Sorry if this isn't in the right spot. But it is a good story to share.
After a so far success Moab trip, in search for a campsite recommend by the local who works out of a McDonald's booth, we got ourselves into a pretty interesting situation.
After driving a decent "trail" for a few hours we start to notice some weird things.... trash and gear spread out on the trail over a mile or so. Pretty weird. We get up this hill and then we see a group of people screaming under a large tent and then they are sprinting around before they start chasing us on moto bikes. We high tail it out of there back down the rock wash when all of a sudden we hear hell over the radio.
This is what followed,
Sooooooo yeah........ not sure how this happened to one of the rear convoy cars.
Flustered because we can hear the bikes closing in, we start to realize just how bad this is. The rock couldn't be more stuck if we tried. It was pinned on the sway bar bracket, tire was crushed by the shock, and slider and wheel well pressed up against the rock. Oh yeah it's also 12 am.
So we start on the wheel, but why would the off-road gods want to make it easy??????? All but three lugs have been cross threaded! Three out of five axle studs snap.
And the last two.... right next to each other.
Pics are out of order but at this point the tire and rock are still stuck. We use a "trusty" highlift jack to try and get the wheel off enough to hopefully pull it out.
Jokes on us, the jack fails. We get another to pump up the back. That one fails.
At this point, we have two jacks that won't go down anymore. ( yes they were flipped in the down position).
We are teenagers who don't really comprehend safety so save the advice we know this is very stupid.
Anyways it's about 2 am now and we have tried everything, bottle jack in the wheel well pushing the rock out? Nothing. Straps on the rock with 8 people pulling? Nothing. Drive forward and risk the differential? Nothing. Eventually we just start hammering the rock apart.
So yeah what followed was an hour of painfully slow off-roading in a rock bed with the spare held on by two lugs.
Moral of the story, don't trust the guy who works in the McDonald's booth, oh yeah and maybe pic good lines to drive.
After a so far success Moab trip, in search for a campsite recommend by the local who works out of a McDonald's booth, we got ourselves into a pretty interesting situation.
After driving a decent "trail" for a few hours we start to notice some weird things.... trash and gear spread out on the trail over a mile or so. Pretty weird. We get up this hill and then we see a group of people screaming under a large tent and then they are sprinting around before they start chasing us on moto bikes. We high tail it out of there back down the rock wash when all of a sudden we hear hell over the radio.
This is what followed,
Sooooooo yeah........ not sure how this happened to one of the rear convoy cars.
Flustered because we can hear the bikes closing in, we start to realize just how bad this is. The rock couldn't be more stuck if we tried. It was pinned on the sway bar bracket, tire was crushed by the shock, and slider and wheel well pressed up against the rock. Oh yeah it's also 12 am.
So we start on the wheel, but why would the off-road gods want to make it easy??????? All but three lugs have been cross threaded! Three out of five axle studs snap.
And the last two.... right next to each other.
Pics are out of order but at this point the tire and rock are still stuck. We use a "trusty" highlift jack to try and get the wheel off enough to hopefully pull it out.
Jokes on us, the jack fails. We get another to pump up the back. That one fails.
At this point, we have two jacks that won't go down anymore. ( yes they were flipped in the down position).
We are teenagers who don't really comprehend safety so save the advice we know this is very stupid.
Anyways it's about 2 am now and we have tried everything, bottle jack in the wheel well pushing the rock out? Nothing. Straps on the rock with 8 people pulling? Nothing. Drive forward and risk the differential? Nothing. Eventually we just start hammering the rock apart.
So yeah what followed was an hour of painfully slow off-roading in a rock bed with the spare held on by two lugs.
Moral of the story, don't trust the guy who works in the McDonald's booth, oh yeah and maybe pic good lines to drive.
