nad
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I'm dumb, I realized that 2 seconds after I pressed Post. That's why I edited it 
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Stupid blazer left me stranded.
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Yes fuel injection is wonderful, even TBI, which is what I have. Look for a donor vehicle and buy the whole thing.
I bought a 93 sub and traded the remains for labor on the swap and bought a wiring harness computer etc.
I love it!!!
I bought a 93 sub and traded the remains for labor on the swap and bought a wiring harness computer etc.
I love it!!!
Warning!!!!! Hi Jack
What I am saying I have heard the road is narrow and I am worried I will F up and go over edge. I think I can do the switch backs ok but the steps is what has me worried.
I know they run the tourist jeep limo thing over it but still have heard it is bad.
The area past the stamping mill where it goes down looks rough.
Hi jack off!
What I am saying I have heard the road is narrow and I am worried I will F up and go over edge. I think I can do the switch backs ok but the steps is what has me worried.
I know they run the tourist jeep limo thing over it but still have heard it is bad.
The area past the stamping mill where it goes down looks rough.
Hi jack off!
nad
1/2 ton status
That's how all the roads are around here. That's why my Jimmy just sits, I'm scared to death driving on those narrow, hilly, curvy roads, especially at night.
adamforsythe
1/2 ton status
Anyone have pics of this road?
lak2004
1/2 ton status
Yea I have heard of people screwing up and going over the edge=dead. I dont really like driving on that stuff either, I always worry about going down though the most just because of brakes and steering. Even Carnage Canyon outside of Boulder is a little nerve racking to drive down the switchbacks to leave the trail.
Hi Jack
Fatal Accident in the summer of 2004
A vacationing couple from Missouri was killed Tuesday evening when their Jeep slipped off Black Bear Pass and rolled more than 900 feet down a steep slope. Both were pronounced dead at the scene at 7 p.m., according to a report from the Colorado State Patrol. Westcott said the first call about the accident came into the Sheriff's Office a little after 4 p.m. from another driver on the road who had seen the Jeep roll by in his rearview mirror.
The victims of Saint Peters, Mo., slid off Black Bear Pass road while taking a left hand turn on one of the switchbacks above the top of falls at about 4:15 p.m., police said. The couple was descending the steep mountain road in a soft-top Jeep Wrangler when the accident occurred. Neither was wearing a seatbelt and both were eventually ejected from the vehicle, suffering multiple traumatic head and chest injuries, according to a report from county coroner Bob Dempsey. The Jeep came to rest, on its roof and back on the road approximately 930 feet down the hill, according to police and coroner's reports. The Jeep was "totally crushed," according to Dempsey's report.
Though Black Bear Pass road is in places exceedingly steep and narrow, especially in a pitched rock section above Ingram Falls referred to as "The Stairs," fatal car accidents on it are rare, and there has not been a fatality in recent memory, police said.
This was a real tight switchback just below the very narrow ledge with a shear drop-off.
One of the switch backs
Now that makes me feel better seeing those behemoths on it.
Fatal Accident in the summer of 2004
A vacationing couple from Missouri was killed Tuesday evening when their Jeep slipped off Black Bear Pass and rolled more than 900 feet down a steep slope. Both were pronounced dead at the scene at 7 p.m., according to a report from the Colorado State Patrol. Westcott said the first call about the accident came into the Sheriff's Office a little after 4 p.m. from another driver on the road who had seen the Jeep roll by in his rearview mirror.
The victims of Saint Peters, Mo., slid off Black Bear Pass road while taking a left hand turn on one of the switchbacks above the top of falls at about 4:15 p.m., police said. The couple was descending the steep mountain road in a soft-top Jeep Wrangler when the accident occurred. Neither was wearing a seatbelt and both were eventually ejected from the vehicle, suffering multiple traumatic head and chest injuries, according to a report from county coroner Bob Dempsey. The Jeep came to rest, on its roof and back on the road approximately 930 feet down the hill, according to police and coroner's reports. The Jeep was "totally crushed," according to Dempsey's report.
Though Black Bear Pass road is in places exceedingly steep and narrow, especially in a pitched rock section above Ingram Falls referred to as "The Stairs," fatal car accidents on it are rare, and there has not been a fatality in recent memory, police said.
This was a real tight switchback just below the very narrow ledge with a shear drop-off.
One of the switch backs
Now that makes me feel better seeing those behemoths on it.
lak2004
1/2 ton status
That is a little more reassuring.
SRLRacing
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I have never seen anything quite like that...
There is a song by C.W. McCall about the road.
Me an' R.J. an' the kids was on a camp out in the mountains, an' we had us one a' them U-Drive-'Em Army Jeep cars which we had rented from a fella by the name a' Kuboske for thirty bucks a day, buy yer gas along the way, take a rabbit's foot, an' leave a pint a' blood for a deeposit
An' he'd 'splained it all to us how we's 'sposed to git to Telluride, which was fifty miles away by way of the regular highway, however there was a short-cut, BUT, unless we had drove the Black Bear Road before, we'd be, well, we'd be better off to stay in bed an' sleep late (now pay no 'ttention to the guitar there)
Well we took up off'n th' highway, an we come upon a sign sez "Black Bear Road - You Don't Have To Be Crazy To Drive This Road, But It Helps", I sez to, R.J. this must be the short cut road Kuboske's a talkin' about. She didn't pay no mind 'cause she's busy makin peanut butter sanwiches for the kids in the back seat, throwin' rocks, an' drinkin' KoolAid, an' playing "Count The License Plates On Cars", but they wasn't a havin' too much fun playin' Count The License Plates On Cars, well 'cause there wern't no other cars
Went about a mile an' a half, in about four hours, busted off the right front fender, an' tore a hole in the oil pan on a rock as big as a hall closet, went over a bump an' spilt the Kool-Aid, an' Roy Gene stuck his bolo knife right through the convertible top, an' the dog threw up all over the back seat (peanut butter don't agree with him see)
So we had to stop, an' take off the top, an' air everything out, an' clean it up. The dog run off, an' R.J. sez she felt her asthma comin' on. I's settin' there wonderin' what to do, when the en-tire scenic San-Gee-Juan U-Drive-'Em Army Jeep Car sank in the mud (at thirteen thousand feet above sea level!)
Well we shoveled it out, an' ate our lunch, the dog made a yellow hole in the snow, an' Roy Gene got out his Instamatic an' took a snapshot of it. Mary Elizabeth drawed a picture of the road. It looked like a whole bunch of Zs an' Ws all strung together, an' R.J. took one look at that picture, and said the only way she's goin' down that Jeep car road 'was over her dead body, an' then a rock slipped out from under the wheel, and the U-Drive-'Em Army Jeep Car, well it went right over, right over the edge of a cliff (Whah-Haa-Haa-Haa-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo)
Doggonit Roy Gene, when I tell ya to put a rock under the wheel, I mean ROCK, now look at that what you had there ain't no bigger then a grapefruit !
SRLRacing
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I have to drive that some day. It looks like one of those drives you would never forget.
lak2004
1/2 ton status
Yea good pucker factor! I got nervous over Kingston Peak: http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=14
There was only one section that was a little shady and the rest was easy as hell. Just a fun trail though.
There was only one section that was a little shady and the rest was easy as hell. Just a fun trail though.
Check this for pucker factor Alaskan style
http://alaska4x4network.com/showthread.php?t=33108
http://alaska4x4network.com/showthread.php?t=33108
lak2004
1/2 ton status
Wow, when I get up there I will have to try some of that. hopefully I will having my diesel swap done so I can drive my blazer there 
