TRS Event TRS 25th Anniversary Fall Adventure - Land Between The Lakes - September 5th – 8th, 2024

[Curious Hound]

3 different engines at that....4 transmissions....and i think 5 transfer cases.....you would think i would learn to leave the skidplate on.

But parts swapping is easier with the skidplate off.

 

[bobbywalter]

But parts swapping is easier with the skidplate off.

indeed.

 

[97RangerXLT]

I still can't find the paper that I wrote down the names of the door prize winners.

Can you all help me out with who's name goes into the ##### parts?

The winners were:

• CamTheHedgehog - Lasfit $50 Discount Code
• 'Uncle Gump' - Lasfit $50 Discount Code
• 'Rick W' - Lasfit $50 Discount Code
• '85_Ranger4x4' - Lasfit 22-Inch LED Lightbar
• ##### - Lasfit 22-Inch LED Lightbar
• 'Poppa_R' - Lasfit Air Pump
• ’lil_Blue_Ford’ - Lasfit Air Pump
• 'Robertmangrum.rm' - Lasfit 2019-2023 Floor Mats
• 'bobbywalter' - Factor55 Ultrahook
• ##### - Warn Medium Duty Winch Accessory Kit
• 'Snoranger' - Warn Medium Duty Winch Accessory Kit
• 'Sgtsandman' - LMC Truck $25 Gift Card
• ##### - LMC Truck $25 Gift Card

I am the other LasFit 22-Inch LED LIghtbar winner

AJ

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I still can't find the paper that I wrote down the names of the door prize winners.

Can you all help me out with who's name goes into the ##### parts?

The winners were:

• CamTheHedgehog - Lasfit $50 Discount Code
• 'Uncle Gump' - Lasfit $50 Discount Code
• 'Rick W' - Lasfit $50 Discount Code
• '85_Ranger4x4' - Lasfit 22-Inch LED Lightbar
• ’97Rangerxlt’ - Lasfit 22-Inch LED Lightbar
• 'Poppa_R' - Lasfit Air Pump
• ’lil_Blue_Ford’ - Lasfit Air Pump
• 'Robertmangrum.rm' - Lasfit 2019-2023 Floor Mats
• 'bobbywalter' - Factor55 Ultrahook
• ##### - Warn Medium Duty Winch Accessory Kit
• 'Snoranger' - Warn Medium Duty Winch Accessory Kit
• 'Sgtsandman' - LMC Truck $25 Gift Card
• ##### - LMC Truck $25 Gift Card

Looks like you’re only missing two now…

 

[bobbywalter]

so....as far as the wheeling goes, there is anything you could want out there. you almost have to have a chain saw to clear the deadfall from the trails. but there is no shortage of things i would never try as far as challenges due to my personal or my rigs inability....or maybe i am just getting old...




the group that went to do more then unmaintained road wheeling had 3 highly modified sas rigs and one sanely modified ttb rig. 3 of these are easily street driven...the 4th will be soon enough.....as the rules out there change anyway.


Tylers ranger, (forgot your screen name ) a regular cab short bed iirc.... like the rest of these is built over time and developed more with experience. he is a young man and he and his co dawg David are mechanical dudes...and Dave has a bad ass jeep and they are based to that spectrum so what they have going on is very interesting... very impressive and capable young men. very nice to see....

it has a 4 cylinder engine and manual, not in the best of tune either....but will fearlessly dare to try anything in its path.. its a challenge right out of the gate with lower power...but no worries, any sort of failure only brings wisdom for these guys.

it requires as much aggression as finesse when you are under square on power.....actually adding challenge and fun factor points... my wife loved it. she really got a good sense of things when she was able to spend some time with Tyler in his rig....we really lucked out because his copilot David brought a 250 to ride so he could do some filming... which he about gave my wife a stroke or two in this terrain because it is extremely difficult to ride a bike in some of the marble and huge rocky sections on such steeeeeeep terrain.....he about went off of a cliff into the drink and she was in a panic over that. so hats off to Dave for being young and wild and bulletproof...thank you for the memories

but she actually has a higher appreciation for this sight and what Jim has been able to harness here as Tyler explained what he was able to do with help from the established data base and the members of this site....this was very pleasing for me to hear from my wife.


