Heading out for Moab

[Kinarfi]

Heading out for Moab this morning, planning to go up Lockhart Canyon, probably tomorrow, will try to take photos and do a ride report, need a new camera.

Kinarfi

[4x4x454]

Be safe and have a great time.

[Kinarfi]

Here's 3 of my 41 photos, Had a great trip over all, the weather was perfect, the skys were clear, we left the top off of our tent so we could see the stars, only saw one satellite go over but saw a bunch of shooting stars. The only bad things Trooper wise were my left front lower ball joint fell out again and the spring separator on the left rear shock start making a lot of noise and had a real hard time getting started one morning, had to pull it to get it lit up.

First day was out to Chicken Corners and up Lockhart Trail, chose a bad line and got hung up, some motorcyclists gave me a push back down and then watched as I came up on a different line, almost ran over one of them with my left front a good two feet off the ground. That was the worst of that trail except we kept going and ended up having to get back to camp via the highway and I was traveling about 55mph for a long time and blew some oil out, had to add a quart the next day. Met my son from Logan out there, he had crashed on his motorcycle, so he stayed in camp and left for home the next day.

Second day, we went up Kane Spring Road and about half way up we checked the ball joint, looked suspicious, so I put the jack under it and heard/felt it slide back in, tightened the bolt some more and continued on. We got into the river bottom and had a great time, fun, smooth, pretty, sandy, wet, big trees, lots of tamarack. Ran into some broke down motor cyclists that I had met the day before and they had a broke bolt on the sub frame of one bike, so I gave them the pivot pin from the passenger seat because he thought it would work and they could finish their ride and when he offered to pay for it, just told him to pay it forward. That how we all survive out there. But we were worried about our son, the ball joint and tired, so we headed back to camp and lunch and head home for a doctor's appointment. Got back to camp, ate, broke down camp and headed home, my son was there and spent the night and headed home to get xrays the next day, we washed the Trooper and are resting. It was so nice down there, everything just went well.

Enjoy the pictures I attached a .gpx file, download it and drop it onto google earth, It's my whole trip all added together into one file.

[brostar]

Beautiful pictures, looks like you had a good time. How did the shocks go? I can see why you would want the best shocks possible over there with all that hard ground and rocks to deal with. I don't have a problem with the stock shocks in my terrain but if I do up grade, it will be with F-O-As.

Cheers Mike.

[Kinarfi]

Beautiful pictures, looks like you had a good time. How did the shocks go? I can see why you would want the best shocks possible over there with all that hard ground and rocks to deal with. I don't have a problem with the stock shocks in my terrain but if I do up grade, it will be with F-O-As.

Cheers Mike.

I was real happy with my shocks, on the ride from a little after getting stuck, I had the speed up quite a bit because I knew I had a long way to go and everything stayed hooked up, my says they were comfortable and says she thinks she felt the straps a few times. The right side slider between the springs started making noise though, like it was sticking and not sliding well, haven't looked at it yet.

Kinarfi

[Guest Lenny]

Your ball joint bolt needs to be big enough to get a good hold on the quarter moon cutout in the ball shank. I switched all mine to 1/2" grade 8 fine. If you drill it larger, clamp the bracket tight onto the ball shank and then drill. I also use a locknut on the back side with a lock washer. Had to releive the head of the bolt a little to get full turn.

Lenny