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Post by toynrnd on Jan 14, 2003 6:39:51 GMT -5
Well guys, let's hear what happened down there...
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EricT
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Post by EricT on Jan 14, 2003 10:29:35 GMT -5
I want to know how J broke a leaf spring. ;D
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Post by A "CJ" on Jan 14, 2003 15:24:58 GMT -5
it snapped in the hizzle of it all.  |
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Post by LILREDCJ6 on Jan 14, 2003 17:42:16 GMT -5
Hizzle, i dont think so his dueling banjos skipped and he was trying to fix that when he broke the leaf or he was showing off for some wild bear in the woods.  |
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Post by Lyle on Jan 14, 2003 18:36:37 GMT -5
Yeah, but were there any neat "tire off the rim pictures"? PICTURES, man... we need PICTURES!
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Post by BIG J on Feb 18, 2003 14:45:58 GMT -5
WOW, WHERE HAVE I BEEN. i didn't realize that ya'll had started a post for me. well....if there are any pictures Russ and Denise have them. as far as my leaf spring goes i was trying to get up slick rock. i had my front end started up and was trying to bump the rear up. as i was backing up for the 31st time one of my rear tires became wedged against a large rock. i gave it some gas so that it would climb over and BANG. i thought i broke an axleshaft. "DANG" i thought to myself. so i gave it a little gas to see if i broke a shaft and all four wheels were still turning so that wasn't it. onlookers noted however that my drivers rear tire had shifted forward in the wheel well. upon quick inspection it was deemed that the center pin had sheared off of the spring; so i winched up and drove back carefully; well sort of. when we got back we headed up to farmers to get a new center pin and then started tearing things apart. oddly enough when the axle was droped the center pin was found to be still intack. "oh no, i must have sheared the spring bracket right off the unibody" i thought to myself. but when i looked at the mount i thought it odd that i could see the spring bushing with no spring wrapped around it. "wow, i broke a leaf spring" i thought to myself, and possibly out loud as well. the bizare part of the whole thing was that earlier in the day about a half a mile up from where i broke, we were pulling cable and Russ happens to look down and see a chunk of metal at his feet. he picks it up and says aloud "wow, look at this" and he tosses it to me and i look at it and we decide that it was part of a leaf spring and that whoever broke that must have been doing something pretty dumb. so i toss it over to Steve and think nothing of it until we pull my broken leaf spring and the missing peice of spring looks like the peice Russ found on the trial earlier, and Steve just happened to bring it back with us so we pulled it out and it matched up perfectly. how weird is that. somewhere there must be an angle flying through the woods playing a banjo, watching over us fools.
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Post by Lyle on Feb 18, 2003 16:47:09 GMT -5
So... the moral of the story is that your new maximum number of tries is now 30?? ;D ps. Russ... we REALLY need pics of this! |
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Post by Lyle on Feb 22, 2003 15:20:31 GMT -5
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Post by jpnut on Feb 22, 2003 19:28:36 GMT -5
New pictures of the January Tellico run are now posted on the main web site (follow the Club Trail Runs link). Thanks, Russ! By the way... is anyone starting to notice a pattern here? ;D Um, Jason needs beadlocks? |
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