Muddy shoes and clutch pedals don't mix :(

[Dumpy]

Wheeled this weekend at Beasley Knob and boy was that knarly! El Heep just couldn't make some parts, but did awesome as expected. Sooooo.... While my bro in law is trailering his Wrangler, I decide to play around on some cross ties that were set up. Only two high. I inched my way up so I could just crawl up for a good pose shot, and my muddy shoe slips completely off the dang clutch and BAM! There goes a leaf spring. Front shackle gave but the rear stayed put, and it snapped about two inches below the post. Moved the driver's side of the axle back about 5 inches! So, off goes the Wrangler and on goes the truck. Sucks, but I'm gonna go see Tanker and Halftrac since they're only about two hours away and get a new front spring set. Totally sucks, but lesson learned. When play time is over, JUST GO ON HOME! It was a fun trip anyways :O) Waiting on the bro to publish the videos so I can post them.

[fireman91186]

That sucks but when we play hard somethings are going to break.

But when WE screw up it seems that bigger things break.

[sungoesdown]

Originally Posted by Dumpy

Totally sucks, but lesson learned. When play time is over, JUST GO ON HOME! It was a fun trip anyways :O)

Should have been at ECI a couple of weekends ago. You could have seen this advice first hand when Casey basically did the same thing on the front. Everyone was packing up/leaving and he wanted to go 'play'

[Casey]

I heard about this from Jake this morning.



I feel your pain!




My oops got my spring, shock, clutch bell crank and fender.


Jake has a set of springs set aside for me.

The fender is never going to be trouble again, I have another bell crank in my pile and Rancho takes Master Card.

[Dirtball]

When I lived and worked in Atlanta many years ago I was in the Georgia Bounty Runners and Beasley Knob was our Adopt a Trail. I have hundreds of pics of wheeling there. I bet it's gotten a lot tougher since those days though. I guess it'll be a lot more popular now that Tellico is closed. Then the huggers will go after it...

[Dumpy]

Originally Posted by Dirtball

When I lived and worked in Atlanta many years ago I was in the Georgia Bounty Runners and Beasley Knob was our Adopt a Trail. I have hundreds of pics of wheeling there. I bet it's gotten a lot tougher since those days though. I guess it'll be a lot more popular now that Tellico is closed. Then the huggers will go after it...

Dude, some of that stuff is crazy hard. You'd need a huge fully locked out rig with massive tires to get up some of that. For the most part it's doable with oped diffs if it's on the dry side. That red clay's pretty slick in the wet