Dave's import 4 wheel drive gallery

This is my first adventure in my new truck. I had just gotten my new 31" mudders installed and they were just begging to be tested so I call my friend John and told him to bring his 2000 TJ Sahara down so we could go out and hit the trails. I rarely go wheeling without John as his TJ is equipped with a Warn 9000lb winch and it comesin handy especially if there is

snow on the ground and there was snow on the ground! about 12" of wet gooey slop. We headed out and decided to play with the winch as we had never really tried it out other than to pull cars back on the highway in bad weather. John winched my truck up a short steep incline with no problem at all so we felt pretty confident that we couldn't get into too much trouble. We regularly wheel in this area but this was our first time here in the snow. The place that we wheel is an old gravel pit that is now a testing ground for a logging equipment manufacturer and let me tell you those Logging Logging Skidders really tear up the ground! We generally hit the water holes early on and this trip was no exception. John figure he could drive right through

TJ free I proceeded into the same hole just to prove that my truck was superior in every way ....... NO I didn't get stuck either! I then proceeded to try this same hole from every possible angle and no matter how hard I tried I just could not get stuck!!. And that's how it went for the rest of the day. I only had one minor stuck that I got out of without assistance. !

Unfortunately for John he was running the stock Wrangler rubber so he not only got stuck on nearly level ground but he couldn't climb any of the hills unless I went up first and he followed in my tracks! It was a great day and a few other trucks showed up to try there luck as well. A full size GMC and a CJ were around for about 15 minutes but got tired really fast of continually getting stuck! Later in the day a couple of young guys showed up; one was in an 86 4Runner and the other in a 4wd S-10. The guy in the S-10 couldn't go anywhere off of the access road without getting stuck but he kept at it for a good hour! The kid in the Runner was doing reasonably well for a stock truck with a pathetic set of AT tires. My kids thought it was great seeing Dad drive the new truck through all sorts of obstacles without a single stuck (that required assistance) all day

Ahhh spring time in Paris........Paris Ontario Canada that is!! I had just gotten the truck back from its trip to the paint shop to deal with a bad case of body rot and decided to do some wheeling! I grabbed my camera and headed out with my ever vigilant wheeling buddy John and his TJ. The first course of action was to get some pics to remember the shiny paint work by.

Then it was time to get my fix of wheelin! so we headed for the hills and played for a few minutes and them we went for the water. We did the main trail around and up the backside of the hill and then down through the brush to the water.

Things were going pretty well until I decided to take the route through the rocks to get out of the tail end of the water. I got pinned between two rocks and when I gave it some gas, all I heard was KaPING!!! I broke my passenger side rear leaf! The top two leaves were broken right at the U bolt! Luckily I had made it out of the rocks so we parked my Toy and wheeled for a couple more hours in the TJ until dark. We picked up the 4Runner and limped home (luckily home is only 5 minutes away) to order new springs and hope for better luck next time. It was still great to get the top off and get out on the trails! By the way: