Lincoln said:
Sorry I've hit your non-funny bone. I've been stuck in the house on couch rest all week and I'm going a little stir crazy. I'll elaborate.
1. Every little bit counts when playing in big rocks. I have been hung up to many times to count where another 1/4 or 1/2 inch would have gotten me over. Sure a ramp might help but imagine that mount not being there, it would have even hit. Also notice that a few of the pictures I posted don't show them hanging on the mounts, but on the arms themselves. Sucking the mounts up high just help but not having as much to hang on.
2. Anyone can break parts. My whole point of working on my junk before hand is so I don't. When I go out on trails I want to drive and don't want to sit around fixing or waiting for someone to fix their junk. It is really annoying when your trying to bust through trails and a throttle jockey that is under built for their style is breaking every 20'. I'm pretty forgiving with new people, but ones that continue to be that way find themselves not invited anymore. Almost everyone has been under built at one point or another, but driving accordingly is the key.
3. That's great you so quick at changing axles. How many spare housings to you carry on the trail?
4. Think about what you could have built if you didn't go through 10 vehicles. I understand your point of fun, but I would much rather be able to go out next weekend and play some more than thrash my rig to a pulp and this weekend and not.
It's a combination of 2, 3, and 4 that brought on my "not to bright" comment. I have known people like you are describing and still do, but they don't get to run trails with me anymore. I got tired of missing out of trails because their junk was broke half way through. I hope that when you decide to take Crash up on his offer I'm not there.
Also many of these guys that have been trying to explain why the mounts hanging down are not good have a lot of experience driving difficult trails. Not point the nose and hammer the throttle hard, but technical every little bit helps trails. Every trip is a learning experience on how to make or do something better. Hint, the advanced fab.
Enjoy arguing a point that has been proven inferior so many times.
just becuase i break alot of parts you automaticly aSSume that i dont know how to drive and i just floor it to get over stuff
you are dead wrong and i would love to go wheelin with you so you can eat your words.
"4. Think about what you could have built if you didn't go through 10 vehicles. I understand your point of fun, but I would much rather be able to go out next weekend and play some more than thrash my rig to a pulp and this weekend and not."
think about how much more skill i have now from repairing so many things, if i went out and bought unbreakable parts right off the bat i would not have near the experience i have. i also probably wouldnt know about those parts or how to install those better parts. i didnt have the internet till about 3 yrs ago , i tought every single thing i knew about 4x4 stuff myself. my father was a carpenter and didnt know shit about mechanics so i took it upon myself to go break things and fix them for the expierence. i also just for practice work on my rig at my house in the dark. ive installed a edelbrock 500 carb in the dark, put an oil pan on with a two piece gasket in the dark. and i had lights to use but i didnt use them becuase i wanted the experience of doing it in the dark at home before i had to do it in the dark on the trail
"3. That's great you so quick at changing axles. How many spare housings to you carry on the trail?"
must have missed the part where i stated that i wheel right near my house , i blow somethin up i can leave it there for the night and walk home or drag it home. if i was a couple hundread miles form home i wouldnt destroy my rig unless i had a trailer and a trail rig.
"2 Anyone can break parts. My whole point of working on my junk before hand is so I don't. When I go out on trails I want to drive and don't want to sit around fixing or waiting for someone to fix their junk. It is really annoying when your trying to bust through trails and a throttle jockey that is under built for their style is breaking every 20'. I'm pretty forgiving with new people, but ones that continue to be that way find themselves not invited anymore. Almost everyone has been under built at one point or another, but driving accordingly is the key."
thats terrific that you never break , i congradulate you. all those times that i broke, I WAS BY MYSELF . everyone around here that owns a big 4x4 drives down gravel roads then go through some mud puddles and thats thier 4 wheelin. i live in a small town with not many other real wheelers and the only thing i can do (more then just weekends, somtimes ill go wheelin 5 times a week) is go to the local spot by myself or somone in the passenger seat so no one is waiting for me
if i was to go on a club run or a group of people on a trail far from home i wouldnt be inconsiderate and break my junk.
not everyone goes with 5 rigs and goes on a single lane trail where you have to wait , im glad you do and just figured everyone else does exactley what you do and use that to compare to me and my intelligence level
have you read the rules of naxja? i did last night
why dont you payup or take you petty insults to JU.
