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Post by Johnny Ram on Oct 18, 2005 8:23:08 GMT -5
No, not the sissy little 4 wheeled bikes...lol
My best 4 wheelin experience involved 6 feet of air under my Dodge, and my worst one involved being upside down underwater in an 85 Blazer with 12 inches of lift.
Details if you want'em.
How bout Y'all??
JR
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Post by godlikedodge on Oct 18, 2005 11:26:33 GMT -5
I want detail I want details!!!
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Post by BirdDog on Oct 18, 2005 11:56:21 GMT -5
Details would be awesome!!
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Post by Johnny Ram on Oct 18, 2005 12:18:09 GMT -5
OKOKOK, Here you go: ![]() dodgetruckworld.tenmagazines.com/gallery/johnnyram/150017.jpg[/img] ![]() dodgetruckworld.tenmagazines.com/gallery/johnnyram/150016.jpg[/img] I was stationed at Ft Bliss TX for 3 1/2 years in the Army. There is a place called Red Sands about 20 miles out of El Paso on Montana BLVD. I was out fooling around on the sand dunes when an Idea hit me: "Why not jump it?" So I did, about 20 times, I went up the side of a 4 foot dune and launched into the air about 6 feet, one of the landings was a little off, and cost me a bearing, but it drove home. IT WAS SWEET!! The latter happened about 6 years ago and I didnt have a camera back then: I lived in Greenville TX (20 miles east of Dallas) and there was a place with about 100 acres of nothing but trails, owned by the Army Corps of Engineers near Wiley, on Lake Lavon and a tributary of the Sabine River. We went out there every weekend and 4-wheeled like crazy. I had a 1985 Chevy Blazer with a 454, turbo 400, 4.88's turning 44 inch tsl's under 14 inches of lift. First of all, this is a poster child reason to NEVER, I MEAN NEVER go wheeling alone!!!! EVER!!! I was wheeling on a bank beside a creek that was about 6 feet deep, when the bank gave way. As it did, I tried to steer up the hill so I wouldnt go over, and just as I did this my left wheel fell into a washout, the truck went over, rolled twice and landed upside down in the creek, all you could see was the bottom of the axles and the tires. I was holding my breath forever it seemed, when i finally "woke up" and and realized where I was. I was able to crawl out from under the truck because I never wheel with the windows closed for that exact reason. it took me a week to find a tow service to help me get out, and 500 bucks later, she was on all fours again. It took me 2 weeks of no sleep to rebuild the engine, tranny and transfer case, and even longer to fix the roof, but she ran again for another 5 years. I got more, but none as dramatic as those two. JR |
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Post by frenzy on Oct 18, 2005 12:31:05 GMT -5
WOW ! Interesting reading JR !!!!!!!! Too bad you didn't have a camera !! Pics would have been priceles!!
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shannon
Stock Ride
its all about the DODGE baby!!
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Post by shannon on Oct 18, 2005 14:43:00 GMT -5
skip stories......want pictures!!!!!!!!! seeing is believing!!!  |
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Post by frenzy on Oct 20, 2005 3:15:12 GMT -5
I'm with Shannon !!!
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Post by ufo on Oct 23, 2005 9:52:01 GMT -5
cool stories, and yes picture would be cool.
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Post by ufo on Oct 23, 2005 9:55:59 GMT -5
 this is a picture of me about 2 in half years ago. i wasnt trying to get stuck but i ended up getting stuck as you can see. this picture was taken before things got real ugly. but anyway where i am standing is a good 4 feet from the edge of my pond, and how i got there was i was backing the truck up around the pond to my brothers green house, but didnt realize i was so close to the pond. anyway long story short the truck sank and sank and sank until it the body and pretty much resting on the ground, it took almost 5 hours to dig and pull it out of the mud. |
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Post by Johnny Ram on Oct 25, 2005 9:57:08 GMT -5
Here you go, this is the Dune Hopping adventure!    I didnt ge a pic of the 6.5 foot jump, as my buddy fudged the simple job of taking pictures...lol The one in the air is on the way down, about 4 feet where he took the pic. JR |
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maxxram
6" Suspension
The Bigger the Better
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Post by maxxram on Oct 25, 2005 10:07:45 GMT -5
Awesome pics!
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Post by toytyler on Oct 25, 2005 12:28:22 GMT -5
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Post by ufo on Oct 25, 2005 19:08:01 GMT -5
cool dune pictures
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Post by panthers65 on Oct 26, 2005 21:31:00 GMT -5
toy i'm not gonna lie to you, i'm too lazy to read a d**n word in that, but i like those pics though
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Post by BirdDog on Oct 27, 2005 6:49:51 GMT -5
Awesome looking pics JR!!
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Post by Johnny Ram on Oct 27, 2005 8:34:27 GMT -5
HOLY CRAP!!!! I can honestly say, though I have seen just about everything in the woods, I havent seen everything in one trip!! Nice vids! Sounds like a fun trip!!! See now, it takes a DODGE to save the day!!! lol JR |
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Post by toytyler on Oct 27, 2005 12:32:45 GMT -5
I wish i had the pics of what happened to that dodge the other week man. Jamie had it in for some fuel pump work. The place was closed for the weekend and some kind of wiring problem and the truck burned to the ground all weekend long. sad, but true.
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Post by toytyler on Oct 27, 2005 12:33:22 GMT -5
toy i'm not gonna lie to you, i'm too lazy to read a d**n word in that, but i like those pics though there's vids in there too. pretty funny nuts in there. |
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