Cool looking truck. Also, how long is that pit? Seems really long..

 

It's a 300 footer, excessively long in my opinion, but, it's the only one somewhat local.

Alpha: It's a 460

 

hey 82, how come you never really post in here besides this thread? i see you post often on pirate, and you for sure know what the hell you are talking about, so what gives? and i'm not talking in the b/s threads, i mean the legitimate tech question threads. it'd be nice to have another knowledgeable regular in here.

 

Dan, my internet access tends to be quite limited, as I don't have it at home. Pirate tends to always be the first forum I check, and by the time I get here I'm usually running out of time. I do tend to post in the 80-86 forum a bit more than down here, but, again, it's a time thing.

 

im supprised a 460 even fires on 1psi! i ran mine at 8

 

My hope of not too much breakage sort of worked... I didn't break much expensive stuff, u-joint on the front driveshaft at the t-case, no biggie there, the big pain in the *** is I killed at least 3 cab mounts.
I also tore my buddy Dwayne's rear reciever in two(red XJ on 37's) on an extraction attempt...

Not too many pictures floating around yet, but, here's a teaser:


There are 5 sets of 44's in that picture... LOL

The other Ford in the pic is my buddy Bill's:


96 F350, currently 5.8/E4od with 5.38's, open KP60 front, spooled 60U rear, M12000's at both ends, going to be getting an efi 460/C6 swap.

 

This is why good solid tow points are VERY important:

XJ Reciever hitch Removal - YouTube

Didn't help that I was in high range and couldn't figure out why the thing wouldn't pull second gear so I just hit it hard in first... LOL

And what came off:

 

Well, it's time to get this pile of crap ready to be beat on... Last fall's body mount incident actually broke a bunch of crap, and the rear cab mounts are punched through the crossmember... Yay...
Cab will be coming off tomorrow most likley.
I always say the front suspension works, but have never had pictures to prove it:

 

gotta good bit of body flex to! lol

 

The fact that only one of the cab mounts is solidly attached to its bracket has much to do with that... lol The core support has all but torn itself loose from the fenders too.... Like I said, I broke a lot more than I thought I did... lol

 

you go through a lot of engines lol

 

That jeep is a unibody I had one and lost hitch and rear axle I dont understand the jeep thing?? Lol

 

Its not a lot of engines. I only re ringed and bearinged the stocker once and I only lost the crank in this one once.... lol There will be at least one more engine in its future.... lol

 

Well, I got the big pile all back together in time for May long(last weekend up here) but, thanks to having no co-pilot on the weekend and my having led the pack most of the day, I currently have almost no pictures, and I am waiting on video that was promised from saturday, which may or may not see the light of day... Sunday, well, I failed to bring even my own phone with me, so, not even lame pictures there.
This was a week to go:


I changed the core support, re-wired all the lights in the front clip, replaced all the cab mount brackets and the crossmember under the rear of the cab, replaced the ds spindle and stub axle(twisted splines) replaced the torn apart trans mount and and some other fun maintenance type stuff.



That is the post Saturday pic, I ended up pulling a friends broken and mostly not running Toyota through 3/4's of the trail on the way back, so, combined with it raining something stupid the truck stayed pretty clean. Sunday I ended up in some nice nasty muskeg, so the truck got a bunch dirtier, but again, no phone or camera, or co-pilot, so no pictures.
Other than the transmission full of water, the weekends breakage consisted of the pass side caliper pins disappearing, one of the new headlight relays sticking on, and I shredded both wp/ps belts in the last hole I was playing in on sunday, and limped back to the truck with a chunk of ratchet strap spinning the water pump... LOL

Pics from Saturdays ride:



My buddy Richard's YJ, in hole 1:


It's fullwidth F150 44 and 9, 5.0L stroker I-6, 39.5's...



He tends to not give up until it stops moving or running, whichever comes first... lol

My buddy Craig's street truck, with his girlfriend driving:


Nothing too fancy, nice healthy 375 hp sbc, 35" bfg's, open both ends...

His wheeling rig:


SBC again, but 60/14B locked in the rear, and 39.5 Boggers


Bill's 95 F350 on the left, Troy's 05 on the right.



Bills truck still needs a 460 swap... The Super Pig is a V10 rig, 46" ***** of mud, ARB rear E-locker front...





Whoops... Little too much bouncy bouncy.

Scott's 82 Yota on no lift and 36 swampers, after trying to follow me through a hole...



He was plagued by water in distributor problems all day after this hole and later broke a birfield.

Troy after he made the hill that pretzeled Bill's tie rod look easy:


awesome rig, just held back by the tires and, the seemingly very easy to break stock 05+ 35 spline stubs, it pops the caps out and spits the u-joints like a 44 does.

We had a bunch of quads out too:


Syncronised water wheelies?



Another of the very few pictures my truck made it into, pre Yota death for the day... Those Ford taillights in the distance are mine... LOL



One of the very innocent looking but rather nasty dips in the trail, anything less than 44's and you need to stay to the side and hope you don't slide off the rocks in the bottom into the hole... You can come straight across on 44's, if your departure angle cooperates.







He was bouncing off the rev limiter here, those Claws just don't clean... LOL







That hole has eaten many a truck, mine included... It is alot nastier than it looks, and is pretty much only doable in one direction, when you drop in going the direction he was going it is nearly a 2 foot vertical drop that is next to impossible to climb going the other way.

Richard just playing around:




Me, in Toyota recovery mode... I tried valiantly to climb the bank with the strap still hooked up, but, it just wouldn't happen, so I had to do a bunch of winching. I did drag him through the deepest way through that entire hole though... LOL

The easy side of that same hole, which isn't so easy anymore:





There was an IFS Chevy on 37's out with us too, but he seems to have avoided the camera even more than me... lol

 

Remembered to use my camera... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll9m...e_gdata_player