Went out the other weekend up to the rim country (in AZ) to camp and 4x4 with some buddies for the weekend. (30 miles east of Payson, AZ) First trip with the jeep, only went out wheeling for a few hours 2 weeks prior to work out more bugs in this 4 year project which is finally paying off with some fun.
In the 2 weeks I fabbed up mounts and mounted one of those summit radiators, replaced a power steering pump, replaced some melted wires, and replaced the carb gasket again... plus a whole slew of other little stuff.
First night got hung up on a stump in the dark, tire slid off. Looks like the diff is burried in it but is actually just kissing it the spring plate took the brunt of the abuse. Don't get me wrong the bottom of the diff is pushing wood but its cast iron and the cover never touched the stump.
Next day we did about 20 miles of trails then I decided to test it a little more. Climbed this hill pretty good til tring to hop over a down tree and the carb choked and died. (Lots of carb issues plus the 6K foot elevation wasn't helping either) Slammed on the brakes, which are pretty marginal esp. when the motor aint running, dumped the clutch and slid backwards into this tree. It was funny at first cause it was a great resting place, didn't seem to damage the jeep.
Fired the jeep up a few min later, running like crap full bore at the log again. Same thing happened but we slid backwards faster and he damage can be seen below. I wasn't too impressed and would really like to attempt to fix if or make it look better any ideas?
(Pics are in next post, too big)
Just thought I'd show some carnage... also lost all of my exhaust and smashed part of one of the down pipes when the front end came off the ground. Yes it flew a little bit.
And yes I've got my work cut out for me for the next few weeks again...
-Scott