NachaLuva
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Venom, Pezimm, Dedman, idw & myself met at the Macedon United servo & after a quick intro & chat, Dedman lead the way into Wombat State Forest. We pulled over to air down, but missed an opportunity to line up the Subies...oh well
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We soon found our first bog hole, reasonably deep but firm underfoot
As we went through, it sent a torrent of water into the next bog hole lol, but that turned out to be too easy
After a while we found a nice little track coming off the main road
Am I really stuck?
After Venom was winched out, Dedman decided he would give it a go too. Using a lot of momentum, he got a car length further than Venom before becoming well & truly stuck in the goo. He winched out forward then, with a call of "I'll stay out of the ruts", tried coming back. The rear briefly stayed on the ridges before falling in & the front followed soon after.
Stuck again! :rotfl:
As he was winching out I noticed the front wheels seemed to be pointing in a lot. When we got back to the road we found this:
That tie rod is meant to be straight! There had been a tree root in the rut hidden by mud that he had hit pretty hard
Adjusting as much toe as possible for the short drive back to idw where they swapped out a spare tie rod
After Dedman & idw left, Venom, Pezimm & myself continued looking for more adventure, also a creek or clean(ish) hole to wash the mud out of Venoms front wheel. It was completely filled with sticky, gooey bog. No water was found, everything was dry, but on the way out we found a few nice little tracks. Nothing hard, just very scenic.
Back home, before a wash:
After:
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[/URL]We soon found our first bog hole, reasonably deep but firm underfoot
As we went through, it sent a torrent of water into the next bog hole lol, but that turned out to be too easy
After a while we found a nice little track coming off the main road
Am I really stuck?
After Venom was winched out, Dedman decided he would give it a go too. Using a lot of momentum, he got a car length further than Venom before becoming well & truly stuck in the goo. He winched out forward then, with a call of "I'll stay out of the ruts", tried coming back. The rear briefly stayed on the ridges before falling in & the front followed soon after.
Stuck again! :rotfl:
As he was winching out I noticed the front wheels seemed to be pointing in a lot. When we got back to the road we found this:
That tie rod is meant to be straight! There had been a tree root in the rut hidden by mud that he had hit pretty hard
Adjusting as much toe as possible for the short drive back to idw where they swapped out a spare tie rod
After Dedman & idw left, Venom, Pezimm & myself continued looking for more adventure, also a creek or clean(ish) hole to wash the mud out of Venoms front wheel. It was completely filled with sticky, gooey bog. No water was found, everything was dry, but on the way out we found a few nice little tracks. Nothing hard, just very scenic.
Back home, before a wash:
After:
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