lil bronc came all the way from texas..... wild. he gets high for a living.....ya know, flying planes and stuff... his rig is full on truggy. coilover/link suspension....far and away the best machine for the terrain at hand...just plain built from awesome components and packing plenty of horsepower probabaly about as much as the rest of us combined.. BUT....his rig is fresh and is in shakedown mode....its just beginning to find out what needs to be adjusted to get it dialed in...which takes ahwile. its not setup with cylinder line limiters/ or limiter winches yet and has equal full width front and rear axles as opposed to my standard offset.. this would atleast offer some resistance challenge for his rig in the route we were moving along on. most of the stuff s more suited to side by sides....so that radical bronco was at a disadvantage...even with the shorter wheel base the max width fore and aft presents challenges on such narrow trail systems as we were on. of course....it nary broke a sweat but did leave him finding alternative lines...


Ericbphoto.... well his rig is an actual real ranger. a 3.0 no less and a 5 speed.....sporting mostly off the shelf aftermarket lift components for suspension and steering and lockers and a winch turning the 35's with 456 gears iirc.... the front lighting and facia situation is carefully reworked to take an ass whoopin from the trail and just shake it off....and also, it.... like my truck.... has a purpose built bed to accommodate adventure and WORK. and WORK it does in spades.

geared towards overlanding this thing just straight kicked ass and took names....

it just proved how capable the ranger platform is....and again with its often.....rightfully i would say disrespected 3.0....leading the way.

its just proof you just need to get out there and run what ya got and have fun.

more importantly, he was with the Vagabond group. he loaded that poor thing down in south carolina and relentlessly whipped the poor lil mule up and down the mountains for over a week and it just comes back for more... and made it all the way home....on tiny d35 spindles....some would say...a true blonde hair blue eye baby jesus miracle....(yes i know jesus wasnt a blonde hair blue eyed dude)

it is now in that breed standard class i have....with the likes of 4x4 junkie and bray d and kage...and while there are many others... its still a tiny group... level 9 rbv ninja. when you think about all of the work he put into this event on top of taking on such a trip...

i feel like a tiny little parasite.

of course i know there has to be times he wants to get out and punch that poor 3.0 thing in the face climbing the mountain hiways loaded for bear...especially since he has a psd....but damn.....you think about it...and just nothing but respect for that little rig. good work there.

definitely if you are reading this go check out the vagabond thread...its awesome. these guys were geared up and really makes me want to do that sort of thing.




then there was my machine. its still a ranger believe it or not chassis wise. its wounded and not even close to being in its standard operating capacity but plenty for the task at hand. no front locker....i had concerns about being too lazy to put it in before i left home, but got away with it.

i would expect it to handle some of the crazy stuff so no surprises. we did not even winch that i recall...very dry and tractive overall.

but we did have difficulty navigating the park mapping and were split up briefly at the end.

lessons learned long ago that were ignored definitely got my attention. funny how that is.

i actually had 4 cbs at the trailer... i am starting to suspect they would have been better then the modern radios at this point.


my truck the next morning was stuck in 3rd gear.... i thought it was defaulted to 2nd and popped a tcm fuse or something...but it was 3rd. i pinched wire in the cab when i was shuffling stuff around down by the lake....took a minute to figure it out after i got home....and why it didnt pop a fuse..i still dont know.. but its good now.

outside of that...

definitely worth the trip....

thanks again to this crew for busting your butts...and to Jim for keeping this platform alive.

none of this is easy.. especially keeping the site alive....

as to the party... log splitters to area lighting just to cook pizza outside while we are covered in dirt and goo from the wild.. how can i be so lucky....????

this being 25 years is definitely hard to reconcile....

really....hard to overstate that in this day and age.

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

so....as far as the wheeling goes, there is anything you could want out there. you almost have to have a chain saw to clear the deadfall from the trails. but there is no shortage of things i would never try as far as challenges due to my personal or my rigs inability....or maybe i am just getting old...




the group that went to do more then unmaintained road wheeling had 3 highly modified sas rigs and one sanely modified ttb rig. 3 of these are easily street driven...the 4th will be soon enough.....as the rules out there change anyway.


