Aug 11, 2012: Sierra TrekCAL4WD's 45th Annual Sierra Trek last weekend. First time I've been to Fordyce Trail since the 80s? This is a really tough trail! I'd say it's comparable in difficulty to many Hammers trails
Truck is running just great. Everything works great, made 19.4 MPG averaging 70 MPH on the freeway (loaded and with a passenger, 37" MTRs + 5.29 diff), nothing ever breaks, I hardly do any maintenance any more, I just jump in, turn the key, and she goes where ever you point it. I love this truck and she loves me!
Walking my Crawler in front of a crowd up winch hill number five:
After having built the truck almost a decade ago, using Marlin's high quality parts is really starting to sink in now. Nothing has broke in such a long time. I can't understand how people can put up with continually replacing cheap Chinese knock off parts.
Do yourself a HUGE favor, build your truck right the first time so you can enjoy trouble free operation. At least for me looking back at all the truck has done over the years, it's really amazing that I've done so little maintenance to it and it continues to perform at a high level.
BigMike
