I went rock crawling. I got my butt kicked.

[LeadFoot]

Well not me. My jeep did though. They look small in pics but man they are big in person. There was two sides, modified and hard side. The hard side had rocks the size of tables and the modified rocks that were still way to big. lol.

I broke:
Drivers side d35 shaft
3 ring gear bolts in d35
d35 diff cover got a hole in it. Now have a super bling replacement!
Bent tie rod
Bent drag link
Probably more crap I haven't found yet.

Whole lotta friggin jeeps





Jay on the rocks



Friends TJ





My lame-o flex - 850 on a 23 degree







Poser flex



My totally new non-holy bling diff cover!



My front rock lights

[LeadFoot]

Mike on the rocks. He used to work at 4wd Hardware until he got laid off. He knows way more than a FSM when it comes to YJ's. He basically taught me everything I know about my YJ. Its spring over on stock springs, 36" iroks, d44 rear, 4.88s, 4-1 np231, 4 banger bored .60 over, mopar purple cam, etc etc. With me helping we can change his D30 axle shaft in under 8 minutes.



Some ford thing. Well it was a Ford. Yes its legal in Ohio!!!



Kelly giving the hard side hell



Kick ass yj, 400 sbc, auto, 60s, cage, blah blah



Jeff with his cherokee on 39.5" swampers 'n 60s





Big fawkin cj



Friends TJ on the rocks when he didnt get stuck for half an hour...lol



Me starting on the rocks



Doing mach 5 through the rocks. Just ask anyone who was there. 32 seconds I completed it! :rotflmao:

Back end coming down off the ground after I broke the drivers side shaft.

[Croaker]

Forgot that was this past weekend, darnit. My dad would have enjoyed seeing it.

[John]

Time for a Super 35?

[Jeff Weston]

What was Dick Van Dyke doing there? I didn't know he was into wheeling?

[Robert J. Yates]

That looks more like piled up chunks of broken cement to me Also, whats all that green stuff??????






Nice post, thanx for sharing.

[Paradiddle]

Looks like you had fun - you are in trouble now if you liked the rocks. Plan on moving out west soon!!!

I'm so lucky to live where I do and be able to play where I play!

Jeff

[LeadFoot]

Originally posted by John
Time for a Super 35?

Time for a 60! Already broke a few ring gear bolts. Eventually I plan on going bigger than 37s/38s so a d44 would just be a middle step for me.

Yes they actually are rocks, on a few you can see the drill marks from where they blasted it.

We talked to that guy for about a half hour, he owned 3-4 CJ's. That camera probably costed more than my heep.

[John]

Dana 60? How last year
Better start pricing portal axles

[StealthTJ]

So you got your first taste of some rocks.
Ain't it fun..

Anyway 'dem ain't no stink'n rocks. Just some pebbles someone threw on the ground. If you want some rocks, thrown around on level ground, check out The Graveyard on Miners Revenge

This photo is taken from inside my Jeep, and that's Al in front of me:







Fred

[LeadFoot]

You find me some bigger rocks out here on my side and I'll go check em out.

[Chris L]

Nice pics, but it looks like the trail into the hard trails at Johnson Valley

[LeadFoot]

Must be nice to have big rocks!

[blkTJ]

Originally posted by Chris L

Nice pics, but it looks like the trail into the hard trails at Johnson Valley

actually it kinda looks like my parking spot at the play area on Gold Mtn.

[Darrell C]

Originally posted by blkTJ
actually it kinda looks like my parking spot at the play area on Gold Mtn.

Oh....now that's mean

[NAILER341]

WOOO you guys are rough!

[LeadFoot]

Originally posted by NAILER341
WOOO you guys are rough!

Yeah I know. But it's ok. You guys are totally lost when it comes to jeeps and mud.

[NAILER341]

Originally posted by LeadFoot
Yeah I know. But it's ok. You guys are totally lost when it comes to jeeps and mud.

you can keep that crap . way too much cleanup after a day of wheeling.

[bob91yj]

I may be a dumb rockcrawler, but I'm smart enough to know not to drive my rig into a mudhole that deep...at least not on purpose. I hope that guy checks his diffs, transmission and engine for contamination.

Driving hot axles/trans/engine into a cold medium, be it water or mud, sets up the possibility of creating a vacuum in those components, and sucking comntamination in past the seals. Seals are designed to keep lubricants in, rather than contamination out. There are double lipped seals out there that are designed for both, but I doubt you'll find them on a stock Rubicon.

[LeadFoot]

Yeah....that Rubicon has an RE 4.5 or 5.5 long arm kit on 35" pro comps.

Story:
My friend got his stock TJ hung up on ruts, the bigger tires that have been run through there rutted it out and got stuck on his diffs. This was in the way to get around him to pull him out. I did the stick test. It showed 6". When he went into it, it literally spun the tires about twice and it went straight down.

[John]

Originally posted by bob91yj
I may be a dumb rockcrawler, but I'm smart enough to know not to drive my rig into a mudhole that deep...at least not on purpose. I hope that guy checks his diffs, transmission and engine for contamination.

Driving hot axles/trans/engine into a cold medium, be it water or mud, sets up the possibility of creating a vacuum in those components, and sucking comntamination in past the seals. Seals are designed to keep lubricants in, rather than contamination out. There are double lipped seals out there that are designed for both, but I doubt you'll find them on a stock Rubicon.

When I lived back east where water and that wet dirt stuff known as mud was a part of pretty much every wheeling trip I changed my fluids a whole hell of a lot more then the typical SoCal wheeler. It was just part of the price of admission

[Robert J. Yates]

Originally posted by bob91yj
I may be a dumb rockcrawler, but I'm smart enough to know not to drive my rig into a mudhole that deep...at least not on purpose.

Have you ever been on the Rubicon? If so, what did you do when you got to the hole at the bottom of Big Sluice? Or the one before the springs?

[Darrell C]

Originally posted by LeadFoot
Yeah I know. But it's ok. You guys are totally lost when it comes to jeeps and mud.

Hey, what's that wet, brown stuff?

[John]

Originally posted by Darrell C
Hey, what's that wet, brown stuff?

liquid dirt. thought it was an internet myth but looked it up.

[NAILER341]

Originally posted by Robert J. Yates
Have you ever been on the Rubicon? If so, what did you do when you got to the hole at the bottom of Big Sluice? Or the one before the springs?

last year, i drown my jeep in it, and filled it up with water to the gills. boy! that stuff stinks!
there is the optional way to the right though.

[bob91yj]

Originally posted by Robert J. Yates
Have you ever been on the Rubicon? If so, what did you do when you got to the hole at the bottom of Big Sluice? Or the one before the springs?

Yep been on the 'con several times, twice last year, not going to make it this year . There are times when water/mud is unavoidable. When I have made a water crossing, I check my fluids at the earliest opportunity.

I guess I could have worded that a litlte better...I don't seek out mud holes to dunk my rig in. I don't seek body damage either, but that happens too.