After the Wall Trail Work Party

Wildman1 · Oct 24, 2006

Crash, TrailToy1993 & I camped at the entrance to the Wall Trail Saturday night. Then we all dragged our butts out of bed at a late time Sunday. As we were sitting in Crash's camper BSin NotMatt & then TB-F show up. So after we say we needed to get going if we were going to go wheelin we finally got moving. So we headed down to the staging area where all the bikes are at.

Mike too the lead and headed down the Rock Garden. I hit the first obstacle and was not having much luck. Aired down to 5psi and attacked it again. Made it thru and hit the next set of rocks. Well we got up to almost the end and there is a spot we all had to try. TB-F was the only one to make it thru. When I headed back to my Jeep to follow everyone it wouldn't start. Mike came back and we started trying to figure out what the heck was going on. Came down to there was something wrong with the fuel. Pushed in on the schrader valve and there was a lot of air in the system. So we decided it must be the fuel pump.

Well it was maybe 300 yards to the end of the trail. NotMatt came back and started yanking me down the trail. At the spots that he couldn't pull me thru I used my winch. It took us about an hour to get the rig onto the road. NotMAtt then took me back up to my truck and I drove down and hooked onto the Jeep.

Went into the Jeep stealership on Monday and was just going to go ahead and buy a new fuel pump. Well they wanted $450 for a new one and would have to order it. So I walked out with a no thanks as I headed to the door. Got on good old Ebay and found a brand new one for $165.

So the Jeep will be fixed this weekend.
Sorry I didn't get any pictures but Mike did so hopefully he will post them up.

84Toyota4x4 · Oct 24, 2006

Sounds like a blast! I know what its like to be stuck on trails with a semi dead vehicle, as Im sure most of us do, haha. Good to hear that you figured it out, or so you think, lol. I would check the relay too, more than once Ive had bad relays and not bad pumps on customer cars. Its always funny when a car gets towed into the shop and we either tap on the tank and get it running (replace pump), or pull the relay and tap it on the ground a couple times and get it running (replace relay). Takes all of about 5 minutes, we order part, install part, send car on its way :;

~T.J.

TB-F · Oct 25, 2006

I'm a rock hero! :haha: :haha: But in all rights I still couldent make the intended line, had to break hard left, but at least I didnt back off the rock. You forgot to mention my daughter ordering me and Mike to dance around in little circles on his trailer for 20 mins before we left. :haha: :haha: :haha:

crash2 · Oct 25, 2006

TB-F said:
I'm a rock hero! :haha: :haha: But in all rights I still couldent make the intended line, had to break hard left, but at least I didnt back off the rock. You forgot to mention my daughter ordering me and Mike to dance around in little circles on his trailer for 20 mins before we left. :haha: :haha: :haha:

She had us "getting" busy :haha: :haha: :haha:

What a cute lil fart ya got there Ethan.

crash2 · Oct 25, 2006

Ya--it was just another fun weekend even though we did work on saturday. AND we got lucky that rick's rig died where it did. I will try to post the pictures I have of rick since this was the first time I had wheeled with him in a very long time..

War-Jeeper · Oct 25, 2006

Sounds like you got lucky on where the breakage happened. Still sucks though, hope the fuel pump fix's everything for ya so you can wheel the noob run

Roccrawler · Oct 25, 2006

wildman has so much stuff on that rig something has to always be dieing... nice rig though:beer:

Wildman1 · Oct 25, 2006

roccrawler said:
wildman has so much stuff on that rig something has to always be dieing... nice rig though:beer:

Well I'm hoping real soon stuff stops dying so I can enjoy my Jeep.

Wildman1 · Oct 25, 2006

TB-F said:
I'm a rock hero! :haha: :haha: But in all rights I still couldent make the intended line, had to break hard left, but at least I didnt back off the rock. You forgot to mention my daughter ordering me and Mike to dance around in little circles on his trailer for 20 mins before we left. :haha: :haha: :haha:

You forgot to mention the beating I took with the stick she was swinging while we watched the guys try to get thru the spot.

TB-F · Oct 25, 2006

Wildman said:
You forgot to mention the beating I took with the stick she was swinging while we watched the guys try to get thru the spot.

Or when she covered Mike with grass while you were geting you'r truck :haha: :haha:

crash2 · Oct 25, 2006

TB-F said:
Or when she covered Mike with grass while you were geting you'r truck :haha: :haha:

I got her back---but she just laughed at me---mean lil thang

Wildman1 · Oct 28, 2006

Well I got out into the garage today and installed about $2000 worth of parts.
I did the VP-44 injection pump on my CTD first and while I had everything apart also the fan clutch because I had been having cooling issues.

Then I replaced the fuel injection pump in the Jeep. And while I was under the Jeep I looked at the damage I did last weekend.

Sure am glad I have the engine/tranny skid because the oil pan & tranny pan wouldn't have made it.

Put some nice gouges in the skids.

War-Jeeper · Oct 28, 2006

Wildman said:
Well I got out into the garage today and installed about $2000 worth of parts.
I did the VP-44 injection pump on my CTD first and while I had everything apart also the fan clutch because I had been having cooling issues.

Then I replaced the fuel injection pump in the Jeep. And while I was under the Jeep I looked at the damage I did last weekend.

Sure am glad I have the engine/tranny skid because the oil pan & tranny pan wouldn't have made it.

Put some nice gouges in the skids.