Jan. 19-21 Trail Ride

[Goode]

Alright... slow process but here's the first three. Should have a couple more ready tomorrow.

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[marius]

Roger thanks for weekend
did you get what was under beer can?
thanks to all the other guys also

[DSLTOY]

Originally Posted by marius

Roger thanks for weekend
did you get what was under beer can?
thanks to all the other guys also

Yes,thank you it was more that enough

[DSLTOY]

It was great to see you all and what a turn out, hope we can have more rides like this one.
You all that had to leave early missed the really good trails. Monday we found the trail leading to the old sand quarry area. There is a long steep rock climb to get up to it, then open trails, sand hills and assorted side obstacles. We need another weekend just to explore this area. My dial up connection with wet phone lines does not want to open the pictures this morning will look at them later.

[chattfj40]

Well to those that left early, I'm sorry, but we did finally find the best trails on Monday. We found a back way into the "Sand Mine" that involved crossing the river, a hell of a nice trail up with ROCKS, lots of ROCKS, and more ROCKS, and then an area at the old sand mine that could keep everyone happy playing for a few days on side trails and rocks.

Roger even got a chance to show off the diesel power by pulling Greg and the Bronco up the steepest part of the rock face after Greg's Quadrajet refused to run on an angle

It turns out that if we'd just stayed on the trail we were on Sat. morning, it would have led us directly there...its just several miles past where we turned into the rain forrest

Roger and I did decide that since almost all of the full size stuff we found was on the lower end of the park, it would be best to investigate accomodations closer to Caryville for a return trip. We also never really got a chance to explore "Caryville Mtn" (the way we came out on Sun) as the locals seemed to call it.

Shawn, please post up when you plan to go exploring. If we can work it out, I'd love to take another run up there this spring

Sorry, we didn't take any pics on Monday, none of us had a camera

All in all, my take is that RBWMA is a huge area that with some investment of money and time could really be a class A wheeling area. There are already some good areas, though TWRA seems to have been listening to the ATV crowd and made several formerly full size trails into "ATV" only on the NE side of the park, but that's ok...WSW of I75 seemed much better suited to our needs anyway

[TN_LandCruiser]

Originally Posted by Porkgrisle

Nice meeting everyone, spent the afternoon removing my new "racing stripes" with not much luck and then I came upon these on another forum, oh well a day late and a damnit short. FJC Shields

Hey man...really sorry about the stripes...how did the wife react to the damage?

[Porkgrisle]

As long as it still runs, she could care less.

[Hugh Heifer]

Originally Posted by marius

Roger thanks for weekend
did you get what was under beer can?
thanks to all the other guys also

<<<<<<Marius got his truck dirty

[Landcruizerdude]

Andy - Thanks for posting the pics and vids on Photobucket. You da man!!! Good crew you run with too. Glad to see my old 40 has gone to a good home with Mr. Sharp.

[sk8salomon]

Nice videos Andy!

Ok, I told Landcruiser Larry I wouldn't post this but I just have to...sorry Larry, I just love to hear the sound of that turbo whistler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YouTube - Royal Blue Run

[LDowney]

I just down loaded the pictures from the camera and am still sorting through to see what is worth posting, but I thought one from Todd's log climb needed to be posted tonight.

[LDowney]

Originally Posted by sk8salomon

Nice videos Andy!

Ok, I told Landcruiser Larry I wouldn't post this but I just have to...sorry Larry, I just love to hear the sound of that turbo whistler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YouTube - Royal Blue Run

This will give the guys at work a laugh, because I was telling them about my error and now they will get to see it.

Thanks ... sort of.

[Goode]

More videos available. Grand total of 7.
There is no structure to my bucket, there are pics of everything in no particular order. But the videos should all be together at the beginning. The 7 videos are the only ones from Blue.
I grouped a couple of clips together of the same trucks if anyone wanted to download for themselves.

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[Goode]

Originally Posted by Landcruizerdude

Andy - Thanks for posting the pics and vids on Photobucket. You da man!!! Good crew you run with too. Glad to see my old 40 has gone to a good home with Mr. Sharp.

Had a great time on the trails! Can't wait 'til the next adventure.

Did you and Sean/Shawn (sp?) sorry, stay for Sunday?

We need to get the Knoxville guys together sometime...

[TN_LandCruiser]

Originally Posted by LDowney

This will give the guys at work a laugh, because I was telling them about my error and now they will get to see it.

Thanks ... sort of.

Larry, tell those of us that werent there with you guys what happened? Video shows your submarining your LC, but then ends...what was the result?

[TN_LandCruiser]

Here is a link to some of my better shots.

Flickr: Photos from TN_LandCruiser

[bob@tpi]

you guys had a great trip!!!
we had our vet change his appointment from thursday to friday.
he did not finish until 3;30 and i did not get off the ranch until 7 pm. by then i was just too tired to drive at night.
i laid in bed thinking, would i rather be driving in10o weather or lying here watching spongebob reruns? spongebob won.
glad everyone had a good time, hope to make next ride.
bob@tpi

[LDowney]

Originally Posted by TN_LandCruiser

Larry, tell those of us that werent there with you guys what happened? Video shows your submarining your LC, but then ends...what was the result?

The middle and end were the same as the beginning … absent all dignity.

After the video ended, Sean, Marius and Greg snaked through the trees and proved that the mud hole could have been by-passed. We then used my come-along and Sean’s truck to pull me out. About this time, a couple of quad-runners came up the trail in front of us and said the trail got worse (tighter trail & bigger mud holes). This led us to the conclusion that it was better to turn around when we could.

About the time we got back to the main road, I started to encounter electrical problems. Some how the submersion in the mud hole caused something in the cab to short out and it burned the ground wire (from the battery & the firewall) in two. We spliced it once and it immediately burned through again when I turned on the accessories in the cab. This was not making headway, so we spliced it again and I left the accessories off for the rest of the trip without another burn through. I have repaired the ground since getting home, but I have not found the source of the short so I will continue to search & check. However, I am running all the accessories now without any problem so this gremlin is going to make it hard for me to find the devil.

[chattfj40]

Originally Posted by Goode

More videos available. Grand total of 7.

Andy...Thanks for the Videos! Wish you had been there on Monday to film some of the trails we found

[bob@tpi]

if you are burning a ground wire, it may not be a tipical short per say. it may be a "lack of proper ground". something is searching for and/or you have a weak ground elsewhere. check to see ground at battery and starter (if it came with a ground at starter from factory) is in top condition.
secondly, if it is a short, and a fuse did not blow, i would look at the main feed wire feeding the amp meter and/or fuse block. it's generally the only wire without a fuse. sometimes there is an inline fuse at battery feeding the main wire but this is not the issue in your case. it would have already blown.
#1, check all other grounds. "clean them anyway".
#2, check main feed from batt and/or alt feeding amp meter and/or fuse box. water caused short is suspect. wd40 may be the cure.
one of these will be your culpret.
good luck, bob

[Goode]

Originally Posted by chattfj40

Andy...Thanks for the Videos! Wish you had been there on Monday to film some of the trails we found

So did you guys get on I-75 and head down to exit 134 to hit the trailhead in Caryville?

[LDowney]

Originally Posted by bob@tpi

if you are burning a ground wire, it may not be a tipical short per say. it may be a "lack of proper ground". something is searching for and/or you have a weak ground elsewhere. check to see ground at battery and starter (if it came with a ground at starter from factory) is in top condition.
secondly, if it is a short, and a fuse did not blow, i would look at the main feed wire feeding the amp meter and/or fuse block. it's generally the only wire without a fuse. sometimes there is an inline fuse at battery feeding the main wire but this is not the issue in your case. it would have already blown.
#1, check all other grounds. "clean them anyway".
#2, check main feed from batt and/or alt feeding amp meter and/or fuse box. water caused short is suspect. wd40 may be the cure.
one of these will be your culpret.
good luck, bob

Bob,
You may have bulls-eyed my situation. With the battery to firewall ground disconnected (or burned through as on Saturday), the EDIC relay clicked indicating a poor ground. However, the primary ground runs from the battery to the engine block and is only a few months old (i.e., great condition, tight clean connections). This lead me to conclude that I was not getting good grounding between the engine & cab and possibly engine & frame. What I did was pick up two starter lead straps (4 gauge) and connected them as grounds between the engine-to-frame and engine-to-cab. The engine to frame ground alone did not fix the ground and the EDIC relay continued to click. When I added the engine to cab ground strap, the EDIC relay had good grounding and the truck has been operating fine since.

I will search more for a short, but based on what your diagnosis; I won't be completely paranoid about it if I don't find one due to the ground straps that I added.

Thanks. Kudos to your experience and insight.

[DSLTOY]

Originally Posted by Goode

Had a great time on the trails! Can't wait 'til the next adventure.

Did you and Sean/Shawn (sp?) sorry, stay for Sunday?

We need to get the Knoxville guys together sometime...

Sean(from Chattanooga) stayed for Sunday, Shawn (from Knoxville) left Saturday evening.

I am always up for a raod trip, let me know if you want to ride RB again and I will try to come over and show you the good trails.

[LDowney]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

<<<<<<Marius got his truck dirty

Chris,
Marius wheeled his truck this weekend and really put her through her paces. Melissa was our vehicle photographer and here are few shots she got of Marius.

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