BlackWorksInc
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Anyone want to do some off-roading around the Bend area this weekend?
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[MENTION=89794]BackOff[/MENTION]
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Central Oregon Off-Road Day (Around Bend, OR)
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BlackWorksInc
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Well happy early birthday! This week is my 3-day, the following is my 1-day so I am not sure I can do it then, but that doesn't mean we can't do more than one!
GhostRing
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This weekend might be a bit tight...but I can confirm by Thursday?
BlackWorksInc
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Not a problem, that's why I figured I'd start the thread on Monday. Worst case I suppose I could push it until next Sunday; but I'd like to try this weekend since it's my 3-day and I have Sat~Mon off.
Found the thread
And will be checking here more often.
I'm the FNG with a bone stock new ride.
I've had it a week.
It has a few hundred miles on it, including about 2 miles on dirt.
I'd love to go and get it dirty this weekend, but it looks like I have to head to Corvallis for some training.
Following weekend, however, I'm in!
Leaving the ride stock for now until I figure out what I want.
I sold my old FJ-40 because I overdid the mods and kind of stopped driving it. I tend to over-do stuff.
EDIT - I'm in Bend.
And will be checking here more often.
I'm the FNG with a bone stock new ride.
I've had it a week.
It has a few hundred miles on it, including about 2 miles on dirt.
I'd love to go and get it dirty this weekend, but it looks like I have to head to Corvallis for some training.
Following weekend, however, I'm in!
Leaving the ride stock for now until I figure out what I want.
I sold my old FJ-40 because I overdid the mods and kind of stopped driving it. I tend to over-do stuff.
EDIT - I'm in Bend.
BlackWorksInc
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Neat! I'd be down for Sunday; you still have my phone number?
Honestly I am still learning the trails out here, most of the places I have gone so far have a few lines or bypasses you can take. If you're stock height and stock tires you might have some difficulty, but worst case you just have to turn around and/or take the easy way out.
We all gotta start somewhere!
Well, hit me up with a PM for my number if you want to do something Sunday with me and BackOff.
As for, [MENTION=139777]ZPT_Yoda[/MENTION] [MENTION=93300]GhostRing[/MENTION] I am willing to go again next Sunday if you guys want (I'm working Saturday as it's my one day weekend, so it'd have to be Sunday); I can't commit 100% as I don't know the schedule next week. But as long as everything works out I'd be happy to go again with you guys next Sunday.
Neat! I'd be down for Sunday; you still have my phone number?
Honestly I am still learning the trails out here, most of the places I have gone so far have a few lines or bypasses you can take. If you're stock height and stock tires you might have some difficulty, but worst case you just have to turn around and/or take the easy way out.
We all gotta start somewhere!
Well, hit me up with a PM for my number if you want to do something Sunday with me and BackOff.
As for, [MENTION=139777]ZPT_Yoda[/MENTION] [MENTION=93300]GhostRing[/MENTION] I am willing to go again next Sunday if you guys want (I'm working Saturday as it's my one day weekend, so it'd have to be Sunday); I can't commit 100% as I don't know the schedule next week. But as long as everything works out I'd be happy to go again with you guys next Sunday.
If you guys head out next Sunday ill head down from PDX and join.
BackOff
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Cool, we gonna go tour the transient camps? out Chinahat.
Or maybe hit the hills? Edison turns into a snowmobile play area when the snow flys.
Was looking at a OHV map...is a cool 53 mile route, Chesley's Challenge, east Fort Rock area. Part of it just opened October 1st.(East Butte trail)
I guess George Chesley was the guy that got the Central Oregon OHV thing going in 1993. Looks like it may have a few very difficult sections but it looks to have move drivable bypass zones also.
South of East Butte.
There are sand dunes down NE of Christmas Valley, but that's 100miles one way.
Cool geology tour...Crack in the ground, Fort Rock, Derrick cave, Devils garden(lava flow) some more rain would be nice for out east...get REALLY dusty.
Will shoot ya a text this afternoon, Blackworks.
Or maybe hit the hills? Edison turns into a snowmobile play area when the snow flys.
Was looking at a OHV map...is a cool 53 mile route, Chesley's Challenge, east Fort Rock area. Part of it just opened October 1st.(East Butte trail)
I guess George Chesley was the guy that got the Central Oregon OHV thing going in 1993. Looks like it may have a few very difficult sections but it looks to have move drivable bypass zones also.
South of East Butte.
There are sand dunes down NE of Christmas Valley, but that's 100miles one way.
Cool geology tour...Crack in the ground, Fort Rock, Derrick cave, Devils garden(lava flow) some more rain would be nice for out east...get REALLY dusty.
Will shoot ya a text this afternoon, Blackworks.
Stuck in Corvallis today, working tomorrow. All over it next weekend.
I did go up a logging road on the way over Tombstone this morning, just so I could see if any lights came on when I shift into 4.
I like having an actual shifter for 4WD. Since I sold my FJ40, all I've had are electric dials.
Next week. I'll PM when I'm back in town.
I did go up a logging road on the way over Tombstone this morning, just so I could see if any lights came on when I shift into 4.
I like having an actual shifter for 4WD. Since I sold my FJ40, all I've had are electric dials.
Next week. I'll PM when I'm back in town.
BlackWorksInc
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Well it was a relatively fun day... sort of...
