Damn, putting in some work with all those upgrades! Great pics too.
How did that person manage to break so much stuff (CV, Diff mount, rear diff, oil pan...)??
Those NOCO battery jumper packs are pretty sweet. My brother and dad have them and they work great. I need to pick myself up one of the jumper packs and maybe a battery tender too.
Geeze! That sounds like a long, not very fun day. Glad you guys got him out, and hopefully he's back up and running right away. That's a lot to have to fix all at once after a long recovery like that.Thanks man! It's been a long expensive journey.
So, as far as my friend's woes... We think that his dismount was broken before he attempted the hill. The hill is made of very loose shale that lent itself to a fair amount of tire spinning if you're not careful. So on the way up the hill we imagine his front diff was flexing due to one of the mount being broken. this in turn caused a CV to break in the front. And then this led to all the power of the 4 x 4 under load going up the hill being taken from all four wheels to just the rear two, shock loading the ring and pinion. I have the video somewhere and it does not sound pretty. we think that somehow in all this flax or maybe the CV flailing around the tight quarters oil pan got struck in the deflection and slightly bent, but tent enough to start seeping oil. It was a suck situation for sure. there's a lot of threading the needle through a lot of very tight quarters trees and off-camber fun just getting out there. So trying to tow a vehicle back became its own little nightmare, that was further complicated by the fact that he could not run his vehicle. There are a few long sustained the sense that had to have multiple brake vehicles attached to his vehicle so as not to overheat a single primary breaking vehicle.
Geeze! That sounds like a long, not very fun day. Glad you guys got him out, and hopefully he's back up and running right away. That's a lot to have to fix all at once after a long recovery like that.
Those tires look good man. Glad you got some help on the tub. It's a real PITA but it's worth it in the end. I did all the cutting and welded the fronts myself. I was so over it by then I drove 4 hours south to have @AssBurns finish welding the rears for me. lol