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at 8000ft any day can be cold!!!!
 
warezdog said:
Sooooooo full of envy it's not funny!!

We need to ask Juancho if he'd put a few of us up next year, with compensation of course!
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Juancho said that he will organize a big land cruiser event next year where we will be the stars of the show. He knows some nice breathtaking trails where we can go off roading
 
If I can finish getting Capt Jims old 80 ready, I would be game for sending it over! Just gotta talk the wife and 18 month old into it, although our child would not be a problem. She loves to be outdoors. Gonna head to Corbett when I get home on the 5th.
 
Made it safely to Cartagena.. Had a big a scare on the way down though.. I am lucky to be alive.. On the way down a mountain pass, I had a hard brake and the whole front of the truck started wobbling, then everything came back to normal. I kept going it was scary, but the worst came later. We were already back to level ground, and speeds above 50mph. On a curve I lose steering the truck kept going straight, and i stepped on the brakes and then got the hard brake wobble. I was able to control the truck until a stop. Luckily there wasnt any oncoming traffic at the time. So I got out and looked in the front and the top Panhard rod bolt had fallen out and the Panhard rod was hanging.. So I am stuck in the middle of nowhere.. So I start walking back maybe 200 yds and I find the pandhard rod bolt in the middle of the road but no nut. So I put the bolt back in and I start driving 30 miles or so with it until I arrived in a small town and found the nut paid a street mechanic 2 dollars to install it and I got back on the road.. So amigos before you embark on your Colombia trip make sure your panhard bolts are torqued to specs..

Cheers..
 
Crap man! Glad you're okay. Was the panhard removed at all during the trans swap?
 
FloridaFJ80 said:
Made it safely to Cartagena.. Had a big a scare on the way down though.. I am lucky to be alive.. On the way down a mountain pass, I had a hard brake and the whole front of the truck started wobbling, then everything came back to normal. I kept going it was scary, but the worst came later. We were already back to level ground, and speeds above 50mph. On a curve I lose steering the truck kept going straight, and i stepped on the brakes and then got the hard brake wobble. I was able to control the truck until a stop. Luckily there wasnt any oncoming traffic at the time. So I got out and looked in the front and the top Panhard rod bolt had fallen out and the Panhard rod was hanging.. So I am stuck in the middle of nowhere.. So I start walking back maybe 200 yds and I find the pandhard rod bolt in the middle of the road but no nut. So I put the bolt back in and I start driving 30 miles or so with it until I arrived in a small town and found the nut paid a street mechanic 2 dollars to install it and I got back on the road.. So amigos before you embark on your Colombia trip make sure your panhard bolts are torqued to specs..

Cheers..
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WOW glad you're ok! Would've hated for your trip to end abruptly due to injury or God forbid, death.
 
Dubbinchris said:
Crap man! Glad you're okay. Was the panhard removed at all during the trans swap?
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It wasnt removed.. The roads here are very bumpy, so long 1000km trips can make a untorqued bolt come off.

Steve Curl said:
WOW glad you're ok! Would've hated for your trip to end abruptly due to injury or God forbid, death.
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Yeah it would have sucked! I was with my wife. So I would have left 2 young little ones orphans.. I am very thankful to be here!!
 
FloridaFJ80 said:
It wasnt removed.. The roads here are very bumpy, so long 1000km trips can make a untorqued bolt come off.



Yeah it would have sucked! I was with my wife. So I would have left 2 young little ones orphans.. I am very thankful to be here!!
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To be fair, you do have a Chinese snorkel, not much is going to damage your truck, or its occupants while one of those in use.
 
I have been thinking about setting up a annual trip. Where during the trip, we can have a knowledgeable toyota mechanic work on our rigs to do the hard stuff (head gasket, 5 speed conversions, birf rebuilds, etc) prep the rigs for a 2 week expedition around colombia.. Hit up the beautiful coastal national park of Tayrona, then head up to the desert and camp along the beach eating lobster and fried fish with cheap venezuelan beer and of course fuel.. Then head up to the beautiful mountain city of Bucaramanga passing through Valledupar, then onwards to the capital of Colombia where we can outfit our cars with (front and rear bumpers, sliders, roof racks, etc) then head down to the city of villavicencio for some extreme off roading with lots of water and mud.. LOL.. then back on up to Medellin, where we can see beautiful sites and then back down to Cartagena for a our return trip home.

Would you guys be interested in a travel package, which would include all hotels, meals, car shipping, US car transports, takes out the guess work in everything?
 
FloridaFJ80 said:
I have been thinking about setting up a annual trip. Where during the trip, we can have a knowledgeable toyota mechanic work on our rigs to do the hard stuff (head gasket, 5 speed conversions, birf rebuilds, etc) prep the rigs for a 2 week expedition around colombia.. Hit up the beautiful coastal national park of Tayrona, then head up to the desert and camp along the beach eating lobster and fried fish with cheap venezuelan beer and of course fuel.. Then head up to the beautiful mountain city of Bucaramanga passing through Valledupar, then onwards to the capital of Colombia where we can outfit our cars with (front and rear bumpers, sliders, roof racks, etc) then head down to the city of villavicencio for some extreme off roading with lots of water and mud.. LOL.. then back on up to Medellin, where we can see beautiful sites and then back down to Cartagena for a our return trip home.

Would you guys be interested in a travel package, which would include all hotels, meals, car shipping, US car transports, takes out the guess work in everything?
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YES. Frank, include Juan in this loop. I am a yes yes yes!
 
umm...YES! great thread btw.
 
Man! I WISH I could this! This would be an amazing time!
 
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