Josie'sLandCruiser
Stop calling it a "FJ."
Hi All:
Wasn't sure if I should post this in "Chat" or "Tech," but since all the rigs are 40 Series, and there were a couple of trail repairs needed, decided to post here!
Went with three buddies on a 'wheeling trip to what is known as the Naches area in Washington State. There is a network of 4X4 and dirt bike trails, most in the area north of Hwy. 410, and east of Chinook Pass.
In our case, we crossed the Cascade mountain range by taking the historic Naches Wagon Trail from outside of Greenwater, WA. There are three main sections of this trail, split roughly 25%, 50%, and 25%. Most folks only run the middle, 50% section, which is not too difficult when dry. Our group did all three sections - the western-most section (first 25%) I had not done before and enjoyed driving a trail I was unfamiliar with!
Anyhow, the weather was pretty nice the whole weekend, we camped Saturday night just below a ridgeline at about 6100 feet - in the morning we could see both the sun coming over the horizon and the moon setting in the west.
We had two serious mechanical breakages on the trail, both steering related! I had a tie rod end on my rig fail - the one that connects the pitman arm to the relay rod! Fortunately, it happen on an easy section of trail, at slow speed, and I happened to have a spare along in my trail box.
The other steering failure was on the FJ40 of "CruiserMax." The bolts holding the Saginaw PS gearbox to the frame sheared-off! We were able to extract the sheared-off bolt ends, and bolt it back to the frame, but glad it happened at a slow speed, and an easy section of the trail!
I'll post some pics next!
Regards,
Alan
Seattle
Wasn't sure if I should post this in "Chat" or "Tech," but since all the rigs are 40 Series, and there were a couple of trail repairs needed, decided to post here!
Went with three buddies on a 'wheeling trip to what is known as the Naches area in Washington State. There is a network of 4X4 and dirt bike trails, most in the area north of Hwy. 410, and east of Chinook Pass.
In our case, we crossed the Cascade mountain range by taking the historic Naches Wagon Trail from outside of Greenwater, WA. There are three main sections of this trail, split roughly 25%, 50%, and 25%. Most folks only run the middle, 50% section, which is not too difficult when dry. Our group did all three sections - the western-most section (first 25%) I had not done before and enjoyed driving a trail I was unfamiliar with!
Anyhow, the weather was pretty nice the whole weekend, we camped Saturday night just below a ridgeline at about 6100 feet - in the morning we could see both the sun coming over the horizon and the moon setting in the west.
We had two serious mechanical breakages on the trail, both steering related! I had a tie rod end on my rig fail - the one that connects the pitman arm to the relay rod! Fortunately, it happen on an easy section of trail, at slow speed, and I happened to have a spare along in my trail box.
The other steering failure was on the FJ40 of "CruiserMax." The bolts holding the Saginaw PS gearbox to the frame sheared-off! We were able to extract the sheared-off bolt ends, and bolt it back to the frame, but glad it happened at a slow speed, and an easy section of the trail!
I'll post some pics next!
Regards,
Alan
Seattle