Builds Deer Slayer - KCJAZ's Build/Re-Build Thread

[kcjaz]

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You’ve got a lot of gear in your trunk. I was about 7600-# when I weighed after COTR in TN last fall. Just me and a tank of gas. Camping gear and food was maybe 100#.

Yes I do. Probably way too much. I have probably 150# in spare parts and tools. The only time I even open the Plano box I store all that stuff in during my two weeks in Colorado was to hunt for a host clamp to fix your toilet and I didn’t have the hose clamp. But if you had needed a CV, engine oil, gear oil, spark plugs, coils, any radiator hose on a 200 I’d have been there for you. I used to carry a spare alternator, but I left at home this time and replaced it with 2 1/2 gallons of water.

I need to reevaluate what all I carry. After Poughkeepsie, I’m adding tie rods, drive shaft, and UCAs…

 

[tbisaacs]

Yes I do. Probably way too much. I have probably 150# in spare parts and tools. The only time I even open the Plano box I store all that stuff in during my two weeks in Colorado was to hunt for a host clamp to fix your toilet and I didn’t have the hose clamp. But if you had needed a CV, engine oil, gear oil, spark plugs, coils, any radiator hose on a 200 I’d have been there for you. I used to carry a spare alternator, but I left at home this time and replaced it with 2 1/2 gallons of water.

I need to reevaluate what all I carry. After Poughkeepsie, I’m adding tie rods, drive shaft, and UCAs…

Is there a tipping point where being so heavy increases the odds that you need those spares? I have often thought events like COTR bringing the spares but leaving them at basecamp. Worst case scenario someone runs me back down the trail to go get them vs being heavy all the time.

 

[kcjaz]

Is there a tipping point where being so heavy increases the odds that you need those spares? I have often thought events like COTR bringing the spares but leaving them at basecamp. Worst case scenario someone runs me back down the trail to go get them vs being heavy all the time.

I think that is a good idea. I’m cleaning the camp gear and then I’ll go wash the truck. I’ll take all of the gear out and see what I weigh then. It’s just so easy to keep adding 20lb things…. When the group had issues at COTR, out come 4 or 5 700 ft-lb impacts, and any other tool you could need. Every thing except the needed tire rod…. Even in the event of a blown CV, I’d first try to get the rig down and do the work in camp.

On the other had, my son and I solo’d to COTR across Medano, did a side trip to Phoenix Park water fall and then Stony Pass to Silverton. Had we had an issue there wasn’t other rigs to rely on. The Phoenix Park trail was way harder than OnX lead us to believe (should have read the trail updates from uses before hand. Wasn’t so much “brake your truck hard” but the potential to get hung up and needed to self recover was high. My 8100 lbs did not make it easier. Still though, I didn’t need any of the stuff I carry.