Hardline Owned Cable Hill

BamaTJ · Jun 10, 2007

That is right we all got up it, TK, Paul, Me and Jake who rode with us all day. I know, I know it was dry and everybody made it, and Tim Cameron made it in reverse, but we still did it. P hit it like the Indy 500 the first run and blew a hub, TK crawled and only backed up 2-3 times, Jake crawled it on 36" tires and never stopped, I had to back up and bump it a few times and so did P on his second run. I will let P tell the story about what happened to him before he went up.

blacksheep10 · Jun 10, 2007

awesome. it was dry as balls at spring fling, dust everywhere, and there was still water coming out of that hill. I just assumed it was that wet all the time. nice. any vids?

P · Jun 10, 2007

Tk got info from a lady that had video'd all of our climbs. I was way to anxious the first attempt and hit that bitch screaming LOL, we were airborne at the first ledge cause i hit it way to hard and I stayed in it when we landed and the Warn said enough. Second time I was a bit more patient and got it up there.

Previous to my first attempt a dude in a yota backhalved with airs out back was wailing on his stuff... hit it like 5 times with the squirrels screaming and just couldnt get it. He put it on its side in the middle of Cable hill... got it started and backout of it. We had just started the Turd and pulled the laps tight when dood hits a tree while backing out the bypass and rolls ... he goes over one full roll down the side of the hill and hits the **** outta the Turd on the drivers side coming to a loud and abrupt stop .. I thought his passenger was still in it and figured him injured severly.. Im yellin you all right, and the driver is yellin you all right and neither of us really knew who or what was yellin at who LOL... His hood starts bubblin paint, right at my door side mind you and everyone is like... YO your on FIRE !!! so the fire extinguisher scramble begins and we climbed outta the turd on the pass side. Put the fire out and alls good. It was a trip, and we all laughed it off since everyone came out un hurt with no real damage to the Turd. 8)

pics to follow...

P · Jun 10, 2007

Heres dood on the hill flopped then mid back out ...

Heres after he rolled off the bypass into me... Im standing near were he started to roll in the first pic. It was a nice drop off he rolled down.

bigsilly · Jun 10, 2007

That cat in the Yota was over on Bents and Dents yesterday when I broke. He was beating on that thing like a pimp beating a crack whore.

The ownage continued today. I got my drive shaft back from Keith this morning and put it back on. There was no one riding today. David had some issues from yesterday that I will let him tell about. So he and I set out in mine and we ran the usual, Tub Rock, Bents and Dents, The Canyon, Buzzards Roost, etc.... I decided right before it was time to go to give a shot at crawling Cable Hill. Needless to say after about 7 minutes and we crawled our way out the top. It was probably the coolest thing I have done in that Jeep.

DavidsCJ7 · Jun 10, 2007

Yeah, it was a fun trip as usual. Sorry we didn't get to ride with the Hardline crew more but we had a smaller rig with us Saturday. Still a lot of fun. the only damage I had was late Saturday I realized the welds on my traction bar brackets broke. I could have fixed it but I was already exhausted from the day. It was pretty cool riding around with Joel today. I had never ridden in his rig before. It works incredibly well, and yes he also owned Cable Hill. I don't think the RPM's ever got to 1000.

P · Jun 10, 2007

I broke right off the bat Saturday. I was in 2wd no less... I guess I damaged a rodend at the XRRA deal, I was going up a hill in 2wd and the upper driverside link went boom. The rodend completely came apart and "unwrapped" itself from the ball . We winched it in place , TK hooked me up with a rodend and we wheeled all day. I did pop another 35spl Warn lockout, but it was totally my fault as I hit the bottom of cable hill like a jackass the first attempt ;D

DavidsCJ7 · Jun 10, 2007

P said:
I broke right off the bat Saturday. I was in 2wd no less... I guess I damaged a rodend at the XRRA deal, I was going up a hill in 2wd and the upper driverside link went boom. The rodend completely came apart and "unwrapped" itself from the ball . We winched it in place , TK hooked me up with a rodend and we wheeled all day. I did pop another 35spl Warn lockout, but it was totally my fault as I hit the bottom of cable hill like a jackass the first attempt ;D

I bet Mike would make you a good deal on some slugs. :

P · Jun 10, 2007

Still not ready to commit to that yet. I street mine here and there and would like to keep that as an option ;D

BamaTJ · Jun 10, 2007

After a few more you will make the switch, it gets old fast

bigsilly · Jun 11, 2007

BamaTJ said:
After a few more you will make the switch, it gets old fast

x2, which company makes the ones you can pull the slug out for street driving?

P · Jun 11, 2007

bigsilly said:
x2, which company makes the ones you can pull the slug out for street driving?

Never heard of those, but Im interested ;D

bigsilly · Jun 11, 2007

P said:
Never heard of those, but Im interested ;D

They are out there. I can tell you it is not the Poly Performance flanges because that is what I have. Come on man, you are in the parts bidness now, you are supposed to know these things. Let me see what I can find.

bigsilly · Jun 11, 2007

Bingo, that was easy. Teraflex, see the link below.....

http://www.extremeaxlesales.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=67

P · Jun 11, 2007

Meh you still have to pull it apart to street it. The Dynatracs are the same way.. they have that plate you can keep in the hub to bolt the cap to. I thought you meant someone had something that was like, hop out twisty take something or whatnot and roll out . LOL

blacksheep10 · Jun 11, 2007

I've been wondering about that for some time now. why not make one that you can take apart without a major take apart. Here is the thing......how much time is it to take a slug out compared to taking a lockout apart and putting a new one on?

P · Jun 11, 2007

Id rather break the lockout, and be able to go right back into a trail or run another run at a comp. Then have to swap shafts or replace U joints. It really doesnt bother me. Its been advantageous in the two situations Ive broke them so far. Both times I was driving way stupid when they broke. I havent just had one go for seemingly no reason like Matts seemed to be doing.

blacksheep10 · Jun 11, 2007

meh, I'll take the breakage if I don't have to back off a hill. If I can say...yep, I broke a ctm and alloy usa shaft, I'm doing something right.

BamaTJ · Jun 11, 2007

P said:
Id rather break the lockout, and be able to go right back into a trail or run another run at a comp. Then have to swap shafts or replace U joints. It really doesnt bother me. Its been advantageous in the two situations Ive broke them so far. Both times I was driving way stupid when they broke. I havent just had one go for seemingly no reason like Matts seemed to be doing.

Yeah that works fine in theory, except for when you get into a situation where you are breaking hubs when if you didn't have them you would break NOTHING. I think that MOST of the time the hub is just not strong enough to take the abuse we put it through and if you ran slugs you would not have to fix anything on the trail because nothing would of broken. There are some cases where it doesn't matter if you run slugs or hubs, you are gonna break, but sometimes running a hub is manufacturing a weak link into your setup. Darryl from TN with the ZUK buggy beats that **** out of his rig with a 60/14B combo. He runs Chromos, CTMs and slugs. If he ran lockouts he would be manufacturing a weak link into his rig and he would probably pop 3-4 per ride. So by the weak link rational his is his R&P, but I have never heard of him having problems there either. I understand this is an extreme example, but that is the arguement if you are using the weakest link theory.