The Deuce

[BONES]

Whoa, that's a soupy mess!

Hell yeah!!! What a wicked day playin in the mud. Sometimes I just like to pass on the technical stuff and pin the throttle to the floor for some mud chucking fun!!

 

[BONES]

So went out wheeling yesterday, started off by over heating the engine when a leak lost most of my coolant, then I attempted this sandy V notch climb and flopped her on her side and caved in the passenger fender and door, put it in reverse and backed back onto it's wheels, continued up this gnarly climb and launched the front tires 3 feet in the air and landed hard, that snapped the rear drive shaft u-joint at the diff yoke, continued down the trail in front wheel drive and every time I throttled it the t case sounded like it was jumping splines. On the way back to the road the tcase started whining and squealing, put it in 4 high to head up the road and the spline jumping or gear jumping got way worse in a hurry, ended up being pulled home by a buddies Jeep Rubicon. Yeah I definitely blew up the t case. Stock 1350 has held up pretty good for the last 6 years of abuse. So much for using it as a doubler, lol, who knows the reduction and planetary may have survived. I'll know more later once I get it pulled out.

Waiting on pics and vids, I'll post up once I have em in my grubby hands!!

 

[Andres629]

Still running the 1350?! Holy smokes. Waitin' on pics... haha.

 

[BONES]

Here's the footage from our Thanks Giving carnage fest, lol.



Still need to pull the Bronco apart and take pics of the failure, I have been busy installing a 4" lift long arm kit, clutch kit, engine lift, tummy tuck, and 1.25" body lift in an 05 Rubicon.

 

[BONES]

Well pulled the tcase, slapped the spare in and hit the trail all in about 3 hours, lol. Started the case swap at 3:30pm and hit the trail by 6ish pm!!

Broken tcase. That shit will buff out right?? ;D

Back in spring 2006, still lots of snow on the ground, I found this cool water runoff gully near my house, I kept it secret untill I had a rig capable enough to try it, tried it back in 2008 when the Bronco was still TTB and 35's open front and no wheel travel, took a couple buddies in their rigs too, none of us made the climb. It beat our rigs that day.
I took a couple other buddies there last year before the Bronco's SAS was complete, It beat them too.
Last weekend when I blew up my tcase, I took a few more rigs there, after mine broke. The only one to make it anywhere was an 08 Rubicon 4" lift and 35" Micky Tompson mtz. He broke a lower front control arm about 2/3rd the way up it, he high marked every attempt before him.
Well, I finally got a chance to try it again. 38's aired down to 5psi and no spotter, I just drove it picking my own line as I went. It was a romp but I did it. Got to name it too!!

It's called the Bone Garden now!!

It's about 1/4 mile long and climbs about 300-400 feet in elevation from start to finish. Rocks range from basket ball sized up to smart car sized. Wicked in the day light, little own at night!!!!!!

Pics and vid from last nights night run, what a blast tho, not the best vid as it was dark but here it is anyhow.

 

[Josh40601]

thats narly brother!

 

[Andres629]

That t-case is nothing to worry about. Just squirt some WD-40 in there periodically. Frank's Red Hot, too. I put that *@#! on everything!

Cool that you got to name the trail! Looks like some axle grab action in the first pic.

 

[BONES]

Thanks!! Yeah very cool indeed!

Haha, Franks Red Hot hey, I'll giver a shot!!

Plans are to head into the Bone Garden again in the next weekend or so, untill now it has looked like it was a climb up and turn around deal, but after my success and when I turned around I was actually able to climb the side bank to some degree. There's a continuing trail that is at the top of the 80ish foot steep side bank to the left, follows the garden down the hill or turns and heads back out to the highway, we're going to attempt the climb out on the next run. Can't wait to give it another shot, see if it was fluke or dumb luck, lol.

 

[BONES]

Got out on the trail again on Tuesday, hit the trail around 10am and got out around 5pm, great day too.

Got stuck lots and got to use the winch repeatedly, also pulled a buddy out all day too, but mostly on the end of the strap . Buddy is running an 05 Rubi on a 4.5" long arm kit and 35" BFG KM2's. He decided to follow all day so was getting hung up in my 38" trenches, lol.

The KM2's didn't do too bad in the slop either, they seemed to clean out with moderate wheel speed, had good directional control on slippery ground and only spun out when high centered on our trip, he was plowing a foot of mud over the top of the diff at times and kept on backing out of it when he spun out forward. I was only when his forward attempt pushed the diffs onto firm ground that he was actually stuck. There no Swamper on the trail but not bad for a radial mudder IMO.

 

[Josh40601]

did he go AROUND that hole??

 

[BONES]

Haha, he tried, but it swallowed him anyways, lol. I went through the middle and made it to the end before I spun out, backed up and took a faster run from about half way and then high centered mine, winched out and then the Rubi tiptoed in, lol, figuring he would skirt the outside of the hole but no such luck, it just sucked him in.

 

[Andres629]

Jeepers. That's a hole.

 

[Josh40601]

Haha, he tried, but it swallowed him anyways, lol. I went through the middle and made it to the end before I spun out, backed up and took a faster run from about half way and then high centered mine, winched out and then the Rubi tiptoed in, lol, figuring he would skirt the outside of the hole but no such luck, it just sucked him in.

And this is why I drive Fords

edit:
And this is why I drive Fords offroad

 

[McCracken]

did you use the stock explorer leaf springs for the rear?

 

[BONES]

did you use the stock explorer leaf springs for the rear?

Yes I did, but there's 3" blocks in there too.

Haha, must be that "Jeep thing" they always talk about. lol