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Barret lake trip

Gary E

NAXJA Member #687
Location
Elk Grove CA
Jes Sean and I tagged along with the Far N Gone crew, it was a great trip beautiful scenery and some great wheeling.

Carnage report

Sean, broken trac bar mount, spit 297 joint cap, broken shock and mount 1 tire plug, two front hub studs (at trailhead)

Gary, candycaned rear drive shaft (whats new?) 4 tire plugs, all in same tire, I guess thats lucky :? tire valve stem, and cracked shock mounts.

Jes is saving up his breakage for Moab

We all bent up our rock rails but nothing our favorite tool couldn't fix.

onto the pics.

[img:d9c84966fa]http://home.attbi.com/~6mach9/Jesbuttinair.jpg[/img:d9c84966fa]

We had 3 popped beads, we drained two power tanks between the airing up of 12 tires and reseating beads and refills evertime we got a puncture. This is my tire, I got two tears when I lost the bead, even though I stopped immediatly.

[img:d9c84966fa]http://home.attbi.com/~6mach9/gary_popped_bead.jpg[/img:d9c84966fa]

We had to take an alternate route to get past a broken Sami we all had to be winched through it and Sean popped a bead pulling Jes over. This pinch rock did all our rock rails in. I like Seans near horizontal standing position.

[img:d9c84966fa]http://home.attbi.com/~6mach9/superman.jpg[/img:d9c84966fa]

My driveshaft hanging

[img:d9c84966fa]http://home.attbi.com/~6mach9/driveshaft_hanging.jpg[/img:d9c84966fa]

Sean flexin

[img:d9c84966fa]http://home.attbi.com/~6mach9/seanlaflex.jpg[/img:d9c84966fa]

Me coming back out the rockgarden

[img:d9c84966fa]http://home.attbi.com/~6mach9/garydown_rockgarden.jpg[/img:d9c84966fa]
 
Man, talk about last minute.
Finnished up installing my tranny Friday night and barely had a chance to see if it was gonna work, still had a little tidying up to do Saturday AM. Then off to BLT for the carnage extraviganza.
Eight(8 :shock: ) hours in, four hours out.
In that first picture is where I snapped off the Atlas breather, there are some rock marks on my tranny so I guess it got pushed up into the tranny tunnel.
That trail definately ranks up there with the hardest trails I've run. I was really suprised at all the ill equiped vehicles in there. Snapped drag links, punctured oil pans, and all sorts of other carnage.
Post up somemore pics Gary!
Thanks SeanP for helping me with my clutch, if you hadn't helped me I'd still be without a vehicle!

Jes
 
Thanks for posting the pics Gary. You need to post a pic of your drive shaft, that is much too cool of a souveneir to keep to yourself.

I am totally beat up from the trip. You forgot to mention my personal carnage from the Margaritas at camp. Must have been the elevation :wink:

I forgot how serious that BLT is. My ARB crapped out an I had to run it with an open front and tire placement on those rocks is so much more important with out a front locker. One locker and a whole lot of driving skill and undercarriage armor is the bare minimum for this trail. Two lockers better.

SeanP
 
ok heres more :D

heres the DS
[img:9a8af91deb]http://home.attbi.com/~6mach9/candycane.jpg[/img:9a8af91deb]

Sean leaving some paint on the rock.

sean_prock.jpg


Where we were winching from this is the pull when Sean lost his bead, he was pulling so hard on Jes, the jeep would get really tippy

[img:9a8af91deb]http://home.attbi.com/~mountainmarketing/winching.jpg[/img:9a8af91deb]

here is the trackbar mount, its hidden by the steering but it supposed to be strait up and down. We got really lucky someone with a welder came up a couple of minutes later.

[img:9a8af91deb]http://home.attbi.com/~mountainmarketing/ghettomount.jpg[/img:9a8af91deb]

and finally Barret Lake

[img:9a8af91deb]http://home.attbi.com/~mountainmarketing/barret_lake.jpg[/img:9a8af91deb]
 
Wow nice pics! That driveshaft is true art Gary. Hopefully my rigs grows a locker this winter so I can run with the "big boys". And Sean, its not the altitude, it's aging.

Jeff
 
Keven, I'm impressed that you ran that trail open/open with 3.55 gears and only popped off your crossmember! There are some really big rock piles on that trail, the slightest lapse in concentration and you got a hole in your oil pan or worse.
I was really lucky not to break anything major.


Jes
 
Sean, about time for some beadlocks on that rig aye?:lol:

Great pics guys, I only wish NC had that kinda terrain.:roll: All the more reason for me to make a road-trip to the Left Coast.
 
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