FJ Cruisers of Northern California

Slickrock this weekend...

Update:
We will be running Deer Valley and Slickrock from north to south, camping at Sandflats. If anyone wants to go, we'll be meeting at the north trailhead of Deer Valley at 9am.

Rigs:
Saturday:
mikerd400
daPitbull
C4B
Sol
sonof40
Sunday:
sonof40 (?)
mikerd400
C4B
daPtibull
Mrs. Bozly (maybe)
DHeigher (maybe)
pkelly (maybe)
Meeting place for Saturday's Run, 9:30am:
Directions to the north trailhead of Deer Valley:
From HWY 88
Take HWY 88, 12 miles East of Kirkwood to Blue Lakes Road. Turn right on Blue Lakes Road and travel 11.5 Miles to Lower Blue Lake (The last five miles being gravel road). You will come to the PG&E caretaker’s station/campground at Lower Blue Lake, you will know this because you just drove back on to asphalt. Go to the left below the dam following the creek, there is a sign marking the trail.

Meeting place for Sunday Run.
Tamarack Cir, Arnold, CA 95223
at 9:30am. Wait around for some time and leave for Corral Hollow.

Communications:
CB 31
FRS 7/31

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by sbechtold on July 26, 2009 at 7:30am

I uploaded some pictures of the Saturday run.

http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/sbechtold/FJC/trips/2009%20Dee...

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by potatomutato on July 26, 2009 at 11:17am

nice! judging by the lighting, it looks like you guys breezed through relatively quickly.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by sbechtold on July 26, 2009 at 2:07pm

3 hours start to finish. :). We motored through at a pretty good pace.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by sbechtold on July 26, 2009 at 5:01pm

I figured out what the front end noise was... LOL! The lower knuckle bearing disintegrated.

Here is a quick video of the knuckle movement. It should NOT move at all. :)

Lower bearing cage completed destroyed...

Lower bearing caps destroyed...

All those spots are little pieces of metal I dug out of the knuckle...

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Boss73 on July 26, 2009 at 6:17pm

WOW thats like on trail adjustable camber !!! hehehehe

Thank god you had a trailer and did not have to drive it..

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by sbechtold on July 26, 2009 at 7:15pm

LOL! I figure not bad for 2 years of hard wheeling. I had this feeling I was going to need the trailer this weekend. I heard the noise last weekend wheeling and opted not to do anything about it. I've got spare bearings that I carry with me, so I should have it back together in a day or so. I might order the new 25mm Marlin bearings and caps as a quick upgrade in strength.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Boss73 on July 26, 2009 at 8:08pm

Yeah you can never go wrong with Marlin....

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by potatomutato on July 26, 2009 at 10:57pm

yowza...that's some ugly stuff. thanks for documenting it Sol!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Mikerd400 on July 26, 2009 at 9:29pm

I had a great time wheeling with everyone.

Sol, good to see you again. I'm glad you trailered up after seeing that knuckle and bearing.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by C4B_ROCKs on July 27, 2009 at 8:38am

It was nice to see everyone again and I had so much fun wheeling.

Sol, good thing you brought your trailer with you and was able to get your rig home and start working on it.
BTW. Thansk for the infor about the fender well. and once I got home on Sunday I started to worked on the front fender well and bought the water proof sellant bent that sharp area a bit more till it looked like it was ment to look like a part of the whole fender well and sprayed it..

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by 5AND5TORM on July 27, 2009 at 9:23am

looks like I missed out, glad to see you have redeemed yourself by getting your truck dirty. ;-)

what is the fender well info? pics please.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by daPitbull on July 27, 2009 at 9:30am

His 35" tires were rubbing in the fender wells and chewing the tires up a little. Sol suggested to pound in the welded seams that were causing problems and seal it with some kind of sealer.