Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 7:02 pm
I'd love to know what those guys were thinking after I kept going... Keen to know if there's some footage from their point of view on youtube - finding it would be the trouble with this one!yarney wrote:Wow Bennie what a rock garden love it they are the best tracks to drive on real technical
Good job on the video too good to see you didn't let us down and get stuck;) I bet the Rover boys got a shock when you went up that track:twisted:
Great country
Granitic country is the best/worst for rock technicality - the loose stuff is the worst as it moves as you pass over it, so rocks aren't in the same spot when the rear travels over it. One of these tracks was the one that gave Ruby Scoo her signature dint in front of the rear right on the sill...
Yeah Canadia goes home tomorrow... I'd like to show her some areas around benders (where I am at the mo, she's with my sis down the road) but we're out of time. So she'll just have to come back!NachaLuva wrote:"Canadia" seemed to really enjoy herself lol. Great track, Ruby Scoo did well
Loads of fun Cliff! Nothing broken on this track except some Rover owner/driver's expectationsCliff R wrote:Looks like fun.
Anything get broken ?
Looks like there was some potential for breakage.
Later on though I was in a section I've not been in before or a long time (can't remember!), it was insane, to get around one section I purposely put the side of Ruby Scoo onto a boulder to pivot around on a track, then to get around a severely rutted section with a 30cm step I took/created a chicken track but it had a stump buster (boulder in the ground) in the centre of it. Even after walking it I thought I could get around it by putting the vehicle to the left. Not so. Ruby Scoo's momentum stopped immediately, we dug 4 holes and I'd smashed my exhaust extractors on the driver's side.
I'd thought it was my silicon gasket so I re-did those one night after work, but nothing had changed. Once removed again and the heat shields were taken off I found this:
^ I could see the ding/dent you can see in the top curve of the exhaust pipe (top as it is in the pic) when fitted to the car. The removal of the heat shielding revealed the reason why Ruby Scoo still sounded like a chaff cutter!
It was a ripper job. Lucky there was no engine damage - well none that's shown up so far but I'll have my eyes peeled. So off to my uncles with this and he welded it up for me. Now Ruby Scoo sounds good and the O2 sensor is happily getting ALL exhaust so my fuel economy should be better!
To get around this rock that caused the issue we dug at it, gently snatched it, then dug a big hole and rolled it out of there and down the hill (out of the way!). Then Ruby Scoo did what Ruby Scoo does best - got us out of there to find the rover crew again
Great time out, wish I could do it more often!
Cheers
Bennie
