What special emergency gear do you pack?
I thought I'd pack a small sheet of plywood. If I ever have to jack up the truck on some soft ground. I will also pack a small sledge hammer if a wheel is stuck / fused and it wont come off. W...
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Just a little story about being prepared when you go off-roading in a Jeep. Much of this would roll right over (so to speak) to the XTC.
Several of us hard-core jeepers were going up one of the named trails at the Hammers in So. Cal. I think it was called Outer Limits. I was trying to creep up a dry waterfall of solid rock @ 130:1 low range, ARB's on, when the solid mount of the stock L-frnt spring hanger pulled right off the frame. It was about a 45 deg. angle or more but there was room to get under the jeep and find out what we needed to do. I have an on-board, high frequency welder and luckily the angle was such that the pickup for the oil pump was at the rear of the engine, just the right place to keep oil going at that angle as you needed to set the rpms to the amount of amps you needed to weld on the frame with 7018, high nickel content rod. As it worked out, we got out the 2 ton come along, winch cable (used to pull the solid axle forward), 1-1/2 ton scissor jack, 12" square, 2" thick jack board, 4 ton hydraulic bottle jack, the 60 inch high lift jack (farm jack), 1000 pound capy straps, and my 5 foot pry bar. We needed absolutely everything to get the leaf spring back into position to weld. As Frank was welding the rest of us were holding prybars and jacks in position. It took a while but we had all the right stuff to get the rig going again. After repairing the suspension, I did have to winch up the waterfall after all.
jefe
Several of us hard-core jeepers were going up one of the named trails at the Hammers in So. Cal. I think it was called Outer Limits. I was trying to creep up a dry waterfall of solid rock @ 130:1 low range, ARB's on, when the solid mount of the stock L-frnt spring hanger pulled right off the frame. It was about a 45 deg. angle or more but there was room to get under the jeep and find out what we needed to do. I have an on-board, high frequency welder and luckily the angle was such that the pickup for the oil pump was at the rear of the engine, just the right place to keep oil going at that angle as you needed to set the rpms to the amount of amps you needed to weld on the frame with 7018, high nickel content rod. As it worked out, we got out the 2 ton come along, winch cable (used to pull the solid axle forward), 1-1/2 ton scissor jack, 12" square, 2" thick jack board, 4 ton hydraulic bottle jack, the 60 inch high lift jack (farm jack), 1000 pound capy straps, and my 5 foot pry bar. We needed absolutely everything to get the leaf spring back into position to weld. As Frank was welding the rest of us were holding prybars and jacks in position. It took a while but we had all the right stuff to get the rig going again. After repairing the suspension, I did have to winch up the waterfall after all.
jefe
