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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #420 on: Sep 04, 2006, 07:24:51 PM »
So i got some bad news.  the recent trip to Fordyce really messed my truck up.  the engine is running like :pokinit: after a roll and i need a new passenger side nuckle.  i broke 3 of the nuckle studs on mine and i had to drive out on a spare drivers side nuckle.  it worked until one of the calliper bolts came out and the calliper locked up.  it was a long and hard weekend.  I am going to try and get it fixed but i don't know if the truck will make it next weekend.

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #421 on: Sep 04, 2006, 07:40:22 PM »
So i still have a chance to make it.  I am grabbing a nuckle from Locktup tomarrow untill i can get a replacement.  I am gonna get some new spark plugs and wires and see if that is the problem.  I am hoping maybe they are just fowed from the oil.

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #422 on: Sep 04, 2006, 07:57:30 PM »
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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #423 on: Sep 04, 2006, 08:09:13 PM »
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You gotta make it Hyena, I need someone to direct me through the little sluice :sheerterror: :scared:

[betteroffdead]"Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn!"[betteroffdead]  :greengrin:

dang kids out tearin up their rigs the weekend before the big one   :qtip:

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #424 on: Sep 04, 2006, 08:10:14 PM »
[betteroffdead]"Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn!"[betteroffdead]  :greengrin:

dang kids out tearin up their rigs the weekend before the big one   :qtip:

It was suppose to be an easy weekend.  didn't turn out that way.

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #425 on: Sep 04, 2006, 08:39:04 PM »
It was suppose to be an easy weekend.  didn't turn out that way.
Fordyce has that effect on rigs :talkingn:

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #426 on: Sep 04, 2006, 09:05:13 PM »
ya.  the little roll and the full throttle hillclimb pulling a broken bronco didn't help either.

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #427 on: Sep 04, 2006, 09:42:03 PM »
:crossed: Just bout blew a hole in my axle today... decided to put the welder away before the Migo ends up on blocks early :disturbed:

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #428 on: Sep 05, 2006, 09:15:48 AM »
I know how you feel Hyena I rolled on the Bypass on squeez rock 3 weeks ago. Found out I cracked my frame right in front of the steering box and spent all weekend fixing it along with all the wiring on my Arb's,rock lights, and push fan to my tranny cooler.
Looks like I'm finally Ready Nice way to spend my Labor day weekend :gap:

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #429 on: Sep 05, 2006, 07:38:10 PM »
Aight, so my engine is ready to go.  i replaced the spark plugs and wires today.  Looks like 2 of my spark plugs had the gaps pinched or something.  i am thinking maybe when the motor hydrolocked the oil compressed a little and smashed the gap.  I put new ones in and she purrs just like before.  I just picked up a nuckle from locktup so after i put that in tomarrow i will be good to go.

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #431 on: Sep 05, 2006, 10:07:20 PM »
Dang,I'm cuttin' it short too.The fabricator @ work was gonna lengthen my front   :flamer:  driveshaft a little cause it pulls out sometimes and he's in Wisconsin for a CORR race  :smack: .I have a driveline place that hooks me up for pretty much nothing but they're buissness hours are the same as ours and they're about 40 miles away   :down:  .I would just take it the way it is but he cut it before he left.So my rig is sitting with no front drive shaft and I'm stressing out  :wall: 
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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #432 on: Sep 05, 2006, 10:37:26 PM »
Just build a square shaft real quick. :yesnod:

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #433 on: Sep 05, 2006, 10:48:47 PM »
Just build a square shaft real quick. :yesnod:
You know what?,I may just end up having to do that...I'm glad I thought of that.lol,thanx Mini!!.
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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #434 on: Sep 05, 2006, 10:52:19 PM »
I'm here to help! :gap:

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #435 on: Sep 06, 2006, 05:42:06 AM »
Thanks richard. You can see more of my feelings on the post I just put up on pirates here:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5849566#post5849566

Wow Mike!  Nice work.  I had no idea that thread existed.
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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #436 on: Sep 06, 2006, 02:31:50 PM »
just fed a gallon of gear oil in to various leaking orfices of my truck and have my tools packed up so im about ready to go.  i'm leaving tomorrow night and should be up at loon around 10pm see you guys there!!!

