Trailtoy1993
Well-Known Member
Howdy Y'all! Well after a lazy few days I am getting round to posting some of my adventure to the Rubicon and parts down south!
We drove down rather leisurely on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning and found ourselves a camp spot in Loon Lake Campground. After settling in we headed to the trailhead on Thursday morning
only to discover that the charging system, wasn't!
After getting a jump and a little charge up from the owner of this super clean cruiser and his son
we drove back down to Placerville to get a new alternator. (Beware, Placerville Napa is a crooked outfit, more on this later) Bought a new alt. that was not the same as the old one, modified the mount to fit new allternator and I still was not charging!!!! I discovered then that a certain power-window-module-removal-operation, had all of the plugs unplugged from the fuse box! Damn alternator was fine and the crooked bastards at Napa "tested" (out of my sight, mind you) my old one and sold me a new one even though mine was fine!!!!! :wtf:
Oh well, we made it out on to the trail on Saturday with some of these fine gentlemen
and proceded to wheel the 'Con!
First real obstacle we came to (the gatekeeper is now rather mild) the locals called kitchen sink.
They seemed to be having quite the hard time with it and quite frankly I couldn't figure out why! I will post a pic of me on it soon and tell you a little story about kitchen sink, don't let me forget!
The next up was the "Little Sluice" very famous and rightfully so these rocks are only slightly smaller than a Samurai!!!!
Another view, looking down the "box" (note all the rigs taking the bypass )
Everyone kept asking me if I was going to do the "sluice" and I kept answering "I didn't drive 800 miles to not do the most famous section of the most famous trail!"
Hmm, minor problem, found the one slippery rock on the whole trail! :redneck: No big, turn the wheel and back out onto tires!
and the exit
Note angle of hood and axle to dude standing vertical, I am leaned way over here with my front end almost perpendicular! "Please don't eat me Mr. Rock!!!" :haha: the sluice is definately worth it!
I got alot more to go but gotta get them uploaded and stuff including juicy stuff about the "fourwheelerTV" crew, me being a rock star, motorbikes, etc., etc.
More to come........!
We drove down rather leisurely on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning and found ourselves a camp spot in Loon Lake Campground. After settling in we headed to the trailhead on Thursday morning
only to discover that the charging system, wasn't!
After getting a jump and a little charge up from the owner of this super clean cruiser and his son
we drove back down to Placerville to get a new alternator. (Beware, Placerville Napa is a crooked outfit, more on this later) Bought a new alt. that was not the same as the old one, modified the mount to fit new allternator and I still was not charging!!!!
I discovered then that a certain power-window-module-removal-operation, had all of the plugs unplugged from the fuse box! Damn alternator was fine and the crooked bastards at Napa "tested" (out of my sight, mind you) my old one and sold me a new one even though mine was fine!!!!! :wtf: Oh well, we made it out on to the trail on Saturday with some of these fine gentlemen
and proceded to wheel the 'Con!
First real obstacle we came to (the gatekeeper is now rather mild) the locals called kitchen sink.
They seemed to be having quite the hard time with it and quite frankly I couldn't figure out why! I will post a pic of me on it soon and tell you a little story about kitchen sink, don't let me forget!
The next up was the "Little Sluice" very famous and rightfully so these rocks are only slightly smaller than a Samurai!!!!
Another view, looking down the "box" (note all the rigs taking the bypass
)
Everyone kept asking me if I was going to do the "sluice" and I kept answering "I didn't drive 800 miles to not do the most famous section of the most famous trail!"
Hmm, minor problem, found the one slippery rock on the whole trail! :redneck: No big, turn the wheel and back out onto tires!
and the exit
Note angle of hood and axle to dude standing vertical, I am leaned way over here with my front end almost perpendicular! "Please don't eat me Mr. Rock!!!" :haha: the sluice is definately worth it!
I got alot more to go but gotta get them uploaded and stuff including juicy stuff about the "fourwheelerTV" crew, me being a rock star, motorbikes, etc., etc.
More to come........!
