Memorial Day Mogging Trip (with pics)

[coachgeo]

Wellsville, OH.. Sorta a secret Private Campground and off road park.

Ok.... It's pretty simple. No one knows how to party like Rednecks:flipoff2: Least that's their opinion. :D

Had a great time! Folk I hung with arnt exactly the rednecks but they were pretty roudy too .... Damn good people. Most wheelers are.

It was funny to have folk whooping and hollering as I drove buy. Coulda sworn they were yelling at some star Quarterback for the Rednek Devils; a team that is the local football Champions, buttttt they were looking at ma Rig. Course maybe it was cause everyone thought I was the offroad ICE CREAM MAN too and they were hungry??? I even had a GORGEOUS BLOND SLU... I mean Redneck ask if she can go for a ride... Maybe I was a fool to turn her down... maybe not? Guess I'll Never know... less she's there next time ;)

Anyway..... here is lots of pics, some are the typical scenes looking out the Mog's passenger windshield, window, and roof hatch taken by my passenger the Lovely Cassie. (NOT the SLU.... I mean redneck blond) while others are pics Kevin took of my Mog.

Most the riders at Wellsville are on ATV's, Rail Buggys and Motorcycles. Some hellasious hill climbs. Rail buggys have hard times.. and everyone else has it twice as hard. Rail Buggys rule the land there. It was especially difficult this Memorial weekend ..

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This ones is Cassie peering out the hatch to the passenger side
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Here I went up left into the clouds then sharp RIGHT to avoid heading off into the abyss in front of me. Up top is my friends Jim and Shane.

Jims just built his junkyard S10/Blazer the week before. The whole week.... One week.... TOTAL. He put an S10 on top of a Blazer frame. Then met us their for wheeling in this truck and his Motorcycle.

Since it snowed all winter and has rained just about endlessly since winter abruptly ended in Mid April
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[coachgeo]

Looks like a muddy creek bed.... Causeeee... its a Muddy Creek Bed. buttttttt... this pic is taken out the windshield... and if you were in the Camper Box in back and looked straight out the window.. you woulda seen SKYYYY.. cause we were Nose Down. This place is just a weeeeeee bit hilly. Here we were at the Creek Bed. Like Duhhhhhhhh..... :cool:
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This one you can see the steep angle of slope just infront of me. Roads out and in where nottt much less steep and MUDDDYYYYY
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[coachgeo]

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We stopped and chatted often along the return to camp. Here Sarah, in Shane's rig, with the .... "Oh jessus... not stopped again" face.
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Jim checking his oil. Earlier he was leaking oil. It was the oil lines on the remote oil filter on the Blazer-10. Earlier in camp the leak was caught. It appeared that the flex of things where tugging on the lines. A simple unbolting of the remote filter from the fender and let it hang zip tied solved the leak.
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Rolled out of the old side and headed back to our campsite on the "new side". Drove along the River on an old industrial road.
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A pic I took the night before. Hollow Log with fire roaring inside. Log got disturbed as I took the pic. Sparks Dancing out the Door.
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One of the bikes broke a rear brake bolt head off. They guys here make a new shim for the brake lever to rotate on to replace the lost one. They drilled out of an old socket and then bolted it up with a spare bolt. Kevin is a Manager or something of that sort at a local hardware store. He carries the hardware store with him on such outtings it seems.
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now the not so fun part. ON the way home I discovered that either I blew a tranny seal.. or a portal hub seal orrrrr both. I'll keep you informed. NOTTTTT a fun fix from what I hear. I got to find someplace to work on it now. It rains everyday there is no way I can work on it outside.
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[unimogken]

Common problem.

They say that the more you drive the more the seals swell up and stop the leak.

Drive it alot and see if it will stop.

You mentioned that you filled the tranny on another thread. I don't believe that tranny oil will get to the hubs. I know theres no way for it to get into the front hubs but i'm 75% sure it won't get to the rears either.

I just bought a hub puller and installer and a specialty tool set that I can't wait to use on my 6 mogs.

If you have a leaky seal in your tranny it will just fill up your torque tube or you axle.

Later.

Ken S.

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[coachgeo]

Originally posted by unimogken
Common problem.

They say that the more you drive the more the seals swell up and stop the leak.

You mentioned that you filled the tranny on another thread. I don't believe that tranny oil will get to the hubs. .. snip

If you have a leaky seal in your tranny it will just fill up your torque tube or you axle.

Drive it alot and see if it will stop.

Ken S.



Yeah... thats the info I'm getting from several sources. Thanx!

I guess that's what I'll do "drive it" . Aaron said his started about 6weeks into driving it which falls in line with my doings..... and it took his 6 months for it to stop leaking but it did stop. Boy I sure hope so.

[coachgeo]

this whole trips pics have been updated with photos taken by Keven. So look back thru the above if you saw this a few days ago cause the pics of my mog are now included.

here is a few more.

The crew. Cassie and Gilligan, Me and Jim wondering where our woman are, and Sara and Shane
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Cassie just hanging out
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here is another. The Mog in deep................
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[coachgeo]

Originally posted by coachgeo


Yeah... thats the info I'm getting from several sources. Thanx!

I guess that's what I'll do "drive it" . Aaron said his started about 6weeks into driving it which falls in line with my doings..... and it took his 6 months for it to stop leaking but it did stop. Boy I sure hope so.

well so far about 400 miles and, NO more leaks !

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