Nor Cal Wheeling Trip, Oct 13th at Strawberry Pass

Hahaha, actually I do quite like that one....
I like how it's narrow, but that's just personal preference I s'pose.
At least you only had skid damage for this! The obstacle in my sig resulted in a skid bashed so hard it pressed into the drive shaft...

 

Just poking fun

I've been to scared to take my truck out yet on trails like these. Too many things to do to it yet (and too many boxes taking up space in my garage).

 

Wait WTH?!?! You guys did Slick Rock? Damn I want to go back there. The thread says Strawberry Pass!!

WEAK

 

Strawberry was closed and we voted slickrock vs eagle lakes. Slickrock won.

 

Trying to find the rules to see if it's too big of a sig pic. If not, I'll use that

Eeek. I did bash my exhaust a little bit flat and one section got pushed into my crossmember. I can hear it rattle a lot more now and it's pissing me off haha. I am getting my front end adjusted today so that I can stiffen up the springs and raise the front end a little. It settled a lot from when I first had it lifted. It went from 3" of lift to only 1" on the driver side and 1.5" on the passenger.

Pffttt, too good for strawberry pass so you didn't even click the thread! That's what you get

 

The rules are 500x250 or 15kb, whichever's smaller. Right now the most recent pic that I did is 500x330 or something, but sometimes TW will re-size it for you or something, and I've seen other people with larger pics than the one in my sig, so I don't know exactly how it works. I would just try it and see what happens

Oh, that actually sounds pretty bad...I'm pretty sure it came from the final obstacle, though, not so much that spot where you got hung up. That was only skids and rear diff.
Wow that settled a lot!

 

I'll definitely try to get it edited and uploaded tonight!

 

Yeah that last obstacle gave me a little damage so I probably came from that. Along the trail I did scrape a lot so who really knows where I bent it haha.

 

hehe, nice sig!

 

Haha It would look even better if my truck had beefier tires and some of Vin's SCS wheels.

 

photochop some in

 

Sure it might look better, but when you think back you'll remember how intense it was without them, and you'll think whoa, I did that on those tires? Duuuuude


At least, that's how I'd like to think of it with my suspension/tires

 

Don't know how to use it. I'd be better of mspainting some in.

Haha that's actually how I felt. I was thinking the other day how we made it through that with open/open and sissy tires. Speaking of suspension, I got my front coils cranked down a bit more today to my front end back at about 2.5-3" of lift. The guy working on my truck laughed at me and said what the hell did you do to your skid plates man? Your truck is immaculate until you look under it and see your skids are all scratched to hell and bent.

 

Haha, seriously! Your truck was soooo clean, and I recall you saying that you washed it right after this trip, so it's probably super shiny again.
Then there are the skids...
Seriously a great trip

 

you did fine with those donut tires, told ya

 

Just about back to normal after this trip. Last thing to do is touch up a few body paint scratches and then it'll look like new!

Heeeyyy Carson....got any GoPro yet?

 

I'm still sorry about that scratch Kevin! If it makes you feel any better I did the same thing haha you'll see it in the video.

Yeah I just uploaded it, sorry it took me so long, just haven't had time. I edited it down to 10 minutes from over 2 hours, I think I got most of the important stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBt7wQtDrFo&feature=youtu.be

 

Nice vid Carson, thanks for posting!

 

Dude! Do you actually have a scratch there? It looked like your fender just bent around it and then popped back into place without any real damage.
I'll post pics of the fixed scratch after this weekend. It seriously looks like nothing happened. It was all in that little chrome fender protector thingy that got all bent out of shape.

Thanks for the vid! Looks great! No worries on getting it up late, I do the same thing with uploading pictures to fbook...takes me months before I finally get around to it.

I think that obstacle at around 6:45 was where you hit your t-case...that sounded pretty bad, and did it knock you into neutral?

 

Thanks Matt!

Yeah It scratched my flare a lot and my actual fender just a little bit. Good, I'm glad that's all that happened!

No problem and thanks! Yeah I never seem to get pictures or videos up in a timely manner.

Yeah haha it did knock me into neutral, you are probably right. At least all it did was loosen the drain plug!

Anyway I bought some steel for skid plates so I will get them done soon!