ever done in my life and will never donut again. Sorry I didn't have time to take pics because I was lost 75% of the time and had to pull trucks out all day and I mean aaaall day. All in all I would do it again lots of fun. Thanks to everyone that went.

 

I had no long travel and still got up around 50-55 MPH and now I need 4 ball joints.

 

thats the thing, i've had a ball joint fail on me when i was going over a speed bump at 10 MPH... now it's always in the back of my head that it's going to do it again when i'm going 60 over some whoops

 

I can send you the tow bill if you want.

 

Juan

 

I'm putting my pics online now so they should be up here soon. I couldn't go as fast as Vi. The crosswind would kick my truck if I was going over 65, but hit 70 in a few sections along powerline. I think LT 2gens handle much better than first gens or if I can get mine to sit down lower. I didn't have much carnage. E-fan mounts broke at the end of powerline. Some bolts came loose and pretty much that is about it.

 

topping off

and Chris

trail start

letting the motors cool down after pinning through deep sand

more

even more

we were lost here for a little over an hour, map was weird, gps said wtf, and I swear the road disappeared

front view of looking for that right turn

might as well adjust everything while trying to figure out how to find the trail turn off.

the LT guys were the last to find this side trail and stopped right before a 15ft razorback, glad we had a 4x4 guy, thank Juan

this is what we were looking for!!!!!

campsite!!!

how cute, a group photo before 2 had to split ways.

smooth slippery road and soft curb when you slam into it

The last survivors to make it to Primm!!! That felt great. No pics of powerline, 111 miles of non stop crazy fun instead of driving on that boring 15.