robert97dodge
1/2 ton status
Well we just got back from the superlift park a couple hours ago. This was the first real big run for the truck and I got to wheel it on a few good trails and I ended up limping to the parking lot and loading it up on the trailer about 3/4 of the way through the first day. First off the new wheels and tires I bought a couple weeks ago. The wheels did great had no problems but the tires are junk and started falling apart. The right rear is the worst. It started just splitting and eventually chunks just started falling off the sidewall. The eventually the whole tread seperated. This happened as I got about half way up ingrids revenge. A tough 5 diamond. I got on the first big obstacle on ingrids revend which is just a big slap that is pretty steep. I hit the right side which is the steepest part. My front link bar got pulled forward again and the shackle folded over and broke the front link bar. I had already went on some other trails and came up some steep hills so I thought that making it 3" long was the fix for it. Of course when the shackle folded over it pulled the front driveshaft apart. Also right before the front driveshaft pulled apart my rear window shattered!! I had tried to hammer up the hill a couple times and I came to a complete stop. When I put it in reverse that is when the rear window shattered. I had hit a tree and smashed to side of the cab a bit so I am thinking it was just in a bind and that cause it to shatter. Anyways we still ended up having a great time!! Hit lots of 4-5 diamond trails and we ended up going about 30 miles between 2 days.
We had 5 rigs and on the suburban we bent a front leaf spring and lower u-bolt plate on the left side of the front axle. The blue jeep had one small problem with a bolt on the t-case causing it to leak and the black jeep had no problems at all and he followed us everywhere we went. The camo blazer with the orange roll cage had the crossmemeber under the motor bend and got into the harmonic balancer AGAIN!! So we got the fixed. Then the 2nd day of wheeling we was gonna hit one more 5 diamond trail and we noticed the right front wheel BROKE!! He bought them last year and they are supposed to USA6X6 internal beadlock wheels. Now to the pics.
New stickers put on the days before. They didnt last long.
We didnt get any pics on the trails so here are the after pics.
Was coming up a hill after everyone else did and it was wet and got slick. Had to hammer on it pretty good and everytime I would the truck would slid into a tree on the driver side and managed to bend my spot light so now it dont flip up any more.
Whats left of the tire.
We had 5 rigs and on the suburban we bent a front leaf spring and lower u-bolt plate on the left side of the front axle. The blue jeep had one small problem with a bolt on the t-case causing it to leak and the black jeep had no problems at all and he followed us everywhere we went. The camo blazer with the orange roll cage had the crossmemeber under the motor bend and got into the harmonic balancer AGAIN!! So we got the fixed. Then the 2nd day of wheeling we was gonna hit one more 5 diamond trail and we noticed the right front wheel BROKE!! He bought them last year and they are supposed to USA6X6 internal beadlock wheels. Now to the pics.
New stickers put on the days before. They didnt last long.
We didnt get any pics on the trails so here are the after pics.
Was coming up a hill after everyone else did and it was wet and got slick. Had to hammer on it pretty good and everytime I would the truck would slid into a tree on the driver side and managed to bend my spot light so now it dont flip up any more.
Whats left of the tire.
