Saturday:
Loaded up woman and dog, drove across the dam to arizona, went down kingman wash road to go to the lake.
Was gray on the way down to the water. a few sprinkles on the windshield. great....
Didnt see another soul on the whole trip in, and with the weather I figured we'd have the place to ourselves like every other time i had gone down there. Yeah. right!
Anyway, sun came out, had a nice afternoon and got sunburnt.
Ammo can speakers rockin' out
Grill, PBR, good cigar, my jeep, my woman and my dog...dont mind the half million dollar RV in the background.
So, Sunday, I just drove it a bunch. Flash forward to Monday. My woman's sister just bought a 2004 rubicon from a friend of mine. wanted to go wheelin. I told her we could go up Rocky Gap rd from inside of Red Rock NCA. I hadnt been up there in a few years, but it is a mild trail. Or maybe it was a few years ago. It was WAY more washed out and off camber than I remembered.
Anyway, my old iron lead the way up and back down the 5 mile trail.
Red Rock:
oooooooo! Risk!
gets fairly narrow....climbing up to 6500'
pause for a selfie....
Some photo's from behind:
My jeep did stall out once on some fairly off camber and bouncy stuff. Other than that, on the trail itself, well, there wasnt too much trouble.....but....... there were a few things.
1. My mostly broken battery tie down fully broke.
This made the battery shift while I was bouncing around and pulled the power lead to my accessory breakers. Well, one of the accessories on those breakers would be my fuel pump. kinda need that. Fixed it right there, i noticed it while we were having lunch.
2. On the way down, I realized my steering was weird. sloppy as hell. wheel had to be turned like 90* to go straight. heard some clunking. waited until i got down the trail. went under the truck pulled on everything and it was all solid. noticed some leaking brake fluid though. Seems like a bunch of the fluid from the front reservoir flooded into the rear one? Not sure.
3. After that, I drove about half a mile and was all "this isnt right!" steering was allllll over the place. as i was slowing down to stop, I heard a "pop" and my brake pedal went almost to the floor. DAMMIT!?!?! Rear wheel cylinder popped and bled out all the fluid.
Go back and look at the front. realize a bolt is missing from my steering box mount. DAMMIT! Limped my *** home doing like 35, stopping entirely on the front brakes, trying my damnedest to drive in a straight line. Got home alright but took a while.
I fixed the steering the minute i got home, new bolt and tightened up the other two. in hind sight those must have been loose for a good bit because i recall having a slight shimmy at 60mph for the past few weeks, just figured i threw a wheel weight or something.
Anyway. That was an interesting trip, and the trail was a hell of a lot worse condition than I remember it being. Some parts were still just a crummy dirt road but other parts were all washed out and rocky.
Anyway....phew. long hot day.
All's well that ends well I suppose. Just some minor repairs needed and i dopnt think the brake cylinder had anything to do specifically with the trail. I guess I should just be glad everything fell apart as soon as i finished my jeepin' for the weekend haha.