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by fishsticks » Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:37 am

SteveTB03 crashed at my place last night on his way up to Seattle. My duty as a good host was to also show him the local wheeling grounds. :)

Steve is 2WD, so last weekend when I was up, I scouted out a couple trails that were 2WD friendly to take him on. Turns out it's a good thing I did. Apparently my splined disconnect decided to die between Sunday and today. This was confirmed when I backed up into some slick stuff to turn around and couldn't get out. :wallbash: Couple that with my bad G80 clutches and I was 2WD open diff for the day.

No matter, I promised Steve we'd go get dirty.

Steve's internet connection is dicey at his new place, so I collected the pics we took to make a thread. You've seen me in most of these places already, so I'll post pics of Steve and his TB. Maybe he can get this Trail Ready rank now.

Steve and his buddy Marakumo (hope I spelled that right).

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At first I didn't think this pic turned out. After seeing it blown up I kinda like it.

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One of the trails we went up/down.

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Pose shot.

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Took Steve to a place where there's a few up and downs to play on.

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I'd climbed all of little hills here before, but we decided to see if Steve could get up them in 2WD. I had video of him trying this one out, but it got corrupted. :| Result pics will have to suffice.


This did not go as planned:

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Some cool flex pics though...

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I've climbed it before in 4WD. To be fair, I tried it in my new 2WD state as well, twice. I was a bit more aggressive and made it... farther. :mrgreen:
Here's video evidence of my failure...








Fun was had. :flex dirty:





But I need to fix my truck. :mechanic:
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by SteveTB03 » Sat Jun 19, 2010 5:46 pm

That was some fun we had going on those trails ill have to come back down soon and have a WHOLE DAY to wheel with ya or just tey and fix your 4WD and G80.
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by rgraboske » Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:42 pm

Looks like a fun time :safari:
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by teamred250ex » Sun Jun 20, 2010 1:08 pm

I love seein 2wd's out having some fun!! I'm planning on going out to ocala, fl at the end of the summer
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by Trail X » Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:42 pm

Dang fishy... your truck's falling apart!

As for the front disconnect... I wrote an article here: http://www.offroadtb.com/articles/tech- ... disconnect .... in-case you haven't seen it.

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by fishsticks » Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:05 pm

JamesDowning wrote:Dang fishy... your truck's falling apart!

As for the front disconnect... I wrote an article here: http://www.offroadtb.com/articles/tech- ... disconnect .... in-case you haven't seen it.

:thumright:



Glory comes at a price my friend...

I've studied your article well. I'll be writing an in-depth on the rebuild of my G80 as soon as I complete it. Right now I just need to get the wife moved back in and settled in. The truck is temporarily a mall cruiser in the mean time.... I even washed it. I might..... wax it. :shock:
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by Trail X » Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:58 am

fishsticks wrote:I'll be writing an in-depth on the rebuild of my G80 as soon as I complete it.


Please do! I'll even make a special rank for you if you want. "ORTB Contributor" or something.
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