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Moab!


https://youtu.be/wrXJ0PtcSgU

 

Good read & videos! Did you record any tracks? Going to do Toronto -> NC -> Southwest -> Utah -> Wyoming -> Colorado -> Toronto trip in 6 days, 4+ weeks of travel ahead

 

That's expected, I will be entering Colorado in the end of November/beginning of December which will make most trails impossible to enter I guess, at least I will have my snowboard with me .

 

I spent quite a bit of time mapping out the route i wanted to take. Didn't record tracks most places i went but i have the tracks that I mapped out on Google earth

 

Some of my time in Colorado hitting Black Bear, Imogene, and Engineer Pass


https://youtu.be/9_feZ2sVVpA

 

Real men can't drone n ride


Awesome video work, as always!

 

Sure ya can, especially when your drone follows you itself without touching a button.


*Edit * Then you edit the footage out of the video of it wrecking into the rocks when you're in Moab. (See Moab footage to guess when that could've happened lol)

 

Starting to plan my next trip. Thinking about heading up North/Northwest near Yellowstone, Glacier, Montana area. Any recommendations?

 

No recommendations but I'd love to do a similar trip. If you're looking for another rig to join, keep me posted!

 

Yellowstone, Glacier, and the Tetons are rad. Summer gets stupid busy, and camping becomes a little tricky because of the sheer volume of people. I'm probably gonna be swinging through Glacier NP on my way north in early July (8-9) if you were in the area.

 

Will do. I took the last one myself then picked up some friends that flew in along the way. Met @In4aride in Colorado and wheeled with him a bit!

 

Yeah, i'll be going in when school is in session for sure.

 

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Lower Calf Creek Falls one the road trip

https://youtu.be/ofmr2cMFkK4

 

Quick Red River Gorge weekend. Pics courtesy of @Breezy

 

Having problem getting my truck aligned because of a bad upper ball joint. Replaced the upper ball joint on the Passenger UCA. While I was doing the work I noticed that my Axle boots had a bigger tear than I was anticipating and inspected a crack on my driver side brake caliper. Tore the axle seal in the differential on the driver side while i was replacing the drive axle because it would not budge in coming out while prying.

Took it back to the shop to get it aligned to find out that I had a bad inner tie rod on the passenger side as well. Soooooo, why not replace an entire front end to get the truck aligned right? After 160K miles the truck now has new:

Axles (2) - $200
Axle Seal Driver - $20
555 Inner Tie Rods (2) - $80
Outer Tie Rod Ends (2) - $50
New Driver Brake Caliper - $100
Labor pulling the old axle that would not come out and putting back together driver side - $100

Parts Total-
$550

Alignment when I get the tie rods on. Went with some MooG from Rock Auto after 3 weeks wait from Low Range Offroad

$50

Grand Total
$600 all because of a needed alignment.

 

I'm always Free, Murica

 

Went Expo with some 45 degree lights on the roof rack. Suckers turned out pretty bright!

 

Got the new tie rods in, rented a puller to pull the old ones and put the new ones in. Could not get either nut worked loose off of the outer tie rod. Finally got the nut cut off of the first side after wasting about an hours time, then the outer tie rod would not rotate off the inner tie rod. Finally I decided It was all a waste of time so I just cut the tie rods off to pull them. After some cutting, the rods in the words of (@beertimecontinuum ) were a "Piece of Cake". Found out that my passenger side boot was torn like crazy and the tie rod was shot because of it. Got everything up front fixed up and can finally now get an alignment

 

This build needs dirty fives