Blazer Bash 2011 safety inspections

[miniwally]

yes factory top or roll bar, heck my CB works great, cant ever hear anybody on it but it works

At least you have a CB

Last year after I left you to go get the oil filter I was stopped by a very nice older couple and they asked me to radio ahead to their other vehicles with my CB to let them know they were just doing a bathroom break or something silly. When i responded that I didn't have a CB they just looked at me really weird like, then I remembered that the Race radio had the mike on it so I could talk with the other guys from ORD that had the race radios.

It was hard to explain to them that I had a radio but it wasn't a CB.

 

[Russell]

Thats why I carry FRS radios, a CB radio, commercial radio for open VHF bands as well as a 2m / 70cm dual band VHF/UHF HAM radio. Only confusion I have is knowing which radio whomever is calling me is on and which mike belongs to which radio :

 

[blazinzuk]

Factory hardtop Shawn you are good man. Unless you cut the cab off today

The roll cage requirement puts me out.

 

[blazinzuk]

I was asked a question today about tow points.

Question was if a bumper was a viable option to be a tow point. If you have any type of factory bumper absolutely not. With a tube bumper the 2 problems you run into are one the strap will move around and in some recoverys this can lead to very bad things. In addition alot of times in a recovery you may not be able to put the strap on your bumper because of where you are. I realize this holds true with some tow points, especially the factory tow hooks but bumpers are a very common item that is damaged in a rollover or a flop or any number of off road accidents. The factory tow hooks usually survive such things fairly well

In addition in a lot of situations you may need to be winched. Looping a winch cable around a bumper will lead to damaged cable if you are running steel cable. Winch cables are designed to be hooked to something other than themselves. Adding a tree saver strap or a tow strap to the winching can work sometimes but just introduces another breaking point.

Using straps sometimes just simply doesn't work because of the distance between the vehicle winching and the vehicle being winched, a 20 foot recovery strap will stretch to well over 20 ft when it is being pulled on.

So please get a hook or shackle mount or something that we can actually hook too, not loop something around for your tow point.

 

[mtnman]

Short answer, NO.

Wade has the story about as correct as it gets. I have not seen, nor experienced one single pitman arm issue at BB or anywhere that I can recall.

I think it really was one set of guys personal crusade one year. Not saying it was wrong but could have been approached way different.

I for one would be pissed if someone started checking torque on fastners on my vehicle without my consent.

We got consent from everyone......and it was all because we found ours loose, both had been torqued properly with Snap-on torque wrenches. I did not think that it would cause an "issue" but rather make everyone's steering feel tighter. We had the tools, the time, and the willingness to to walk through camp and do the work