ride this weekend?

Hello All,

 

We are new to all of this and just have a few questions. We made our first meeting in Febuary and are hoping to make our first ride  this weekend.  About the ride   this weekend.... Can we choose what day we ride or do we have to attend both days? Also where do you guys meet up at?? If there is anything else that would help us out such as info.. please feel free to share it.

 

Hubble and Shannon

Oh, geez, another possible member of the "yellow Jeep" subcommittee.........

alabamatoy wrote: Oh, geez, another possible member of the "yellow Jeep" subcommittee.........

One of the yeller ones was pretty brown last time I saw it Seriously though you yota guys need some more members. Would be scary if you converted on us. Not many ford guys or anything else. Maybe a chebby or 2?


Edited by Tex62 - 17 February 2009 at 3:14pm

Drake wrote: How 'bout a few more nissans?  I'm all alone out here!    Am I right in assuming that we have to attend the meetings before we are allowed on a club run?  It's fine if so but I'm getting an itch for some trails and all of my wheelin' buddies either blew a head gasket, don't want to damage their rig or they live in Tennessee.

Sorry man aint met you yet . I think you are good to come at anytime there is a ride !

scoutman wrote: If the ride is to our property we'll probably at least want to meet you first or as long as some member can vouch for you.  Nothing formal, just want to make sure we're not hauling some hooligan around.      I'm interested to see how that Nissan of yours does in the rocks.

Drake wrote: How 'bout a few more nissans?  I'm all alone out here!    Am I right in assuming that we have to attend the meetings before we are allowed on a club run?  It's fine if so but I'm getting an itch for some trails and all of my wheelin' buddies either blew a head gasket, don't want to damage their rig or they live in Tennessee.

Drake wrote: That's totally understandable and respectable actually.  I was hoping to catch the February meeting but had so many family birthdays that week that I couldn't make it.  Definitely planning to make it to the March one though.   As for my Nissan handling rocks, it does about as well as can be expected from an IFS with open-diffs.  It has a factory LSD in the rear but the torque-break is so low it's literally non-existent.  Although since getting my new 33's, I really haven't had a chance to test it on much rock.  Mostly the muddy and rocky trails up at Coal Creek is all it has seen.  It was so dry at Mountainside the last time I went, I ended up folding two tie-rods and blowing an auto-hub.  Never thought too much traction was a bad thing. lol

Thats the exact reason we stopped wheeling our hardbody and got my Cherokee.  Too may tie rods and idler arms replaced in fields an a couple tows home. The solid axle on the cherokee is so much nicer.

Kyle

I've got a similar video myself that was shot on Tombstone at Mountainside ORP.  Although I didn't keep pushing it after I felt the tie-rod let go.

 

My bad... when I typed that I hadn't had my morning coffee yet.  I meant spending a grand on a new steering setup if it's only going to be in it a few years before I replace it along with the IFS when I SAS it.  The heim-joint steering made by Total Chaos costs around $1000.  Everybody I've talked to and seen with an SAS on an xterra has a different setup.  Calmini makes an SAS kit that runs around $2K not including the front axle but most guys do a fully custom setup replacing both axles with D44's and D60's because of the lack of availability of lockers and gearing for the H233B axle.  It's a left-hand diff and the gearing varies.  I can't remember exactly but I think my buddy went to a 5.38 or somewhere in that range.  He's running full-width D44 in the front and a full-width D60 in the rear. 

Edited by Drake - 19 February 2009 at 3:04am