I read Brosie's comments in the yearly meeting blurb with interest. Also saw the response to it from Andy.
Seems like the most active members of the club are the guys who get together regularly to wheel their trucks and pursue their personal interests in off-roading. I'm one of them of course and fully understand this. I also understand and accept that there are members who have no interest in breaking, scratching, or otherwise abusing their land cruisers. I wasn't completely happy in Colorado this year when on the very first trails we did my beautiful HDJ81 got all scratched up driving through some very tight roughly vegetated trail areas. Thankfully all the scratches buffed out!
Maybe we should look at a tech day at someone's garage to look at doing maintenance/repairs/upgrades on some select member's vehicles. Doing such things as a group could really be a benefit to some of the less adventurous members and has the potential to be a great learning experience. Maybe for all of us! Installing a full Old Man Emu suspension in an 80 or doing a knuckle rebuild is certainly doable in a day's time frame especially if there are a lot of hands available.
Logistically where would we have this? I have a two car garage (no heat so winter work is out) with a workbench located 40 minutes from either Rausch or Anthracite. I have a pretty comprehensive set of tools and a good air compressor. The concrete floor is no virgin- lotsa spilled land cruiser fluids have seasoned it since we built it in 1986! Lotsa guys land cruisers have been worked on it, too, including a lot of my own. I'd be willing to host a tech day some Saturday, or..............
If my location and/or facilities are less desirable than someone else can offer, speak up! Just throwing this out there as maybe a start to getting something like this off the ground. The capital city guys do this fairly regularly- I believe more often than once a year. And while I've never attended one of their tech days they look to be popular and productive.
Hopefully this post will start a productive thread that might make our club more productive and helpful to some owners whom we'll never see on the trail. Please feel free to post your thoughts about this!
Seems like the most active members of the club are the guys who get together regularly to wheel their trucks and pursue their personal interests in off-roading. I'm one of them of course and fully understand this. I also understand and accept that there are members who have no interest in breaking, scratching, or otherwise abusing their land cruisers. I wasn't completely happy in Colorado this year when on the very first trails we did my beautiful HDJ81 got all scratched up driving through some very tight roughly vegetated trail areas. Thankfully all the scratches buffed out!
Maybe we should look at a tech day at someone's garage to look at doing maintenance/repairs/upgrades on some select member's vehicles. Doing such things as a group could really be a benefit to some of the less adventurous members and has the potential to be a great learning experience. Maybe for all of us! Installing a full Old Man Emu suspension in an 80 or doing a knuckle rebuild is certainly doable in a day's time frame especially if there are a lot of hands available.
Logistically where would we have this? I have a two car garage (no heat so winter work is out) with a workbench located 40 minutes from either Rausch or Anthracite. I have a pretty comprehensive set of tools and a good air compressor. The concrete floor is no virgin- lotsa spilled land cruiser fluids have seasoned it since we built it in 1986! Lotsa guys land cruisers have been worked on it, too, including a lot of my own. I'd be willing to host a tech day some Saturday, or..............
If my location and/or facilities are less desirable than someone else can offer, speak up! Just throwing this out there as maybe a start to getting something like this off the ground. The capital city guys do this fairly regularly- I believe more often than once a year. And while I've never attended one of their tech days they look to be popular and productive.
Hopefully this post will start a productive thread that might make our club more productive and helpful to some owners whom we'll never see on the trail. Please feel free to post your thoughts about this!
