Llano Wheeling Pics/Videos

[Slick Willie]

The weekend went pretty good on a Waggy wheeling standpoint, but the weekend was excelent on a fun standpoint. I only got about 4 hours of wheeling on Saturday though. I climbed some hills, one that I've never conquered in 4 trips , but mainly I led a group of our new guys (with less capable rigs) down smaller trails, but still made some decent obstacles in the meantime. Then it was time to do a big rock that had a crack. I went up the flatter side pretty easily (surprisingly). Then I tried the harder part, where I found my tranny was low on fluid. So I filled it up, tried it again, but I ended up sliding down into the crack with my passenger side. The memory on the camera kept getting full, so no video of me falling, just some after pics. I noticed through the hole in my floorboard that the tranny/shifters shifted a good 7" or so to that side, so we backed her down, and found that I sheared a driver side motor mount and the new tranny/crossmember mount. So, that was the end of the wheeling until I strapped the tranny to the driver side and loaded it on the trailer. All in all, it was a good trip though.

I caution those with sensitive ears...there is some language, but they can be muted. More pics to come later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9iRIHnT9uk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUDjn9apUHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYzziJQF4LY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv3_RuHNvRA

Body damage is on rear quarter panel. Not too bad

[jeeping1974]

nice

[Stuka]

Ouch on the mount, but at least you didnt break another t-case :P

[trail mule]

Nice

Very Videos man. What kind of carb do you have or did you go with fuel injection.

[Slick Willie]

Bone stock 360 with bone stock 2 bbl carb. Never had problems with it on steep climbs, so I'm not going to change it until I do. It's the low fluid tranny that gave me problems.

[jepj2000]

Looks like a good time and the wag is getting better and better.

Is Ryan Nelson still around over there do you know?

Rankin

[Stupified]

that is sweet ! I never would have guessed you could do that with stock engine/tranny

[Hammer]

Is that a seat belt holding the passenger door shut?

[Slick Willie]

that is sweet ! I never would have guessed you could do that with stock engine/tranny

Well, the steep hills would have been a little easier if I had more fluid in my tranny sooner. But yeah, most people say those obstacles weren't much, but for a FSJ, I think they were a lot.

Is that a seat belt holding the passenger door shut?

Negative. That's a strap holding the cooler in the Wag. Next run in two weeks, I won't have to worry about an additional cooler. The doors are all held shut by gate latches on the inside. Check out my build thread (#2) for those details.

[Slick Willie]

More pics...


Here's where I fell in the crack shearing my mounts

[Heimeken]

that looks like a great time, thanks for the pics