Saturday November 13, 2010 Rausch Creek

Rausch was packed today! we had a good group for Ryans maiden voyage. We headed to "O" trail where I led onto the rocks and promptly broke, yep first obstacle. Rear yoke on the atlas failed after the U-joint failed. My day was over until Jeff Gehrlein mentioned he had a yoke in his jeep, just so happens to be exactly the same size and spline that I needed. THANK YOU JEFF! got moving again and headed over to Cemetery on the south property. On the way Chris Rufner. broke a front driveshaft, the bolts worked out and bent his cable shifters. We had some spare parts but unable to make repairs so his day was done. Ran cemetery and Chuck heard an odd noise, front axleshaft was failing. He had parts to replace so after another short stop we were on our way. Headed to the west property to run trail 20. I was spotting Ryan over a boulder obstacle when his fan broke and the blade severely damaged his radiator. Chris Riley tried to pinch off the channels wtihout much success, dumped in the radiator stop lead without success so I drove with him out of the park while Chris and Chuck continued down 20 to Rock Creek. Kim and Jeff headed off for something that doesn't bring so much carnage. I returned to the west property and took a shortcut down 13 and found Chuck and Chris at the intersection near otters. I stopped and let chuck go first and chris stopped to let me pull in between. I pulled out and heard a "bing" at the front drivers side. Found a long bolt that went to the steering box on teh ground. Closer inspection revealed both side bolts were busted off and the 2 bolts that go up from underneath were intact but the mount was busted mostly off the frame allowing the box to flex which caused the other bolts to break. I was wrapping a rachet strap around the steering box when Chuck said he was broke too. He lost a knuckle and the tire was laying on its side. I could still steer so just took it really easy getting out of there. Chris backed up to Chuck and used chucks winch to lift the front of the vehicle up from the top of his cage. Chris was able to drive out wtih chucks vehicle in tow like a trailer hooked to his cage. Needless to say the trails won this time. Had a blast anyway. Thanks to all who came out to play. Special thanks to Jeff for the Yoke!

Well I guess I didn't miss much. I love that you still enjoy your time even when everyone busted up there shit.

Dang... That's a lot of carnage.

thanks for the heads up for sunday bill!!

would of sucked getting up there not to see anyone

sucks that you all broke....WHENEVER I BREAK DOWN ON THE TRAIL NOW, I WON'T FEEL THAT BAD.....GUESS IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE

I had a blast.... Great to see some old faces, and great to meet some new ones.


(Oh, and Bill, even saying "Chris. R." doesn't help....!!! haha)

Mine is still in one piece sort of slight body damage from towing chuck the back of the willys is pushed in to the fuel cell. I guess that gives me a reason to cut it up & start over

I'll have you know that I sat on my couch all day Sunday and pouted like a little kid. To be honest, I probably wouldn't have made it up there till like 11 on Sunday. Wedding + Open Bar + Nick = Trouble

MonsterS10 wrote:

Mine is still in one piece sort of slight body damage from towing chuck the back of the willys is pushed in to the fuel cell. I guess that gives me a reason to cut it up & start over

Chris, I wanted to send out a huge thank you to you for coming up with the idea to keep my gas in the gas tank - I really appreciated your ingenuity, man.....thanks!!

man all that carnage and i actually wasn't involved in any form or way

all well, you have your good days and your bad days, at least these are few less things that will go wrong next time your out

md4wheelin wrote:

at least these are few less things that will go wrong next time your out

Amen - ain't that the truth!

Didn't get many pictures this time around as I decided to actually ride along for most of it...but here is what I have. I have a couple videos...will get them posted tomorrow night hopefully.

Mrs. Riley

https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=30604&id=100000928044777&l=9a934b0626

always a good time guys i had a blast! other than the rad my rig was doing great for a change so i was super happy even though it was a short day!

Wait a minute..... Nov 13th!!! That's what the problem was, why most all of us broke..... Must've been the problem.



See?!? A realistic explanation, using only unrealistic ideaology.... Good enough for me!




















Yea, okay....maybe not.