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Poison Spyder/Gold Bar Rim Moab That is a 1500 foot drop off with north end of Moab in the background.

While not mechanically the worst, I had a piece of dirt stick in the steering gear valving and it froze the steering gear and it wouldn't turn as I was dropping off a ledge. The drivers side wheel dropped in a hole I was supposed to steer to the side of. This was on Moab Rim "Z turn". If the...

Too pretty to scratch up.

A leaky rear main seal? That is how Jeep does it.:smiley:

Back in the 70s and 80s the wife and I were professional photographers. We did expeditions all up and down the Rocky Mountains and hiked a ton. We used only large format and medium format gear. Our darkroom did 40"x60" color. We made a ton of money then the bottom fell out of the market. We...

My wife of 42 years has put up with 16 orthopedic surgeries and a couple of cancer surgeries with me. Now she just gives the recovery room nurse here cell phone number and goes shopping. I wake up to the smell of burning plastic. I figure in about $2000 for that with each surgery. I can't...

I have a reputation for cooking for the gang when our Jeep group goes out. Everybody turns up their nose at the breakfast when I mention it if they haven't had it before, but I get tons of repeat customers. I thin slice and crispy pan fry potatoes with garlic salt, then I slice a can of Spam...

I'm more likely to carry a breaker bar.

Sweet work on both the vehicles and the trailer. Looks like your significant other is supportive. My wife says she has never been jealous of another woman but has thought about shooting my Jeep a few times. :smiley:

I am a working engineer with 40+ years of fabricating, wheeling, and expeditions. I am interested in finding out who out there is into fabrication. Over the years I have built about anything you can imagine. I built my daily driver/rock crawler/expedition vehicle, a 1985 Jeep Cherokee. It...

I do a lot of travel in the boonies. I can be 100 miles from anywhere. I carry a Henry AR7 Survival 22 caliber knock down rifle under the back seat. Everything knocks down and fits in the stock and is waterproof. I try to be as prepared as possible for every possibility. Loaded with...

Area BFE Moab Utah - Green Day Trail

Wheeler Lake, Colorado

Radical Hill east of Breckenridge Colorado

I have been busy winterizing my teardrop. I cleaned it out and vacuumed. I packed up the sleeping bags, put the trickle charger on the battery, and drained the water. I made sure the master shut off valve for the propane was closed. I wheeled it in the garage and put it up against the wall...

Life kept intervening with 4 surgeries and becoming handicapped, two moves, a wedding, 5 grandkids, working out of state almost 2 years and a 60 hour a week back home. With all of that, I spent a touch over 4 years on it. Much of that was design time. Figuring out how to do everything in the...

Tons of people have asked. So here it is. I itemized the cost of all the materials. It turns out that I spent around $5k including everything. I fabricated everything instead of building premade. I even did the 4 trailer jacks.

Even without a heater, the trailer was pretty warm, but the wife was not comfortable. The one inch of Styrofoam really works. I am going to add a gasoline powered heater normally used on Diesel Truck cabs for overnight parking.

Wise man. Trying to make one trailer do everything is almost impossible. I put a ton of requirements into my trailer and it became a real big job.

I used panel glue and countersunk metal screws.