*~*~*OFFICIAL MCR8 Picture Thread*~*~*

[46&2]

Sweet pics. Wish I could have gone. Its refreshing to see blackdogs truck on the trail without any pics of him wrenching on a broken IFS 

[crazykooter]

Here is a few more pics of just the damage I did to my truck.  Nothing big time bad.  Just the drive shaft issue keeping me from making it home today.

This is why friends dont let friends drive the Rubicon on 31's  

[Pat]

I had great time guys!!! 
Thanks to Darrel and pat I was pulled out of a tight spot.  I didnt get many pics since I was pretty much running solo the whole trail.  Towards the end on the down hill before the springs I got to watch darrel and his beast of a ford bronco with 47s run over rocks bigger then my truck.  Yes darrel picking on you is well turned out to be pretty fun.  btw darrel is 12volt guy which was funny since I didnt know that till we were doing the raffle. 
Anyhow I am pretty damn sore since working that trail on 31s and keeping my truck in one piece was a chore.  Got a few dings and scrapes but overall the only damage I am worried bout is the rear drive line.   I am in Tahoe still at my folks place debating if I should pull the rear drive line and try make it home on the front or not.  Its dinged in 3 spots.  Damn those rocks !!!!!!!!!   

BTW Darrel is a crazy sucker !!! he basically jumped his bronco off some big rocks.   

Good to meet you Crazy Kooter...  Did you have a tough time on Cadillac?  Oh  his name is Darren:D

[Pat]

Sweet pics. Wish I could have gone. Its refreshing to see blackdogs truck on the trail without any pics of him wrenching on a broken IFS  

Here is a few more pics of just the damage I did to my truck.  Nothing big time bad.  Just the drive shaft issue keeping me from making it home today.

This is why friends dont let friends drive the Rubicon on 31's  

Does the Shaft have a bad Vibe?  I have seen a lot worse driven home no problem..  Like I said Good to meet you..  Pat

[*FFC*]

Well, we got home at 8pm. Actually got off the trail at 4 Like snowshoebrue, it's the earliest we've ever been off the trail. Everything's unloaded and we're waiting till tomorrow to unpack everything. Time to get a and sit on the comp and post some

It was great to meet new folks! The roundup was an AWESOME success. YELLER, we're totally bummed you couldn't make it Blingn busted a driveline (rear) and didn't have a spare, so BigBird and some other awesome folks stopped by to help us. BigBird happened to have a readywelder, so between about 4 rigs, we came up with a few washers that were used to weld the driveline back in tact. Excellent work! It got us from Buck to the Springs and back to Loon with no issues

As far as I know, right now germ is driving Blackdog and some other folks to the Loon trailhead so they can get their tow rigs and go get their rigs at Cadillac. Blackdog had a rough time this weekend from what I hear.

I saw Marlin and BirdDog driving through Sacramento on my way home, so they're safely off the trail and on their way home.

I got to ride in and out with BigBird from Canada - GREAT GUY! Thanks again for your help with Matt's driveline

Further info/pics later!

[jrock]

I took 871 pictures  . More on this tomorrow  .

[fordh8r]

I took 871 pictures  . More on this tomorrow  .

That means nearly 100 pics of my rig... 

[Pat]

I took 871 pictures   . More on this tomorrow   .

that will keep us Busy for a while   

[*FFC*]

I took 871 pictures  . More on this tomorrow  .

It was great to finally meet you!! Looking forward to seeing your pics! I'm in the middle of uploading right now - so far 148 on my cam including vids.

[85yotabox]

dang wish i could have  made it...work sux.....i was actually guna go up with some friends from town (no yotas but still nice rigs). did anyone see a copper early bronco on 38's, a '79 ford pickup flat bed on 36's or a yj on 39.5 iroks?

[*FFC*]

dang wish i could have  made it...work sux.....i was actually guna go up with some friends from town (no yotas but still nice rigs). did anyone see a copper early bronco on 38's, a '79 ford pickup flat bed on 36's or a yj on 39.5 iroks?

Yessss we saw them today on our way out. They were coming down Big Sluice while we were going up. They were in a group of 12 rigs. I that '79 Ford! Gorgeous truck! I never did see them at the actual event though.


ETA: I'm uploading pics...

[crazykooter]

Dang pat I think im gonna mess his name up for good.  I am pretty much brain dead atm.  Long weekend but a ton of fun.  Next time I am bringing an anti karaoke machine. 
It was good meeting everyone from here.  I plan on fixing up my pitman and my drive shaft and going at the con one more time before winter.

[Gamera]

i posted all my photos at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikenewmanhayes/

[basser530]

Since Brockbuilt broke down we left together and these are all I have   made it to the slabs and had to tow 2 rigs out and well....

