Wolfpack Alpha - 2014 JK Build Thread

[X-plorenow]

Visited one of our favorite campsites in the North Maine Woods. Beautiful weather, great food. Saw all kinds of animals. 8 Moose, 2 Bear, tons of Deer.

 

[X-plorenow]

 

[X-plorenow]

Well, that doesn't look right...



I had been carrying this prior to the Titan Tank and had just left for now. I have been meaning to change the fuel out but hadn't gotten to it yet. Just took it off for now.

 

[M35A2]

Enjoying this thread!

 

[X-plorenow]

Enjoying this thread!

Thanks, I'm glad.

 

[X-plorenow]

We hit the woods again a few days ago and had a great day. Had to move this tree, we had to see what was on the other side of course! Could have used the winch but just used a tow strap on one of the front D-Rings. Moved like cake.



Our dogs wanted to help out.

 

[X-plorenow]

Once cleared, the road led to a cool water crossing. Pretty deep one at that.

 

[X-plorenow]

The road was a dead-end but ended at a beautiful remote lake.



We obviously were not the only ones who were enjoying the area:

 

[X-plorenow]

Well that went to crap really quick. We were out this weekend about two hours from the house and about 3/4 mile in the woods when I thought I got a flat. Got out and it was much worse. The rear driver side wheel was leaning in, hanging on by one lug nut. You read that right.



Sheered almost all of the lugs off. These aren't cheap spacers, they are Spidertrax, supposedly the best.



And it tore the heck out of the stock rim:





Luckily since it was just the spacer I was able to remove it and put the spare on directly without the spacer. I lost all of the lug nuts, even the one still on was ruined. I used a combo of the spare lugs and the nuts that were used to hold on the spacer. While it rubbed a little it got us home.

Scared the hell out of me. I was happy at least that we were going relatively slowly. We go pretty remote, there are a lot of open spaces in Maine. If this happened some of the places we go and if I didn't have a solution we would be screwed.

Not sure what I am going to do yet to fix it. Stay tuned.

 

[X-plorenow]

The solution is on the way:



No more spacers...

 

[F800]

Sweet build so far! I'm happy to follow along

 

[X-plorenow]

Sweet build so far! I'm happy to follow along

Thanks, I appreciate it!

 

[stephenbd]

Nice thread. We'll be heading up to the North Maine woods again soon. I live in Maine, what are some of your favorite off road spots?

 

[X-plorenow]

Nice thread. We'll be heading up to the North Maine woods again soon. I live in Maine, what are some of your favorite off-road spots?

Hey, you have a lot of options! You can't go wrong with anywhere in the North Maine Woods. Some of it is more logging roads than good trails but the whole area is stunning.

One of our favorite areas is North of Jackman up 201. Both sides of the road really, but if you had to choose start on the right.

Rt 150 up the hill from Athens all the way until Parkman is really good too. Some of the roads are bigger from the wind farms but get off those and you will find some great trails.

We will be sharing our GPS files soon so stay tuned.

Have fun!

 

[X-plorenow]

A ton to update, will share some build updates shortly. In the meantime we had a great time up by the Canadian border this weekend. We were so close it looked like we were straddling the line in GPS.

There were some interesting times. We went down a sketchy logging road and crossed an even sketchier bridge.



I mean really sketchy, logs not secured down and moving everywhere.




So Sketchy my wife was happy to get out and take the pictures . The only good news was it wasn't that high at all.