Anyone interested in going to the rock crawling championship in Johnson Valley? The event will be held on September 19, 20 and 21st. It was a blast to watch last year. I am planning to attend the finals on Sunday the 21st.


Ok, so here's who's in:
bajasixer (sunday)
sarah/rick
nailer341
blktj
igofshn (sunday)

that is something that would really like to see... hmmm? i have to try to get free on those dates. is there camping there on those dates?

woohoo!! we're in!

yes Erik there's usually tons of people camping. count me in.

I nominate Nailer341 to run the stock class !!! All he needs is a cage ! ;)

Screw that, I nominate ME!!! I'll drive all those redneck hillbillies into the ground!!! wait... on second thought... yeah... Nailer... yeah... that would be good... right...:D

lol.... yea.. if only i had a cage :D :wave:

camping sounds good too! brian, you'd be too scared to scratch the jeep!!! :P

Originally posted by blkTJ
Screw that, I nominate ME!!! I'll drive all those redneck hillbillies into the ground!!! wait... on second thought... yeah... Nailer... yeah... that would be good... right...:D

Will you be bringing your sock???

igofshn,

i'm sure we can arrange to have one there!!

you showin' up for this event?!

Originally posted by sarah
igofshn,

i'm sure we can arrange to have one there!!

you showin' up for this event?!


I'll probably go for Sunday only.

Originally posted by NAILER341
lol.... yea.. if only i had a cage :D :wave:

Everyone sing . . . "If I Only Had A ..."

"I would wile away the hours...."

T :D

OK, OK, enough about socks and the Scarecrow... or was it the Lion... I can't remember... anyway... enough about that.

I can't get out there until Saturday morning, I figure I'll camp that night. We should plan on a BBQ. If someone can get out there Friday night and reserve us a spot that would be cool, but I don't think it's necessary.

Last year some guys did one of the hammer trails after the competition, that could be fun to watch as well if we can hook up with some folks. Anyway, is this a plan???:confused:

it's a plan stan!

Originally posted by blkTJ
Screw that, I nominate ME!!! I'll drive all those redneck hillbillies into the ground!!! wait... on second thought... yeah... Nailer... yeah... that would be good... right...:D

as not to offend... I thought I'd add that since I'm from wisconsin, shoot things and eat them... I consider myself to be a bit of a reneck hillbilly as well. just for clarification...:D

yes, add to that list your venicin jerky!! LMAO

Originally posted by blkTJ
as not to offend... I thought I'd add that since I'm from wisconsin, shoot things and eat them... I consider myself to be a bit of a reneck hillbilly as well. just for clarification...:D
lol... you hillbilly!
that is some funny stuff! well... as much as i'd like to jump right in and say... "hell yea, i'll run that silly little trail" i think i better get a few things in order before i put myself on the line :)
i'm hoping to be able to just drive my jeep there for this....
this is indeed something i want to see, at least!
see you there!

next up - rock crawling championships! what day/time is everyone interested in?

I would really love to see this, but I need to get my Jeep inorder that weekend . . . for Calico :D We'll see.

aw man ... we need to do a run so you can break in your jeep! :D

so what's up with this? I'm thinking of coming out Saturday morning. Anyone?

count me in! anyone want to jeep -a- van? where is this place,?

I will be there with a couple of my wheeling buddies.

Andrew

Here is some info...

calrocs JV (http://www.calrocs.com/johnsonvalley/championship_2003.htm)

This is not an area of JV I've been to before. We need a meeting place. I believe Ricks place is kinda on the way. If we meet there we can also make sure Sarah is awake.;)

I've never met you guys before. I will be camping with a couple of my friends NEAR to the same location I camped last year (N34 23.543 W116 31.329). My camp site will probably be to the left side a long the dirt road a couple of miles before the dry lake bed. Any way, stop by and say "Hi" I'm driving a '97 Krylon rattle can Olive Drab Green TJ. My gun metal grey Cherokee should be close by. I hope to see you soon.

Andrew

I was reading the CalRock direction, it seems to me that the event is going to be ~20 from JV. It seems that the event is in Lucerne Valley at the intersection of Transmission line road and Granite road, is this true?

Andrew

so you guys are thinkin' saturday? baja sixer said that the championships are on sunday ... that's when they're going - i guess it really doesn't matter, sure we can meet at rick's! i'll wake up! ;)

SARAH!!! Take the MJR Banner!!!!! if you go, that is :D :8

yeah, Saturday, let's do Saturday. Rick's place, 9am?

Originally posted by Andrew_TJ
I was reading the CalRock direction, it seems to me that the event is going to be ~20 from JV. It seems that the event is in Lucerne Valley at the intersection of Transmission line road and Granite road, is this true?

Andrew

I guess we have to assume they wouldn't lie to us.:D

Since it's not at JV, I'm going to pass on this event.

Andrew

Directions from the site :
From Victorville; take Highway 18 to Camp Rock Rd., 4 miles make right on Granite Rd., follow signs to event site, about 2 miles.

9 am at rick's tomorrow morning :D
who's all in besides brian?

we might be in for sunday too ... we'll see.

AS MUCH AS I WANT TO GO TO THIS, Im not going to make it...

:mad: :( i have some things i have to do fro calico.

wussy!! :P

:yay: showed up (late, haha) and we headed out to Lucerne Valley for some lunch. We probably got to the event about noon and saw our Rubicon buddies! (Hey Dan!) We also ran into the famous Robert Yates from Jeep BBS and Mike too. It was a pretty neato event - there were two rollovers that :shades: and I missed while we were going to get :yay: a water from his Jeep!

SEE THE PHOTOS (http://myjeeprocks.com/jeeps/jv_crawl.php)

Oh yeah, and
This event IS at Johnson Valley!

great pics Sarah!:yay: I think this was my favorite rig of the day.

http://myjeeprocks.com/jeeps/jv_crawl/IMG_5353.jpg

the yellow cj5 was pretty sweet as well. (clay?)

that looks like a good time :wave: but, the truth is, i broke my darn drive shaft, and had to get it fixed. and it is time to take care of the "shim" problem, which i think contributed to the weakened shaft:rolleyes: .
sorry i missed it, i really wanted to go to this thing. oh well... there's always next year.
GREAT PICS! bacon :)
:wave:

thanks bri! erik, you did WHAT?

Originally posted by sarah
thanks bri! erik, you did WHAT?
i dont know if you remember, but i was having some trouble with my pinion angle. i had the 6* shims, which is what the sye suggested, and the last few runs, at flex, or under pressure of inclines, the drive shaft yoke was touching the rear end yoke. this weekened the ears on the driveshaft yoke. so, when i floored it to get across the intersection the driveshaft ear broke. i have it fixed now, and am up and running again. i'm just glad it didnt break the transfer case when it was slapping around down there :)
i just got finished with the shims today... i reduced them to the 4* shims. i think that will take care of the problem.
i also finally got the warn hub conversion in there with the heavy duty shafts :D .