Post your "After the Con" carnage, both major and minor, when you get to inspect your rig. It would be good for those that want to run this trail to know what they might expect for damage.
California Rubicon Trail Run
- Thread starter DrDmoney
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Scot posted a bunch of photos on the NorCal Jeeps forum. Thought I'd share them here.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MeGX5VsRmVLtuXtTA
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MeGX5VsRmVLtuXtTA
Im still in awe of the damage I took. Like I’m gunna support 32’s on the Con. My rear bumper can be read by Brail
With me being only one tire size bigger, I suffered some nasty hits too. Thru a engine light day after. Small evap leak. Guessing my gas tank skid may have pounded something lose.
So my wife put these together
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Well for the Yota, everything between the knuckles and pitman arm, the ram assist, power steering pump, a hose, and a dented quarter panel on the way up Cadillac Hill.
I lost a track bar bolt due to not having a locking nut (1/2 - 13 GR 8 with split lock washer) I changed this to a 1/2 - 20 with a Stover nut.
The usual wear on the underside of diffs, shock mounts, CA’s
OP
I agree, also yours and Jim’sYour Jeep did awesome
Damage was fairly minor here. Bent a lower control arm mount but looks like it will easily bend back, rock rashed the crap out of the wheels, hit the trackbar/diff covers, took a bit of paint off the sliders, and got good use out of the gas tank skid.
@Thunderhead those video's are great.
@bobthetj03 are you sure you didn't tighten the gas filler leash in between the neck and cap? I've done that and thrown a code.
@Thunderhead those video's are great.
@bobthetj03 are you sure you didn't tighten the gas filler leash in between the neck and cap? I've done that and thrown a code.
OP
Those videos are awesome thank L for me. I sent them to Sergio too.
Looks like you used your mods for what they were designed for. Rock sliders for sliding, gas tank skid for skidding, rock wheels for rocks, etc.
Damage report.
License plate
Right rear lower control arm mount.
Right rear sway bar link
Sway bar link should look like this.
My carnage:
Steering box skid,
Driver side tie rod,
Both driver side/passenger side spindle and lower ball joint nut got some love. Lower arm mini skids worked,
Front half cover did its job,
Front arms and brackets. T-case skid surprisingly only got a couple of small kisses,
This concerned my the most,
I seem to recall they make a bolt on skid for here. I'll have to research that.
I thought I'd be ok without a rear diff half cover.
Put a small dent in the cover.
Rear arms and brackets. The brackets take a beating since they hang so low.
Gas tank skid and rear bumper left a little bit of my jeep on the trail.
Right side wheels got it worse. I chalk that up to me being cautious on my side with no co-pilot to tell me how bad it was on the right side.
The bad part about running pizza cutters? the wheels get it first. Noticed this a lot when I was following Indy as he slid along the rocks with wider tires.
Another good example of my cautiousness of the driver side as my passenger side experienced ignorance bliss.
The noise I was hearing on the right rear was my track bar bolt hitting the coil spring because my pinion has the spring arched enough to knock it out of alignment enough to hit the bolt. My fix was to cut the bolt shorter to add some clearance. The obvious fix would have been to remove the bolt and reverse it, but I didn't have time to fight the TB back in alignment to get the bold back in, so I cheated.
Moving on to the body,
All in all, not horrible, but expected for the amount of lift, tire size, and lack of experience and talent to get thru without damage. It would have been much, much worse had I not had some talented and experienced spotters to help me thru it. Thanks again guys!
Steering box skid,
Driver side tie rod,
Both driver side/passenger side spindle and lower ball joint nut got some love. Lower arm mini skids worked,
Front half cover did its job,
Front arms and brackets. T-case skid surprisingly only got a couple of small kisses,
This concerned my the most,
I seem to recall they make a bolt on skid for here. I'll have to research that.
I thought I'd be ok without a rear diff half cover.
Put a small dent in the cover.
Rear arms and brackets. The brackets take a beating since they hang so low.
Gas tank skid and rear bumper left a little bit of my jeep on the trail.
Right side wheels got it worse. I chalk that up to me being cautious on my side with no co-pilot to tell me how bad it was on the right side.
The bad part about running pizza cutters? the wheels get it first. Noticed this a lot when I was following Indy as he slid along the rocks with wider tires.
Another good example of my cautiousness of the driver side as my passenger side experienced ignorance bliss.
The noise I was hearing on the right rear was my track bar bolt hitting the coil spring because my pinion has the spring arched enough to knock it out of alignment enough to hit the bolt. My fix was to cut the bolt shorter to add some clearance. The obvious fix would have been to remove the bolt and reverse it, but I didn't have time to fight the TB back in alignment to get the bold back in, so I cheated.
Moving on to the body,
All in all, not horrible, but expected for the amount of lift, tire size, and lack of experience and talent to get thru without damage. It would have been much, much worse had I not had some talented and experienced spotters to help me thru it. Thanks again guys!
OP
All things considered, weather, slick trail, open Dana 30, 2.72:1, with a manual, you did great! You made it over some tough obstacles easier than me and a few others.