Anyone done any extreme trail fixes?

[milje]

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.

My roommate just had to vice grip his brake line on his S-10 Blazer (his DD) the other day when he popped it out in the woods. It's still like that, gonna bring it in monday to get fixed (soooo rusty under there we don't even want to deal with it).


I had to vice grip my throttle cable back onto the pedal on my 05, but that was on the side of the highway, not on the trail

Drove it around for half a week like that too.

 

[4x4junkie]

It was crbunit from Alaska.

crbnunit broke one of the new-style arms. There was someone else I saw broke a new-style one also (cracked in the same spot), but I can't remember who it was either.

Bobby Walter I think busted an old-style Duff arm IIRC.


I had the tab break off one of my Superlift arms as I went to hit the brakes. The front diff rotated up which screwed up the pinion yoke (put some gouges in the frame right above it too). The fix was to chain the diff up to what was left of the radius arm, and limp it home with the steering trying to pull the wheel out of my hands (to the point I was afraid the power steering would start overheating lol).

Unfortunately I don't have any pics of when it happened.
This pic of the opposite side shows the same spot where it broke though.

 

[Totalled]

Snowthrower broke a superlift arm in the same spot. We employed the 2 battery stick weld trail repair with a 3/8ths extension for a strap. Worked pretty well.

 

[Totalled]

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

They probably will. I'm pretty sure mine were pre production pieces since they are different from all the other old style arms I've seen... at least I sure hope the production arms weren't built with ground off bolts for the stud end...

 

[CheapThrillB2]

the pics of the welder getting used in the first page, looks to be the same one i have

 

[rickcdewitt]

my brother was too busy one day throwing a roost on our buddy with an s-10 that he didn't see the stump coming up on his right.krinckled the lower right 4 link bracket and almost tore it off.we ratchet strapped it in place and he drove 20 miles home.i should experiment with the double battery welding so i know what to expect.we should have welded his bracket to be safer.

i'm running the new style duff arms with heims(no give like a bushing) and have jumped and slammed my truck enough to worry about them.where did you guys'es new arms break?junkie do you know?

 

[4x4junkie]

i'm running the new style duff arms with heims(no give like a bushing) and have jumped and slammed my truck enough to worry about them.where did you guys'es new arms break?junkie do you know?

Ones I saw were right where the square part (that the tube is welded into) begins to widen. Stress apparently concentrates in that nook there, leading to formation of cracks. Both were driver-side arms (supports the differential side of the axle).

Edit:
Crbnunit's:

 

[rickcdewitt]

thanks,i'll need to brace mine with some 1/4" plate.

 

[bobbywalter]

i wouldnt even know where to start.


but the ol man was so sick of patching the duff arms he was threatening to move away

 

[bobbywalter]

duff tuff.



fawkers dont ever wanna meet me in the alley.