Down and Dirty
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AmbideXtrous
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Here in Kentucky it's practically our state past-time. Here's one from last weekend with some other rigs from the club.
Ruffian
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Pictures taken by MagnumFan from our trip on Monday to the El Dorado National Forest, Strawberry Run. This is member Simple in the white runner with Ruffian behind him.
Getting a little more dangerous.
And this is the boulders that after we moved more rocks around them, carefully measuring width and distance between the 3 boulders, MagnumFan gave it a try, and then all 3 of decided we did want to go home WITHOUT body damage. So we did a 16 point turn, and went back down the trail. Our rocker panels get to live to see another day!
Getting a little more dangerous.
And this is the boulders that after we moved more rocks around them, carefully measuring width and distance between the 3 boulders, MagnumFan gave it a try, and then all 3 of decided we did want to go home WITHOUT body damage. So we did a 16 point turn, and went back down the trail. Our rocker panels get to live to see another day!
Ruffian
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alaskaman said:
Thanks! I'll post a few of my pics tmrw, getting up at 4am saps my late night energy. Next time, I hope you can come with us. All three of us thought of you, and we hoped to get some more others to come out with us. New 4 wheelers are welcome, since as you can see, the road is advanced but nothing a 4Runner can't handle. I'm going to try to assume the responibilities of organizing the SUV runs for the 4WD club I've joined. So, expect me to keep harrassing all of you to come out with me whilst I do my test or pre-run on some of these trails. I'm thinking Foresthill area next time.
Ok off to bed. I'll post mine tmrw.
Just a tease of what you'll see. Yes, snow.
Ruffian
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Falls said:
Mud? What mud, the rain took off most of it. Well we did go through some big puddles, but the trick is not to go through them fast. Keep the mud on the tires & rims!
Simple has a 2/1 lift & no running boards, but with stock tires. Ruffian has Nittos, & MagnumFan has BFG's & no running boards. I'll be taking off those running boards soon and getting some rock sliders on there. I'm also going to do the 2/1 lift. Have to find some one local to help me with this stuff though as other than taking off the running boards, this is all beyond my training. So sort of, mostly stock! Hence why we turned around at those boulders!!
magnumfan
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high centering a stock lifted T4R
So my only other comment is that its also surprising how easy it can be to stop a T4R by high centering it. In this pic, I high centered on a dirt berm, cut by a bulldozer in the El Dorado Forest, on a grubby logging trail.
It took me maybe 30 minutes to get off of this, I tried to hand winch off it with my high lift, I tried to dig out and I eventually used my high lift to lift the rear of my T4R so all the weight was on the front wheels and then I just drove off of it, with both rear wheels in the air, of course the t4r fell off of the high lift and the jack hit the back bumper, so I have a scuff mark (but thats off roading)
So my only other comment is that its also surprising how easy it can be to stop a T4R by high centering it. In this pic, I high centered on a dirt berm, cut by a bulldozer in the El Dorado Forest, on a grubby logging trail.
It took me maybe 30 minutes to get off of this, I tried to hand winch off it with my high lift, I tried to dig out and I eventually used my high lift to lift the rear of my T4R so all the weight was on the front wheels and then I just drove off of it, with both rear wheels in the air, of course the t4r fell off of the high lift and the jack hit the back bumper, so I have a scuff mark (but thats off roading)
