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Old 08-22-2012, 03:52 PM   #13
jgammill
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Re: Project: GOOBER, 1971 GMC

Had to rush it but took it on it's first wheeling trip. 03/12/2012





The next day we were tweeking on our rigs until 10am or so and then went wheeling. Got to test out my flex and tire clearance on a trail.




We headed up a hard trail and told our buddy, that is still open diffs, to go around and go up the easy trail and wait on us. Then we get a call about half way up the trail that he had rolled.



It rolled twice and landed on the small burm. Otherwise he had about another 100 feet to barrel roll down. He said it died right when he was getting to the top and he couldn't stop it rolling back. We got his spare on and drove it back to camp. The main damage was above the windshield.

After that we went back on the trails and had lunch and then it started raining on up. Wheeled all afternoon and the rain got harder and then everything got real nasty and of course we were on the back side othe the place.



The slightest side hill would send you sliding. One of the guys in our group slide off a the trail into about a 5 foot deep little creek.





It took three 15,000 lb Warn winches to get him pulled back up and out. Got it running and continued on. We couldn't even take the main road becouse it is on the side of the mountain with and is slanted just a little. We were afraid we would just slide right off. Made our way down through a creek and had some full throttle hill climbs along the way but we finally made it out a couple hours after dark. Had to leave on rig out on the trail because he didn't want to chance rolling it on the last obsticle. They went back and got it the next day when it dried up some.
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