2022-02-28, 08:24 PM
(2022-02-28, 05:22 PM)MojaveGeek Wrote: Wow, what an awesome truck repair saga. You're skilled and must have had or borrowed tools to be able to fix it out there at the campground. Quite the story. But yes, better to have failure there than out on the White Rim. You could have walked back to SPW if you'd needed but out on the Rim you are a long long ways from anyone. Both roads have some traffic though.
Must have felt pretty intense when that joint failed. Ouch! Thanks for the story!
They give VERY little warning before failure. Kinda thing that makes you paranoid after a while. I do all my own truck repair, so I'm always armed with just about every tool I could need. It's a lot of weight to carry, but sometimes self-rescue is your only option. Especially if you don't want to spend 6mo gas money fixing a relatively simple thing because you're just a "tourist" who broke down.
This failure was ... interesting. I was going about 25-30mph over the gentle up & down sand dunes out there after that big blow seen in my images loosened it all up. Luckily it was soft sand to ride it out about 50yrds after it went.
Second time in White Rim I was crawling down a step at about 1/2mph and it just barely popped out. I only had to replace the LBJ because it wasn't the yard sale that I had in DV. All the bolts were fresh too! Lol.
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