post your scariest jeep moment!!!

[FrenchChili]

Post your scariest and/or crasiest jeep moment!!!




Here's mine somewhere in that video. It's red, likes 3 wheels backing down a ledge...does it twice. You'll see my dad holding the jeep. HAAAAAA great times. After that, I got a front locker.:) ..

http://www.jeepsonly.com/video/ck_081405.wmv

[SHNIPE]

What up dude. Havent see ya in a while. Im sure the new locker makes it that much better :D I moved to the other side of FLW back in april. Hit me up when you go wheeling next. Did you guys move? i dont see yours nor your fathers xj in the parking lot anymore. Theres a white TJ there now though.
Dennis

[LOWTECH]

Buying it without my wifes permission :eek:

[azdesertrhino]

Buying it without my wifes permission :eek:

ROFLMAO!! Yea, that would be the scariest moment in my home also!! ;)

[TRobertsRN]

Alone on the road from the Marina at Apache Lake to Burnt Corral campground. This was about 1987 long before the road was paved. Towing a 19 foot Bayliner with V-8 inboard/outboard with my 1983 J-10 pickup at night. For those not experienced with this road you have clifts on one side and mountain on the other on a dirt road that has traffic in both directions and sometimes someone has to back up so vehicles can pass each other. I am moving at a good clip (see ****y), gearing down the manual transmisson for the corners and in 4 wheel high. Sharp left coming up step on clutch and it goes to the floor without resistance, can't gear down, using brakes, truck slidding, heading for cliff (200 plus feet). Pucker factor is like what my dad used to say, you could have cut washers off my butt. Turn the wheel give it some gas and slide around the corner and limp it to the campsite in the gear it was stuck in 3rd. Checking the tracks the next mornign right rear tire was half off the cliff for most of the curve. I believe I wouldn't have made it without being in 4 wheel drive. Didn't learn to speed shift until years later. Found and fixed the problem in the AM, broken clutch linkage.

A good time was had by all the rest of the trip.

[FrenchChili]

Checking the tracks the next mornign right rear tire was half off the cliff for most of the curve..


THAT'S SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



HEY DENNIS, I DID MOVE !!!!! We live in N. PHX...12th st & Union Hills.
I'm off work every thursday. Check the posted trips by Jason Demonto. I'm also going to Sedona Broken Arrow next Sunday.

I got front and rear lockers!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!

[Special K]

I would have to say my scariest Jeep moment was leaving it on the Crown King trail yesterday after my rear axle broke. I was sure when I returned it would be stripped/burned/vandalized. When I finally got back and found it in one piece it was a huge relief.

[SHNIPE]

I might be in for the sunflower trip. gotta get a new spare and change the oil in a week and i should be down

[k7mto]

For me it was a trip to Naches/Shoestring in Washington. We arrived Friday night and decided to go run a few trails we found close to camp. We started climbing up the side of a mountain and the trail kept getting steeper and steeper as it wound it's way through the trees. The trail was mostly small cantelope sized rocks - loose and slippery. At one point, it was so steep all the weight of my SOA rig was on the rear axle and the front locker was useless. I'd creep forward a few inches and slide backward a few feet (while wheels were turning forward). About 20 feet behind me was a turn we'd just come around and I was sliding backward praying for traction. There was no way I would've been able to slide backward around the turn and over the edge was hundreds of feet down very steep mountainside. Finally, the traction gods grabbed my CJ and stopped the slide. I shut her down, put her in gear (no e-brake) and got out to gather myself a bit. Getting back in was no easy task. I'd just become a father a few weeks earlier and all I could think about was getting off the hill and back home to see my daughter. I finally got back in and managed to get up the hill enough to where I was out of immediate danger of sliding down the mountain, then it was relatively easy trail back to the camp. I'm glad we didn't have to drive back down that hill or my CJ would probably still be up there :)

[Sautin]

Don't have a picture but I stood mine on the front bumper in the middle of a decline on an offshoot hill on Charouleau Gap (Going from Oracle, backside of the saddle) . Was scary as hell I mean vertical. I think my brother @^&(# his pants. Man his face was priceless though.

[TRobertsRN]

I hear you Matt,

Having kids and now grandkids makes the will to come back alive very strong. I don't take the same risks as when in my 20's because of what I have to loose, that and the old bones don't recover like they used to.