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Many people have done this including me on this occasion.

Sheared a 9” shaft off. Didn’t have a spare and bronco was in middle of an extremely narrow trail next to a creek. Duct taped plastic bags and rags over the axle tube, crimped the brake line and then slung a tree trunk under the rig. Used the winch line over a cross member to hold the trunk in place with one end at the frame rail and the other under the axle and dragging on the ground.
Got out to the trail head and brought a trailer up to load.

Buddy broke a main leaf at the rear shackle so we jacked it up and put a stump between the axle and frame. Strapped in place and drove out. He also had his rear mounted battery cables in a bad spot. They got wiped off the frame by the leaf when it broke. We taped up 2 sets of jumper cables to reach the front. Worked fine.
 
years ago (15ish) our club had a trip to the Caruthers Lake/Mountain Ben lake area in MT (very remote, steep, rocky). Friends TJ had a dead tree branch stab the underside of his jeep and tear out all his fuel fittings near the tank. it was impossible to fix on the spot with what we had (idk, some special Fiat chysler jeep unobtanium fuel fittings). another jeep broke an axle trying to turn around on the trail. so we used my toyota p/u in the back for extra brakes while the now 3wd jeep and another jeep towed together from the front and we drove all the way out of the trail as a train of four rigs tow-strapped together.
 
While on the Rubicon my brother taco’d the draglink on his XJ. Batteries, jumper cables, welding rod and a craftsmans wrench let him finish the trail + drive home to Washington St.

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Jammed my shoelaces in a hole in a tire with a leatherman and made it back out of the woods. Only had to stop and fill it up with air twice. Also used a gummi bear and some electrical tape to seal up a valve stem that got sheared off on a rock.

I had a marmot chew the wiring out of my truck while I was gone on a day hike. I had driven in a forest service rd until the snow was too deep, then hiked from there. Came back tired & worn out to a crank-no start. Beside a plug wire, the main show stopper was the crank sensor wires. Had just enough still sticking out of the connector to strip & twist'n'tape. That fucker did a thorough job, bite marks everywhere underhood and on the rear harness to the fuel pump and tail lights.

Seized a front pinion once, forgot the transfer case was in 4x but the front ADD was unlocked. Somewhere along the way the oil must have leaked out. About 30mins into the highway it locked up hard and skidded the rear tires too. Slid off to the shoulder. Took a look underneath at the sizzling & smoking front diff and realized what happened. I was halfway through a 6k mile road trip around the West. Next morning I was in a town so figured parts could be found if need be. Put the truck in 4lo and rocked it back and forth until the diff broke loose with bangs & crunches. Poured some oil in and continued on. Had to use it a couple days later when it rained overnight and the BLM roads turned to red clay mud. Lot of grinding but made it out.
 
Back in '09 I broke a Ford D60 in half at Rausch Creek
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94toytruck was there. We took the passenger side apart to remove the bent inner axle, then managed to put the Axle tube back into the diff and ratchet strap and chain everything back together

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We were down in the valley so we hitched a strap to 94toytruck's rig and he assisted me as I drove out in RWD.
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I've whittled so many goddamn sticks to cram into front axle holes I've thought about carrying a couple good ones behind the seat. I had a sch80 pipe that worked great to bend tie rods back when you stuck the tie rod in the hitch. Rolled and folded plenty of radiator tubes before filling the system back up with water from a stream. I don't really have any good big trail fixed because I never wheel with groups and behaving like that kinda retard alone isn't a great idea. :laughing:
 
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JpZombie said:
While on the Rubicon my brother taco’d the draglink on his XJ. Batteries, jumper cables, welding rod and a craftsmans wrench let him finish the trail + drive home to Washington St.

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I've seen people use a highlift handle as a sleeve over a taco'd tie-rod. Have someone drive over it to get it back to close to straight, then sleeve and weld the sleeve in place. Having a Karnage welder makes all this possible. Karnage Welder Or in this case use the main part of the highlift.

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Slander said:
Interesting way of saying that you don't wheel
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I'm kinda glad I don't wheel anymore TBH. Dicking around with shitboxes does kind of have a better ROI than driving a couple hours for a 50% chance of finding out I got bad info and that there's a gate on something.
 
A bunch of the current group I wheel with is still on leaf springs. These guys will wipe of the dirt and gorilla tape the leafs together with no wire wheel the rest of the day and change them at camp. Only time they really stop and fix one right away is if the main breaks on the frame side.
 
