MOAB 08! UPDATED WITH MORE PICS!

[Phazertwo]

UPDATE!!!
This is the build we did a week or so before we left.  Its not in there but we re-adjusted the shackle angle the thursday/friday night before we left.
Check it out!


We left Denver on monday, and returned on saturday, great weather! 

We had three rigs this year, which made trails go rather fast, however we spent allot of time out of the truck checking out the cool stuff, and hiking around w/ the dogs.  We had no unexpected breaks.  The black runner blew its birfs on both sides. One just past the golden crack, and one on the Z-turn on Moab rim.  A guy by the name of General on 4x4him.org was awesome and sold us one so that we could keep our vacation going! THANKS Again!!  Alright time for pics!

Few days before we left, building sliders for both the yotas


Westbound I-70!


My speedo is WAY off!!!


First trail we did was hells revenge monday night when we got there.

The EASY hot tub!




Messing around on escalator



DOING IT!!   


Lost oil pressure, and BARLY taged the back passenger side BELOW the window, no broken parts, just a small spot of smushed and scratched body 

Made it out with the winch, no problem

DAY 2!
Than we did Golden crack, Gold bar rim, and a bit of poison spider.





The first time I think that Zach has EVER used his sliders!


The crack!




And for the birf, typical situation for it go in. Steering at full lock to the left, and driver tire locked in a crack.



Day Three!
Blew the other birf on the Z-turn on moab rim.  Didn't have any birfs, so we flagged down some yota guys in town and like i said they were nice enough to sell us one, We had to drive like an hour to get it, but we got it. The day was pretty much shot after that, the girls went shopping, we played with the dogs and changed a birf.  I took the driver-side back apart because we forgot our 55mm hub socket, and we had borrowed one from the local checker, we decided to torque everything properly while we had the time.


We made it back to camp, and made some SWEET burgers, and chilled in the hot-tub all night, it was sweet!

Day 4 and Day 5 I havn't taken off my camera yet, but I will update when I do.

And of course, our smallest co-pilots

Axle, helping spot!


And Ratchet, doing what he does best! (chasing stuff)


More latter!

[KDC]

Nice, looks like fun!

I should have given you guys my spare birf before you left.  My bad.  Were they the ones from his old axle?

[Phazertwo]

no, he only got a axle housing for his new sas and we resused the shafts out of the old one.

[unclejpl4x4]

wow thats some sweet rock.

[79coyotefrg]

  the doggie has shoes

[Phazertwo]

Yeah, gata protect the doggie feet!!

They actually both have a pair, but Axles keep rubbing his due claw raw... next time we will have to wrap it first!

[toywthbdydmge]

nice pic's bro but I really like the BIRF 

[hollywood_toy90]

the other birf i broke was even worse grenaded then that!  it just fell out of the ball!  it was pretty funny.  ill have to get a pic of it and put it up.   

[Fearofrunner]

We just got back from moab this last weekend.  Man what a blast, looks like you guys had as much fun as we did   Are any of you going down for the cruise moab end of april?

[Phazertwo]

We just got back from moab this last weekend.  Man what a blast, looks like you guys had as much fun as we did   Are any of you going down for the cruise moab end of april?

I FREEKIN WISH!!!!! school kinda holds us down...

[notajeep]

Nice pics. I love Moab.

[Phazertwo]

LOOK AT THE IFS FLEX!!! its so cute!!



Update comming soon!!
I got the rest of the pics off of my camera!
PZ

[Phazertwo]

A little more moab rim!

This part was sketch. Normaly, no bid deal, small drop of, than 5 ft, than 250ft cliff... adds some REAL PUCKER!


Same spot on the way back, if it goes back it goes all the way down!


Than we broke a birf!



OK!!! DAY 4!!!

Metal masher.. kinda a bust. We were expecting it to be harder than it was, however has some really great cliffs that over look moab!

A cool obstacle behind "Rock Chucker"


Some flex shots



Rachet rolled over in the sand...


Thats pretty much it for day three! Day 4 when I get home from school!
PZ

[Phazertwo]

DAY 5!!!

We did 7 mile rim, lots of cool stuff to look at.  Pretty easy to wheel nothing real special.
This is on the way to uranium arch (my gf Kandis driving her Runner)


Than wipe out hill. Its pretty much the only obstacle on the trail, pretty fun!






There was some really cool stuff to go hike/climb around, like this bute



Than we found the mother of all cool places to hike/climb around. Tusher tunnel I am not sure how long the tunnel its, probably a couple hundred feet. WAY cool. There are lots of small canyons near by to climb thru too, we spent several hours here just messing around!



Inside the tunnel


Axle didn't have boots, and he did this trying to climb! it was nuts!


Dogs playing in some of the smaller tunnels that we couldn't fit thru.


And finally Rachet waiting for dad to get down from the dumb ass place he climbed (he is looking across the narrow canyon at me, in the very stupid and sketch spot Cassidy and I climbed to)


All and all, it was a GREAT way to spend the last day in Moab.  We decided that we will probably go there every year on the last day, because there is so much cool stuff!

[KDC]

DAY 5!!!

We did 7 mile rim, lots of cool stuff to look at.  Pretty easy to wheel nothing real special.
This is on the way to uranium arch
Than wipe out hill. Its pretty much the only obstacle on the trail, pretty fun!

Wow, that looks like a lot of fun!

[KDC]

And finally Rachet waiting for dad to get down from the dumb ass place he climbed (he is looking across the narrow canyon at me, in the very stupid and sketch spot Cassidy and I climbed to)

Haha

[46&2]

Cool pics, thanks for sharing. I can't wait to make the journey to Moab....one of these days....

[unclejpl4x4]

so you did not find any mutated mole people in the caves ?

[blackdiamond]

 

You're leaving and I'm starting today.  A changing of the guard.  I was going to keep an eye out for you until I saw it was your last day.  There are very few toys in town this trip so far.

[Phazertwo]

so you did not find any mutated mole people in the caves ?

NO! and we looked HARD!

[Phazertwo]

You're leaving and I'm starting today.  A changing of the guard.  I was going to keep an eye out for you until I saw it was your last day.  There are very few toys in town this trip so far.

Ah dude, we came back on saturday the 29th...

[loubell]

I'm the guy that he flagged down to get the birf in Moab. Here is our trail write up with many awesome pics.
http://www.4x4him.org/4x4him/index.php?topic=3136.0

[unclejpl4x4]

I'm the guy that he flagged down to get the birf in Moab. Here is our trail write up with many awesome pics.
http://www.4x4him.org/4x4him/index.php?topic=3136.0

nice pics bro    thats one one thing i hate about NJ   no cool scenic views

[Phazertwo]

I'm the guy that he flagged down to get the birf in Moab. Here is our trail write up with many awesome pics.
http://www.4x4him.org/4x4him/index.php?topic=3136.0

YOU GUYS WERE LIFE SAVERS!

[ajordan1975]

Nice pics.     i hope to get there soon  .