2015 OFFICIAL CITRUS MEET

I would love to hit ocala sometime in the future again. that shit was so much fun

 

I still like one hour away from home , the bad side Tacoma is over heating had to stop few time to let it cool off

 

Nice to see everyone and meet new people, had a great time this weekend!

 

Oh ok. Nothing too serious then.

 

Should get a group buy going on AAA memberships.

 

lol, we never talked video games at citrus! lol

 

Pretty sure guy bent his axle housing

 

No, Guy's damage is pretty serious, or at least it could be. He was able to limp home, but his driver's side tire has a pretty good lean to it (the bottom was noticeably out further than the top). Could be a bent axle housing or a toasted knuckle bearing. He said he'd have to pull it apart before he'd know for sure.

On an additional note, as we were headed down trail 13 on the way out, Rlockerman (the little Suzuki that could) busted the top out of his strut tower. I escorted him back as far as Countyline road on US41 where he stopped at the Speedway and called AAA to tow him the rest of the way to Sarasota. Sucks to happen on the way out to head home, but I guess in a way it's better than breaking early and not having any fun.

Miraculously enough, I survived the weekend with the only casualty being my windshield washers and I'm home safe. According to the GPS, I put 304 miles on the truck this weekend, 200 of that was on the trails.

I had a blast. I hope the groups I led had a good time as well. Looking forward to seeing Rick's videos and everyone else's photos and videos as well. Aside from the infamous FWC incident, it was an amazing meet.

 

Thanks very much for taking the lead and navigating us through the trails, I had a great time.

 

Wow that really sucks about Guy's runner & also about Rlockerman.
But at least you didn't break anything this time. Maybe airing down does help.
With the exception of the ticket it was fun, I might have to camp next time.

 

No worries with the Runner, it's all about the build and finding the next weakest link. I'll blow the front end apart next weekend and assess.

Too bad about the Zuk, the fix could be a simple strut tower brace.

All in all a few speed bumps aside a great weekend with even greater company!

 

If it makes you feel any better, you guys getting busted saved me from a potentially stupid course of action. I was about to try climbing up a washout that everyone else in our group thought looked insane. I didn't think it looked that bad, so I wanted to at least try it to see why they thought it was so narly. However, before I could get over there, the word came about you guys getting caught and we decided to bug out of the area.

As far as airing down, yeah, I figured it was worth a shot and it seemed to work out. Hard to say how much it helped though. I don't think I was beating on it as hard this trip as I had on those others. I also put the factory CV back in the driver's side (which seems to be the one that breaks first most of the time) and it's supposed to be a little stronger than the Autozone CVs, so maybe I just hit on the right combination this trip to keep everything together.

 

it was good to meet everyone and see some bad ass tacomas, definitely need to get mine lifted and built up before the next meet.

 

Yesh hopefully the leak in my ARB locker isn't in the diff I would hat to sent it back for the 3rd time but it's almost t the point I'm kinda disliking the aeb even though this is the first actual problem I've had with it. But the whole combo seems like it's going downhill breaking 2 pinion gears without it locked

 

Well I guess it was worth getting busted then.

 

Damn, im always missing the FL meets!! Next time i suppose. Someone fill me in on what went down with FWC..

Edit: nevermind i just saw the explanation in the pic thread..

 

I hear that, that climb had the potential for a lot of passenger side body damage! The valley was really cool, but the legal trail at the top of the forest on the north west side was the best scenery at Citrus. Nice elevation change too.

GH

 

I should've stuck with you guys, I would've been in a cool pic, seen some nice scenery & avoided a damn ticket. Haha

 

I had a blast, great seeing everybody again, my only complaint is not being able to hit all the trails and hitting one particular trail 3 times.

 

Here's a pic Guy got of the ravine I was about to drive up (see the orange arrow)...

Glad you enjoyed it.

You know, it almost doesn't make sense that you damaged the front axle in that little hole. You were beating on it a heck of a lot harder back in June launching the front tires off the ground for those bad ass pics. I didn't think you hit the hole that hard, but I guess it was.

I don't think the Suzie was hurt that badly. It's more like it pushed the top of the strut up through the isolator bushing on top rather than any kind of metal damage...I think anyway. It's still not exactly a quick repair to be done on the roadside...at least not when AAA will drop you off in your driveway with no charge. So, yeah, while it sucked, it wasn't nearly as serious and/or costly as the potential damage to the 'Runner.

Is it wrong that I feel a little relieved that I seemed to have passed the breakage baton off to others this trip? Haha, I almost didn't want to go ride the trails this morning just so I'd get out clean (of broken parts anyway ).