Thank you for the help Yeller   . Sucks that I had to break so early in the trip   . I would have had a hell of a time making it out without your help since I was sporting one wheel drive. Hope to see you up there next year. Maybe I'll have better luck. The best part about it is I just rebuilt that axle for MCR and the ring and pinion only had about 150 break in miles on them. Looks like I need to go with a 60 or 14 bolt next year.

[*** YELLER ***]

Thank you for the help Yeller  . Sucks that I had to break so early in the trip  . I would have had a hell of a time making it out without your help since I was sporting one wheel drive. Hope to see you up there next year. Maybe I'll have better luck. The best part about it is I just rebuilt that axle for MCR and the ring and pinion only had about 150 break in miles on them. Looks like I need to go with a 60 or 14 bolt next year.

just glad I could help a fellow wheeler next year we rock da con

[Dark Knight]

Nice pics guys. This thread is going to make me want to go crazy on my new build

[fordh8r]

Nice pics guys. This thread is going to make me want to go crazy on my new build

If you think the pics are inspiring, you shoulda went to MCR.  That's what kick started my build. 

[Pat]

Dang pat I think im gonna mess his name up for good.  I am pretty much brain dead atm.  Long weekend but a ton of fun.  Next time I am bringing an anti karaoke machine. 
It was good meeting everyone from here.  I plan on fixing up my pitman and my drive shaft and going at the con one more time before winter.

How was the trip Up Cadillac? 

[jrock]

Saturday afternoon. 

[crazykooter]

Trip up caddy wasnt a problem for me.  I was behind tom inn his 1st gen.  He broke one leaf and tweaked the other 2 on his right rear on sat I believe.  I told him he should prob strap it so it doesnt break completely but he thought it would be fine.  Half way up the 1st part of caddy it broke completely so we had a little delay getting out.  I am still in Tahoe atm since I have death wobble so bad I cant even go faster then 35.  I have been working on tryin to figure out whats going on.  Ive pretty much tore the whole front end down and put it back together.  I am thinking its a tie rod andI cant adjust my camber on right side.  Thread issue I think.  So I need to find somewhere I can get the threads tapped again. 
I was extremely suprised my truck made it thru some of the stuff up there. 

[TIMS89CRAWLER]

sweet pics guys keep em coming!

[*FFC*]

Well, Matt defeated Soup Bowl but those pics are on Chris's camera

Here's some pics of our trip in:

Camp @ soup bowl thursday morning



Leaving Soup Bowl, probably between 10 & 11



Volts running at 18+ inspired it was time to change the voltage regulator:



Mmmmm shade














Jason's carnage





Dork LOL



Stuk





rock, meet truck



OOPS





BigBird AKA our hero of the weekend showing off his handiwork





Bumped into RokCrawlinToy on our way between Buck and Big Sluice - he'd broke a few steering components and was 'making them work' one way or another.

[*FFC*]

Some event pics:

Setting up



Registration





Product Sales:



Raffle stuff minus the 3 stooges



And we rolled with BigBird and MonsterYota on the way out Sunday - made GREAT time. Roughly 4.5 hours wheelin to get out:

Waiting on Big Sluice while other rigs coming down passed





Steering box bolts backed out on Blingn's rig - so he had to tighten those..





X Chassis



BigBird at the top of BS:







Hendrix helping out a Grand Cherokee that was having some issues getting out:



Waiting.. again

[*FFC*]

Blingn & BigBird:







$1000 hill - only one pic of this one, I filmed it all too



Waiting for a bunch of Rhinos to go by



Finally made it back to the trail head - no incidents and everyone in one piece:





Miley's ready to go home!





Amazingly we were on the road before 5pm! A record for us



Miley was asleep before we hit the cement



We saw some amazing views on our way home:







Final stretch:

[jrock]

Cool pics FFC. I even saw me   . I was nice to meet you.  

My pictures are uploading.   This is going to take a LONG while. 

[Tallchevy]

I didn't take any pic's but between Jrock, my co-pilot & a few others in our group I didn't have to take any  Just have to wait for everyone else to put them up.

[4DEES]

Yet another year I miss. Last one I went to was in '06 

I think I'm going to start saving NOW for next year 

[Tallchevy]

Yet another year I miss. Last one I went to was in '06  

I think I'm going to start saving NOW for next year  

You & Pepes should spilt the cost. It would've been cool to finally hang out with ya guys 

[Thomas P]

Thursday night at 11pm, getting supplies in Oroville on the way from my house in Magalia

Linnies runner before it broke

People beating up the box







My favorite rig owning some box


Camping at the box (on the side of the trail because i didnt know where else to go)

Me posing

[*FFC*]

Yet another year I miss. Last one I went to was in '06 

I think I'm going to start saving NOW for next year 

You know, that is a pretty good idea. Even if you just throw $20 a check into a jar or something - the hardest part is not spending it.