The water crossing I did was only needed to get at the stuck truck on the other side of the Verde. Made it from I-17 and Bloody Basin all the way to Sheep Bridge without seeing any water. Like Jeff said, very easy trail. Can be done in a 2wd truck no problem.
You can also get there via Cave Creek road to 7 springs.

 

Where is this trail? I'm down for a run, next time you go out let me know

 

ok great, thanks for the info.

ahh, ok I didn't even think about the ECU. Glad to know that I don't need extended diff breathers though. Not sure if I'll ever need to cross deep water like that, but its nice knowing that if I need to, I can.

 

Hey guys. I upgraded my SA inner axles and hub gears to chromoly a couple weeks ago so I have the OEM stuff just laying around. I thought I'd offer them around to the local guys first.

The hub gears from a straight axle hub. I have read that these will convert IFS hubs to SA hubs. I have also heard that it will NOT work, so do your research.


OEM inner axles and birfields. Good for trail spares or to complete a SA if you happen upon just a housing.


Let me know if you're interested and we'll see what we can work out.

 

Sooo the rock lights that I ordered came, but there GREEN haha! Gotta send em back and make sure I get white ones sent back! Pretty sweet though, smaller than I thought they were going to be, and plenty bright (even with the green)

 

or you could just keep them and be in the Christmas sprit

 

Haha! And I'll just strap some flashing red lights under there too... Haha!

 

that would be awesome

 

Any night runs going down tonight?? Why time does the 4 peaks area clean up tart tomorrow?

 

I've been thinking about doing night runs too...especially next summer. Are the rock lights above enough? At 'wheeling speed I can't imagine I need more light off the front but really don't know. My headlights are the Sylvania silver something and are pretty bright.

I just had my 40th birthday this past wknd and have a little cash to burn

 

The clean up is form 8-3 - I might not be there till around 10ish since I am getting my pool filter fixed finally - its only been broken for 3 weeks now

 

Nice! Happy b day! I'm going to just go ahaid and mount the green lights. Ittl go with my army green paint that I'll eventually get around to. I'll let you know how much light they put out, but definitely used more for crawling speed.

 

Nothing like swimming in green water!! I'll prob be there around the same time, gotta take the gf to work at 9

 

I have been wanting to go to Hackberry Creek too. I haven't been there in about a year and its a ball...especially the powerline climb. I'm going to be traveling this month, how about early December?

You headed to Ensenada in a couple weeks for the B1K with the above rig?

 

I want to go to Hackberry!! I was just talking to someone recently about going there too - I am definately in for this - as long as we can go before Dec 11 or after Jan 3. Its not in my Arizona Backroads trail book. I will check my other books when I get home and see if I can find anything about that area.

 

I have GPS for Hackberry Creek. I'm pretty sure I remember all the turns too. Its on page 180-181 of AZ Backroads. Good boulder fields but not good for non-lifted vehicles and/or open diffs.

I'd say mild lift + 33's would be minimum.

 

That's what I'm talking about!! I'm in...

 

Heh - your rig is so friggin built you might be bored...just kidding

We could have some serious fun by picking stupid lines at the powerline with your truck.

Its btwn Superior and Globe off US60 so it means a 1.5 hour run on the hwy. How's your truck on the hwy? 65-70mph?

 

It does pretty well around 60, after that it's reving pretty high and starts to get the shakes. Trailer it to superior maybe? How far from there?

 

That would be perfect.

Turn off US60 is 33 Deg 18' 46.68" N 111Deg 02' 56.00" W
Trail head west direction 33Deg 16' 36.92" N 111Deg 02' 31.43" W

Check it out.