RCRocs season ender at Rausch Creek
The list:
Cora in the newly exo’d OD CJ. Class 2 #134
Me with my 96 ZJ
Erik in the bright green CJ – Team Hoppy Racing class 2 #201
Erik’s friend in a stock scrap ZJ
Aaron in his mostly stock TJ on 35s
Mike in his mostly stock TJ on 33s
Smike in the blue Scrambler on 42s/H1s
And Mike in his Dakota on 40s
Here we all are at Lake Christy.
Most of the guys were there to wheel on Friday. I was not able to make it until Friday night. I got the
run down from them when I got there. No broken rigs and no roll overs, so it was a good day.
We got out on the trail Saturday morning with a little fog in the air.
Mike and his Dakota were the first to have problems. On the first trail out he noticed that the
front tires were not spinning. So he had to repair his front hub, again. He refuses to buy new ones, and this happens every time we go out.
We stayed out for a couple hours then went to the comp course to watch the competition.
After watching the comp buggies and trailer queens we headed back to the trails. Everything was going great. We were tackling some nice rock strewn trails. Then we came up to Crawler Ridge.
I was feeling frisky, having Ausssie lockers in both ends, so I thought I could get up the ridge. I was doing good until my hard brake line broke. I think the tire was hitting the line under full flex. I ended up rolling backwards into a tree. I would have made it too.
A big thanks to Mike for working on getting the brake line pinched off so I could continue.
Sean picked me up a brake line on his way in. We got the new line put on Saturday night so I was 100% for Sunday.
We went out on Sunday with the plan of getting off the trail by 1:00 and out of the park at 2:00. The plans changed when Mikes Dakota
decided it dident like the transfer case bolted to the tranny anymore. Somehow the transmission broke
where the transfer case bolts on. It was just flopping around under the truck. A ratchet strap was used to strap the
t-case back onto the tranny so he could get off the trail.
After some thinking and calling around we got a Uhaul trailer from a town an hour away. We used my Jeep to
go get the trailer and with some moving of vehicles I towed a CJ-7 back.
My Jeep was not built to tow a trailer for 300 miles. But it made it, slowly. The return trip took almost 7 hours. So instead of getting home
at 6:30 I got home at 3:00am.
It was a great weekend and there was plenty of excitement. Cant wait for next time.
