Fordyce Creek

[LLlhiteBoy]

I am planning on going up here this weekend. Anyone else planning on going up?

 

[XJ_ranger]

leaving saturday or firday night?

 

[LLlhiteBoy]

I am planning on leaving Friday night.

 

[XJ_ranger]

I am planning on leaving Friday night.

right - night run in? how late?

I have a dinner to go to, but could be talked into going in SUPER late starting at like midnight...

anyone else wanna go?

 

[LLlhiteBoy]

I was planning on just setting up camp Friday night and get crunked then run the trail on Saturday.

 

[XJ_ranger]

I was planning on just setting up camp Friday night and get crunked then run the trail on Saturday.

I can probably do that then.

Run it from Eagle Lakes to Meadow Lake?

 

[LLlhiteBoy]

Yea that sounds like a plan to me.:cheers:

 

[HTeK]

anyone else wanna go?

Want to go - Yes...

but I cant :bawl:

Have fun and take lots of pictures.

 

[XJ_ranger]

TTT incase anyone else wants to come...

 

[XJ_ranger]

well...

a 28 spline Ford Ranger 8.8 and 37" boggers dont mix well...

Jim (LL|iteBoy) gave it a little more hell than the rear axle wanted on driveline hill.

really cool breakage though -

We tried the stupid ratchet strap the stick to the leaf springs, and the boggers immediately broke our stick into pieces... we then decided to put a strap around the drum brake and secure that to the leaf springs - that seemed to work out a little better, though it ate 2 straps (rubbed through them)


all in all - we were aired down and ready to go around 9:45, then broken and done by 11:15... :flamemad:



Well - Im going to go home and install some CHP aproved mudflaps :conceited

Looks like im going to have to make another run to Fordyce this season... I WILL make it all the way through this trail this season!

the rest of my pics are here

 

[88flexj]

Bummer. Well at least he had a trailer to get it home. I don't think the ratchet strap would have made it very far

 

[LLlhiteBoy]

Hey it worked just enough to make it back to the tailer

 

[Letterman]

a 28 spline Ford Ranger 8.8 and 37" boggers dont mix well...

C-Clips are so much fun :gag:

 

[David Taylor]

C-Clips are so much fun :gag:

But,But the caliper will hold it in. Oh wait, drum axle. Why would anybody put this axle in ?

 

[CRASH]

We are young and dumb?

 

[David Taylor]

We are young and dumb?

31 spline sure. But a 28er with drums.:confused1

 

[CRASH]

Yeah, that is realy dumb......and no spare shafts, well, that screams high school dropout!

 

[Letterman]

31 spline sure. But a 28er with drums.:confused1

I think if you were on 33's ran simple trails it is better then the 35, but I agree with you I don't think it is worth the work to swap it out.

 

[XJ_ranger]

hey - at least the myth that breaking the axle will cause the shaft to come FLYING out as if it were spring loaded wasnt true...

:sigh: dodged that one! :laugh3:

 

[LLlhiteBoy]

Hey flame all u want but that axel held up for over 3 years. I am in the process of building a rear axel anyways.