Sorry for delay in any updates, I've been busy with work.
Last Wednesday night I took it out for a short run on some private land close to budbuilt. It's a small 500+ acre plot of land. Did a single rock garden and some other hill climbs and it performed great.
On Thursday late afternoon we loaded it up onto the trailer and headed out to windrock. Arrived a bit late to get any riding in that night, but started on Friday morning. I went out with a small group and rode trail 2 and 16. I aired the tires down to 15 and they performed well. I made a stupid move on a V notch and busted my drivers side mirror off. I don't care as they were coming off anyway for something smaller and far less expensive. Further up 16 I tried to go an a very large and slick undercut mud / dirt wall. Let's just say it didn't go well and I got a small dent in driver door. I could have avoided it but wanted to try it. I will do it again next time.
The rest of 16 was a breeze. I have a video of the top of 16 and I will load it up to youtube later and post here.
Friday night after putting in on the trailer I discovered a fuel leak between the tank and fuel pump. I went to lowes and got that fixed rather quickly.
Saturday was a different story for some reason which we need to diagnose. My steering over heated and blew a lot of fluid out of the reservoir which was begging of a long day. Over the course of the day things got worse but fixed it and got off the trail and home. My belief is that as the reservoir got very hot and purged a lot of liquid the main outlet (16 an) down to steering pump expanded, then when it cooled it contracted and became lose slowly draining all of the steering fluid. I couldn't see this immediately but let's just say without fluid a full hydro system does not well at all. Once fully diagnosed a simple wrench to tighten that and then purge the air out. However at same time the steering joint also failed which we do not understand at all. that too was fixed and all is well but let's just say it was a long day with some great people who assisted me.
Also the only other issue was that the rear passenger bump stop kept sliding up allowing the tire to travel to far up. So now we will cut a little more..
Despite these issues which i'm not concerned with since this was the first real test of the truck we will diagnose and correct. It was a great weekend away in the mountains regardless.
Next time my camera woman will do a better job.