Day 14-16 Moab, Utah. (western most point reached)
we’ve been in moab for 2 and a half days now, so far we’ve done fins and things, and the beginning of moab rim. both were pretty crazy, i’ve never seen terrain like this. the strangest thing i think is getting use to driving offroad when there aren’t trees everywhere. if you roll out here or your vehicle gets away from you it’ll be going for awhile.
it’s not uncommon to have 30ft minimum cliffs on one or both sides of your vehicle. make you feel alive, and trust in all the bolts only YOU tightened…i think. the drivetrains have been rock solid, the 5.38 gears hold with security on slopes you’d have trouble walking down, and the brakes are really just supplemental, although they hold tight as well. i’ll post some basic videos and pictures of the exploits so far.
we are waiting on krage to send evan’s new carborator, he was wrestling with it earlier today with new plug wires to no avail. it seems to be missing and stumbling and hopefully this new part will remedy it. since we still need to drive home. we’ll be here one more day and in a few hours i want to go hit hells revenge and other trails in the area. there are over 100 trails within ten miles to choose from, so you really can’t miss.
So it’s been a great trip so far, 11 states, 2500 miles or so. new updates soon.
Paul
July 30, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Paul & Evan,
Please let me know your planned route back thru WV from Toledo.
Are you still planning to pass thru Cleveland?
Sorry I missed your call the other day. I have 3 copies of the Parkersburg Newspaper saved for you. Advise mailing address so I can get them mailed to you or maybe I can meet up with you on the return trip and deliver them personally.
Bruce Mullen Harrisville, WV 304-643-2184 home 800-356-4065 work
304-299-1415 cell
July 31, 2008 at 4:16 am
I’ve been checking in periodically, an I’m glad to see that you’re doing well. Sounds like the right decision to make Utah your turn around spot. What incredible scenery, and what an amazing trip! Those pictures and the jeeps are just really neat.
I stumbled upon your website while looking for information for my red 1948 CJ2A, and you gave me the courage to take my 10 year old son on a 200 mile trip down to visit some friends along the Ohio River in Indiana a couple weeks ago. It was a blast! If I was 20 years younger, I’d probably go cross country as well.
I also wanted to tell you I enjoyed the Johnny Cash, good choice.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who would take apart a transmission when the lever got knocked out, and it is cool that you laugh at your mistakes.
Just be safe, and continued good luck!
J.B. Edmondson Clayton, IN
July 31, 2008 at 5:05 am
first, Bruce, thanks for holding on to those newspapers, i’ll drop you a line soon when we do finially leave moab. we appreciate you getting in touch, because i don’t think the newpaper followed through. thanks again.
J.B.
thanks for checking into the site and keeping up with us, glad to hear you got out there on a long distance trip of your own. (haha trust me, even a 10mile trip is a long distance feeling trip in one of these rattletraps). if you ever are looking to swap ideas/questions/parts on your 48 hit us up, i’m sure one of us had dealt with it at some point, and we always have questions ourselves.
-Paul
August 1, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Great video of the Moab area – I want to visit Moab someday!
Really had a good laugh about the tranny – sounds like something that would happen to me!
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