Devil's Slide Doug

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We won’t know about campfires until we get closer to the event. I have managed to scavenge wood or cut downed trees with an axe or saw. I propane fire pit is an option depending on fire restrictions.

Reminds me a bit of my noisy exhaust

The diff and axles are back in still have a few things to tend to 😎

Looking at pictures on a phone in the sun without glasses. I should have noticed it was a rear pumpkin and rear axle shafts. Broke stock rear or RCV? Looks like it broke off clean enough you didn’t need to cut a hole in your diff cover?

Is that from when you broke both RCVs?

Out. 😢😢😢😢 I’m terribly bummed. But a few life situations have come up for June that I have to engage and deal with. Getting old sucks.

Nope. I’m planning on not doing the common Saginaw Steering. 80 box with fj62 pump on the drivers side. Unless someone can convince me a better way.

Wow! Just a bit to get wrapped up. And I’m afraid to start my power steering project because “I ran out of time”.

35 days till I hit the road heading west…. All back roads to Quincy to drop off bikes. Then down to Tahoma to meet Georg and company. Dropping driveline in tomorrow to locate new frame mounts, burning, then systems integration. Hoping to put...

Slee 4” heavies. The OME J springs are just not up to the task of my heavy 80. Tired of dragging that rear bumper when loaded or towing.

I don’t think swapping springs on my 80 and replacing a leaky rear brake line counts as a build.

Not starting power steering on the 40 until after Rubithon.

I’ve been internet sleuthing flow rates/pressure of belt Saginaw or Toyota or gear driven 80 series pumps compared to Volvo electric pumps. I really like the idea of an electric pump…..

I dont see this being done much. Almost every FJ40 I see on the Rubicon has full Saginaw Steering. I want to know how well this works in the rocks with 35"+ tires. I'm on the fence whether to do 60/80 style or Saginaw. Mainly about sourcing...

I assume your mud handle “BC40” means you’re coming down from BC? A few years ago we were joined by a family from BC that ran the Rubicon on the way to Disney Land. No tow vehicle but drove a HDJ80 all the way. Buck Island and the springs are...

Welcome aboard. Ours has a tired 1F, h42 with Orion 4:1 and Armstrong steering, sprung under on 33”s. He’ll be driving up from Pacifica.

Pismo, but Stayner got back me back on my wheels. I figured he knew how to do that.

Been there, done that. (With no roof rack)

I’m not trying to scare you, LOL. It’s just good to be prepared. Most of my trips through the trail have been trouble free (not counting bumps and bruises to armor and sheet metal). I’ve only broken one birfield/axle, I’ve damaged more than one...

I have seen the rear long side axle shaft break a few times. When I broke a birfield it also took out the inner axle shaft or vis a versa.

I also highly recommend carrying some spare axle shafts/birfield and drive shafts. Assuming you still have the stock semi float axles?

Your wagon looks pretty well built/armored. I assume it had good skid plates protecting the belly. Depending on how tall it is it will be fun in the off camber stuff. Do you have any sort of crawler gears or do you lug the diesel?

The “tail gunner” comment was sort of a joke/maybe not because you’re driving a diesel with stinky exhaust. We will actually assess were to put folks on the day when everyone shows up. The radio you linked is perfectly adequate. It looks like it...

Welcome, you might be tail gunner. As far as coms go. Baofengs are dirt cheap. I program all the freq. repeaters and tones using my laptop but you can use one right out of the box in simplex mode and manually dial in the frequency.