RMA

went out to cow mountain ohv saturday morning left around 5:30am got there at 8:30am , met craig (4bangercraig) at around 9:00. took off looking for trails right away ..
Didnt last long, at around 11:00 i broke my front diff or something, havent taken it apart but i dont have 4wd .. front drive shaft turns but the cvs dont , didnt hear any lound bang or anything just stopped working , also found my passenger hub dial cracked right down the middle ... happened at the end of the video.

also at the end of this video my 2nd battery pinched my power wire to the e fans , shorted out and didnt have fans for a while .. finally noticed my temp gauge .. and it was pegged at the top .. stopped, looked around and rewired the fans..




just barely made it out of the canyon we were in, in 2wd.

got back to the stagging area , made lunch and decided i didnt want to risk staying in some other canyon .. and left around 3:00 , craig decided to stay ..

so heres what pics and video i do have
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37DhqMgxNPg

pennywize

looks like a cool area. ive never been but want to go sometime.

norcal707

damn man... it looks soo freaking fun...

twistedyota

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looks like you guys had fun wish i could have gone. only thing is he has long travel and u have the engine. my yota is bone stock with the stock tires, i dont think i would have made it very far haha.

sux to here your truck broke hope you can get it fixed. good luck

RMA

yea it is a nice area cool trails .. at least the ones i got to see which werent much ..
and your close by man !!!


the trails we were on were really not that bad man your stocker would have made it fine .

im gonna try and pull the front diff tonight when i get home .. see what happens .

NCalDyer

beautiful area, looks like a great area to have fun in, i'll have to check it out sometime

RMA

yea it was cool ,there was quit a few people there also .

so i went to drain the oil in the front diff and it looked alright no metal at all ..
so i started on the hub and found the passenger axle broken , luckily i dont have to remove the diff i went ahead a pulled the axle out and saw the brass bushing all messed up so im gonna replace that .. so it looks like only the hub dial face deal ,bushing and axle .. and alls good .






hopefully craig will post some of the pics he got .. havent heard from him and am unsure if he even made it home .
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twistedyota

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damn tht sux but glad to here it wasnt in side the diff.

RMA

yea i wish i would have removed the dial when i was there .. i could have wheeled a little longer .. i had an xtra hub and dial along with and axle .. .. but oh well its ok .

BigBluePile

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Wow man, looks like a great time!! Thanks for sharing!

RMA

No problem Biggie blue happy to share pics bro! It was fun just the drive was a little long .

dark_fairytales

looks like it may be a good area for winter wheeling. the elevation looks low, so no snow. Ill have to check the area out in the future.

4bangercraig

What??? That's EXACTLY what happened to BOTH my cv shafts later in the day. Man. Guess that mountain just eats IFS...

I kept goin- found some deep mud, eventually stumbled upon the obstacle course, where I descended "The Wall" and then dropped into another obstacle, heart pounding from a 12 foot verticle drop. Only as soon as I dropped into the obstacle I stopped moving. Both rear tires digging holes, high-centered on the crosspiece. I got out with the back tires helplessly spinning in soft dirt and found that my CVs were spinning, but my tires were not. Found a tow out from a guy who'd come up the bypasses smoking a cigar behind the wheel of a 4X4 Chevy Silverado (after a Samurai failed to extract me with a winch...)
Took apart both hubs and found that my cvs had snapped and then turned to dust inside my hubs. Weird.

twistedyota

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damn tht sux glad to hear u got home. maybe i can come next time

RMA

hey man glad to see you made it home so you busted both cv's ? I guess i was lucky then..

any pics of the obstacle course or this wall? i wish i could have stayed longer it was cool out there , time just flew .
but i guess i was lucky i didnt have 4wd and left when i did , i promised my wife id make it home in time for her sisters birthday party that night

norcal707

Hi guys, go to youtube and search for cowmountain wheeling and you guys will find videos of the wall and the water fall... I am going to start talking my engine on this week and hopefully gettting fix on august. We should plan something

norcal707

Hi guys, go to youtube and search for cowmountain wheeling and you guys will find videos of the wall and the water fall... I am going to start talking my engine on this week and hopefully gettting fix on august. We should plan something

muddpigg

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Dang, you grenaded that CV!!!!! Looks like fun though.