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Did you go in from the New Idira side or the hwy 25 side? There are gates on both sides into Clear Creek area... But from New Idira side you can explore a lot more before you run into the gates. I think I put a link on the first page for info on all the permits and stuff, and how to get the...

Happy New Year everyone!

It depends on where you wheel and what type of trails you end up doing. We've scrapped sides of our pre-runner out on some trails in Death Valley and the sliders on my jeep get extensive use.

Ah, gotcha. I bet some of the darkness in there is clutch plate lining, too. The G80 has been holding up well in ours, but the unpredictable nature of it has been kind of a challenge to deal with. Because of that, we'll go to truetrac or a Detroit locker at some point...

I've had a few sets of Wildpeak AT3's. First set (285/75r16)has almost 70k and is on our 2wd pre-runner and the second set (315/70r17) has been on my JKU for a couple years now with 40k on them and great tread depth still. The only minor issues I've had with these traction wise, has been on...

Is yours open or do you have a G80 in it? I can't tell from photos and I haven't had any coffee yet, LOL. I've been dreading opening up the diff on our '03 Sierra, but I need to change the fluid in it and I need to inspect the clutch plates in it.

Checking suspension torques and bushing integrity frequently is a pretty overlooked aspect of maintenance for modified 4x4's... Its a checklist item that i go do when I do my oil changes.

YES! Handmade wooden boats! I built a 12' stich-and-glue kayak over the summer and I've been thinking about having a go at making a cedar strip OC1 (one person outrigger canoe!) sometime... Its a different beast than what you'd normally find in lakes, but I've put a bunch of years in as a...

Front end again... The pinion bearings lost preload due to the crush sleeve failing, so I got to open it back up, and re-setup the gears. The upside is I got to install the fixed size preload spacer and shims that showed up MONTHS after I ordered them, and I could torque the pinion to an...

This is a fantistic point a lot of folks miss, I feel. The passenger side of jeeps tends to attract stuff right over the airbag...

Pelican all the way, they're a lot of money but worth it imo. We mostly use them for shipping and transit of spaceflight hardware at the day job, but they hold up in the field and we've very rarely had issues, even when throwing them out of airplanes. The Roam boxes are nice, but as others are...

Yeah... Its been an total cluster for as long as I remember here...

I was trying to avoid going *there* with this topic, but that is another facet of the larger infrastructure issues we've been having here, yes. My partner and I were joking that the real impacts of this won't be felt until the people in cities who push this legislation start having to face HOA...

CA has been after this for a while, its frankly disappointingly shortsighted, especially on the generator and chainsaw clauses and will hurt small business and rural landowners the most. I suspect this will gut most small landscaping firms throughout the state, as only the larger, corporate...

Another vote for Gear Keeper retractors, they have a bunch of styles and options as well different retraction force so poke around their website.

Thats pretty funny because it is not a common name at all.

Its not that tough to do, really. The bigger thing that the job a HUGE pain was not having the right bearing presses, race presses, seal tools, bearing pullers, etc. The measurements are trivial to do, reading the gear mesh pattern and trying to figure out what to do with it was a challenge...

Weight is a huge factor IMO. Some of the folks I do fitness paddling stuff with out here have some OC1's and surfskis that all come in at like 20lbs or something silly for a 18' boat, but that weight is a BIG deal when it comes to ease of putting them in the water and portaging. After this one...

Its about 32-ish right now, I'm expecting it to end up around 35-38lbs after all the outer fiberglass, epoxy, varnish, etc. Really, as long as it ends up under 40lbs I'll be super happy. It end up a LOT lighter than almost anything else out there for the size, save for super high-end composite...

Here's how she sits right now... we're currently sanding and getting prepped for fiberglass. Its been a ton of work but so far it's been a really fun build.