Here is Marlin with looooong time friends & customers Jim Henle and Dave Bovich





Here is another great friend Hal Deshamp (right) and his co-pilot





Here is Mike and In The Pink racing. They have our Race Transmission in their rig, still going strong!

No sooner did our buggy warm up, and it started running on 3 cylinders. So Marlin started tracing wires everywhere and making sure everything was plugged in tight.
He quickly discovered that cylinder #2 was dead. First Marlin tested for spark, it was good.



Then I climbed up and started listening to the #2 injector with a
long extension. It wasn't working!



I plugged a different injector wire into the #2 injector, still not working! So it wasn't the wiring and it wasn't working, so out came
injector #2!



You can see the dead injector in my right hand here. Fortunately, a super cool customer Mr. Paul Morgan walked up and said he has a 2RZ-FE back at camp that we can rob injectors
from! Thank you Paul! We couldn't have done this without you! We slapped in all four of Paul's injectors and she fired right up and started purring.



John and co-pilot Mike remained calm the entire time.



The 2RZ injectors were smaller than the 5S-FE injectors John had fitted to the engine for the Turbo conversion, but they were able to increase the fuel mixture on the fly
with the SDS digital controller. But we were able to bring it back to life and get the boys on their way!




Here is a video from this moment before the race:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/00ks8Wvxcns?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/00ks8Wvxcns?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0</a>

It was inevitable for an event as large as this to have a major traffic jam somewhere, which occurred at Chocolate Thunder canyon, so we took off to join in on all the fun!

Here is the make shift parking lot! WOW!



Here are various pics that I thought were cool

The first Rock Crawler Xterria I've ever seen in person



This taco has some wide bends to it



Check out the Thing!




Wow, nice FJ40!



Interesting... It's a 2nd gen 4Runner with a converted pickup bed and Tundra front clip?

Marlin having a fun time!



They had a couple winches set out with anchor points already in place waiting to help stuck rigs



Some gunned it while other's finessed it.



Check out the first gen Hilux!!




This blue rig had a flat front right tire and then lost all rear drive power. His day was over.


Rigs fighting for position near the top

We were able to help out our good friends Eric "Mustard Dog" and John "The Flash" in their 4 Wheel Parts buggy.






Look'n good guys!

...and here we are back at Pit 2A checking things out for John and Mike.



John reported that the ARB air compressor had stopped working and that they had no rear locker for the past 3 or 4 canyons! So we jumped in and connected their Power Tank
directly to the rear diff turning the ARB into a spool locker.

The guys finally getting a moment to relax...



...and then back out with fans



Being interviewed on live internet TV!





And last but not least, here is HT our team mechanic (right) and myself (left) being interviewed. "Great job guys!" 




Can't wait to do it again! Look for us at next year's King Of The Hammers!


Here is the video footage of desertoy launching the buggy in the air and the interviews after the event:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/93F47EqelAU?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/93F47EqelAU?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0</a>

woohoo. good job Marlin crew 

Of the 136 rigs that started the event, only 49 finished before the 9:30pm cutoff time! Nearly 2 out of every 3 rigs failed to finish

The starting order was chosen based on a two day time trial event. We were one of 6 teams who decided not to qualify, instead choosing to be randomly positioned. As a result, our starting position was picked to be #107. The race started at 8am with 2 rigs taking off every 30 seconds. We were supposed to launch with In The Pink racing at 8:26:30am, but due to the injector failure, we didn't start until 9:21am.
Officially, we finished in 30th place! AWESOME JOB GUYS!!!

If we discredit our 54min late start, then we had a potential finishing time good for 21st position How cool is that?!!!!!!

