GSSE 2009 Photo Thread

[MoonWorks]

And a few more...

[ATL ZJ]

Originally Posted by 97TJGUZZY

This is Brooks, Had a blast with you guys, next time i guess i'll bring the TJ out to wheel with all the grocery getters. We had some great weather for most of the weekend, but saturday night we had some. Cam, did the rain hold off for yall sunday?

It was a little cloudy in the morning but it fully cleared up and became awesome weather by the time we got up to mason jar. We ran railbed first, then the new trail above lower rock garden, and then tried to run mason jar but saturday night's rain had turned it into a slip n slide. After Sean (s-10) and I struggled to find any traction near the entrance, we made the call to run a shorter trail since we had 6 rigs and it was already early afternoon.

We ended up at lower damnation and all of us had to hammer down at the first ledge, which made for some good video. My rig started starving for fuel halfway up the ledge as the gas in the cell ran away from the pickup, so I had to steal some from Trey's rig. Half of the rigs even made the last ledge... chris in the white XJ, shane in his TJ, and mike (muddtracks) in his grand. I got too impatient and stayed in it after sliding off my line and came down hard enough on my rear driveshaft to bend it. I got some video that I will try to get up tonight.

[locked_n_loaded]

What in the F am I doing in that last picture?! Guess that was after it slid and both right tires picked up in the air. What a tool.

The pic below on the highway is still one of my favorites. I can't believe we got away with that 30 min street drive. And even more surprising is nothing fell off of Joe's rig! It was great to see that working as well as it did. All that hard work is finally paying off, it was fun to watch it work well. You just need a torque wrench and lock tite haha. Oh yah...and cotter pins! I'm amazed my rig held together. I was beating it harder than I ever have and I'm not built near as good as everybody else was. I felt very under built for Harlan's terrain.



Whooops



Good group shot showing off the amazing view.



Trying to flee the parking lot campground the Titan's trans got a bit hot dragging the jeep up the muddy climb in 4wd on the access trail at the entrance of the park. Whooops! Other than the gas mileage the truck did damn good and didn't hold up your big ass diesels. "Can that thing keep up?" Lots of Nissan haters!!

[Sudz]

it's monday, where the hell is my SYE!

gotta admit, matt does have some kick ass customer service

Originally Posted by MoonWorks

Me doing a little work on the way to Harlan...

[jdconti9484]

Yeah 8hr drive for us to Harlan and Matt was working probably 75% of the trip up. Definetly the best customer service you will ever find.

[UTChavok]

Ryan do you have a big resolution copy of the pic with all us up on the helicopter pad?

[zjeepin]

here's a teaser from my camera, i gotta resize them or this is gonna take forever!

[zukinut]

locked and loaded: what trail is that in those pics. I know the one is railbed waterfall but what is the other trail.

Will

[StinkoMan20X6_]

http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...6/GSSE%202009/

There's a link to my pics and some videos. I didn't get a lot of footage cause I left my camera in my tow rig the first 2 days so...ya

Had a great time despite my super gay front drive shaft and the other breakages in my group. Good to see everybody again and meet some new folks. I think the only things I broke are the giant "1350" double cardain from drive shaft superstore, my 46re kinda shifts funny, but I think it's the electronics, and my already broken drivers side tail light lost a few more pieces.

I hope everybody who wanted to got a vid from GSSE08. I also hope it turned out decent cause I didn't watch the final cut before pumping out the 15 copies. Hope somebody got some vid of me coming out of grape vine the second time and posts that.

See ya'll next year or at Mt.City.

[rstrucks]

Originally Posted by UTChavok

Ryan do you have a big resolution copy of the pic with all us up on the helicopter pad?

PM an e-mail address and I'll send it to you.

Originally Posted by zjeepin

here's a teaser from my camera, i gotta resize them or this is gonna take forever!

Where was the dog (Macho right?) when this happened? I saw him at camp on Sat. night so I know he is ok, I'm just curious.

[MoonWorks]

Originally Posted by zukinut

locked and loaded: what trail is that in those pics. I know the one is railbed waterfall but what is the other trail.

Will

Which pic are you talking about? The one with his hands in the air is on Lions Den.

[StinkoMan20X6_]

I almost forgot to add the most memorable quote was made by mud tracks who said, "HOLY sausage fest, look at 'em cram in there!" . Which when taken out of context is the funniest thing ever! Where were the cameras that night at the camp ground man?!

