Hardrock off-road April trip

I'm just messing with you. I hope it's nothing to serious and goes away.

 

I would say go ahead and come. You can park in the parking lot and ride with someone. I'd offer my shotgun seat, but I don't think it's a good idea for anyone to be stuck in a truck with me if I'm still not up to par.

 

Thanks. It's probably nothing too serious.

 

Never been to hard rock before heard it was fun but idk if 2wds would make it without being locked in the rear

 

It's not terribly 2wd friendly even if you are locked, to be honest.

 

Hard Rock looking really iffy for me. Got the rear gears done but doing the front in time will be tough

 

Come on now, we all can't bail. Sounds like you need some medicine made by the same people as the stuff Paul was prescribing for me--Stopbeingawussandgetitdin.

 

Haha. The problem is if I finish them in time it will be the day before the meet. The guys at ecgs were very adamant about a 500 mile break period with varying speeds and breaks in between to allow the Diff to cool. I don't wanna drive up there and break something by being rough on the trails

And I assure you this sucks because I love hard Rock. Wanted to go back since the last meet there.

 

Yeah, that's one thing I'm probably not going to be able to manage when I regear. I only put about 1k a year on the OGT and half of that is off-road. I wouldn't be able to wheel it for like a year if I waited until I completed a 500 mile break in.

Nobody says you have to be rough with it though. Just stay away from the rock gardens. The hill climbs aren't all that hard on your diffs. Plus, unless you're gonna drive around on the street in 4WD (which would be harder on the diffs than wheeling--unless it's a 3rd Gen Taco or 3+ Gen T4R with a center diff type t-case) then you need to wheel it to break in the front diff.

 

I don't see why they need to broken anyways. They get heat treated when they are cast (or are gears forged?). Biggest thing is probably to change the fluid after 500 miles get the shavings out.

You're right on the front Diff I didn't consider that

 

Tires will be here Thursday!

 

What size did you end up getting?

 

35x12.5R17

 

Cool. You gonna have them on for Hardrock? ...only because I would imagine there's gonna be a lot of sheetmetal trimming to be done.

 

yes sir! I'll be cutting this week

 

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about the break in. I didn't follow it whatsoever on mine. I wheeled within probably 300 miles of initial install and didn't change fluid until after 4K miles or so. The fluids where clean front and rear, with very very little metal debris on the magnet. (The magnet only had that really fine sludge built up on it from the microscopic pieces of metal, which is usually normal with a fluid swap at any mileage).

 

Sorry Todd, apparently I haven't been on TW lately, I'm probably not going to make this one although I'm going to try. With it being the week of Georgia trip plus all the other crap I have going on, I don't think i can swing it by the old lady. She isn't going with me to Georgia so it's "her weekend" .

 

Should I even bother coming with my prerunner? I have the mechanical LSD but I don't want to get stuck every few feet. It's about a 3 hour drive for me. @Taco No Baka

 

you won't have as much fun as 4wd but you can keep up on the trails

 

Ok, thanks for the reply. I got through all the trials when I went with you guys to the citrus meet in 2016. Although those are relatively easy. Maybe I'll bring my camera and take some pics of you all going through the stuff I won't be able to.