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #437 on: Sep 06, 2006, 05:49:49 PM »
 :yikes: I lost my itinerary that was sent from Marlin.

Do I need that for camping or meal ticket? :dunno:

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #438 on: Sep 06, 2006, 06:43:24 PM »
:yikes: I lost my itinerary that was sent from Marlin.

Do I need that for camping or meal ticket? :dunno:

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I don't think it matters, because IIRC, they're pretty generic?
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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #439 on: Sep 06, 2006, 07:23:49 PM »
Well folks despite my best efforts :therethere: I am unable to take oldyellercj to the Con  :down: so instead I am gonna take the Jimmy  :biggthumpup: I dont want to  :dunno: but I aint missin' out. Now lets be real I have 35's, 6" lift a Tru Trac in the rear and open in the front I dont want to destroy it but I want to go, how far can I make it  :confused: without doing too much or any major damage...
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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #440 on: Sep 06, 2006, 07:36:20 PM »
just go in the tahoe side and you'll be able to get to the springs easily and possibly without damage and the trail is short going that way but if you go the other way its gonna get trashed and its  a long way in and out

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #441 on: Sep 06, 2006, 07:49:03 PM »
This may be a noob quistion, but what channel on the CB is everyone gonna be runnin on?
Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a good camper.....So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.


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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #442 on: Sep 06, 2006, 07:51:48 PM »
what can I go around to tag along  :dunno:


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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #443 on: Sep 06, 2006, 07:57:38 PM »
what can I go around to tag along  :dunno:


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coming from the tahoe side the only hard part is cadillac hill but you'll be able to do it fine its just kinda tight in some spots but only maybe a 1/2 mile of actual trail.  Coming from the other way you'll make it to lil sluice fine maybe with some dents but after that it gets much harder and tighter and its still a long ways from the springs.

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #444 on: Sep 06, 2006, 08:01:51 PM »
Quote


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thanks oldyeller
Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a good camper.....So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.


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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #445 on: Sep 06, 2006, 08:10:20 PM »
are there detours  :dunno: or side roads  :dunno: around the bad spots :eyebrow:, never been there but MINI and I are kinda in this together :beerchug:, so there has to be away  :rofl2:


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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #446 on: Sep 06, 2006, 09:10:32 PM »
pritty much the only thing there is a bypass for is the sluice box which are the slabs wich isnt that easy if you take the wrong line, you would be better off going in and out the tahoe side

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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #447 on: Sep 06, 2006, 09:24:41 PM »
Well folks despite my best efforts :therethere: I am unable to take oldyellercj to the Con  :down: so instead I am gonna take the Jimmy  :biggthumpup: I dont want to  :dunno: but I aint missin' out. Now lets be real I have 35's, 6" lift a Tru Trac in the rear and open in the front I dont want to destroy it but I want to go, how far can I make it  :confused: without doing too much or any major damage...

I wouldn't chance it, unless you're willing to sacrifice the body?  Your best bet is to drive up, and then walk/hop rides in.  Plenty of people will be happy to give you a ride once in a while, and there'll be plenty walkin to :thumbs:
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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #448 on: Sep 06, 2006, 09:27:08 PM »
Well folks despite my best efforts :therethere: I am unable to take oldyellercj to the Con  :down: so instead I am gonna take the Jimmy  :biggthumpup: I dont want to  :dunno: but I aint missin' out. Now lets be real I have 35's, 6" lift a Tru Trac in the rear and open in the front I dont want to destroy it but I want to go, how far can I make it  :confused: without doing too much or any major damage...

All the way!  If you go backwards, coming up the big sluice might be a challenge.  You'll be OK.
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Re: Official MCR5 Thread -- Sept 8 - 10, 2006
« Reply #449 on: Sep 06, 2006, 09:50:30 PM »
coming from the tahoe side the only hard part is cadillac hill but you'll be able to do it fine its just kinda tight in some spots but only maybe a 1/2 mile of actual trail.  Coming from the other way you'll make it to lil sluice fine maybe with some dents but after that it gets much harder and tighter and its still a long ways from the springs.

Actually it is about 5 miles of trail.  I came in that way last year in the Migo when it was stock :hammerhead: And it was bout 9 miles from the beginning of McKinney Road on the Tahoe side to the springs Campground.  It's bout a half mile from Cadillac to the campgrounds though :thumbs:



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