Tylers ranger, (forgot your screen name ) a regular cab short bed iirc.... like the rest of these is built over time and developed more with experience. he is a young man and he and his co dawg David are mechanical dudes...and Dave has a bad ass jeep and they are based to that spectrum so what they have going on is very interesting... very impressive and capable young men. very nice to see....

it has a 4 cylinder engine and manual, not in the best of tune either....but will fearlessly dare to try anything in its path.. its a challenge right out of the gate with lower power...but no worries, any sort of failure only brings wisdom for these guys.

it requires as much aggression as finesse when you are under square on power.....actually adding challenge and fun factor points... my wife loved it. she really got a good sense of things when she was able to spend some time with Tyler in his rig....we really lucked out because his copilot David brought a 250 to ride so he could do some filming... which he about gave my wife a stroke or two in this terrain because it is extremely difficult to ride a bike in some of the marble and huge rocky sections on such steeeeeeep terrain.....he about went off of a cliff into the drink and she was in a panic over that. so hats off to Dave for being young and wild and bulletproof...thank you for the memories

but she actually has a higher appreciation for this sight and what Jim has been able to harness here as Tyler explained what he was able to do with help from the established data base and the members of this site....this was very pleasing for me to hear from my wife.


lil bronc came all the way from texas..... wild. he gets high for a living.....ya know, flying planes and stuff... his rig is full on truggy. coilover/link suspension....far and away the best machine for the terrain at hand...just plain built from awesome components and packing plenty of horsepower probabaly about as much as the rest of us combined.. BUT....his rig is fresh and is in shakedown mode....its just beginning to find out what needs to be adjusted to get it dialed in...which takes ahwile. its not setup with cylinder line limiters/ or limiter winches yet and has equal full width front and rear axles as opposed to my standard offset.. this would atleast offer some resistance challenge for his rig in the route we were moving along on. most of the stuff s more suited to side by sides....so that radical bronco was at a disadvantage...even with the shorter wheel base the max width fore and aft presents challenges on such narrow trail systems as we were on. of course....it nary broke a sweat but did leave him finding alternative lines...


Ericbphoto.... well his rig is an actual real ranger. a 3.0 no less and a 5 speed.....sporting mostly off the shelf aftermarket lift components for suspension and steering and lockers and a winch turning the 35's with 456 gears iirc.... the front lighting and facia situation is carefully reworked to take an ass whoopin from the trail and just shake it off....and also, it.... like my truck.... has a purpose built bed to accommodate adventure and WORK. and WORK it does in spades.

geared towards overlanding this thing just straight kicked ass and took names....

it just proved how capable the ranger platform is....and again with its often.....rightfully i would say disrespected 3.0....leading the way.

its just proof you just need to get out there and run what ya got and have fun.

more importantly, he was with the Vagabond group. he loaded that poor thing down in south carolina and relentlessly whipped the poor lil mule up and down the mountains for over a week and it just comes back for more... and made it all the way home....on tiny d35 spindles....some would say...a true blonde hair blue eye baby jesus miracle....(yes i know jesus wasnt a blonde hair blue eyed dude)

it is now in that breed standard class i have....with the likes of 4x4 junkie and bray d and kage...and while there are many others... its still a tiny group... level 9 rbv ninja. when you think about all of the work he put into this event on top of taking on such a trip...

i feel like a tiny little parasite.

of course i know there has to be times he wants to get out and punch that poor 3.0 thing in the face climbing the mountain hiways loaded for bear...especially since he has a psd....but damn.....you think about it...and just nothing but respect for that little rig. good work there.

definitely if you are reading this go check out the vagabond thread...its awesome. these guys were geared up and really makes me want to do that sort of thing.




then there was my machine. its still a ranger believe it or not chassis wise. its wounded and not even close to being in its standard operating capacity but plenty for the task at hand. no front locker....i had concerns about being too lazy to put it in before i left home, but got away with it.

i would expect it to handle some of the crazy stuff so no surprises. we did not even winch that i recall...very dry and tractive overall.

but we did have difficulty navigating the park mapping and were split up briefly at the end.

lessons learned long ago that were ignored definitely got my attention. funny how that is.

i actually had 4 cbs at the trailer... i am starting to suspect they would have been better then the modern radios at this point.


