"..so then I made the joke his name should not be EXCESSIVE but instead...."Mayhem" like the insurance commercial.."
dont forget when Will (AKA Mayhem) knocked over the dutch oven lid, not once but twice!!
And dont forget Clayton doing an early morning fatigue life study on his door hinges and hood mechanism before leaving. i was dead to the world, but Brock said he woke him up. must have slamed every door and the hood 40 times!!! lol.
All in all i had a great time. and so did renee. the truck ran pretty well except for a few weak links. i knew my upper ball joints were bad going in, but now they are toast after bouncing up dickie bell. i had replacements but just didnt get around to putting them in before the trip.
also, my 25 year old steering components gave lose a little. the pitman arm on my truck has the TRE built into it for some reason, instead of it being part of the drag link like most. so it got toasted and was puking dark fluids and squeaking by the end of the day. so rather than beat it to hell, i parked it and rode the tougher trails with Brock.
Made for an interesting ride home though. it had death wobble pretty bad over every bump in the road. but i made it no problem
Time to order parts!!
Well, I definitely got the itch back. Like i said to a couple people up there, this was my first wheeling trip in a while, so now i got the itch back! i got to build my Nissan so i can bash it off trees and junk and not care. 4runner is too nice still.
dont forget when Will (AKA Mayhem) knocked over the dutch oven lid, not once but twice!!
And dont forget Clayton doing an early morning fatigue life study on his door hinges and hood mechanism before leaving. i was dead to the world, but Brock said he woke him up. must have slamed every door and the hood 40 times!!! lol.
All in all i had a great time. and so did renee. the truck ran pretty well except for a few weak links. i knew my upper ball joints were bad going in, but now they are toast after bouncing up dickie bell. i had replacements but just didnt get around to putting them in before the trip.
also, my 25 year old steering components gave lose a little. the pitman arm on my truck has the TRE built into it for some reason, instead of it being part of the drag link like most. so it got toasted and was puking dark fluids and squeaking by the end of the day. so rather than beat it to hell, i parked it and rode the tougher trails with Brock.
Made for an interesting ride home though. it had death wobble pretty bad over every bump in the road. but i made it no problem
Time to order parts!!
Well, I definitely got the itch back. Like i said to a couple people up there, this was my first wheeling trip in a while, so now i got the itch back! i got to build my Nissan so i can bash it off trees and junk and not care. 4runner is too nice still.