We ended up checking out Edison Butte OHV (Snow Mobile area during the winter) and running up there. The entire trail is "Most Difficult" and very technical, not something a stock 4Runner could have done (even BackOff and I had trouble on some spots). It took us much longer than we figured and was a bit more challenging than we had assumed.
I'm not very good with taking pictures, so I do apologize for that... The trail for the most part was fun (aside from some issues I'll touch up on below)
There's was one spot I had scouted real quick and had forgotten to take a sharp left when cresting over a small hill, oops. Almost dropped into a collapsed lava tube... I guess that's why you let the crazy guy go first! (Honestly I was about to tell BackOff to watch out for that when I failed to heed my own advice, DOH!)
Luckily I had stopped the 4Runner after I realized where it was going and BackOff helped get some tension backwards so I could get back on trail without issue.
There were a couple spots where it was so tight I scratched/scuffed my wheels, that was a bummer...
But no where near as bad as my idiocy as we tried to make up time on the last half of the trail. We were on a nice stretch of basically flat forest and so we picked up the pace to about 25-30mph and I thought I had pulled the 4Runner far enough to the left to avoid the 2ft diameter by 20~25ft long dead tree on my right side... I was very wrong. It caught the outer edge of the tire, bumped the 4Runner into the air a bit and when she landed shoved my wheels to negative camber (the SPC UBJ pushed in, despite being 250ft.lbs torqued) and I am fairly certain I bent the spindle on the passenger side. BackOff and I managed to lift the wheel, pull the UBJ back to outer position, use one of his 3/4" wheel spacers to give enough room for the wheel to turn and get her ready to limp home...
Another 5~10miles down rough trail until the fire road bypass which was another 9miles from highway 45... That was the most physically and mentally demanding driving I have ever done. But we got her back to the main road for AAA to collect her and drop her off at the dealership.
(How she looked while we waited for the tow truck to come
The rough visual I did on the trail/side of the road looks to be the spindle is just bent to hell, I'm not sure about the LCAs or UCAs, also a bit concerned about the UCA mount that goes through the shock tower, but I won't know the extent of the damage until I get it on a rack tomorrow and go over the damage with the auditor. So that's gonna be fun, at least it's my day off tomorrow so it'll be a bit less hectic to get this taken care of.
Hopefully if the damage is as localized and repairable as I think it is, I might be able to get the 4Runner back on the road by this upcoming Sunday. If not, I'll still organize the trip for you all this Sunday and maybe do a ride-along or something.
We ended up checking out Edison Butte OHV (Snow Mobile area during the winter) and running up there. The entire trail is "Most Difficult" and very technical, not something a stock 4Runner could have done (even BackOff and I had trouble on some spots). It took us much longer than we figured and was a bit more challenging than we had assumed.
I'm not very good with taking pictures, so I do apologize for that... The trail for the most part was fun (aside from some issues I'll touch up on below)
There's was one spot I had scouted real quick and had forgotten to take a sharp left when cresting over a small hill, oops. Almost dropped into a collapsed lava tube... I guess that's why you let the crazy guy go first! (Honestly I was about to tell BackOff to watch out for that when I failed to heed my own advice, DOH!)
Luckily I had stopped the 4Runner after I realized where it was going and BackOff helped get some tension backwards so I could get back on trail without issue.
There were a couple spots where it was so tight I scratched/scuffed my wheels, that was a bummer...
But no where near as bad as my idiocy as we tried to make up time on the last half of the trail. We were on a nice stretch of basically flat forest and so we picked up the pace to about 25-30mph and I thought I had pulled the 4Runner far enough to the left to avoid the 2ft diameter by 20~25ft long dead tree on my right side... I was very wrong. It caught the outer edge of the tire, bumped the 4Runner into the air a bit and when she landed shoved my wheels to negative camber (the SPC UBJ pushed in, despite being 250ft.lbs torqued) and I am fairly certain I bent the spindle on the passenger side. BackOff and I managed to lift the wheel, pull the UBJ back to outer position, use one of his 3/4" wheel spacers to give enough room for the wheel to turn and get her ready to limp home...
Another 5~10miles down rough trail until the fire road bypass which was another 9miles from highway 45... That was the most physically and mentally demanding driving I have ever done. But we got her back to the main road for AAA to collect her and drop her off at the dealership.
(How she looked while we waited for the tow truck to come
The rough visual I did on the trail/side of the road looks to be the spindle is just bent to hell, I'm not sure about the LCAs or UCAs, also a bit concerned about the UCA mount that goes through the shock tower, but I won't know the extent of the damage until I get it on a rack tomorrow and go over the damage with the auditor. So that's gonna be fun, at least it's my day off tomorrow so it'll be a bit less hectic to get this taken care of.
Hopefully if the damage is as localized and repairable as I think it is, I might be able to get the 4Runner back on the road by this upcoming Sunday. If not, I'll still organize the trip for you all this Sunday and maybe do a ride-along or something.
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mikey's2010SR5
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dang Paul. I would say you bent a tie rod too. Hopefully its just bolting some new stuff on but not a lot.
gm350reratliff
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Ouch! Hopefully it's nothing major.
having fun
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Big OUCH! They do say our spindles are weak for flight scenarios.
Glad to hear your ok and the ride ( in general ) could have been worst out come.
Glad to hear your ok and the ride ( in general ) could have been worst out come.
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