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Offline Mreecew

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Remember the Trail Whale? Old videos.
« on: December 31, 2013, 10:16:00 PM »
Was going through youtube and facebook today and found some old videos of my f150 throughout its life.

Before the solid axle.


The first time wheeling it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqlWawdRvcI

Same day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93yeTfu_YOE

Getting to be the first person to go up Ed's rock. (Same obstacle that killed eds xj  :( )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTdRl21r2E

That same day leaving the trail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5--7dUDad4

Going up that last spot
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200101438081650&set=vb.1321066791&type=3&theater

Breaking the ttb front end for the first and last time.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200103364489809&set=vb.1321066791&type=3&theater

After that I did the sas

First time wheeling with the solid axle.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=491154130907179&set=o.172129036245403&type=3&theater

Going up what we called the cherokee trail because the rocks were so tight together I never wanted to try it (that was before I let the body go)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=497724060250186&set=o.172129036245403&type=3&theater

Later that day I blew up my power steering pump, both front axle shafts and drivers side balljoints and bent the driverside knuckle.


1991 Samurai, 1.3 TBI, 35" KM2's, full 2 1/4" exhaust, SOA, RUF, Trail Tough Belly Skid, 5k Winch, Locked front and rear, GRS-2 transfer case gears (4.89:1 low), Built front axle with trusses, guards, gussets and birfield rings, Shrockworks gas tank skid, junk body and not much of a top.