The official 2012 I am not in Moab so I have to live vacariosly through you picture..

On the way back out...
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_232.jpg

John flexin for the cam!
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_235.jpg

Oh yeah!
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_238.jpg

Who could it be?
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_239.jpg

Gittin 'er dun (Almost home, Dub & Jo)
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_240.jpg

Big Swede (Steve) on Kane Creek
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_244.jpg

Adios...
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_245.jpg

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Originally Posted by ZEUS

Start of Cliffhanger...
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_206.jpg

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Good pic but is that a jeep in front???

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Originally Posted by ZEUS

Can you tell how bad they want to get back to the stoop?
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_228.jpg

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:laughing: Desperate times...it was hot and the stoop was miles away.

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Originally Posted by VXorado

:laughing: Desperate times...it was hot and the stoop was miles away.

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That or someone wanted a challange and decided to go into 2WD :D

I don't know if it was for the challenge. I heard that guy likes "strap-ons" front and rear :eek:

http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/...2/106_2676.jpg

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Originally Posted by VXorado

I don't know if it was for the challenge. I heard that guy likes "strap-ons" front and rear :eek:

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Its called a "train" ... I guess I would be the first one that it was done too :D

Where is "Creep-o"?


Gittin 'er dun (Almost home, Dub & Jo)
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...n_Pics_240.jpg

Justin, how did I not see you in Moab?! I heard you were there...Never saw you. :(

Yeah, Dbl-C, I was disappointed I did not get to see you and Gill - surprised too. Don't know what happened!

Nice pics everyone. Great scenery...rocks, vistas, and Isuzus alike.

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Yeah, Dbl-C, I was disappointed I did not get to see you and Gill - surprised too. Don't know what happened!

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Maybe you should've stopped by the stoop in the evening...:rotate:

Zeus...different Jeep or painted?

I don't have a lot of wheeling pics, but I'll post some scenery if nothing else. Apologies if my descriptions are redundant to anyone elses. I also grabbed a few photos from others where appropriate for narrative purposes, credit indicated under the photo.

On Sunday the 12th, Gill (NocturnalVX), CeCe (VXironwoman), Dave (Gizmo42), and my buddy Joe hiked to Corona Arch. Some of you may have seen the video of rock climbers swinging through the arch on a rope, well we got to see someone do it (CeCe wanted to do it in the worst way). Turned out it was a film crew for a Japanese singer called Becky. She was going to show up later in the day for a swing and they wanted to test it out.

CeCe at the arch (it's a lot bigger than it looks here)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...h/IMGP0785.jpg

View from the vicinity of the arch:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...h/IMGP0784.jpg

Gill
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...h/IMGP0798.jpg

My buddy Joe
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...h/IMGP0795.jpg

Climbing ropes on the arch
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...h/IMGP0790.jpg

Dave and CeCe
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...h/IMGP0796.jpg

Later that afternoon, I got under the Trooper to disconnect sway bars etc., and noticed oil covering everything aft of the tranny. The transfer case was wet, and given that a previous owner had stripped out the drain plug and substituted a rubber expansion plug, that seemed a likely culprit. But when I pulled the fill plug, oil gushed out of the t-case. Well there is only one place that could have come from, and sure enough the tranny was down on oil. The only explanation was a plugged tranny breather. The shop manual says next to nothing about the breathers, I couldn't even figure out where it was. Cue Jerry Lemond, he explained that it is a hard line that emerges from the tranny and dives into the shifter quadrant box (but he couldn't explain why). So I cut the breather and put a fuel line on it, goosenecked. There ended my first night wrenching in Moab.

Monday we tried La Sal Pass again with a large group - we tried it last year but ran into deep snow. This year snow levels are way down, in fact Moab has only had 0.65" rain in 2012.

On the talus slope
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Crossing the stream. This is as far as we got last year.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...s/IMG_0145.jpg
Credit to CeCe

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...s/IMG_0146.jpg
Credit to CeCe

We did run into a snowbank higher up, but it looked doable so Jim Paget had a run at it in his Jeep with 37s
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...s/IMGP0805.jpg

Time for the winch. The snowbank was very dense, I could walk on it. And it had a frozen core that high-centered the first few rigs to try it.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...s/IMGP0807.jpg

I had the next biggest rig, so my turn.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...s/IMG_3913.jpg
Credit to Eric

Almost but not quite. Time for the strap.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...s/IMG_3922.jpg
Credit to Eric

At the summit
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...s/IMGP0809.jpg

Me and Joe
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Gill and CeCe
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...s/IMGP0814.jpg

On the way down the backside of the La Sals, I noticed my power steering pump was getting loud. Sure enough, the pressure hose that loops over the belts and down next to the radiator was leaking. I guess these things happen on a 17 year old truck. Wonder of wonders, the first auto parts store I stopped at in Moab had the hose. So, another night wrenching, during the revelry of Chocolate Monkey night at the Stoop. The upper fitting is easy to reach, but the lower one is designed by someone with small Japanese hands, which neither I or Joe are equipped with. And the pressure switch took 3 strapping men with a vise grip to break loose to swap into the new hose. Thus the second night of wrenching in Moab.

Nice pics and summary Steve!!! I can email you the full resolution photos if you'd like...let me know.