Carnage Canyon, IDaho

[ginericLC]

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=239095

Rather than posting up picts in two spots I posted them at Pirate's and I'm linking here.

Never hit the rear bumper on any obstacles on this trip. It appears that I will need a new tire before Rubithon. I have a slice in the front DS sidewall. It isn't all the way through but not up to Rubithon standards. I didn't make the whole trail. I didn't attempt the spot where Cruzilla is lodged between the two rocks. Even with his sliders he managed to do a lot of damage to the side of his rig. I was real disappointed because I missed the last few obstacles because of a fairly new fallen rock. I was really wishing I would have had a 40. I just can't bring myself to tear up my 80. Not sure I ever will be able to.

 

[NW-sickboy]

[quote author=ginericfj80 link=board=2;threadid=14324;start=msg133689#msg133689 date=1081262742]
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=239095

I just can't bring myself to tear up my 80. Not sure I ever will be able to.
[/quote] COME on. you got 2 right just teasin. that second half is pretty muh gauranteed Body damage.

 

[ginericLC]

Yes having 2 sucks! Because that means time and money gets split. Of course if I was a single guy with a good paying job maybe things would be different And then there is the wife factor. I have to go home to my wife after a day of wheeling. Already from this little excursion I need to explain why I need a new $500 plus exhaust. I was all ready for everything from the V rock (waterfall) and beyond. I wasn't prepared for the rock that Cruzilla got jammed up between, it is a newer obstacle and Jesse says it has gotten a lot tighter than even the last time he was there. There was no way I was going to make it over that on my own. I'm only locked in the rear. And the thought of getting strapped through it possibly sideways did not appeal to me. Plus I'm not that good of a driver in an 80. If I had my 60 still I know I would have gone for it. The other tough thing for me is finding 80s to wheel with. The other 80 owners in Idaho own other Cruisers. I'd like to spend some more time with other 80s to learn lines and to see how things look from the outside rather than the driver's seat.

 

[NW-sickboy]

[quote author=ginericfj80 link=board=2;threadid=14324;start=msg134150#msg134150 date=1081309159]
Yes having 2 sucks! Because that means time and money gets split. Of course if I was a single guy with a good paying job maybe things would be different And then there is the wife factor. I have to go home to my wife after a day of wheeling. . The other tough thing for me is finding 80s to wheel with. The other 80 owners in Idaho own other Cruisers. I'd like to spend some more time with other 80s to learn lines and to see how things look from the outside rather than the driver's seat.
[/quote] I am on frantic pace to have all my $expensive$ mods done before i am married (wich is prolly no time soon) and have my 40 BUILT. I am the same down here. we have some other 80 owners down here but we havent wheeled together and i am still not sure they can Really get on it cause most DD thiers. LOOKS like a GREAT time was had by all. i think your going inthe right direction with your 80. once that engine goes you can go deisel or V8 and have sweet rig. BTW i love the no flare look. i have had no flares for 6 months and still have all my hardware on where my rear flares were.

 

[ginericLC]

It is a good thing I didn't take the hardware off. Last night my wife told me she got a warning. The flares have to go on because the tires stick out of the wheelwells. The mudflaps need to go back on and I need to have a bumper. I strapped a piece of 3x5 rectangular tubing on for a temp bumper last night. Boy, Dan's wife is right my rig does look redneck. Hose clamps holding the exhaust on. Straps holding the bumper on. Flare hardware sticking out.

 

[landtoy80]

Your in the same boat I am in, before I sold the 60 I would drive it in the heavy trees and let the branches chew it up.
Now, with the 80 I was a bit reluctant to wheel hard.
But after Birdseye Gulch in CO, I have no fear of trees

 

[Photo_Cruiser]

Redneck is GOOOD.

Out here in glorified Marin County California, the holy grail of yuppppeeee. My cruiser, lifted, loaded and scratched up....sticks out like a sore thumb. I don't mind scratches, but body damaage...hmmm...no fun. Well, maaybe I'll get my first bit of it on the Rubicon this summer, but hopefully not.

Eric, did you get a fix it ticket for he flaares and mud flaps...I have wanted to remove mine, and line x but that would not be reversiible. Flares gone for good....

Jeff

 

[ginericLC]

I didn't get a real ticket at all, it was my wife. It was just a verbal warning. The problem is that she got it at work and we both work within a block of the police station. Living in a town of 10,000 people with only a half a dozen 80s, it sticks out like a sore thumb. If I would have stock backspaced wheels I don't think they would stick out as much and I wouldn't have had a problem. Well, I would still have the mudflap issue, but I think I only need them for the rear. I'm going to have my flares coated and I'll get them back on. Hopefully this weekend so we don't get a real ticket. The 91 is pinstriped fairly heavily. The type of damage I worry about is broken glass, crunched pillars, folded in fenders, broken taillights, etc... A little ding here and there isn't going to bother me. Our 94 is pretty much perfect. It doesn't even have rock chips yet. So it isn't ready to hit the trail just yet.

 

[NW-sickboy]

i cant believe i havent got a fix it ticket yet. Everytime i see a cop i am conviced i am screwed. so was the ticket for no rear bumper or for flares? or both. I sereiously was cathcing my flares on EVERYTHING! a couple got totally tore off on a trail. i dont think i could go back. maybe you can use some sort of method of attatchment other than stock so they are easily removed.

 

[ginericLC]

My flares are a bit different on the 91. They really aren't a limiting factor for me. I took them off to work on the rear bumper. The deal was flares (technically tires sticking beyond the wheelwell), rear mudflaps, and no rear bumper. What sucks is that when you live in a small town everyone knows everything about everyone. Every cop in the county probably knows my wife already has a warning for this. I'll put them on and appease the local law enforcement. If I start breaking them, they might disappear and I might paint some fake ones on and see how that works.