[zukinut]

first thread on this page 3rd pic down.

Will

[zukinut]

Originally Posted by rstrucks

Where was the dog (Macho right?) when this happened? I saw him at camp on Sat. night so I know he is ok, I'm just curious.

Yea macho is fine, he actually stayed put until it was over and then he jumped out.

Will

[ATL ZJ]

Here are a handful of pics I took... I will try to get some vids up tomorrow.

[MoonWorks]

Originally Posted by zukinut

first thread on this page 3rd pic down.

Will

That was taken at some look out that we passed on the way up to Mason Jar if I remember correctly.

[71-Cruiser]

Originally Posted by rstrucks

Where was the dog (Macho right?) when this happened? I saw him at camp on Sat. night so I know he is ok, I'm just curious.

He was riding shotgun and jumped out and scampered away when it happened. It was a super slow roll being that I was in the process of winching myself up the ledge when i flopped it.

[slim616]

i'll tell you what, i'm glad you guys talked me into coming, I had a hell of a good time wheeling and meeting you all. Except for the whole driving along the cliff thing

For the most part the first day our group (john, matt, nick, mandy, and the other matt) spent sight seeing since we had two rigs with no lockers with us, but the second day was one of the better wheeling days I had in a long time. Especially when we met up with Ryan, jennifer, Casey, Ronnie, and Brooks.

I have a bunch of pics and video of everyone that i'll try to upload tonight.

As for the jeep it did pretty well. Only broken part was a bad weld on my drive shaft, Other then that it held together pretty well. Probably next week i'll begin to tear down the jeep to get it ready for big dogs. During the 50 some mile back up on 81 i came up with a game plan on the jeep.


-Full hydro up front
-doubler or atlas if the tree work keeps busy
-gears and cromoly axels with 35 spline axle all the way around
-coil overs in the rear
- strech the wheel base another 6" or so. Probly 2" up front and 3 to 4" in the back.
-38" tires on bead locks
-rear winch bumper
- And yes some decent drive shafts

So matt (aka moonworks) i'll be using your customer service once again

[jdconti9484]

Sounds like you got alot of work to do and money to spend. I just got off the phone with Matt and I'm getting 5.13 gears, a new detroit for the front and a fuel cell. Not sure if I'll have it done before Rausch.

Let me know if you want my NP231 that we talked about I can bring it with me when I come up to Rausch.

[MUDDTRACKS]

What a great time this weekend.

Shane and i rolled into town last night around 9pm about 12 hour drive.
was worth the trip hope to do it again next year.

Glad i got to put some faces to names.
no pics but will have some vid up in the next few days.

[ATL ZJ]

Originally Posted by slim616

i'll tell you what, i'm glad you guys talked me into coming, I had a hell of a good time wheeling and meeting you all. Except for the whole driving along the cliff thing

Thanks for putting up with the "parking lot campground" too

Here are a few more pics... video is coming also.

[MUDDTRACKS]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...deoid=61546016

[ultimate94zj]

that place looks boring... a stock H2 could do all that... and who cares about being on tv... can we change cams name to hollywood now? ill stick to my online wheeling



*everything that i just said was spoken out of pure jealousy *

looks like a lot of fun and glad to here everyone had a great time... i cant wait to get up there

but i was serious about my online wheeling, keep the pictures coming

[rstrucks]

Originally Posted by MUDDTRACKS

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...deoid=61546016

Anyone else having trouble seeing the video. I get the page to load but no video shows. ???




Also, anybody else bring anything home with them from Evarts? (ie, poison ivy or ticks) I had both. Not too much poison ivy and just one tick, and he hadn't been there long from the looks of his skinny ass.


I took the ZJ and pressure washed it last night and looked it over a little closer. It looks like my oil pan was barely getting hit by my track bar at full stuff. I got lucky it wasn't any worse and I'll be fixing that right away.

[MoonWorks]

Originally Posted by rstrucks

It looks like my oil pan was barely getting hit by my track bar at full stuff. I got lucky it wasn't any worse and I'll be fixing that right away.

I noticed that when I went to check out your rig at the bottom of Mason Jar. Didn't say anything b/c I figured you already knew about it. I'd just replace it with a straight one as the bend is what was messing you up.