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  1. shmoesmith

    Exhaust

    I had this happen with my new cat....I found out that it was the heat shield on the cat that was rattling(where the metal comes together on the sides and is spot welded)I just welded a small bead to fix the metal back in place and the rattling was over with.
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    taking a newbie wheelin

    I dont think she is hot in any way, but I guess she looks alright for being 38........she is pretty damn fearless and wanted do do rattlesnake (even after watching the video of my sammy getting pounded on it) but I told her it was out of a stock rodeo's capability...any other good established...
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    taking a newbie wheelin

    One of my friends has asked me to take her wheelin(she bought a 96 rodeo that she planns on lifting etc) and wants meto take her somehwere to 'train' her on how to drive offroad...she wants a challenge to the rodeo, but not something where she is gonig to roll easily or break anything..wher...
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    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)

    And who coudl resist the hells revenge overlook?? this could be a chevy tracker commercial :cool:
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    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)

    this is where we were....on teh very last leg of the trail when our drum brakes went *PING!*
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    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)

    one of the fins.....This sucker was scary from the drivers point of view...especially when I felt the vehicle teetering side to side at the top...i guess this is the one that is in the charles wells book that has a warning about it needing a spotter for..
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    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)

    short climb on hells revenge where i guess I popped up some air on the front end, but the blasted digital camera (as always)snapped the picture like 2 seconds after the button was pushed
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    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)

    once the rain stopped, there were some beautiful waterfalsl created that we hiked over to..here is one ofthem.
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    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)

    this is when britt was leaning out the window and it was about 15 inches up the tires...we didnt get a pictures of it when it was moving fast and deep because we were too freaked out about stopping:eek2:
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    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)

    would love to do that with the drum brakes but both sides are not the same...figures that 2 brake lines come outof one side and the emergency cable goes into the other..the side with the emergency cable is the one that went out...its brake line feeds directly off of the other drum brake instead...
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    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)

    moab trip report (from sept 6-7)pics now included went to moab this past weekend in my tracker.....went up to goldbar rim and got as far as the first big ledge when it started raining and raining and raining...needless to say we got the hell out of there, but not before getting caught in a...
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    Centerforce Clutch

    get the petroworks performance clutch, it is actually better than the centerforce dual friction, the owner of petroworks was actually able to burn out a dual friction against a wall whereas he was not able to burn out the petroworks one on the same wall......its awsome, I use mine EXTENSIVELY...
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    Winch

    I think milemarker is what the army uses.....
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    Intro

    welcome...we will have to take your rover on trails that wont break it so easy :) most of the stuff that people on here seem to do is stuff that I think would break most stock vehicles..but it is a rover.....so that said lets do some wheelin!!!!!
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    Member of a Club???

    sounds like an overall good club..thats kinda what I am lookin for....like when I did poison spider in my sammy and saw a bunch of stock xterras coming out, some of them has damage from the trail, and some needed some tugs and lifts, but they didnt care, they were out there to have a good time...
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    Member of a Club???

    no one ever wants to go wheelin with me because my rigs arent built enough :( (my sammy and my tracker)the only people ever gave my vehicles some credit to wheel with were jp088 and some other i met down in moab. I just want to meet some people to wheel with that will put their stocks rigs...
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    Rate Rattle Snake

    I think pokey says it all in this, and this is exactly why I think that rattlesnake would be a 4...goldbar, fins n'things, elephant hill, 7mile rim, top of the world...all 3+rated trails, poison spider is a 4 rated trail, yet I think rattlesnake was harder than any of them.....a stock suv (not...
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    canage at little Moab??

    naw, she was alright with it...it blew out all her windows, ripped off her door handles caved in the roof about 2 inches near the windshield and got some various other small dings, but over all, I have never seen a vehicle take a roll like that and come out lookin so good :) she wanted to get a...
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    canage at little Moab??

    we rolled my friends pt cruiser on the main graded gravel road into little moab(before you turn off onto the rutted one) *loL* hit a corner on some of that good 'ol washboard and slid off the road and hit the piled up dirt on the sides of the road and fliped 2x...pt cruiser held up damn well to...
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    Wasatch front wheeling?

    doesnt corner canyon have some wheeling up it that is legal??? if it still does, corner canyon is in draper so its even inside the valley....
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