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Ram Jam 14 - Day 1 (7-Mile Rim)

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#1 ·
Let's put all the respective pics and vids from each day in these threads :)

My pics from 7-Mile:

Here's the 'gang' at the photo op, deep in 7-Mile -



prepping at City Market that am -





Josh's rig -



Eric's rig -



Brian's rig -



the Canadian Crew -

v

Joel's rig -



Trevor's rig -



"Leroy" coming around the Mountain -



Mark and his GF -



Derek -



Neil n Ally -

 
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#3 ·
en route - I'm just now setting up the threads for the pics ;)
 
#6 ·
{cool}
 
#7 ·
I'm putting the processed images I took on my Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B44wWl_Z4Yylb0RqOWh0V0NJUkE&usp=sharing#grid

If anyone want's the camera RAW image for any of them let me know. I'll be out of the US for a few weeks, so I'll have pretty limited bandwidth

Video will follow as soon as I get a chance. I shot 33 gigs (2-1/2 hours) with the main camera, and some with the GoPro and ContourHD. It's gonna take some time to digest.
 
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#10 ·
Killerbee said:
I'm putting the processed images I took on my Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B44wWl_Z4Yylb0RqOWh0V0NJUkE&usp=sharing#grid

If anyone want's the camera RAW image for any of them let me know. I'll be out of the US for a few weeks, so I'll have pretty limited bandwidth

Thanks Ben!! Have a great trip! We'll all be chomping at the bit for your return. ;)

Video will follow as soon as I get a chance. I shot 33 gigs (2-1/2 hours) with the main camera, and some with the GoPro and ContourHD. It's gonna take some time to digest.
 
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sparky wagon said:
whats brians screen name? ( i only know members by that name) :D thats a pretty knarly way to remove lift blocks
Snoopy64 (was Snoopy1964)

We were all so glad not to see any fluids come out from under the truck with all those shards of cast aluminum. ;)
As it was it wan't so bad. Strapped the axle back into place, winched it to the level, cranked down the u-bolts when the axle was in place and replace the u-joint. He had a spare. Back on the trail. 8)
 
#14 ·
Where the motor mounts gave up:


Great use of the tree saver and snatch block to pull him out clean.



The smoke had already cleared some when my camera finally woke up. ;D

 
#16 ·
FYI to all - those were brand new poly engine mounts.  7.4:1 reduction (with the doubler and xfer both in low) gracefully peeled them both into two pieces on that unnamed, but yet ridiculous obstacle.  We strapped the engine down with a HD 1-1/2" strap - it worked so well we didn't skip any of the hard lines on the way out.  Thanks to Trevor (for picking up new mounts @ Napa while we were still out on the trail) and Derrick for helping me swap them at Kens (thanks again!) shop early the next morning.  Napa rubber mounts took the remaining weeks abuse... as the trails progressively got more difficult.  ;D
 
#18 ·
All I could do is get out of the way. LOL. Glad it turned out ok.
 
#19 ·
Killerbee said:
I gotta post it Brian....

Here's how to remove the lift blocks without any tools. But some tools were required to continue.

Brian finished not only this trail, but tackled Steel Bender and Hells Revenge!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B44wWl_Z4YylOG5Ua2VZRUJVeFE

-Ben
Dude that slow-mo, That's funny right there! Looks like a scene from Cars where Lightning McQueen was jumping off the other cars in the wreck. :p
 
#21 ·
WipeOut Hill..... need a vid of Ken doing the harder line up in his pickup.



And back up.....fun hill.
 
#22 ·
Easy ledges... where Brian spit out hard parts in a violent fashion... ;)





 
#25 ·
snoopy64 said:
Ben thanks for posting the vid. i am glad i could give everyone something to laugh about. ;D
Laughing -no, impressed - yep. ;D
We were all just glad it wasn't us and that you were prepared with what you needed and got it back on the trail!
I was expecting it to be a long long day when I saw where your axle was sitting. Well done!
Glad ya made it back safe. I think we're all accounted for now. That caps off a great Ram Jam!
 
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