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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/12/2006 1:09:38 AM

ASTAR

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I'll take ya up to the Rubicon if you want. My friends and I are competent spotters that can get you through there without body damage. Let me know when you wanna go.

I'll be driving my Jeep as its a little more Rubicon friendly.

Lets go play! :D

< Message edited by ASTAR -- 7/12/2006 1:14:05 AM >

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/12/2006 5:08:14 AM

Greenblade

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so you have a hummer and a jeep or just stopping by to visit? welcome to the forum. I like that jeep, what makes the track so much wider?

I've been wondering if it owuld be sensible to pick a handful of high-damage-to-a-wide-vehicle trails, run them, gouge up the sides & then just fix the truck once. That seems reasonable.

Or, if this is what shortie calls a "troll", then:

well, as somebody needs to save the princess, and nobody rides steeds anymore, i guess it'll have to be a white hummer.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/12/2006 11:48:03 AM

shortbus

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hey Green, didn't you say it was some jeepers that tried to get you in a bad situation as they were spotting for you? makes me wonder why a jeeper, with a very nice looking jeep i might add (if it was blue, i'd think i may know the owner), would come on a hummer forum offering to assist getting through the rubicon. the gatekeeper may be destroyed now, but i'm sure there's some more hairy spots left. there's a bunch of H3's planning to run the whole route a few weekends from now, maybe they'd be interested in the offer.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/12/2006 12:11:29 PM

Greenblade

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quote:

ORIGINAL: shortbus

hey Green, didn't you say it was some jeepers that tried to get you in a bad situation as they were spotting for you? makes me wonder why a jeeper, with a very nice looking jeep i might add (if it was blue, i'd think i may know the owner), would come on a hummer forum offering to assist getting through the rubicon. the gatekeeper may be destroyed now, but i'm sure there's some more hairy spots left. there's a bunch of H3's planning to run the whole route a few weekends from now, maybe they'd be interested in the offer.

Well, i cannot say what anybodies intention was, of course. It did seem like that at the time. One

i haven't seen any sign up sheets for the rubicon, probably the august moab date is, well, pretty short notice for me anyway - about the earliest i can get anywhere that isn't within a few hours. so rubicon would probably be late in the year or even enxt year or something, and i don't even know what months its open/closed or any of that.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/12/2006 12:12:57 PM

Greenblade

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on a side note, if i had a jeep that modified (or hummer that modified or anything), i'd refuse to call it a jeep (or hummer), and i'd get my own brand of badge made.

i'd be driving an '06 greenblade, not an '06 jeep or hummer. credit where credit is due, and i think alot of these custom 4wd shops would do well to brand their creations.

This thought is one i originally read on a jeep forum, i think jeepforums or some such. Someone suggested that somebody make a buck by branding customs, and i thought that was a great idea. so i partially plagarize.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/12/2006 12:59:20 PM

ASTAR

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Greenblade

so you have a hummer and a jeep or just stopping by to visit? welcome to the forum. I like that jeep, what makes the track so much wider?

I've been wondering if it owuld be sensible to pick a handful of high-damage-to-a-wide-vehicle trails, run them, gouge up the sides & then just fix the truck once. That seems reasonable

Hahaha, no I'm not a troll and I wouldn't intentionally mislead you. I just bought an 06 SUT and tomorrow it gets the Fabtech 6" and 38" Toyo's installed, YAY!!!
The track is wider on the Jeep due to the axles (Rockwell 2.5 ton, I kep destroying 1 ton stuff) and the tires are 19" wide on a 12" wide wheel with 4.5" of backspacing. I could easily flip the hubs and add an extra 6" of width to each side but then it wouldn't fit in a lot of tight places.

As far as damaging your Hummer to run some rough trails, man, there is no way I would. I actually only plan to take mine out in the snow and some mild trails. For the hardcore, I'll take my Jeep. I have run the 'Con many times and with the gatekeeper destroyed, I think it would be doable to get the H2 to Spider Lake without damage. Yes, you would get some brush scratches (that didn't seem to be a huge concern to you) that would probably buff out. There is a new section of the trail, that where the brush scratches would likely come from.

Anyways, thanks for the welcome and I plan to be around for a while cause I Love my Hummer! :D

Let me know if you wanna go. Serious, I'll help.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/12/2006 8:03:53 PM

Greenblade

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well, hope to see you around & goo dluck with the new truck.

its not hard to find offroading places where the long wheelbase will make you happy.