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I was at Rausch Creek yesterday with a cool group of rigs:  Thats Joe (from Bock's Garage) powerstroke bronco in the background. The Centurion was owned by a buddy of his (also 7.3), and then their buddy showed up with this monster Cummins powered jeep on Axletechs:  Not too many pics taken from the trip but lots of video. Stay tuned... And we're back! We checked in at our cabin Monday afternoon. Brought the wife's 90  and my 88  The diesel towed well with the new suspension. Much smoother on the highway than ever before, even loaded down pretty heavily, so im calling the new suspension a win. (i do have a new upper tracbar bracket on order, so that will be getting swapped in the next couple weeks so i can put my front sway back on) We did family stuff tuesday - friday (pools, amusement parks, water parks, campfires & smores!), but Friday was also the car show, which i posted pics of yesterday. Saturday i went over to Rausch with a couple buddies while the wifey stayed back at the cabin nursing a sunburn. Turned out to be a good idea because it was the hottest day of the heatwave that rolled thru PA, and i dont think the wife/kid would have enjoyed the trail with that level of heat. Anyways, i only snapped maybe 15 pics, here's a couple. Overgrown trails:  Joe Sr
Joe Jr
Our buddy Jim was going to come out with us but was having tcase issues so he jumped in with me for the day. i was trail leader for the day, and we didnt stop much so no real pics of mine. He did get a cool snippet of me squeezing thru some boulders down in the Quarry on the south side of the park though The dogs enjoying the truck ride home. Jack is in his glory, as the wind from the wing window is blowing directly on him:  Home and unloading   This is the only real carnage from the trip that ive found thus far  Overall a good time, and weve already re-reserved our cabin for next year's event. Gotta wash the gray one tomorrow, check for any other damage, and then get stuff packed up so we can go rescue an old tractor Thursday morning! Here's some video from the one day we got out wheelin during the East Coast Bronco Roundup. Another rainy day at Rausch Creek, it seems this is starting to become a trend! Alright we're trying this YT thing. I recommend watching Joe's video, he's got a pretty good overview of the day in his: Heres the highlights from running the trails at AOAA with Ox, Darre & Joe. It was a rough day for me with issues with the water/meth injection on the drive up, then sinking the bronco in a mud pit and stalling it, and wrecking the alternator as well. Everybody else did fine! Got some cool pics though. I shot some video as did Darrel, so there should be some good videos to watch soon at least! So here we go! For those that don't know, this event is currently on-going; it started Thursday and will continue through til Sunday. First off, let me say that the FSB presence at the Round Up this year was incredible! Tons of FSBs everywhere! Sorry I didn't get to say Hi to everyone, we weren't doing the whole pic thing, so we kinda just unloaded, aired down and went off into the park. Me & Ox decided to go on Friday, to get some wheelin in with Darrel, because he's usually one of the only FSB'ers dumb enough to keep goin wheelin with us! But seriously, we limited ourselves to one day because weve got another trip coming up, and usually one of us breaks something big Anyways, enough babbling, on to the pics! From left to right: me, Darrel, Ox  We went over to the NE side, and went straight to Outer Limits, which is wayyyy far away from everything. ...and unfortunately this is where Darrel the d.side motor mount, which lead to a torn trans mount, & the front d.shaft & trans linkage came apart. We had to pull him down off the climb. Getting the winch cable re-set, his truck deicded to roll away! Fortunately, I was parked behind him. Unfortunately, with the angle, his bumper went right under mine and we smashed his tailgate up pretty good. We also bent his front right leaf during the extraction process, but he has another at home so its not the end of the world. From here we were able to get the trans linkage and the d.shaft back together, and he was able to limp it out of the park under its own power.  We dropped Darrel's rig off in the parking lot, and he rode with me/ox the rest of the day. We went over to the south side to run Cemetary. I shot a vid of Ox coming up the hill climb/exit, he makes it look easy (it kinda was). From there we went over to the West side to run Trail 20 (awesome new-ish black trail), then 13a, then we cut thru Rock Creek and headed into Death Trap This runs out to 23, which loops around to the Power lines. But by then it was already 5pm, so we headed back to the parking lot and loaded up to go home. Not a lot of pics, but it was still a good day of wheelin; lots of good trails run, and we did ~15-18 miles so we definitely covered some ground. Darrel shot some pics/vids, so hopefully he gets them online soon!  There is a thread running over on FSB with pics from some of the other people that attended, you can check it out here. |
