shmoesmith
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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 flashflood
we hauled arse out of there and noticed the water was getting over 30 inches deep on the main road out, at which point we started hitting the water at highspeeds in an attempt to hydroplane the wash crossings(which scary as it was, worked wonderfully, even while getting carried down stream while skipping across the water) we finally got to safe ground and got some great pictures of waterfalls around gooney bird rock that were formed by the flooding...next day we did hells revenge in the tracker and it performed flawlessly until we were on the backside of the lions back when we heard a *PING!*..turns out hte retainer pins and springs in our back left drum brake had decided to slide out and springs and pieces of our drum brakes were sliding around inside the drum...ended up having to pull off all of the drum brake componeents and finish the trail and get home on 3 brakes....now the problem is the repair manual pictures of what the drum brakes SHOULD look like are totaly different than what my brakes actually look like and there are several pieces in my brakes that arent even included in my manual so anyone know anywhere that can take a look at all my pieces and put them back together plus any missing??? PICS to soon follow..none are too impressive, but it was fun
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 flashflood
we hauled arse out of there and noticed the water was getting over 30 inches deep on the main road out, at which point we started hitting the water at highspeeds in an attempt to hydroplane the wash crossings(which scary as it was, worked wonderfully, even while getting carried down stream while skipping across the water) we finally got to safe ground and got some great pictures of waterfalls around gooney bird rock that were formed by the flooding...next day we did hells revenge in the tracker and it performed flawlessly until we were on the backside of the lions back when we heard a *PING!*..turns out hte retainer pins and springs in our back left drum brake had decided to slide out and springs and pieces of our drum brakes were sliding around inside the drum...ended up having to pull off all of the drum brake componeents and finish the trail and get home on 3 brakes....now the problem is the repair manual pictures of what the drum brakes SHOULD look like are totaly different than what my brakes actually look like and there are several pieces in my brakes that arent even included in my manual so anyone know anywhere that can take a look at all my pieces and put them back together plus any missing??? PICS to soon follow..none are too impressive, but it was fun
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