Here are the official results of the 49 rigs who finished the event:

1 Erik Miller 4421 Cumberland MD 6:03:51
2 Rick Mooneyham 554 Lake Havasu City AZ 6:16:48
3 Shannon Campbell 5 Gilbert AZ 6:33:40
4 Derek West 4420 Springfield MO 7:20:24
5 Loren Healy 4428 Farmington NM 7:22:05
6 Brad Lovell 232 Colorado Springs CO 7:26:23
7 Brian Shirley 18 Dodge City KS 7:31:53
8 Rusty Bray 4498 Richmond KY 7:31:54
9 Mike Klensin 4431 Tucson AZ 7:40:58
10 Casey Currie 2 Anaheim CA 8:16:04
11 Ben Dinkins 4403 Annopolis MO 8:24:49
12 Jon Cagliero 27 Paso Robles CA 8:27:17
13 Brandon Watson 4488 Carbondale CO 8:32:54
14 Jeff Russell 4427 Shadow Hills CA 8:39:10
15 Ivan VanOrtwick 4466 Whittier CA 8:41:08
16 Ben Napier 4461 Sydney AUS 8:42:00
17 John Webb 4468 Concord CA 8:50:28
18 Levi Shirley 81 Dodge City KS 9:03:20
19 Jason Scherer 76 Danville CA 9:05:36
20 Alan Woodson 86 Charlottesville VA 9:20:43
==== 21 John James 28 Fresno CA 9:23:58 (potential finish minus our 54min late start)
21 Jason Blanton 966 Kirkland WA 9:27:33
22 Jeremy Dickenson 4419 Cedar Park TX 9:34:49
23 Harold Fijman 777 San Ramon CA 9:38:50
24 Alex Hardaway 4481 Santa Rosa CA 9:40:59
25 Nick Finch 2228 Dean Park NSW 2761 Australia 9:46:51
26 Lucas Murphy 816 Easton MA 9:47:20
27 Ritchie Keller 202 Elkland MO 9:47:24
28 Cottin Rodd 4407 Cortez CO 9:47:48
29 Scott Ward 4438 Lake Havasu City AZ 9:57:40
30 John James 28 Fresno CA 10:17:58 (our Official & Final placement! )
31 Jason Shipman 4414 Farmington MO 10:22:00
32 Hunter Sparrow 72 Arvada CO 10:23:20
33 Mat Noualy 328 Mt Albert ONT, CA 10:32:45
34 Chris Garrison 4494 Rancho Cordova CA 10:45:50
35 Dave Bovich 50 Shasta Lake CA 10:51:37
36 Les Figueroa 4478 Henderson NV 10:59:24
37 Fabio Manno 100 Rome Italy 11:21:07
38 Doug Evans 4457 Hayfork CA 11:24:58
39 Larry Anderson 742 Dixon CA 11:52:39
40 Matt Peterson 212 Colorado Springs CO 11:54:41
41 Robb Kaufman 22 RockyView County CAN 12:05:47
42 Paul Garner 4409 Queen Creek AZ 12:21:57
43 Bart Dixon 26 San Diego CA 12:57:47
44 Curtis Warner 4410 Armstrong BC 12:59:05
45 Brandon Heyes 4558 Rancho Cucamonga CA 13:02:45
46 Jesse Haines 4499 Sparks NV 13:05:48
47 Warren Thomas 257 Morro Bay CA 13:19:25
48 Tom Wayes 321 San Jose CA 13:33:45
49 Stan Haynes 4408 Ft. Wayne IN 13:38:55

Great report Michael!!!!

Great driving John!!!!

Here come some videos!! I am also going to slip these videos into the report above.

Marlin Crawler 2012 KOH (1 of 4): Staging before the event (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ks8Wvxcns)

Here we are staged & rolling along towards the starting line. We had to break from the starting order to figure out and fix the dead cylinder issue.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/00ks8Wvxcns?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/00ks8Wvxcns?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0</a>

Marlin Crawler 2012 KOH (3 of 4): Climbing up Chocolate Thunder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMXqsPD-C88)

Here we are on our 2nd lap heading up Chocolate Thunder

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/WMXqsPD-C88?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/WMXqsPD-C88?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0</a>

Love the videos! Thank you for taking the time to post them!!

awesome!!