Anyone done any extreme trail fixes?

[Sunk]

Yeah, it needs at least 2 batteries. I can't remember exactly, but I think you wire them up in series, so you need more than a complete set of cables. Its been a while. It works just like an arc welder, but less power.

 

[Apollo]

can someone please explain how you would use the jumper cables for welding?

you can connect two or more into a series and ground the frame to the battery and hold the rod with the jumper cable thats hooked to the positive lead. not recommended except in the most necessary conditions.

 

[milje]

can someone please explain how you would use the jumper cables for welding?

http://www.lcool.org/technical/80_series/bat_weld/battery_welding.html

 

[Totalled]

This was fun...

 

[brendank]

I've done the 3 batteries wired in series as well.

One time I trashed a stock radius arm a few miles from home. It broke completely off, the front driveshaft slipped out, and the lift bracket for that beam cracked. It was insane to drive like that; even at less than 5mph it would track straight and then suddenly tear the wheel out of your hands. Welded it up good enough to drive it home slowly down a back road.

 

[BobR]

the most I'v ever done on the trail due to breakage was driving sharpened twigs into holes in my oil pan/tranny pan so it would hold oil till I got home.


once each, changed a tranny and a head gasket on the trail because the landlord wouldnt alow it in the parking lot.



Bob

 

[THE WHITE RHINO]

sheered all the arp studs on my passenger side high steer which i welded the mess out of everything then wheeled the rest of the day but my alignment was jacked ( tank trap at hollister is too easy )

also tore a hole in my driver side front tire good thing i kept the run flats!!!!


I broke a rear shaft 8.8 down the street from my house drove 5 feet highlift kick it back in and so on back to my garage where i proceed to take off the whole front and rear axles and suspension to go bigger

My airshock shrader valve exploded leaving me half way through the rubicon with no bump stops, until i found one stock bump stop on my frame and welded it to the frame above the radius arm. I also had a power tank so i tried using Co2 to fill it, didnt work considering i needed 360lbs of pressure. Tried unregulated c02 exploded the line. Guy on the trail had a York compressor (roughly 500psi) got a little in the shock exploded the line again. Ended up driving out with no issues

Fuel pump swap mid trail on the con

i think thats about it heres the pics i have of some of that crap

the airshock problem

 

[Jim Oaks]

This was fun...

Just out of curiosity, how many people have broken a Duff radius arm? Seems like I've seen some others.

 

[Hahnsb2]

I know Will broke his too, thought I saw someone else break one but can't remember...

 

[Will]

Yeah, I meant to ask you how those Duff arms were working out for you Totalled.

Just messing with you. That beats mine by a mile. Are you going to fix it?

 

[Totalled]

I've been rocking the stock arms since that happened in may. Snowthrower is gonna thread some solid stock for the stud, push them into the tube about 8" and plug weld them...

Those arms I bought used from Duffs only had a bolt with a rounded head welded into the end of the tube. The weld let go and I wasn't even gettin it.

 

[samsonitesamsonite]

I just put set of those arms on my truck, hope they hold up

 

[JohnnyO]

I wouldn't call it a big repair, but a few years ago I was on a run with RRORC and a dude broke a rear brake line. We were pondering what to do when I remembered an old Vise Grip ad where a guy clamped a brake line with Vise Grips. So we did that and zip-tied the Vise Grip to the axle and it was good enough to get him out of the woods to his trailer.

 

[Hahnsb2]

I wouldn't call it a big repair, but a few years ago I was on a run with RRORC and a dude broke a rear brake line. We were pondering what to do when I remembered an old Vise Grip ad where a guy clamped a brake line with Vise Grips. So we did that and zip-tied the Vise Grip to the axle and it was good enough to get him out of the woods to his trailer.

Did that a year ago up in to snow, tire chain came off and ripped my driver side brake line off. Some nice dude gave me a pair of vise grips and I clamped it shut, and used a piece of rope to tie the vise grips to the sway bar. That damn brake line was THICK, took a lot of pressure to pinch it off.

 

[Maverick]

I know Will broke his too, thought I saw someone else break one but can't remember...

It was crbunit from Alaska.