Chiva Falls & Chimney Rock 21AUG2011

We should have some pics up soon from our run today with the three of us down in Tucson.

 

I was just looking for em... My kidneys still hurt from Chiva trail.

 

Dude, I pulled my air filter and MAF to clean them. HOLY SHIT, my MAF was bad, but my air filter you could construct an entire beach with all the sand in it. I am still cleaning it.

 

If I was you, next time I would run a filter cover, or a prefilter.

 

I have a pre-filter on order. But I havent cleaned it (other than banging it out once) since i have been down in arizona. Thats 2 massive sand storms, a trip to Butcher Jones, 2 trips to Chiva falls, a trip to Crown king, and what ever else the truck has sucked up in my travels from Washington state to Arizona.

 

Here are the few pictures I have of us at Chimney Rock. Hopefully the other guys will put their pictures up soon, theres are WAY cooler!!!








Here I am playing KING OF THE HILL!!! Lets just say I am glad I had my allpro armor on and I smoked a tire a little bit getting to the top, if I had A-trac and/or a locker it wouldnt have been a problem. It seems my yellow wire mod wasnt really working all that well for this trip. Time for a locker.





And much like Simba from the Lion Kind, my taco rules over all the lands that can be seen!!!!

 

We had a great time out on Reddington. Pictures below, here is the route we took, MAP. Link to all the pictures I took today.




























TOYOTAS!



Another Toyota on the trail...


Another one...


A broken down Jeep...


Another Toyota heading to Chiva!

 

Great pictures guys, but who is that ugly fat guy in the blue shirt? HA!

 

At least he isnt as ugly as that bald fucker driving.

So I threw a Check Engine Code on the way home for MAF out of tolerance. I pulled my air filter, air inlet tube, and MAF sensor to clean them. Here is a shot of the bath tub after the 3RD cleaning. Craziness...


The first one was 10 times worse. Finally after this 3rd cleaning water ran clear threw the air filter. Then I let it drip dry, put it all back in, and started it up to make sure I didnt throw any more codes... ALL GOOD.

 

Harrelson, I tried looking at your link to your pics and it says there is nothing to view or I dont have permission to view those pics.

 

Just for bragging rights, the only vehicles to make it back to Chiva falls today that we saw were Toyotas. We came across 4 BIG american vehicles trying to get that broken down jeep up a 2wd trail so we finally got past them and motored up the harder 4wd trail. We came across 2 awesome toyota buggies ( in the pictures above) and a handful of other Toyotas, its just funny to see that many yota's and the only american vehicles we saw were broken down!!!

 

great pics guys!

 

Ok, this one (LINK) should work now. I had to change the album properties to 'public'

 

Wow, those are great pictures!
I used to mountain bike out there quite a bit. Its a great area.

How was the trail to Chiva Falls? Can a stock OR Taco make it?

 

We took Jake's (kyouto42) stock Tacoma out there last year. We manage to get him out there with no problems. But it has rain a lot since then, so there are more areas washed out. IMO, lift, armor, and sliders are recommended to make it all the way to Chiva.

 

Yeah, I figured as much.
I would love to get out there on the trails with you all but it will be a while before I can leave this Godforsaken place.

 

awesome pictures.

i seem to be working on all the days you guys hit up the local trails.

my shits weak.

 

When are you coming back to Tucson?

Thanks Andrew. I am looking forward to Rail X!

 

I can't wait to do this again. I am very happy with how my truck handled the trails. A little bumpy, but it made it.

 

Well, I should be back next summer. Definitely missing the mountains right now. Hopefully I'll have all the mods I need before then.