Coppenger Cove Ride

see you guys in the morning!
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Sandwiches made. Camera batteries charged & CF Cards emptied. Bottled water purchased. Dessert fixins packed. Energy drink chilling in the fridge so we can wake the f'up tomorrow. We'll see you there!

And if someone needs a ride BACK to Atlanta, we should have the space.
 
Ugh late night @ work just getting home, I may be naping in stump's jeep :laugh3: We will be there, I'll have plenty of room in the back nine to take someone home :cool:

See everyone later this morning :woohoo:
 
Well i got the fuel pump in but still nothing. So i guess im out. Sorry about the buns! :( i posted a thread in OEM Tech if anyone can help with my problem. Thanks guys have fun and take alot of pics :):):)
 
Sorry to hear that zinger. I promise a ton of pics uploaded to our smugmug account on Sunday.

We're on the road and will see everyone in a couple of hours!

Maxwife
 
Very fun ride today. Good to meet a lot of new faces too.

Only known carnage on my rig was 5 loose lug nuts on the front drivers wheel. I thought I heard some banging but with all those rocks, rain, and clunking and clanging coming off the trail, I didn't even know it. Made it home just fine.

Dirk and I upheld the tradition of going to Waffle House after wheeling. Mmmmm, sure was good.
 
I NEED PICTURES! I just did a Columbia SC to Atlanta GA round trip... I need to see what other people did and live my boring life from your pictures!
 
just got home.... we have no pictures, sam left her camera at the house.... hope the late crew got back all good. time for me to build a front end with some bling bling parts now that most of mine is scattered around the cove ;)
 
I had a great time today! Thanks to all who helped get my jeep off the trail and offered rides. Wish I could have hung out for some food but dad was not waiting around....
 
Hope all of you had a good, time really wish i could've attended.Sorry about the buns. And im looking forward to the pics!!!!
 
I just got home and showered. Waking up at 5am to go wheeling and then getting home at 330 am the next day...... Good times. Thanks Tyler!!! Had a blast, awesome trails. More tomorow after sleep.
- Stump
 
Wow... thats all I can say. I think my Ranger officially hates me now. I tore up all kinds of things... The rear driveshaft is now in 2 pieces and the steering is Jacked (which doesn't matter because I needed to replace it all anyway). I was trying to climb a pretty serious ledge in a creek bed, and managed to rip out a valve stem, scuff up the center cap and the wheel itself pretty bad, and move the balance weights around quite a bit. So, this is how it happened... everything was going great. The Ranger was doing wonderful other than a leaky front locker (thought I had it fixed) but that wasn't too big of a problem since the rear was working flawlessly. Well, we were about halfway done with our "loop" and we were doing great schedule wise. There is one trail that is short, but it is a serious creek bed with some big boulders and ledges. Like a fool I decided to take the ranger up it since I was leading the way. Well, we got about half way done with the trail, and everything was going good. The Ranger was simply owning it with no issues at all, and then... bump, bump, ba dum... we came across a ledge and ping. Then no rear wheel drive. My dang 50' long sheet metal rear driveshaft sat down on a rock and twisted in half. So... time to get out of the trail as quickly as possible. I didn't have a spare so I knew I was through for the day and just needed to get out. Well, I hooked up the winch and started trying to pull the truck off of the ledge. The front wheels got jammed up between two rocks and that bent the drag link slightly. I figured it would be fine so after getting it over the ledge I ran the cable up the side of the mountain (literally) so I could get out of the creek bed and back onto the main trail. Well, the Dana 30 and all of its mightyness was doing everything it could to help, but with the locker not working, it really wasn't doing much. The suspension was trying to do the Radius arm boogey which put a lot of extra stress on the already bent drag link. Needless to say, before I got all the way up, the wheels were pointed at one another and the drag link was bent so bad that it was rubbing the inside of the Passenger front tire. The winch was having to work so hard to fight the resistance from the front tires that it over heated, and even tweaked the winch mount some. After about an hour of beating, banging, winching and pulling, we finally got the steering straightened out enough to drive on. I got it back up the mountain relatively easy, but then realized I had a cracked front axle u-joint cap, so I had to then swap the shaft out since I was going to rely on my D30 to take me home. However, the real fun started when I hit pavement. It was either the steering being jacked and everything out of alignment, the out of balance tire, the front wheel drive only situation, or a combination of the above. It was completely undriveable for the most part. anything above 40 MPH left me with the worst death wobble you could imagine. I ended up calling on a trailer to haul me back to the shop for the dinner meeting, and actually made it only 2 hours after the "planned" time. We all had a great time and enjoyed an awesome meal. Big thanks goes out to Bob, Tammy, Latney, and Donn for cooking and helping with food prep. Also, big thanks goes to everyone else that brought food, especially those that didn't even get to partake.

I guess the most amazing part of the trip was the amount of carnage though. We had a ton. Outside of all my crap, we had a total of 4 axle u joints, a stub shaft, one blown 30 spline Warn hub on the LS2 XJ, some body damage here and there, some goofy brake light wiring problems, and I think a few other things too. A pretty crazy day, but all in all it was a great trip. I had a lot of fun, and even though I have some repairs to do, it was well worth it!
 
Link to my pics: Photobucket

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who's orange TJ is that? looks familiar from SEOR?
 
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