My son and I are scheduled to leave a week from Thursday
Are you planning on repairing this pickup, or do you have a backup vehicle? You don't have much time before your next Baja trip.
Yep, that's my biggest stress right now. I'm hoping to get my truck in the shop on Saturday.
One thing I'd like to add is that I have not done any serious wheeling in "this" truck. Primarily I have driven on dirt roads and beaches while in
Baja. Well, I guess the Vizcaino road probably is worse on a vehicle than Pole Line
My son and I are scheduled to leave a week from Thursday
Are you planning on repairing this pickup, or do you have a backup vehicle? You don't have much time before your next Baja trip.
He has a backup - my 1999 F-250 Extended cab 7.3 Powerstroke long bed 4x4 with 273,000 miles. It's the least I can do as payback for when he pulled me
out of the sand south of Pta. Eugenio years ago. Maybe that's how the frame
cracked?
Well, I guess the Vizcaino road probably is worse on a vehicle than Pole Line
Have you changed 3 tires, repaired an oil pan (using JB Weld & a bar of soap), repaired 2 rims, fixed a full-size Chevy IFS steering rack, built a
rock bridge - by throwing rocks for 1 1/2 hours (yes, I have it on video), and left your vehicle to the elements due to impassible conditions (hidden
Suzuki Samurai).
Well, I guess the Vizcaino road probably is worse on a vehicle than Pole Line
Have you changed 3 tires, repaired an oil pan (using JB Weld & a bar of soap), repaired 2 rims, fixed a full-size Chevy IFS steering rack, built a
rock bridge - by throwing rocks for 1 1/2 hours (yes, I have it on video), and left your vehicle to the elements due to impassible conditions (hidden
Suzuki Samurai).
Well, I guess the Vizcaino road probably is worse on a vehicle than Pole Line
Have you changed 3 tires, repaired an oil pan (using JB Weld & a bar of soap), repaired 2 rims, fixed a full-size Chevy IFS steering rack, built a
rock bridge - by throwing rocks for 1 1/2 hours (yes, I have it on video), and left your vehicle to the elements due to impassible conditions (hidden
Suzuki Samurai).
I guess, the Vizcaino Road is pretty challenging.
That list sounds like "Jeep Thing"!
Oil Pan - Split open on rock - brand-new Jeep Wrangler without Oil Pan Skid plate.
2 rims - Bent due to underinflation - new set of American Racing 15x8" aftermarket wheels - on my new(er) Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.
IFS Steering - On Chevy Full-size pickup
Blown BFGoodrich Tire - On Chevy Full-size pickup (patched at shoulder - driven from Laguna Salada to Phoenix direct!)
Blown BFGoodrich Tire - on Jeep YJ Wrangler
Blown BFGoodrich Tire - On Jeep TJ Wrangler
Stuck/Broken Suzuki Samurai - Suzuki Samurai
Originally posted by David K
Right, the MB and CJ-2A had split windshilds, and your MB no longer has the black-out lights, so I guessed it was the civilian Jeep with turn signals.
When I witnessed a nearly new D8R Caterpillar bulldozer almost get ripped to shreds in the midst of a pile of Mexican basalt, it renewed my opinion
that a wise individual will keep in mind a Mexican-Mother-Nature's 's sometimes churlish crankiness.
Originally posted by David K
Right, the MB and CJ-2A had split windshilds, and your MB no longer has the black-out lights, so I guessed it was the civilian Jeep with turn signals.
The only time I saw a truck actually break in half was a Toyota, right in front of my eyes. There it sat in the alley, held together by the drive
shaft. Our neighbour, the good Doctor, had to turn around and approach from the other street to get to his house, but smiling all the way. We were all
joining him, happy that the truck had not been in use for a few weeks. Sure, it was an older one, ten or twelve years old, but broken in half? I
guessed that all those coke cans just couldn't cut it (or they just did?) The tow truck arrived, winched it onto our back lawn. They returned later
in the week and gave our son 400 dollars for it. Still could be used, they said, for hunting on the back roads after some work, the drive train was
still good. So good in fact that it momentarily acted in place of the frame to keep it all in one place, I thought. There would be no Toyota truck in
my future.
Originally posted by David K
Right, the MB and CJ-2A had split windshilds, and your MB no longer has the black-out lights, so I guessed it was the civilian Jeep with turn signals.
The early civilian jeeps did not have turn signals either.
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