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Thursday – 3 to 11 PM – Check in and register
Friday – 9 AM – Driver’s Meeting
Saturday – 9 AM – Driver’s Meeting
Sunday – 10 AM – Driver’s Meeting

http://www.bigdogsoffroad.com (http://www.bigdogsoffroad.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=3&meid=2)

I'm gonna try and make this one too. :)

i'd like to. as of now, im scheduled to work friday night until about 10. that would put me in winchester around 2-3AM. ouch.

We'll all be broken and drunk by then. :laughing:

Yeah, I plan on being there. Don't see any reason why not!

i'd like to. as of now, im scheduled to work friday night until about 10. that would put me in winchester around 2-3AM. ouch.

you can preregister and get your sticker at the drivers meeting Saturday morning, or you can register then as well. No guarantee that if you wait that you'll get a sticker though. Just look for John's truck. Hope to see you there!

i should be there. i just hope we dont get the rain like we did at icebreakers:mad3:

Its rained evrytime we have went but camp toyota will be there in camp six. Should have my sas in the turbo runner done by then too.

Should be there unless I break something expensive at Harlan over Memorial Day w/e.

Should be there unless I break something expensive at Harlan over Memorial Day w/e.

Yeah really...I'm halfway contemplating that trip as well. :laughing: Ah well...shit happens.

Yeah really...I'm halfway contemplating that trip as well. :laughing: Ah well...shit happens.

I'll be at both:smokin:

I'll be there as long as nothing catastrophic happens in Moab. :mr-t:sucka

I'm gonna try and make it for a day.

DAMN! this event is right around the corner. i need to get my new transmission quick! :eek: my t-case mounts where a little low. so it was putting stress on the top 2 bolt holes of the 700r4. ended up cracking the housing where the rear main seal is. ended up running the trans dry till smoke was coming out the dipstick. oh well, atleast the buggy lasted till sunday before it gave me problems not too bad for a shakedown run. im going to go with a TCI sizzler th350 with some bells & wistles.

yeah, I know what you mean. I decided to make some major changes to my rig before the spring fling. I should get it done in time, my brother is helping me with it!

Decided the window frame must go and a full cage is going in. Locker in the front since I have to replace the cv-shaft in the D35 anyway, and adjustable links and control arms so I can re-center the diffs. Man, I can't wait for tons! Baby steps! Back yard/Driveway build baby! :D
http://a858.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/67/l_85c05def466a8ad034717ddfb3109ad1.jpg

Can't wait the three day events are more fun.

Time is ticking down. What's on everyones "to-do" list before you're ready to go?

Mine...
-limiting straps on the front
-abs pump removal
-trans flush
-looks like a mc swap on the tow rig as well.

As of last night I now have to rebuild a motor my turbo spiked at 19 pounds so this week the turbo is coming off I will be ordering a header and a set of regular 22re pistons and throwing the turbo in the trash, hope to be ready.

Only one weekend left! I've still got a couple things left to do. What about everyone else?

i finally have enough money saved up for my new transmission so tomorrow im shipping out my AA th350 ouput shaft out of my old 700r4, to this guy in flordia (twisted transmissions) hopefully ill be ready for the spring fling.

I'm planning to be there.
As long as I don't grenade anything too major, I'm planning to run Rausch Creek for the entire week following Big Dogs.

I will be there the NJJC crew

I'm going to be there. Just need to hammer out my roof pan to re-install it and wire a toggle switch for the ignition. Finishing up a friends Jeep for their Anniversary trip. Planning on pulling in Thursday afternoon.

Sean

http://a793.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/12/l_f8fdbf4f7518022a8606771f8a3e1518.jpg

Ready to go.. almost... Removed the doors and installed new U-joint axles instead of those junk CV types. Added some pipe to the "cage?" lol. Kumfy Krawler will be there! I'm hitting the rocks this time, mud makes it a pain in the a$$ to work on after!

Jumping a Mud Hole @ Ice Breaker 08
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/tui76/Kumfy%20Krawler/177444-R1-05-20A.jpg

Stronger axles for the D30...
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/tui76/Kumfy%20Krawler/0530082030b.jpg

Cage progress...
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/tui76/Kumfy%20Krawler/0529082008.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/tui76/Kumfy%20Krawler/0601081324a.jpg

Did I mention that I hate mud?? LOL
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/tui76/Kumfy%20Krawler/0519081240a.jpg

ill be there in the s10.

you may remember me as the dude that did this :D

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd285/Loose_Nut/Big%20Dogs%20Main%20Jambo%202007/0915071451a.jpg


ill be there this year in this

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd285/Loose_Nut/poker%20run%20may%2017th%20and%2018th/Poker%20run%20pics%20by%20Eric/FAT4x4Pokerrun019.jpg

cant wait. Gonna be nice and flood free (Unlike icebreakers)

cant wait!southern md boys will be there.we should have around 8 rigs.2 new buggies that just got came out of the shop saturday.should be plenty of carnage=lots of alchohol!

cant wait. Gonna be nice and flood free (Unlike icebreakers)

Thanks...its gonna rain like hell now. Actually I did hear it was going to rain but whatever...it always rains at bigdogs atleast once on a weekend.

ill be picking my trans up from the freight terminal thursday morning. i plan on being up at the cove ready to go thursday night.

