june 8 08 wheeling

[onecooldude]

was a nice day of play again

went up rough water with the orange dunkee, broke the 2 joint on my front shaft on the first hill, while i was fixing it my buddy dean manage to roll his jeep, nobody was hurt, no pic of this as my camera was home, fixed my joint to bust it up again with half the yoke 300 foot later , so i did the rest of the rough water loop on 2wd and then got out at lunch to go home get the tj , met the group backward on kianicon road and wheeled the tj for the rest of the day, played in papineau pit and stopped at the fall got a few nice pics



























and now i got 2 dirty jeep to clean

that is all

paul

[lostkj]

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those are the shots from the stock run.

[LibertyFever]

Nice pics guys. Gee Paul, I never knew you were such a good photographer. Maybe you should lose the toolbox and pick up a camera and become a professional photographer ;D.

I'm working on uploading my pics and will post them later today if I can.

I was a bit disappointed with the stock trail yesterday. It was a long drive to the trailhead then a long dusty drive on back logging roads. The highlight of the day was climbing up TV Tower Hill and Pabineau Pit. The Libby did well in the pit but I knew well enough the limitations of my Libby. Without tall aggressive tires and lockers on the Libby it didn't do that well. Plus I don't think the Libby's IFS flexes like a SWB Jeep.

Monday we'll have to get back to work in Paul's garage on my YJ and Paul's "donkey". It seems he's broken a front axle yoke and a couple of u-joints.

I hope you enjoyed your first official club run Johnny. Next time we'll try to find a more challenging trail for us. Maybe we'll bring Paul along to take pics ;D

[John]

Looks like a nice trip; haven't been on that trail in years. Uncle and I used to travel all over that area with an old stock willies Jeep. Certainly not the best place to be with street tires, an aggressive tread and aired down is a good idea for a few places.

A stock jeep can make it many places that would surprise its owner with a little practice and some patience.

Of course I have destroyed my skids along the way but it was a good time. A couple pictures of the trail we use stock capable but not necessarily stock friendly ;D





I just cleared this obstacle with a stock Jeep, stopped to take couple pictures of the modded rigs.




With a spotter and experienced trail guides the stock Jeeps can be exposed to more than dirt roads and it is likely they will build their rigs to go to even more extreme places as their skills develop.

John

[onecooldude]

where is that john this look like a nice trail

[john]

The pictures are from two locations in Eastern Manitoba, we travel to three areas on a regular bases the one not included is a sand pit and trail ride for brand new wheelers to get used to their rigs.
One trip had fifteen Jeeps with more than half stockers. Spacing the stockers out when things got real bad allowed a modded rig to come to the rescue if needed, and that happens at least once per trip, after a couple of trips the Jeeper begins to realize the benefit of having positrac or lockers at least in the rear and the modding begins.

[john]

Had to post my one of my favourite obstacles, both ledges under and behind the Jeep as well as several rocks under water are all in the worst possible location and height for a stocker. Usually takes a few tries to get up unless you do everything perfectly.