Need Emergency Help

[SC Rednek]

First time in the 11 yrs I've owned my jeep, had to leave it on the trail. It's on Iron Gap near the Alabama line. My friend was driving and said "uh, I have no brakes". The bearings blew out, took the hub, the housing, spindle, and stripped out the axle shaft. I tried to limp it back using just the brake caliper to hold it on, until it ripped that off in the middle of the river and the tire came off (had to go chase it down as the current floated it away). Just a whole day of everything going wrong, followed by 4 hrs of hiking out.

In the morning, I'm going to pick up the few parts I need that I don't have in the garage. What I need is a ride down there from Winchester TN, the river is quite high and everything is slick from the rain, needs to be a good size jeep. If anyone can help me out, that'd be amazing, I'll buy beer and pizza and whatever else you want (within reason) when I get it back to Winchester.

Please help!

 

[Lowrange2]

Dang... Wish I could help.

 

[Ghost]

I'd come help if I wasn't 8 hours away! GL my friend I put it on Facebook and tagged David Hall in it.

 

[POLAR_JEEP_04]

Shoot me some contact info. Jonathan Parten is able to help. He's on my Facebook if you have one.

 

[89eliminator]

post on hardline and pirate?

 

[SC Rednek]

Bump

 

[Cottontail]

Matt, earliest I could do ANYTHING would be Saturday. Not sure even what my day looks like on that either. Keep us posted.

 

[Ghost]

I texted him last night and he said he had a ride out at 3 today. Hope he gets it out.

 

[SC Rednek]

Got it home. And thankfully nothing was stolen off of it! Actually nobody else had been down the trail in the last few days. But it's in rough shape after 48 hrs in the water, gonna be a done of work to get it fixed back up

 

[SC Rednek]

 

[Ghost]

That is one way to get it out.... Glad you were able to retrieve it.

 

[OBXJeepGuy]

Been there. Done that.

 

[Cottontail]

Any update on the status of the repairs?

 

[SC Rednek]

Drained everything out, still need to take apart the u-joints and stuff and re-grease them, and then start going through all the electronics.