Seems that no matter what happens to others, we don't learn until it is us.

No kidding. Any it seems like all of the water related breakages keep getting worse too.
Started with alternators and minor flooding in the cabin, then ECU's, now bent connecting rods and valves..
Well, I'm sure someone learned their lesson the hard way..
Hopefully others will use this as an example, and stick with bypasses on the deep stuff or at least investigate further.

Yet another captain has received his license.

We helped some jeepers out of this hole the last time at RC in october. STay out of the mudhole. This is the mudhole before TJ's mudhole, which you can see in the backgroud.

His truck survived though.

He is lucky.