So me 'n one of my buddies went up on beech mtn today to play in the rock garden and find some good mud. Well, for those of you who have been there the first mud hole was as deep as I have ever seen it. The water in the hole came up over my hood and the mud was probably about 3/4 of the way up my tires. This was no doubt due to the crazy snow we've had in the past few weeks. Anyways today was warm and we decided to play all day. So as we started to hit the mud the ruts began to get deeper and after about 20 mins of pass after pass we were both havin to get on the gas pretty hard. So, about my fourth time through I was killin it and slammed in the ruts pretty hard thus shaking my passenger headlight completly out, but I was having so much fun that I hit the same hole twice more before my buddy stopped me and told me what had happened. So in fear of finding broken peices of headlight I went back only to find the complete light floating on the top. I had run over the light twice and it did nothing more than get really muddy, no brackets broken or anything, all it took was a good washin and a new bulb and its good as new. I was very pleasntly surprised and that was just the first half hour we were there, wheeled the rest of the day and had a great time........

Sounds like a ball. Just looked at the pics of your troop. Looks great.

Troy

thanks bud, ive seen pics of yours too,.... nasty<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

I had a funny (in retrospect) incident with my old 91 and its corner light.

as some of you may know, the plastic grills on these babies can crack, the mounting tabs bust off, etc over time. I had a corner light that would just fall out when I hit a bump sometimes. usually the wires would keep it attached to the truck.

well one day it there was this nice frozen rain falling. just starting to ice up the roads and stuff like that. I had just swapped my spare on because my front tire (same side as the renegade light) was losing air. that was a fun 10 minutes in the frozen rain on the frozen parking lot fooling with that fun little stock jack. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

well i head out and make a turn out onto one of the busier roads here in town. i hit a bump in this turn that causes the light to fall out of its place in the grill, except this time, the wires decided they would finally break. so the light falls to the road. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I ran it over with the tire I had just spent 10 freezing minutes putting on. one of the parts of the corner light punctured this tire. so now I'm in the middle of the road, blocking traffic pickingup the pieces and cursing. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" />

I pull it into a parling lot and spend 30 mins changing that tire back to the one with the leak and pumping it up with my little autozone special compressor. It was still raining/sleeting. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

I decided to just go back home after that and wait till the weather was better before I bought a couple new tires and put them on. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />

haha......... yeah sounds like that wasnt really your day. i bet that light could fall out a million more times and not hit exactly where it would puncture the tire <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

really off topic i know, but i love your trooper, this is the first time i've seen it. did you do the swap on it? are you a student at app st? i've been up there visiting some friends that go there and we went up to beech mt, that rock garden is nasty, you got any pics of your truck in it? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

Eric

I had some help with the swap, but yeah I did it. I live in Banner Elk and I actually go to LMC. No pics from beech, but we are actually goin up there tomorrow for the whole day and this time we are takin two digital cameras so I'll be gettin a lot of good ones for ya. I know you are pretty far away, but you should come up some and we can make some weekends of wheelin. Any 'suzy guy is welcome at my place and I am right at the bottom of beech and we are within about 45 mins drive of crackers neck and callaente BTW I've seen pics of yours too... nice <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" /> you def need to get that thing up here..... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

.....oh and i forgot to mention this above, but we are wheeling beech mtn all day tomorrow if anyone's gonna be in the area and wants to join..... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />