Amigo rear suspension is new as Dallas pointed out.... (although has the same lower links and track bar) Just underbuilt on the third link mount.

I was disapointed in my front axle. The 5-760X crosses were snapping pretty easy. The Amigo's CTM failure (it died first and took the WARN shafts with it IMHO) was probably just a function of being beat hard for two years.

Brian Richmond's Detroit locker failure was likely caused by the manual hubs breaking on the truck. My rear shaft failure did not seem to hurt my No-Slip so that was handy.

The ARB install, uninstall, reinstall in Cody Shuman's rig was not really a failure of the locker just a line that got broken when they were trying to fix a bad seal.

I believe Tom Boyd replaced a Detroit the first day, but I'm not sure what had happened in the first place.

The ultimate Taco did well this year but it still broke a hub, and a superior shaft in its Dynatrac Dana 44.

Seemed like there was a lot of carnage, broken CV joints on the tracker, broken birfs on the Sami, broken rod on the aluminum CJ, broken d/s, axleshafts, hubs, detroit and engine on the other Dodge, broken d/s, steering box and serpintine belt on the EB, broken tranny on the yellow CJ, broken pinion on the XJ, not sure what else, but generally most problems were driveline related.

Corbin's CTM 44s held up well for two years... that seems like a reasonable duty cycle, IMHO. There truly is a huge amount of force converged upon the single joint in a 3-link... tough to brace for force from every direction, too. Three links just seem to work best on lighter rigs.

I'm clowning a bit on the auto-locker failure... I get weary of folks slamming ARBs, which occasionally fail to work, and generally only need seals or air lines fixed (excepting the Dana 35C, which is an entirely separate discussion), when more often, these days, I see Detroits failing big, and messily. Both are great lockers, and both work well for the majority of the cases, but I guess I prefer the small, repairable failure mode of an ARB to the larger, more collateral-damaging failure moe of an auto-locker.

Sounds like the Amigo and Dodge faired fairly normally with respect to breakage in that peer group. I hope they report it as such. Even with all the wrenching and driving, that week still sounds better than a week at work. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Randii

Amen to that <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

Well I got the privilege of being the wrench whore for both rigs, and spent more time wrenching than either Aaron or Corbin did individually, but yeah, definitely a lot more fun than a week at work. And for me, a week at work IS wrenching <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Well here are my pics from all the fun and games.


The Ultimate Taco
















Hi-lifts suck


Crushed fingers suck


Dallas

Broken axle kinda sucks


Expensive [email]s@#$ty[/email] wheel adapters suck.


Full sizes on Jeep trails rule


Mud?


Rocks <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />




Pieces of PSD piston and block suck.


Sleeping hotel attendants are <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />


Busy wrenching


2nd day body damage



Dallas

Road days


:flipoff2:


Perfect weather, well except for the heat and humidity, but even that wasn't bad.


Cool night wrenchin shot in WI






What did I say about full sizes on Jeep trails? oh yeah, they rule.


Heavy machinery for maintaining the campfire ***** RULES!




Rob Bonneys fireworks display, and subsequent pyro antics, yeah that ruled.


Dallas

Umm yeah.




Chris Durham Gettin it in the 7cyl CJ










Clifton doin donuts in Tom Boyds Backwards steering EB


Dallas

Sooooooooo... did he make it? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

yes. In fact he did the same thing at least 10 times and never rolled it, even when Rob and Boyd were shooting firworks at him.

Dallas

awesome pics! looks like it must have been a really fun trip, cant wait to see it in the mag. surpirsed that bronco didnt flip, thats talent.