Thanks...its gonna rain like hell now. Actually I did hear it was going to rain but whatever...it always rains at bigdogs atleast once on a weekend.



actually im seeing hot and sunny with a chance of a thunderstorm? Big deal. its better then the torrential down pour that lasts all day and night :) with it being 90 degrees almost ill consider it a nice chance to cool down.

yeah seriously, I've had my fill of rain and mud for a while! Got my aussie locker in with the new u-joint axles so I'm gonna test it out on some rocks this time out!

ill be picking my trans up from the freight terminal thursday morning. i plan on being up at the cove ready to go thursday night.

hey man i saw you at ice breakers riding around. Does your dog go into a coma when the day is done? Every time i saw you pass camp 6 he was just running like it was nothing to him lol. All afternoon just running, and running, and then maybe riding the fuel cell, then running haha.

Nice rig to man.

looks like today the rain is going to turn it into a mudhole and then 88+ degree weather to dry things up for the remainder of the weekend! SWEET!

http://www.accuweather.com/forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=1&zipChg=1&zipcode=22637&metric=0

I'm ready to ride all day and night!!

hey man i saw you at ice breakers riding around. Does your dog go into a coma when the day is done? Every time i saw you pass camp 6 he was just running like it was nothing to him lol. All afternoon just running, and running, and then maybe riding the fuel cell, then running haha.

Nice rig to man.

thats halarious..... people are probably like wtf animal cruelty

well shit aint looking good for me.

the status of my trans right now is below

06-05-2008 12:52AM Arrived Service Center. CHARLOTTE, NC
scheduled delivery 06-06-2008

NOT COOL! :shaking:

im going up thursday but ill be coming back into town friday to get my rig together.

Most of my crew is out, my shit is still broke, my buddy broke his foot, two of the younger dudes have HS graduations, Besides the fact that it will rain all weekend.

Most of my crew is out, my shit is still broke, my buddy broke his foot, two of the younger dudes have HS graduations, Besides the fact that it will rain all weekend.

yeah its gonna rain all weekend :rolleyes:

From what I seen at Big Dogs I dont think any of you guys are going to melt like sugar maybe float like something else....

From what I seen at Big Dogs I dont think any of you guys are going to melt like sugar maybe float like something else....


HAHA :)

We are heading out in about 30-45 mins. See everyone there!

leavin in a couple hours.!:grinpimp:

man all that rain was silly.......

to those who did not show up because of "Rain"... SUCKS TO BE YOU!! :flipoff2:

I had a great time. Post your pics and let us know how you did!

Aside from a few mangled parts, and some new character to the remaining body panels, the Kumfy Krawler proved yet again to be a capable machine. U-turn hard, Death Valley, WaaHoo, Corum, and Cobra were a nice challenge, but I never needed a winch, high lift, or wrench out there! Awesome! Heres some pics!

Kumfy Krawler, my brothers CJ5, and Mike Grissom's CJ7 on Corum, day 2.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/tui76/Spring%20Fling%2008/P1002094.jpg

A new sticker compliments of Rose Crawlers! Oh and my busted windshield. I tried to spear my brother. :eek:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/tui76/Spring%20Fling%2008/After/P1002113.jpg

My brothers got wedged and broke a driveshaft on Corum, so Doug pulled the Kumfy Krawler up to pull him out. :)
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/tui76/Spring%20Fling%2008/P1002099.jpg

I still need to get the pics from my brothers camera so I'll post more later.

On another note, I had a group of guys checking out my jeep at the field party. I had all my tools in the back so I decided to walk over just to make sure everything was on the up and up. They turned out to have been some guys that where there for the Grand Slam and had known about my ZJ from my posts on this forum. I offered to take them on a trail ride the next day but they never showed up the next day. Too bad, it was a great ride! Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to those guys for all the nice things they had to say about my ZJ, and there is MORE TO COME!!! :stirthepot:

The Spring Fling was great. Saw the Clayton guys run Insanity and it was the most unreal stuff I had ever seen in person. Worth the price of admission just for that. The dual steer rig was not of this earth. Anyway, the group I was with made an observation. The guys that are out there with their normal rigs(not $40-50K rigs) are really cool and great to talk with. We tried to speak to a couple of the higher priced rigs folks and the two we tried to engage were less than friendly. Did we just get a few bad eggs or once you get like Stan or Stu (whatever his name is) do you turn into a #$%&? Other than that, John is great. Our guides Matt and Cal are super cool too. Highly recommend Big Dogs if you can make it. Thanks John.

You cannot possibly mean Stan with the yellow and black tiger striped YJ on 47s? He's probably one of the nicest guy's you'll ever wheel with.

You cannot possibly mean Stan with the yellow and black tiger striped YJ on 47s? He's probably one of the nicest guy's you'll ever wheel with.


No kidding. Big Stan is one of the nicest guys I've met in this hobby.

I stopped to talk to him multiple times this weekend and i only have a 25,000$ rig :| Stan is the man, nice as hell and will give you the shirt off his back. There isnt anyone ive found with these so called "High priced" rigs that wont take a minute to chat, especially if your willing to stroke there ego about there rig.

if anything its the jeep guy's that piss us off. I broke down up near insanity due to a hydro line going up into my motor mount and my boy jack started the hike for help since the guy with us never stopped (He had his reason, no gas to come back) and jack made it from where we were to just before the camp reg building and a dude from new york drives by and he slows up and jack asks if he can get a ride back to camp 6... the guy keeps on going stating he's busy.... What the fuck is that shit? Then the day before we had a guy run out of gas and johnny managed to hop a ride with a cherrokee and the dude was like well, this is as far as im going, good luck..... You dont do that shit to anyone in 100+ heat. I personaly will unload my trailer to pull a dude out, i will unhook my shit and take someone back to there camp if there stranded.. that shit is why some people dont talk to certain people out here.


bleh im done ranting.

I stopped to talk to him multiple times this weekend and i only have a 25,000$ rig :| Stan is the man, nice as hell and will give you the shirt off his back. There isnt anyone ive found with these so called "High priced" rigs that wont take a minute to chat, especially if your willing to stroke there ego about there rig.

if anything its the jeep guy's that piss us off. I broke down up near insanity due to a hydro line going up into my motor mount and my boy jack started the hike for help since the guy with us never stopped (He had his reason, no gas to come back) and jack made it from where we were to just before the camp reg building and a dude from new york drives by and he slows up and jack asks if he can get a ride back to camp 6... the guy keeps on going stating he's busy.... What the fuck is that shit? Then the day before we had a guy run out of gas and johnny managed to hop a ride with a cherrokee and the dude was like well, this is as far as im going, good luck..... You dont do that shit to anyone in 100+ heat. I personaly will unload my trailer to pull a dude out, i will unhook my shit and take someone back to there camp if there stranded.. that shit is why some people dont talk to certain people out here.


bleh im done ranting.

Key words in there are New York and Jeep havent found much use for either

all jeepers arent bad, dan58 has one and he bailed me out sunday <3 and so did Mdmike. he gets double <3 <3

yeah , stan is a cool guy, but , no he prob is not going to get excited to talk to you if your first words are " Man i just took my rig through trickle, it was so Extreme" :grinpimp: you must be thinkin bout someone else !

hey fro,didnt you break a axle on something that should of been on trickle?

oh, and here you go. . . . hillbilly . .. :flipoff2:

Yeah FRO...I heard that your old rig made it further than your new one, with a new driver???

PRICELESS!

I had a great time! Spent most of the day on Saturday rescuing a broke Jeep from Friday over near Death Valley then went to the beach but managed to knock the computer out on the Scout up on the Overlook Sat. evening. Spent the night up there and got the truck recovered Sunday morning after everyone woke up. Looks like a new wiring harness and computer are going into the Scout! Then on Sunday on the way out some local kid was speeding around the corner on the back road and ran in the ditch when he swerved to miss my truck and trailer. He followed me to the Gore store and threatened to "kill me" as he put it. He threatened me and my friend and his wife and daughter and tried to run us down out in front of the Gore store. He hit my friend and rolled him over the hood of his car as I grabbed his shirt through the drivers window but he escaped and drove away. What a finish to an otherwise great trip! Can't wait till September!

Sean

Yeah FRO...I heard that your old rig made it further than your new one, with a new driver???

PRICELESS!

And that is the gospel. I have the video to prove it.

but managed to knock the computer out on the Scout up on the Overlook Sat. evening.

Then on Sunday on the way out some local kid was speeding around the corner on the back road and ran in the ditch when he swerved to miss my truck and trailer. He followed me to the Gore store and threatened to "kill me" as he put it. He threatened me and my friend and his wife and daughter and tried to run us down out in front of the Gore store. He hit my friend and rolled him over the hood of his car as I grabbed his shirt through the drivers window but he escaped and drove away.

Sean

I saw the scout in the field saturday night. What did attempt to go on a night run after you unstacked it? And if you slept in the scout...I bet you were eatin to shit with all the bugs up there that weekend.


Sucks about the kid being an ass. There always has to be a couple in the group unfortunatly.
:mad3:

Was the kid driving a cherokee?

I saw the scout in the field saturday night. What did attempt to go on a night run after you unstacked it? And if you slept in the scout...I bet you were eatin to shit with all the bugs up there that weekend.


Sucks about the kid being an ass. There always has to be a couple in the group unfortunatly.
:mad3:

We just ran camp 8 trail and then on to the Overlook. The bugs actually werent that bad.

Was the kid driving a cherokee?

No. He was driving some piece of shit tempo or something.