knik spring run april 08

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hi guys ,

this weekend was just flat awsome , with good friends and beautiful weather it was over 60* the whole day no wind and lots of mud and trails to drive on ..

to start with we had one heck of a showing from a combination of different clubs and some privateers ..

alot of diffrent rigs and i think only a couple of jeeps .. and i think the worst stuck of the day was chevy powered yj on 1 tons !!

we made as far as the north side of the beaver ponds where we stopped for lunch and our buddy with 6.9 liter desiel starter quit and after about 2 hours trying to get it to start we packed up our lunch and camp fire and had another bronco pull him back to the parking lot ..where a new starter was waiting for him brought by one of the guys with us wife ....

only to have the new scmucks starter not work either :mad:

any way i have of the days pics ..

and the start of these is how bad the yj got stuck . he some how got rammed on a tree not just the log side but the whole tree root and was wedged bad ..it took some fancy winching and pulling to get him off and the log out of the water .. only to have chevy blow his front cv drive shaft .. i had welded his ujoint caps in to hold it till he got back home with my ready welder ..

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the ony log any where in the area and he found it ..

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out came the ready welder ...whats with chevy's always spitting out there front drive shafts ? think they would made them more robust ...

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with all the warm sun there was lots of melt off and mud ... my little scout was having a blast ..until towards the end if i hit even a 4 in deep puddle it would die ..

found the original 41 year old wiring to the starter was grounding out in the water .. http://www.arcticoffroad.com/forum/gallery/files/3/7/0/survival_pack_2_014.jpg

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this was rays f350 with a shortened frame and a 6.9 that thinks its a gasser ..never seen a oil burner turn up that high rpms and hold together http://www.arcticoffroad.com/forum/gallery/files/3/7/0/survival_pack_2_025.jpg

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alot of mud out by the beaver ponds ..my little scout is on 27 in at's and it did great i had to choose totally difrent lines i was used to but the old girl did great ..

http://www.arcticoffroad.com/forum/gallery/files/3/7/0/survival_pack_2_036.jpg

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dragging the heavy f350 across the soft sand and a few over flows left out there gave us a challenge and had to daisy chain it across ..but we got it done and ray back to the parking lot waiting for a new starter ..

http://www.arcticoffroad.com/forum/gallery/files/3/7/0/survival_pack_2_046.jpg

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HOLY PICTURE SIZE!

Looks like a good time though.

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looks like a great time, I wish we had some mountains like that up this way, looks like great picture taken country

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yeah sorry i dont know whats wrong with the upload ... after they were loaded they look to the right size and after i paste it to the board from the gallery some are huge while otheres where the right size ..

last night i had heck of a time trying to upload each pic it would either kick me out or time out and only allow you to upload 3 at a time ..

i have had this problem before and the only other way i found to upload a pic was to use the quick load single feature under your gallery name ..

but any way it was a great time and wanted to share some pictures ..:D