Off roading weekend interest

[Toxicrider]

Having to back out. Parts never showed up for my truck (paid for expedited service and they screwed up). 

[yevych]

Today was a fun day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO3Etjz-R3g

[Monk]

Sweet thanks for the vids, sucks about shaft but make good viewing, hehe hopefully someone has spares

[yevych]

[quote="Monk"]
Sweet thanks for the vids, sucks about shaft but make good viewing, hehe hopefully someone has spares
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Thanks, I guess that's what we are paying for fun sometime :-) ... 

[yevych]

Hope you guys had a good time on Saturday and please post some vids and photos...
I end-up going back home - my sway bar link had L shape and I had to drive on High Lock - couldn't switch (it won't let me with removed half shaft)... Some fixing to do now :-)
 
Here is some moments from Saturday (sorry for music if you don't like it)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxs1bXgFOI

[Roy]

Wow, what a weekend! It was a great area to off road to any extreme.
Unfortunately there were breaks, at lot of weird ones.
Day 1...
H3 half shaft in a mud puddle.
Day 2....
H3 in a deep rut,bent a tie rod, while getting ready to pull him out,my H1 blew a brand new front half shaft --on a very small hill ,
Once tie rod got straightened,tried to head back, another H1 lost reverse.....
we all headed back to camp to repair or leave the wounded.
In the afternoon, it was a fun trail, climbing any hill or climb possible..
UNTIL another break. A H2 blew the spider gears out of the rear end.
Back to camp.
So, on day 2, 4 out of 6 trucks broke,1 repaired to trail more, the rest parked.
On the other side of my buddies,3 out of 4 rock crawlers broke. One the first 15 minutes in, the rest near the end of day 2
 
 
I have not heard of any other events on the way home, other than me blowing a rear tire on the 400.
Sad to say it was towed home again.
All in all, a bad weekend for weird breaks.
 
I would like to ask that anyone who off roads, please carry some spare parts.
H2,H3  common repairs are tie rods, half shafts not as common but nice to have.spare tire, tools
H1, well , depending on how hard you drive, all halfshafts, ball joints, pitman, idler,tie rod assembly,spare tire(s),tools
 
Thanks to everyone ,it was a memorial weekend and fun just the same.

[Monk]

Lol some of the vids your basically on crazy angles watching the sky,hehehe

Was it hot there on weekend?

[T.C.]

HUMMER'S NEED PARTS FOR OFFROAD  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA GLAD YOU HAD A GREAT TIME .

[thejudge]

Just wanted to say we had a great time, seeing old friends and making new ones. Awesome trails there, can't wait to go back. I'm also very glad I got rock rails haha

[canadah1]

Had a great weekend camping out there as well. Will post some pics later once I can get them off the wife's iPad. Anyway this pic is what it looked like this morning. Going to get the "no reverse" situation figured out. Prepared for bad tranny news. Apparently common problem according to AAMCO transmission. Strange when it happened but glad I could still drive off the trail and back home with no issues (forward only of course).
 
Plan on a trip back to Ardbeg later in summer or early fall. Will advise when. We need to go back to beat that Black Lake trail.