my truck the next morning was stuck in 3rd gear.... i thought it was defaulted to 2nd and popped a tcm fuse or something...but it was 3rd. i pinched wire in the cab when i was shuffling stuff around down by the lake....took a minute to figure it out after i got home....and why it didnt pop a fuse..i still dont know.. but its good now.

outside of that...

definitely worth the trip....

thanks again to this crew for busting your butts...and to Jim for keeping this platform alive.

none of this is easy.. especially keeping the site alive....

as to the party... log splitters to area lighting just to cook pizza outside while we are covered in dirt and goo from the wild.. how can i be so lucky....????

this being 25 years is definitely hard to reconcile....

really....hard to overstate that in this day and age.

Man I know how busy you are. It's really awesome that you make time for these events. We said multiple times along the Vagabond trip that we thought Bobby would love this. I just want to say that these events are awesome. You and yours are a big part of what makes these awesome. Every year I've been. Your always the first to jump in and help when someone has a problem. You always share your knowledge of Rangers and wheeling with the younger group members. These things are great and you make them better brother. So I would like to thank you for finding time to share all your experiences with us. I look forward to seeing you next time brother.

 

[Jim Oaks]

I finally got home from this trip at 1:00 am Thursday morning. I was gone for 19 days and travelled 4,528 miles. I started a thread about the trip I took when I left the 25th Anniversary Fall Adventure here:

19-Days & 4500 Miles | The Ranger Station

After being gone so long, the first thing I needed to do was cut the grass and water some shrubs that seemed to have starved for water while I was gone. The joys of living in Texas. At least it isn't 100 degrees anymore.

Now I need to send out some decals and send @Gibby6468 his anniversary sticker and key chain. Which, BTW, I have a bunch of keychains left over that I need to sell.

I also need to sort through videos and see what I can put together and figure out our event schedule for next year.

Hell, I still need to finish unpacking my truck. LOL.

 

[Gibby6468]

I finally got home from this trip at 1:00 am Thursday morning. I was gone for 19 days and travelled 4,528 miles. I started a thread about the trip I took when I left the 25th Anniversary Fall Adventure here:

19-Days & 4500 Miles | The Ranger Station

After being gone so long, the first thing I needed to do was cut the grass and water some shrubs that seemed to have starved for water while I was gone. The joys of living in Texas. At least it isn't 100 degrees anymore.

Now I need to send out some decals and send @Gibby6468 his anniversary sticker and key chain. Which, BTW, I have a bunch of keychains left over that I need to sell.

I also need to sort through videos and see what I can put together and figure out our event schedule for next year.

Hell, I still need to finish unpacking my truck. LOL.

Thanks, wow what a trip. I have my topper on and trying to figure out if I want to build it out for camping. About to check out that thread.

 

[Lil Bronco]

I wanted to add just a little bit to what bobbywalter addressed so eloquently about what we witnessed with Tyler and Dave.

Pam and I were able to witness the pair from the rear of the pack a lot of the day, they’ve both got some mad skills behind the wheel and handlebars. Those vehicles don’t just go where those two put them. Been awhile since I’ve heard a ranger on the rev limiter.

What a pleasure to spend time with a group like this.

 

[Curious Hound]

I wanted to add just a little bit to what bobbywalter addressed so eloquently about what we witnessed with Tyler and Dave.

Pam and I were able to witness the pair from the rear of the pack a lot of the day, they’ve both got some mad skills behind the wheel and handlebars. Those vehicles don’t just go where those two put them. Been awhile since I’ve heard a ranger on the rev limiter.

What a pleasure to spend time with a group like this.

I really like your Broncos. It was nice wheeling with you.

 

[bobbywalter]

yup.... they spend alot of time at the badlands.... so throttle application is not a issue.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

TRS 25th Anniversary Fall Adventure Coverage - The Ranger Station

 

[Sharky]

awesome report on the anniversary
Thanks !

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

awesome report on the anniversary
Thanks !

Just to be clear Jim made it, I just shared it.

 

[Jim Oaks]

TRS 25th Anniversary Fall Adventure Coverage - The Ranger Station

I posted that last night before I went to bed. I re-read it this morning, didn't like it, and re-wrote it.