did some moderate crawling this weekend in the johnson valley hammers area.
we had a crappy map, so we weren't sure exactly where we were at, but most of the pictures i believe were on the "hells gate" trail.

the truck performed flawlessly. no real damage, just some new scrapes on the driver side passenger door (guess which rock did it in the pics), and a rear drive shaft that looks like a barber shop pole. banged up diff covers/skidds/sliders too. there were alot of rocks out there.

Quite the flexy monster with those coils. Nice shots.

That thing is just AWESOME!!!! Nice Pix!

I ESPECIALLY like the "ass-end droopage" in this shot :
Later...

It's the FLEXY BEAST! Nice Pic's.

Looks like you got all the kinks worked out. Great shots. Pretty wicked looking trail, too.

thanks guys.
all the kinks are worked out. we ended up doing a custom motor mount on the passenger side for better clearance for the axle side of the trackbar.
towards the end of the day the top of the trackbar bracket was slightly contacting the bottom of the frame due to some shock fatigue. we are going to redo the hoop brace and mount the reserviors outside of the engine bay and also install a hydro bumpstop (at least on the passenger side) and that should take care of that.
i need 37's and an exo!

more importantly, we were kicking around the idea of an annual nissan run in the hammers. something like "N.I.T.H." -nissans in the hammers. or something like that, i don't know. haha but all you arizona wheelers better come out if we do!

It would have to include drunken asshattery.

theres pleanty of room on the lakebed for horse shoes!

The Marines
want Johnson Valley for base expansion( 29 Palms), at least they did, maybe they still do......

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/03/marine_offroad_031408/

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=664629

i don't know why they would want it. they would just get their hummers stuck out there screwing around.
maybe for foot land navigation purposes, but its not like they couldn't do that right now anyways..

did you tear your flares off the rear allready

took 'em off to keep them from getting ripped off. when i get the exo done, and 2" wheel spacers, they should be just fine.
the front hubs are the heavy duty upgrades. they stick out as far as the rim and they are taking a beating.

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Originally posted by roastbeef:
i don't know why they would want it. they would just get their hummers stuck out there screwing around.
maybe for foot land navigation purposes, but its not like they couldn't do that right now anyways..

You forget they have big guns they like to point in all directions fro the interior of the base w/ a range of over 20 miles.. Maybe Johnson will be "downrange".

I don't know.

I knew i should have taken my gps with us. but oh well.. we got some good shots of beef's beast. The rest of the pictures are here:
Rugged Rocks Off Road Gallery

I really like the Idea of doing a Nissans in the Hammers event. Count me in, infact maybe i'll even host it &/or get some other sponsors.

Looks like it is working very nicely. I guess you won't be called mall crawler anytme soon? hehehe
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