I wish I had brought the Prius Nak said could make it because it only got worse from here. When your spotter says to stop posing and drive out out it....then comes running down the hill to grab the bumper.... that's funny
I wish I had brought the Prius Nak said could make it because it only got worse from here. When your spotter says to stop posing and drive out out it....then comes running down the hill to grab the bumper.... that's funny
Oh, THAT'S the 'wheel stand spot' they were talking about coming down. I came up the hill late, just before you came up Kevin, and I don't remember doing anything like that. Maybe I took a different line being that it was dark. Or it's possible that IFS without sway bars flexes some place between a solid axle with and without. Shrug.Nice IFS flex!
Just as a FYI to those not at the repair, the 40 ended up in a stable enough spot that happened to be about, what, 15% grade pointed up hill, would you say UB? So the decision was that it seemed safe enough even if not ideal. There was a flat spot that we'd scoped out that people were using to turn around and would have been a better spot to wrench. But that would have meant fighting the ice down another 500 feet downhill and we'd already seen the 40 slide uncontrolled once about 50 feet into another tree. So while hindsight is on UB's side right now, dealing with a pinion that wanted to jam the diff, the ice and winching him down made the decision a lot less obvious at the time. I think a lot of us learned a lot, like for me what to do if you break a pinion gear. Never been at the scene during a pinion fix, just seen the tail end of one being fixed. I would say this is one place where a mini axle has an advantage over the rear axle of a Cruiser. You are not tempted to short cut and work through the inspection cover, there is no question that you pull the diff...What made this such a PITA was gravity! Having the truck at such a steep angle and having a spring over setup with the pinion rotated up made putting it back together tough as nothing would stay in place so the caps could get put back in. I made a bad call by saying "Lets fix it right here." Just too many negative factors to deal with made it time consuming trail fix ending in lousy repair. Hey, I'm still learning!
Just as a FYI to those not at the repair, the 40 ended up in a stable enough spot that happened to be about, what, 15% grade pointed up hill, would you say UB? So the decision was that it seemed safe enough even if not ideal. There was a flat spot that we'd scoped out that people were using to turn around and would have been a better spot to wrench. But that would have meant fighting the ice down another 500 feet downhill and we'd already seen the 40 slide uncontrolled once about 50 feet into another tree. So while hindsight is on UB's side right now, dealing with a pinion that wanted to jam the diff, the ice and winching him down made the decision a lot less obvious at the time. I think a lot of us learned a lot, like for me what to do if you break a pinion gear. Never been at the scene during a pinion fix, just seen the tail end of one being fixed. I would say this is one place where a mini axle has an advantage over the rear axle of a Cruiser. You are not tempted to short cut and work through the inspection cover, there is no question that you pull the diff...
I would say this is one place where a mini axle has an advantage over the rear axle of a Cruiser. You are not tempted to short cut and work through the inspection cover, there is no question that you pull the diff...
Yeah, I went to the right at that spot. Subzali said the left was harder, probably because of the hole, since the right was not really that much different. Just less flex required I think.Hole....
