Newbie ball and chain

[Lake_v2]

Well I wont tell a long story this time, we had a great time and good fun.

[Lake_v2]

A few more

[Beck*A*Poo]

[Beck*A*Poo]

Matt laying on his side in henrys snatch

[Loki XJ]

Self video of me taking on the waterfall
http://youtu.be/b70PYFqPsLs

Death of zaks chair
http://youtu.be/76GKEf9AiXw

Now that's a fire!!
http://youtu.be/yrNMyaw5ZXQ

Not the videos of Matt on fire

[abendx]

WTF did I miss.... someone post the video of Matt on fire.

[Desert Dog]

Epic party Saturday night! And great midnight wheeling session too!

I think we need to form a perimeter around the Sobe bombs from now on

Some late night highlights:
* burning snake
* flamethrower vs chair
* Bumper surfing
* Whitesnake vs Judas Priest, part II
* how high can you lift a wheel in the air?

I will post a short vid soon. My camera ran out of battery while we were out messing around on Saturday - so I didn't get much, but I did put batteries back in it in time to catch some burning snake on film.

[Beck*A*Poo]

Taken by zee

[farmer]

Man looks like you folks
Had a blast
Keep the pics an story's coming
Farmer

[Desert Dog]

Vid I made. Sorry I didn't get footage of more than half the rigs that were there

Anyway, check out the Whitesnake stunt at the end!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16joaAHonls

[Repsolaaron]

Awesome video

[Repsolaaron]

Some carnage. I stripped some teeth on the ring gear and in the process it destroyed my arb. It's under warranty but 4 wheel parts will not replace it cause they said it was not installed properly. They have no proof it wasn't, so now I'm screwed.

[Desert Dog]

Damn look at the gear marks on the Diff housing!!!!!! Ive never seen that before!

4wheel Parts only covers their install, not the locker. You have to call ARB for that (which is better because 4WP will tell them that you are running big tires with that little diff). They will make you send them the old one and make the determination based off of what they see. Same with the gears. With those gear marks scored into the housing, my guess is that they will probably not warranty it - but its worth a try.

FYI, there was a thread on JKO last year where ARB was NOT honoring warranties on their air lockers if the tires were bigger than stock. Here is a link to their warranty: http://www.arbusa.com/Contact/Warranty.aspx

Its such a detail oriented install, that even the best installer gets one wrong every now and them. Thats why I go to a shop that backs up their work to have gears done. I have had several sets of gears redone after bad installs when the excessive noise didn't go away after break-in, and was glad that I used shops that took care of the problem, no questions asked. And, a reputable shop will always help handle parts warranties because they don't want to cover the costs of lockers/gears/axles due to a bad install. Point is, if you had this done at 4Wheel Parts, they would be covering the gears, locker, and install and you would never have to call ARB. So doing gears yourself often ends up costing more in the end.

[Repsolaaron]

The locker is 5 years old so the it's way past it's warranty.

[Desert Dog]

[quote="Repsolaaron"]The locker is 5 years old so the it's way past it's warranty.[/quote]
OK. In your post above you said it was under warranty. 5 years is way past the 2-year warranty.

[quote="Repsolaaron"] I stripped some teeth on the ring gear and in the process it destroyed my arb. It's under warranty but 4 wheel parts will not replace it cause they said it was not installed properly. They have no proof it wasn't, so now I'm screwed [/quote]

[Repsolaaron]

The ring and pinion are under warranty.

[farmer]

great vid DD the lady liked the music choice
wish i was there looked like real fun times
i think matt needs the fire proof infectious hoodie
lol good times
glad to see that there was only some bumps and bruises
no total carnage
farmer

[sduncan]

We drove up Saturday and hung around the obstacle area for a while...had a good time and saw the following...

1. One broken front pinion gear
2. One snapped dana 35 rear axle
3. One twisted front driveshaft

This was all in a matter of a couple of hours...I'll let those with the carnage give themselves up..

I was fairly sure that there would be more to add before the weekend was over.


Great weather up in Gorman and a good lunch at Los Pinos mexican resturant in Frazier Park.

[Lake_v2]

I havent crawled under jeep yet, but i had one bent rim, tore rock light wiring bent 3 body mounts and a severely leaking front diff

Saturday night wheeling was epic had 2 or 3 near rolls in my jeep, was fun going full Joshy and being able to still drive it...

The campfire antics were near the funnest ive had with infectious or perhaps i was just the drunkest person there lol

[REDxj5150]

Is flame resistant clothing going to be mandatory on camping trips from now on?

I thought we learned our lesson about using dana 35s....

Aaron: that's a bummer. Shocker install those? Time for the 1 tons.

[abendx]

[quote="Lake_v2"]was fun going full Joshy[/quote]

Umm, what? Okay.... vid or it didn't happen!





* that was pretty bad ass... you on fire!

[Repsolaaron]

So I finally figured what happened. The ARB bolt heads that hold it all together sheared right off which caused half the locker to come apart and hit the pinion. I believe the bolts got caught in the teeth and broke them. Called ARB about it and they said air lockers are supposed to be run with stock tires only. I'm going to buy a tru trac for now.

[Repsolaaron]

Hell yeah just found an axle with chromo's and tru trac in lA. Road trip

[Desert Dog]

[quote="Repsolaaron"]So I finally figured what happened. The ARB bolt heads that hold it all together sheared right off which caused half the locker to come apart and hit the pinion. I believe the bolts got caught in the teeth and broke them. Called ARB about it and they said air lockers are supposed to be run with stock tires only. I'm going to buy a tru trac for now.[/quote]
Why would you downgrade to a limited slip? That is going to suck in the rocks (basically no better than an open dif).

[Repsolaaron]

That's what I have in the rear. It will work for now until I build the 1 tons. Not going to spend $1000 when it will just be taken out in 6 months.

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