Friend got Cruiser stuck at bluewater

[OGBeno]

Now I *really* feel like crap... really OLD crap.

Maybe Onur will give me a blood transfusion that would roll the clock back 30 or 40 years and transform me into something young and vigorous like him. Has this worked for anyone else?

-Mike-

I don't think anyone would benefit from my blood.

 

[Rudical]

Well, finally back home. The new steering box worked just fine. Funny thing is that is took longer to get my 80 turned around than it did to do the work itself.

 

[Daisy 53]

Glad to hear that you made it back safe...
Good job getting it out.

 

[Rudical]

This is what he broke.

 

[Cruisergreg]

This is what he broke.

Scary. That is the second example of a sheering off of the steering shaft on a 40 I have heard of. Good thing it didn't happen on the freeway.

 

[Rudical]

Scary. That is the second example of a sheering off of the steering shaft on a 40 I have heard of. Good thing it didn't happen on the freeway.

I don't think that would of happened on the freeway unless a freakish occurance or accident. He said he got pulled off the ruts in the snow and dropped into another one under the snow, basically the ground. It was like hitting a wall. With driving on the packed snow there was not much room for error to either side (close to about dropping off 3 feet from the packed area). After getting his truck fixed, it was time to turn mine around. We thought about spinning it around, but just ended up digging and getting a good place to turn around. I didn't want the chance to get stuck. I think the digging was easier than the hiking and carrying tools anyways.

 

[Cruisergreg]

I don't think that would of happened on the freeway unless a freakish occurance or accident. He said he got pulled off the ruts in the snow and dropped into another one under the snow, basically the ground. It was like hitting a wall.

The other instance of steering shaft failure I know of was a guy who was driving down a residential street and the thing just let go. He was lucky enough to end up stopped on someone's lawn. Even under the most harsh driving conditions there are a laundry list of other components in the steering system that should have failed under stress before the steering shaft. Clearly there was a stress fracture already present that became complete when your friend got sucked into the rut on the trail. Obviously we can't regularly inspect our steering shaft weld joints for cracks but hearing of this failure twice now has me a little freaked out...

 

[juane]

We had a 40 break a steering thingie on THE very first official HDC run.
I think it was near Grants. O'Neil was there, but it was not his rig.