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Here are a few: Sandstone Cyn Anza Mar/2018 m4v turnaround at Sandstone Cyn: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0j10uxr4sn8jrx/end Sandstone Cyn Anza.m4v?dl=0 mogols going up the Diablo dropoff, Anza: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xg1lwe92448ry7z/Mogols at great sand hill Anza.m4v?dl=0 10K pound Truck...

It will buff out; just may take a little longer. My CJ-8 after attempting to descend the waterfall on Jackhammer. This roll took out the fender, hood, radiator, and windshield all in one slow, agonizing diagonal endo: You can see Frank (in the white t-shirt) coming down with the winch hook from...

If you have a vehicle with a winch and other recovery tools you wind up helping others' out of their mess 95% of the time compare to self extraction. The longer I live the less I want to get involved in others' follies, now mostly because of the current litigious nature of society and the...

s.e., I still like your style. If i ever meet you on the dunes, or up to your eyeballs in goo, I'm all in. You hit on one of my favorite homemade sayings: "We know what we know. We don't know what we don't know. However, we don't know that we don't know what we don't know." Camp at 11p.m. in a...

Jack, I like your very lean and hungry set up. No frills, no folley, no worries, mate. It's a short trip to the outside from your exhaust manifold to the street and out of the way. I have the 4 inch Magnaflow exhaust on my XTC exiting just behind the rear mud guard and the backwash makes the...

My experience has been a good one with the factory 1998 Lance Dometic ammonia transfer/ absorption 3-way fridge. We initially used 12v while traveling as the propane part would not stay lit above 50 mph, and immediately switched over to propane when landing for the night. You only make the...

Bags are the answer. They compress down to take less space and don't rattle. The longer I do off-roading, the fewer tools I take. It boils down to experience and circumstances. Most people take way too many tools for the occasion, mostly because they don't know what they will really need and...

I remember much of this when it was printed in 4WD magazines like Four Wheeler, Off-road, and Pickup, Van, and 4WD. Dan, good to see you are still here. One story told to me by ******** Cepek was that he and another 4WD entrepreneur raced the 1967 Baja 1000 with Jeep factory support in a brand new...

Some care is needed in using the term, "locker". Most of the rigs above have limited slip diffs, traction control (where brake pressure is automatically put to the spinning wheel engaging the one not spinning) or a hybrid version. The good news is L.S. diffs have come a long way in the past...

Two frames back I posted a pic of our docilemobile. Here is some action on a fairly actionless thread going up the Diablo Dropoff in Anza, a 300 foot blow sand hill with moguls near the top carved by folks without lockers. My bro John, JR, filmed most of the action. Some particulars: 35 inch...

Layover in OR after camping on the center line of the total eclipse of the sun in eastern OR. Rumor had it that fuel would be scarce so I loaded 3 cans on the rack. Never used any of them. jefe

Tanuki, You are correct for your situation. The best way to gain experience is to jump right in; deal with the consequences of your own mistakes or misjudgements; and make adjustments to your plan. Someone else's experience rarely sticks. Take the time we were trying to get to Monache Meadows in...

Good topic with excellent posts. In addition to what David13 has so eloquently pointed out is how far out in Terra Incognita are you willing or able to get. For folks who have never been a hard core 4WD-er, I don't even recommend 4WD on an "Expedition type traveling vehicle". You don't have the...

Moab, You are preaching to the choir about the upsides of the CJ-8. It was a great platform....as a start. If you are going to do this, (purposely for you in Helldorado Canyon, Moab) or this: At these angles there is no way to keep the BDB carb running, let alone have the wimpy T-4 or T-5...

Packed up and ready to go: Nothing bolted to, strapped down, or hanging outside except the entry ladder. Adequate approach angle, breakover angle, and departure angle. Ready for a 2-week.... or 2-year trip to terra incognita in any season; any weather; over just about any road surface ( or lack...

No pissing here either. No harm; no foul. After 13, 4WD's driven over 1.5 million miles, and about at the end of my off-roading, I wish I could have found a way to have a Cummins 2.8L TD in one of my rigs. My only two diesel 4-bys were the Dodge RAM 5.9L HO Cummins you see in my sig and a total...

ToyLC, If you read more closely, the mill is bored out .060", the built for torque cam timing was advanced to lower the rpm's to achieve peak torque and MPI fuel injection and a higher compression, better breathing 4L head made this 4.4L engine a total winner of an engine. The upshot of that was...

I'd never heard of the J8 either. CJ-8 and CJ-10, yes. This has a tinge of cultural appropriation. I owned and built street legal CJ-8, 30 years ago and counting, which had many of the J8's upgrade elements. Having built less than 26K units between 1981 and 1985 the Scrambler as it was known...

S.E., I did that too the first miserable year here, but burning green or unseasoned wood takes too much of it's own heat to burn itself causing a lot of soot in the flue and producing very little actual heat. This sounds too much like the Donner Party to me. I can see why you gave up on wood...

RegCab, I hear you about the block and spring stack height. This was a woe on several smaller 4WD's I had done SOA jobs on, solved with anti-wrap bars, but the Dodge Gen II blocks and leaves seem to be a lot less bendy in comparison. I think it's the thickness of the actual pack and bottom...