Nah, just hammer the windshield frame back.
Honestly I think they needed an adjustment before the windshield got hit lol
Nah, just hammer the windshield frame back.
when Victor broke his front axle, we turned around the way we came. It started hailing and pouring rain and we were running the trail backwards. Pretty gnarly but fun. When I was coming down through a slick boulder section I came down on a rock hard. Hard enough to bend the frame rail a bit.
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What broke on the front axle?
What broke on the front axle?
RCV internal cracked in two places allowing either the inner shaft to slip in the splines of the internal or to allow the CV balls to slip. I originally thought the balls, but more likely it was the cracked internal opening up slightly due to the cracks and the shaft slipping in the internal. I had a spare and installed it and climbed the tree in my front yard with the tire this morning, so hopefully it is fixed (for now).
Enough about my jeep in Garrett's thread. Back to your regularly scheduled programming..........
RCV internal cracked in two places allowing either the inner shaft to slip in the splines of the internal or to allow the CV balls to slip. I originally thought the balls, but more likely it was the cracked internal opening up slightly due to the cracks and the shaft slipping in the internal. I had a spare and installed it and climbed the tree in my front yard with the tire this morning, so hopefully it is fixed (for now).
Enough about my jeep in Garrett's thread. Back to your regularly scheduled programming..........
I sent RCV an email, waiting for response. Haven't had a chance to write up anything in my thread, been busy with life stuff post vacation and I was hoping that Scott's girlfriend would send me some photos and vids of my rig so I could include them.
Going wheeling today hitting No Limits again with 2 TJ/LJ guys both on 42s lol.
That trail was gnarly. This is the only pic I took. We pretty much just drove and didn’t stop much unless someone got stuck.
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Definitely the upper limit of my capabilities. The rocks are so big I was just catching diffs and mounts and you name it everywhere. 35s got swallowed up like it was nothing. The big rigs definitely did better than I did. However, I did hit nail really hard spots that I didn’t get last time I wheeled here and I’m proud of that. The gatekeeper was dug out a lot and I still made it which was cool.
Despite my best efforts using the tie rod as a battering ram, I couldn’t bend it. Kudos to @mrblaine and his kickass tie rod. I did bend the drag link in though and now the tie rod clamp is rubbing everything.
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So that leaves me with a drag link that needs rebending and a trackbar mount that is cracking the frame. All signs seem to be pointing towards a mini front stretch soon.
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I honestly can’t believe it myself. People would be astounded at how hard some of those hits felt today. I’ve bent the RJ tie rod a few times and if I was equipped with that today, it would have been a banana.Nobody ever really believes how tough they are.
I added a cross member to that track bar mount, it runs from the track bar mount to the frame on the other side. Of course I am in full support of the stretch, but in the meantime you could just weld that crack and then run a cross member.