Lets see your TRAIL DAMAGE

It's really a nice option to have. What kind of truck are you building?

 

So you have full float axles front and rear? What exactly is this on?

 

Today was a fun day! Wheeled some private property in NH on the easiest trails. Only needed to ratchet strap myself off tree's a couple times. I managed to Cave in my budbuilt (Pretty much destroyed dont think it will go back on) Pic's tomarrow, Tweak the CBI bumper so it hangs to much to passenger, A few big dents in my sliders. but NO actual BODY DAMAGE TODAY WOOT! Although i came close enough i actually broke out the camera to try to film my would be carnage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIKrwkDlIks

 

cuttin it close there

 

I really need to get more pics taken i seem to only have pics of the damage not the obstacle i was trying to get over. I made it over then slid off the whole weight of the truck came down on the skid.
It looks worse in person, you cant tell but the bottom of the skid bubbles down.

 

Hill climb + ice + snow = sliding down into tree. Busted tailight and scratched and dented rear corner panel.

 

No clue how it happened

 

So to catch up this is what I have done to my truck in the last few months..... Pulled off the rear mud flaps and small dents in the lower panels (those should come off when I get the High Clearance anyway)

The worst was denting the right side . I hate wheeling in snow because you slide all over. Well here are some pics after it was washed.








O yeah and I was trying to pull my buddys IZuZu out of the snow and I bent my front bumper mounts (not the frame mounts the actual bumper mounts) I think I need a bigger washer on the bolts holding my bumper on? Any suggestions :/.





I think I should just go get a rockcrawler........

 

O yeah and a little hop into a tree during a tight squeeze... This was just craziness with the gas peddle.

 

SOOOOO my walk of shame...... I installed the brace plate incorrectly and it explains why the bolt did not seat correctly and SLIGHTLY bent the mount.

 

Damn bro at least your using it for what its built for!

 

yea, should be on top of bumper flange not between flange and mount.

 

The brace plate actually doesn't work. If you look at the design when you start tugging on the bumper it'll just start to flatten/stretch the brace plate since there's no gusset on the inner section. I recommend you do what I did and weld some angle strips on the back of the mounting brackets.

 

Could you include a pic of what you did? I think I will do the same.

 

I'll snap some pictures tomorrow evening.

 

I had a similar rip. I would love to just tie the top of my bumper to the frame rails!

 

Taco's don't float... happened a month or two ago. Cleaned it up real good and luckily the weather was hot and dry so I was able to get it all to dry very quickly, so the truck still smells normal.

And all these trucks with rear diff grenades going off eats away at the back of my mind. What a pain in the ass that would be to have to remove a third member on the trail.

 

From today...tree won

 

nearly a flesh wound