NOT COMPLETED: Bundy Hill, June 18, 2011
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This was supposed to be a much better trip than it turned into. My cousins weren't there to tell me not to do what I did. I broke 2 MV50 air compressors and put a hole in my wheel. I also have plenty of rocks stuck in and around my brakes, and my steering wheel isn't straight anymore. I was stuck for about an hour until somebody with a old F250 came to get me out. Next time I will sick with regular trails.
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That sucks... wonder if you plan on getting anything but slicks for tires... lol
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OUCH! That looks like the sand/silt traps that a lot of these places have so they don't pollute the local waterways with sediment... Those are typically the absolute WORST places to go, because there is pretty much no bottom, and it's really fine and really wet...
Mario, those kind of mud/silt holes, aggressive tires (in close to stock width) would have just burried him faster... The only way through those is to have a really big footprint, and much lower ground PSI AND M/T or AG tires...
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Mario, those kind of mud/silt holes, aggressive tires (in close to stock width) would have just burried him faster... The only way through those is to have a really big footprint, and much lower ground PSI AND M/T or AG tires...
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Gordinho80 wrote:That sucks... wonder if you plan on getting anything but slicks for tires... lol
You definitely aren't shod properly for that. Even if you were, you better hope to float on the tires. As soon as the body sets down in that stuff and the suspension unloads it's game over.Way to give it a shot though.
I own too many vehicles now. Let's leave it at that.
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Rough day dude.
Did you depth check the pit first? Those things can be really deceiving sometimes.
How come the trip is "not completed"?
Did you depth check the pit first? Those things can be really deceiving sometimes.
How come the trip is "not completed"?
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When I started driving through it, the depth was fine. Then all of the sudden, I seemed to fall off a cliff.
I marked it as not completed because that is about the only thing I did there except use their pressure washer and air compressor.
I marked it as not completed because that is about the only thing I did there except use their pressure washer and air compressor.
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Found out today that I have a bent rear control arm. Sway link must have got in the way.
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DJones wrote:Found out today that I have a bent rear control arm.
Welcome to the club.
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DJones wrote:Found out today that I have a bent rear control arm. Sway link must have got in the way.
More than likely, it just got bent on a rock in the mud or something... Happens...
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I may have one. I have a couple good stock arms left
they've always worked for me.
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thats where the colorado got stuck when we went last fall isnt it?? shoulda learned from they're mishap lol.
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DJones wrote:Found out today that I have a bent rear control arm. Sway link must have got in the way.
If you have 2 strait RCA your not going off road. I bent mine in a couple months after the lift went on. its all good.
And look at the bright side, at least you didn't deploy the airbags.
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I am pretty sure that is where the canyon got stuck the first time. lil_freak wasn't there to remind me. I'm still cleaning mud and ants have moved into the door sill mud. The control arm is broken now, and that causes a great deal of torque steer.
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DJones wrote: The control arm is broken now, and that causes a great deal of torque steer.
Ya think so?
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You're driving around with a broken control arm?
I mean, a bent one is one thing... but a BROKEN one?!
I mean, a bent one is one thing... but a BROKEN one?!
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Yeah I dont go in a mud hole unless I either see someone go through in front of me where I can follow their path if they had no issues or grab a long branch and walk both sides poking for depth every couple feet to make sure I dont find a sink hole more then I can make it through
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