The white mess, buford, brian and I decided that we would go out and play in the local mountains on some pretty fun boulders. So we met early in the morning with the intention of a day of decent crawling.

The first outcropping of honda sized boulders was much fun with the white mess easily sailing over the pebbles under its tires, whereas I promptly high centered buford. Some pushing from Brian and I was off of the boulder pile.

We got to about twenty feet from the end of the trail when i watched the white mess that is 56 feet in the air, drop into a gigantic mud pit. All four 35" tires were completley submerged.

We promptly proceeded to winch the mess out of its muddly dilemma, and we decided to turn around. The pathfinder did remarkably well on the quad trail, but my long wheel base frontier did not do so well. (if you were on the AZIV run then youll appreciate this next part)

The next turn was extremley sharp, and i had two options, scrape the entire side of the truck on the right or go over the SUV sized boulder on the left. The end result was a Terence slider pushed into the body, way worse than last time, and some dented body panels.

Stopping for lunch we came to some nasty ledges in which even the mess had to use some goose juice to get up, but it eventually did with flying colors. After the ledges there was a "bitch" class obstacle but much steeper and longer, and the white mess walked right up it, like it was a dirt road. Refusing to be shown up, I went almost to the top and got high centered like a teeter totter At this point the suggestion was made "just floor it" to which me being conservative and not wanting to break anything, said "OK", so with all four spinning and the front end bouncing we heard a loud and familiar sounding POP. Passenger side halfshaft broke. So we decide to call it a day and we start out.

As we hit the access road, the white messes tranny sounds like it is giving birth to a baby elephant. Realizing the tranny is toast, we hook up a tow strap to buford and tow the mess 97 miles home, which was a bit stressfull, but was much cheaper than a tow.

So essentially we have crippled two out of our three built rigs in san diego

Chuck, your on your own for a little bit.

Nice!! Any pics?

ummmm yeah about the pics...... it seems that the IT guys from San Diego, did not seem to have a digital camera between them, but i will take some of the halfshaft and my panels soon.

Since this is a "carnage" thread may I suggest another listing?
add a cooked slushbox - what w/ that towjob and all. Or did you get a inline coooler rigged up?

You guys are crazy

yeah im sure the tranny got a little warm, but a good percentage of it was downhill and flat. I will be changing the fluid next weekend and adding a cooler soon after.

So, where did this "San Diego Carnage" take place?

Robin, the Russel Stover chocolate rabbits are solid. Got one for Easter

my faith in mankind has been returned

Carnage was at Corral Canyon

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add a cooked slushbox

Just keep the Tq converter locked up

oh yeeeeahhhh keith........one of Brians bump stops broke off, can you fix it next week.

lol.. I think he needs a rubber bump stop this time.