Tough Wranglers Laugh Off Mechanical Issues While Playing in Snow
Neither busted brake lines nor getting stuck in the snow will keep these Wranglers from having fun in the Canadian winter.
Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean you can’t have fun in the snow. Any given Jeep was made for times like these naturally, and the aftermarket can help make things easier to handle, no matter what the conditions.
Most of the time, anyway. YouTuber Casey McFarlane (a.k.a., Casey_250) and a few of his friends spent a random winter afternoon in their native British Columbia working on a short film involving a pair of Wranglers, snowboards, and an inflatable T-rex suit.
“Today, we are out shooting a snow-wheelin’ video,” says McFarlane, “with our fellow YouTubers Loki Lights. Candace and Eli are in ‘Xena,’ the black Jeep that you’ve seen on this channel a couple times. They are just at the top of this hill right now. We’re trying to get them down.”
As it turns out, the Wrangler Unlimited couldn’t get up the snowy trail, as the compacted snow turned into “a sheet of ice,” according to McFarlane. Thus, Eli is helping Candace and ‘Xena’ go back down the trail in reverse. Eli tells McFarlane that if the Wrangler had a nicer winch, he and Candace would have kept climbing the slippery trail.
“We kinda got into a bit of a predicament,” says McFarlane. “I slid off a bank when I was backing up here. So now, we gotta winch outta here because with the amount of snow we have, we pretty much can’t do anything as far as traction goes.”
With the winch anchored to a tree across the way, McFarlane’s modded Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon digs out of the bank to get back on the trail to the big adventure up ahead.
Snowboards on, McFarlane on his Rubicon’s custom tire carrier, and it’s off for a bit of slow-speed snowboard skiing and tobogganing and filming. But that’s nothing compared to the star attraction (aside from the Jeeps, of course).
That’s right: a T-rex on a snowboard, carving a trail of hilarity behind McFarlane’s Rubicon. Alas, a less hilarious thing had to get in the way of the fun.
“We managed to clamp off the brake line,” McFarlane says of his Rubicon’s broken brake line. “I used two clamps, double-clamped it. The first one, I tested; it’s holding. I put another one after it to double it down, and I added some zip ties. Kept my speed sensor in place.”
And while the Rubicon is pulling hard to the driver’s side, “it has pretty good brakes for now.” McFarlane adds that the fix allows him to still go off-road, meaning more fun in the snow.
No matter how tough things were that day, nothing stopped McFarlane and his friends from enjoying the snow in their Wranglers. That’s just how well Jeeps can handle winter, after all.
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