Sunday wheelin

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lineman_fj40 said:
So anyone up for wheelin on sunday, thinking MT Sicker area. Rob you in? I have a bitch seat for you.
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My clutch is done, but lift is needed.

Lets see who is in, my excuse other house basement needs cleaning for tenants....


Lets talk Saturday...:popcorn:
 
You got it Bud 900 meet rolling by 930. Tune CB to channel 6 on way up, I'll check to see if I can get you. I'll be leaving at 8, stopping at millstream for fuel.
 
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It was a lovely peaceful day in the hills,

But I'm a little too intent on getting plowed at the moment to properly express the unholy Friedrich Nietzsche/Donner Party nature of the trip....


I will say tho, that my rag joint is awesome.
 
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Well thank god I am home, I also second what Ryan says. Here are some pics to fancy the appetite.

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So her is the story. We started with coffee at Timmies then proceeded to Mt Provost, which was pretty uneventful till we got to the snow ! At the first stop I got to use my winch, which got me out of a pickle and that was the end of the winch. So we or I continued down the path down hill to a junction when we decided to turn around. So I went up no problems but Ryan didnt make it so I back down the hill to give him a tug. After 3 tries with no luck due to ice beginning to form underneath us I started to back down but wait I have no traction or control, I slid for 75 to 100 ft backwards and stop about a foot in front of Ryan's 40. So we clear the hill and my shorts, formulate another plan. We spent an hour or two going the other way only to hit a dead end. So we had to turn around again, during this process Ryan broke his rag joint on his steering. After all that and everyone is pretty much soaked at this point we went back to the junction to come up with another plan, but on the way back we noticed the traction actually got better so we decided to try the hill again, with success.

Thanks guys for a great run now that we are out.
Jay
 
Fawk im glad to be home. Ill post some pics later. I need to do some laundry at the moment.
 
slowandsteady BJ said:
Fawk im glad to be home. Ill post some pics later. I need to do some laundry at the moment.
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Yeah dude, for a few hours there I was pretty ******* sure we'd be huddling in the back of your 60 overnight...and then never speaking of it again... :lol:

I thought were were seriously Power:censor:

Got a litre of the witch piss in me now tho so I'm almost warm...

Funny how watching Jay slide towards me, while it wasn't in slow motion, ( cuz it looked like he was actually picking up speed....)

he slid soooooo damn far and for so ******* long, I had tons of time to go through all the possible outcomes in my head...and they all sucked.


On the bright side, ( to make some chicken soup outta...well you get it)

our 2 hour detour trying to find a way out that didn't involve the "death luge hill" gave the global warming time to kick in.

That 1 or 2 degree temp shift is pretty much the only reason we made it out when we did. where it was previously icy under the snow and unbelievably slippery, it turned the snow heavy , and fairly sticky.( for a substance comprised of ice particles.)
Was a night and day difference to the last attempt.

So yeah, next wheeling trip, I see ONE MF-ing snow flake, I'm going to the pub. :flipoff2:
 
Interesting day for me as well... went up Birf Breaker hill, Mt Muir, over Anderson and The Wall - all in ~1.5 feet of slushy snow. Broke trail the whole way for 5 trucks. After The Wall (and some significant carnage to Ray's truck) it started to snow like a bastard... and get dark... made it to the usual "exit" point near the dams, only to find they filled it with slash and the road wasn't there anymore. More snow, people running out of gas... but we made it home. Never drifted a 6700 pound vehicle fully locked front and rear with 35 inch tires and 2 sets of chains before. I was getting desperate.

Oh ya... after the snowstorm started, I don't think we would have made it out last night (other than walking) if I didn't use my chains. They made a hell of a difference in that wet snow.
 
This was on my mind as I drove home...still tightly lashed so not much can go wrong.

Now the question is do I buy a new rag joint from the states for 20 bucks plus shipping and waiting or adapt to u joints from 60 series.
anyone got some 60 column bits?


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Toshi38 said:
Didn't you take my extra steering column from my parents house? it should have the ujoints in it... I think... it was from a sag conversion...
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yeah, it's out there, but the joints for a sag conversion won't fit onto a stock 40 box.

Used or gave away all my 60 column bits, time to restock.

just heard back from the place in the states , $19.95 for the rag joint, $27.00 for shipping...:lol:

I think not...
 
I've emailed a couple other places to check, 27 bucks for something that small is bs.

I'm not entirely down with the rag joint thing at the moment.


I plan to take the column apart and eyeball it's innards. looking at this pic, I think it's quite possible a 60 series shaft will slide right onto that spot where it's DD collapsible...

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