I watched a friend rip off the A- Arms off of his buggy
He had a fleet of them running around locally that he built, so the other guy went back to camp and put his buggy on the trailer
while of the trailer, he took off the needed components and ran them out to the other broke stuff, replaced, and drove it back
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I thought it worked out
 
Wrapped some flat strap around a broken tacoma leaf spring

Please take the bait, please take the bait please please:laughing:



My willys jeep was free for my buddy's to use, but apparently putting gas in it was too much to ask:laughing: I wound up in the desert solo out of gas, but gravity fed some nasty rusty fuel into a soda can, then zip tied it to the motor mount, then I'd transfer another 12oz every half mile or so...

Lots of wrong sized belts rerouted, running on the back side of tensioners etc

Beating on gas tanks to get a fuel pump started again, don't shut it off...

Sandpaper. Lots of sandpaper on contacts

Use a hot optima to jump start somebody's rig without cables by flipping it over and touching posts.

That's not badass enough for my homie, now he does it with a lead acid battery, but fast :laughing:

used the last already cut zip tie floating in the bottom a toolbox to hold a stripped dist rotor screw into the shaft on a Honda at 3am for a stranded friend. 18yo exgf, I tell her what to tell her dad it needs in the morning. He goes out and looks at it, orders the distributor and asks her what kind of beer to buy me:laughing:

Not a trail fix, but my mom's 98ish explorer shit the tcase. Common problem, no good used units, high dollar for reman. I tear it down and cut shit apart, cut the flange off the sliding high low collar, tack it to the planetaries so it just holds it in high, 2wd/4hi still worked. She dailied it for a few more years before my sister took it back east and drove it till the body rusted to shit
 
Many years ago was with a group on Pritchett and one broke a 9" axleshaft. We found/extracted enough pieces to put it back together and stickwelded it trailside, and he (gingerly) finished the trail.

More years ago, I broke a 9" axleshaft on the granite slabs at the Rubicon; there was no saving it, but we got it out to Loon (? trailhead lake on the west side), took it apart, concluded that it was wasted and either needed a trailer (didn't have) or a creative fix. Half a pair of Levis was then stuffed very carefully into the housing to act as an inboard support and stop the shaft from wobbling, and drove it from there to the Bay Area to fix it properly at my folks' house. The locker was packed completely solid with liquified Levis when we took it apart, but everything important/expensive (other than the wasted shaft) was salvageable.
 
90supra said:
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Had an upper link mount fail on the axle which took out the coilover. This happened right about whale tail on Chinaman's. The assortment of straps, chunk of wood, and a Hilift replacing the coilover got me off the trail and back to camp.
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Wild. We took our stock 2001 Tacoma through Chinaman several years ago. Locker didn't work. Didn't break anything at all and had to bu tugged off a could boulders.

A Jeep group came up behind us at one point, so we let them by. Everyone going over the V, we're last and I hear them here saying there's no way we could get down it without dragging a diff. We were the only rig that went down it without dragging a diff :laughing:
 
A Floor mat, some drywall screws and liquid nails sealed a 46" baja claw enough to wheel. After that I melted a cheap battery terminal.
I have the tire picture somewhere. I couldn't believe it at the time.

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New kid had just started wheeling with us, had just bought an Xj we told him to do a basic tune up first he did.
Died on trail no spark, looked over everything pulled rotor cap button was missing in the cap, new cheap cap button turned to dust. Got to looking around he had wired in a stereo with wire nuts, ripped one off cut the spring out jammed it in place of the button, ran fine for the next 6 months
 
Wheeling with an Aussie buddy and I was the bad boy to hot dog it and spin a rock into the radiator of the guy behind me. Aussie buddy said "just smash a potato into it".:homer: We went to the local store and bought a potato and smashed into the hole. Dude not only drove it 200 miles home but he drove it all week to work just because he was in awe. Worked flawlessly. Said it was cooked perfectly when he removed the radiator the next weekend.:laughing: Therefore, I always try to remember to throw a potato into my tool box.
 
Was out running a trail in the north side of Moab when landen300 had a fuel pump take a dump on his rig.
We plugged all the vents and whatnot on his fuel tank and plumbed in my CO2 power tank to give him a few PSI and he motored home to the VRBO on the south side of town on it. It was kinda funny, it ended up carbonating his fuel, and you could hear it fizzing and popping all night.

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