For anyone thats interested, I hacked up a few photos and tossed em in a directory, check em out here: http://home.earthlink.net/~kevnpaty/cween02/

Enjoy! ... and watch out for 007a <img border="0" alt="[Satan]" title="" src="graemlins/satan.gif" />
<img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />
Kevin

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by ZooMigo:
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Enjoy! ... and watch out for 007a <img border="0" alt="[Satan]" title="" src="graemlins/satan.gif" />
<img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />
Kevin</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Man, what a letdown.. here I was thinking you were posting a pic like the ones I sometimes post of my girlfriend... and instead I got .. uhh..

heheh...

J/K... man those are some amazing pictures!!! BAD ASS!!! i feel like such a jerk for not going! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Fro]" title="" src="graemlins/rainfro.gif" />

in picture 004 behind the toy it looks like a 1st gen trooper with an arb bumper. are my eyes playing tricks on me? or did they make arb's for first gens along time ago?

That is Craig Eldridge's Trooper with the ARB. There are I think 20 of us around the country that arranged for a special build of 1st Gen Trooper Bullbars. The last time that I talked to Buddy King at ARB he said that the templates no longer exist.

This pic is absolutely nuts. I'd rip the whole front clip off my Troop if I tried this!

<img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~kevnpaty/cween02/010.jpg" alt=" - " />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by MichaelD:
<strong>This pic is absolutely nuts. I'd rip the whole front clip off my Troop if I tried this!

<img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~kevnpaty/cween02/010.jpg" alt=" - " /></strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Man what a great shot, what a great vehicle, what a great driver. Oh wait, that's me <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

Actually, on that obstacle you'd probably be all right - the landing area slopes away from the ledge at a pretty good angle. Aaron with his Full Size Dodge Ram (With a winch bumper on front) came down without digging in the front bumper much at all. The hardest part of that obstacle is just knowing that once you commit to going over the edge, you WILL slide the 4 or 5 feet to the bottom, and you get there quick enough that the back end might just come off the slope and try to go over the top. Other than that, no problems <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

Actually, it was quite a bit of fun, and it helped to have an A-1 spotter (Corbin) on the hill.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by Eric D:
<strong>Man, what a letdown.. here I was thinking you were posting a pic like the ones I sometimes post of my girlfriend... and instead I got .. uhh..
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Uh.....nice um....headlights...yeah..that's it. nice headlights. Thanks for the skin warning plick. some of us surf from work... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

Not that i'm really complaining...i'm always up for a good bewbie shot, but DAYAM! hehehehehe

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by Jeff Mason:
<strong>Actually, it was quite a bit of fun, and it helped to have an A-1 spotter (Corbin) on the hill.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">And 5 guys holding the strap you can barely see on left-hand side keeping the shiny side up.

Now that would have been an E-ticket ride in the samurai <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Hahah, LOL, Jeff! Great work. That "minor threat of flipping over" would probably keep me off that obstacle though. <img border="0" alt="[Chicken]" title="" src="graemlins/chicken.gif" /> <cluck-cluck>

So how do you get down something like that? Brakes locked and just slide, or kinda crawl down?

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by MichaelD:
<strong>So how do you get down something like that? Brakes locked and just slide, or kinda crawl down?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Actually Mike I took my Trooper down a ledge like that on, um, Steelbender I think it was, at Moab ZuZoo V. It was very comforting to have the Isuzu Tug Team (ITT) hanging on to the strap to prevent an endo...even though you probably aren't all that close to flipping anyway.

As far as how, on a ledge like that it is usually some of both. Depends how dusty it is, bare rock will grip pretty well, but if you get some loose stuff on there you will slide (which is a lot more exciting for the driver <img border="0" alt="[Hillbilly]" title="" src="graemlins/notooth.gif" /> ). The key is to have the right line before you start to slide. Brake pedal control is a very important skill in an automatic Trooper... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />