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Heat it up a little and use a vise to make it flat again?
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That's what I was gonna do, but then I got lazy since I have another beadlock that has a bent body and a flat ring, so I just swapped the fucked ring to the fucked body. Now whenever I feel like being productive I can try to unbend the ring and the body of the other one haha
Hank
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Damn. I bet you felt that one in the steering wheel. Haha along with every other rock out there.
We're stock width with big front coilovers and bypasses front and rear. We keep up with our LT friends through everything except the biggest whoops. 60mph through 2 foot whoops is fine. Bigger than that and we have to hit the right speed and hold it, which is stupid hard and stupid dangerous - one wrong buck and it's cartwheel city. I've scraped the vertical face of our front bumper on the upside of a big whoop because the ass was 8 feet in the air and all I could see out the windshield was dirt. My buddy in his truck behind me said all he could see was undercarriage.
so long story short - midtravel takes us to 95% of the places at 95% of the speed as LT. The other 5% of the places, we just go slower.
Finally have some time so I guess Ill add my most recent trail carnage...
IMAG0688 by Phoenix Black, on Flickr
IMAG0689 by Phoenix Black, on Flickr
Chipped the fucking front diff spider gears for the second time in less than 8 months
And the real kicker, not a single broken CV
I dont have enough money to fix it correctly right now so I thre some new oil on it and pretended I saw nothing. I also picked up a used front ARB off a guy on tacoma world for 650 with only 5000k miles on it. Gonna give it a once-over, replace the seals, and then wait untill I can get the 5.29s and then go ahead and do it all at once.
IMAG0688 by Phoenix Black, on Flickr
IMAG0689 by Phoenix Black, on FlickrChipped the fucking front diff spider gears for the second time in less than 8 months
And the real kicker, not a single broken CV
I dont have enough money to fix it correctly right now so I thre some new oil on it and pretended I saw nothing. I also picked up a used front ARB off a guy on tacoma world for 650 with only 5000k miles on it. Gonna give it a once-over, replace the seals, and then wait untill I can get the 5.29s and then go ahead and do it all at once.
@Hank and I did something similar in my rig in the whoops last month. About 45mph in some 2+ foot whoops, but then it skipped a whoop and launched my front end into the air, then dove into a 2 foot tall G-out. Smashed right into the front skid and dirt went everywhere!!
5.29's means 35's?Finally have some time so I guess Ill add my most recent trail carnage...
Chipped the fucking front diff spider gears for the second time in less than 8 months
And the real kicker, not a single broken CV
I dont have enough money to fix it correctly right now so I thre some new oil on it and pretended I saw nothing. I also picked up a used front ARB off a guy on tacoma world for 650 with only 5000k miles on it. Gonna give it a once-over, replace the seals, and then wait untill I can get the 5.29s and then go ahead and do it all at once.
Maybe bigger, depends on how balsy Im feeling lol. Either way Ill be cheating and getting a 1/2 inch body lift. I keep bending my front fenders on the bumper because of all the damn frame flex. Rigs gonna be seeing some big changes end of this year
Nice! 3.4 with auto? That's what @theesotericone had until last week. He really liked it.
Whatcha got planned?
Maybe bigger, depends on how balsy Im feeling lol. Either way Ill be cheating and getting a 1/2 inch body lift. I keep bending my front fenders on the bumper because of all the damn frame flex. Rigs gonna be seeing some big changes end of this year
Yeah, just a little rough as it was my daily for a 70 mile round trip work commute.
Yeah the only time it would suck would be on the highway. I've been thinking about getting a set of 33's (255's) for the desert to help out with power to the ground and torque, but I haven't pulled the trigger just yet. It seems like that would be a perfect combo for gearing for most of the driving I do. Then just toss on the 35's for the crawling type trips.
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Oh no. WTf happened?
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Coming down Cliffhanger in the dark we had to come down an off camber ledge that had an off camber slope leading to it. Started stacking rocks to lessen the ledge's bad angle, I was looking for one last perfect rock and found it down below on the trail. Picked it up and started uphill with it, put my foot on a slope, went to take a step up and my foot slipped on sand covering the sandstone and fell forward smashed the rock onto my wrist and upper body onto the rock. Fractured the radius at the end.
Screws or was it a non displaced fracture?
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ER said it was a clean break, but I have to have it xrayed and checked again to make sure it is healing properly in a week or so
That's the good news from a shitty situation. I was hoping it was non displaced. Those usually heal very well with no lingering side effects. Heal up.
Damn dude! That sucks!!
I did almost the same thing once when I was like 18. Except I was drunk and we were gathering rocks for a fire pit in a wash (more like a boulder field with sand). So I was looking for rocks that were small enough for a person to actually pick up. I was carrying a heavy (50-60lbs or so) rock, then slipped and put my hands out to catch the fall, and the rock landed on my hand. I knew something was fucked right away by the pain and instant swelling, but my friends and I decided it was best to drink it off. Well the next afternoon I finally decided it was time to get it checked out and sure enough it ended up breaking the Trapezium and chipped a piece of the Metacarpal. All they did was put me in a soft cast like that and keep me off work for 2 weeks.
It took over a year for me to be able touch my pinky to my thumb.
