Well I'm glad the other groups had a good time. The "black" group had a tough day; getting in only a half a “real” trail.
Just after the bail out on "13" Justin's upper ball joint gave out ripping apart the half-shaft. He was high-centered at the time making the repair a bit tricky. It took until around 3pm to finish…when it started to rain.
We rolled onto the short break between "13A" and "13B" and the top spring on Misha's passenger side, rear leaf pack snapped. When the rear axle moved back it yanked the drive-shaft out of the slip yoke.
Same thing happened to me at ECXC this year at the same spot of the spring pack I had worked on by the same POS spring shop in Brooklyn that Misha used…coincidence???
No.
Any-who, Misha had given me a top spring a few months ago and luckily I had it and a set of new bushings in my truck. The drive-shaft was dropped. The leaf pack was rebuilt and put into the truck. The drive-shaft got a bit chewed up when it left the slip yoke and needed a bit of work to get it to fit back into place. All this was done under a couple of tarps in the freezing rain and was not finished until after dark. We got out of the park around 7:30.
It was a very rough day that had one of the toughest guys I know crying about how cold he was…
You can watch a short slideshow of the few pictures I took
HERE