Working in the cold and wet snow sucks! Too bad Brian’s Jeep was too tall to fit in my garage.
Nope, not enough room
Guess we will work on it like that……the heater doesn’t work well with the door open
Detroit locker in
Brian cutting the new plate to cover up where the vacuum disconnect motor used to be
my jeep got to park out in the snow all morning
Well, after waking up to the crappy weather this morning, I almost considered not going wheeling today. Thankfully I didn’t, because Joe and I had an awesome time today at The Badlands. The weather cleared up shortly after getting there, and the temp was in the 40’s and pretty nice.
We spent plenty of time on the rocks, which is always good. I also finally made it up Rock Face, which I have been trying for over a year to make!
Here’s some pics.
Rainy weather when we arrived (we had the whole park to ourselves most of the day)
grind. grind.
tires spinning on Rock Face
Something missing?
There it is (yes, I finished Dirty Steve’s Revenge with only one coil and didn’t notice….but neither did Joe!)
Flexed up to reinstall the coil
Joe even got pictures of me finishing the trail without the coil, and neither of us noticed. My Jeep drives pretty good with only one coil 
Plenty more pictures here:
http://myxj.net/g2/v/2007_Trips/badlands11407/
….and here:
http://myxj.net/g2/v/2007_Trips/badlands11407/joez/
Enjoy.
My new control arm angles sure improved the performance….especially at speed.
Overall, I was happy with how the front suspension performed yesterday 
Well, I managed to get my rig driveable in time for NYD and met up with Zach and Brian (and a couple others) at the Badlands today to ring in the new year properly.
It was a nice and cold rainy day…..so I didn’t get too many pics. Plus we had a bit of breakage that kept us busy.
Zach
My new bumper and axle 
Brian
unfortunately Brian’s day ended early when his steering arm sheered off
so his tie rod was moved down so he could get it back to his trailer (though, severly toed in)
then a bit of wheeling
then some more breakage
….and Brian staying warm…….my heater does still work
More here:
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