smfulle
Active Member
- Location
- Plain City, UT
This week we had an Event for Flat Fenders in The Black Hills of South Dakota.
The thing was supposed to go all week with over 30 Jeeps participating with everyone camping out and running the scenic trails there. Unfortunately it rained great buckets for two straight days and the plug was pulled on the week long event in order to spare the dirt trails and the camp area from muddy destruction.
A few die hards stuck around after finding alternate acomidations and we managed to find a couple of days good wheeling on a rocky creek bed off Camp 5 Road that we understand to be called Hal John’s Trail..
Here’s a video put together by Jeff Petrowich (Jpet on any forums he’s on). If you stick it to the end you will see where Jeff is welding my tie rod back together on the trail as well as a little spring hanger repair for Ward Williams.
Here’s the before and after pics of my tie rod. Jeff used a piece of angle iron on the bottom of the tube as a splice and strengthener. This kind of trail side welding with a couple of batteries is like magic to me. I’m pretty confident that this repair is at least as strong as the original,
The thing was supposed to go all week with over 30 Jeeps participating with everyone camping out and running the scenic trails there. Unfortunately it rained great buckets for two straight days and the plug was pulled on the week long event in order to spare the dirt trails and the camp area from muddy destruction.
A few die hards stuck around after finding alternate acomidations and we managed to find a couple of days good wheeling on a rocky creek bed off Camp 5 Road that we understand to be called Hal John’s Trail..
Here’s a video put together by Jeff Petrowich (Jpet on any forums he’s on). If you stick it to the end you will see where Jeff is welding my tie rod back together on the trail as well as a little spring hanger repair for Ward Williams.
Here’s the before and after pics of my tie rod. Jeff used a piece of angle iron on the bottom of the tube as a splice and strengthener. This kind of trail side welding with a couple of batteries is like magic to me. I’m pretty confident that this repair is at least as strong as the original,