{"id":1538,"date":"2012-09-08T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/overlandbound.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2022-06-24T00:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:26:14","slug":"dont-straddle-the-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/dont-straddle-the-bump\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Straddle the Bump!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As with many things, patience is often a virtue. I worked my line for about 10 minutes in this &#8220;Rock Garden&#8221; before I lost mine. I had nestled in between a literal rock and a hard place and was making 3&#8243; progress forward and back.\u00a0 The kicker was resting my passenger side side flare on the rear tire against a rock. My ONLY alternative to ripping it off, was to get out the jack and start stacking rocks. I decided to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>There is a reason you have BIG MEATS (tires) on your rig. It is so you can put a tire on big bumps and drive over them!<\/p>\n<p>There may have been a little emotion involved, and impatience, but the resulting work required to fix that was&#8230;a lot.<\/p>\n<p>This video can also be called: &#8220;Fixing your Stupid Mistake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fender Flare Repair and Supplies\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uM5wZgA3MjM?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is a reason you have BIG MEATS (tires) on your rig. It is so you can put a tire on big bumps and drive over them!<\/p>\n<p>I learned this lesson again a few weeks ago. I saw big stump on the trail and thought, &#8220;sure, I can straddle that&#8221;. BAAAAAM! Rig stopped dead, and I was thrown against my seat belts!<\/p>\n<p>It may be counter intuitive, but drive on it, not over it! When picking a line, put your tire on the high rock and drive over it. Don&#8217;t drag your pumkin over the rocks (or your fender!).<\/p>\n<p>Dont straddle the bump!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As with many things, patience is often a virtue. I worked my line for about 10 minutes in this &#8220;Rock Garden&#8221; before I lost mine. I had nestled in between a literal rock and a hard place and was making 3&#8243; progress forward and back.\u00a0 The kicker was resting my passenger side side flare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}