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Badlands trip 3/13/2011

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Old Mar 13, 2011 | 06:48 PM
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Heres a link to my photobucket album guys. Everyone post your pics in here so we can all see. Thanks!

http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/b...-%203-13-2011/
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Old Mar 13, 2011 | 06:57 PM
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I will post videos from the trip as well.. as soon as I can find my fire wire cable.
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Old Mar 14, 2011 | 05:01 AM
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I'm a Jeep noob, and would love to get in on the next trip to the Badlands. Been there a few times on my ATV and it is a lot of fun.

Only have 2500 miles on my Rubicon, still need to install the CB and make sure the 35s dont rub.

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Old Mar 14, 2011 | 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Blendo
I'm a Jeep noob, and would love to get in on the next trip to the Badlands. Been there a few times on my ATV and it is a lot of fun.

Only have 2500 miles on my Rubicon, still need to install the CB and make sure the 35s dont rub.

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end of this month a bunch of people are going out. Not sure I will be there but there are enough people going that can help you a long. this past weekend there were 8 of us I think and it was a short notice trip. if you disconnect your 35s will rub more than likely. my 33s did. Going to need to look into a a body lift and some flat fenders.
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Old Mar 14, 2011 | 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Nickit1981
end of this month a bunch of people are going out. Not sure I will be there but there are enough people going that can help you a long. this past weekend there were 8 of us I think and it was a short notice trip. if you disconnect your 35s will rub more than likely. my 33s did. Going to need to look into a a body lift and some flat fenders.
Nick,

I have the Teraflex leveling kit and the KM2 '35s' are more like 33.5" tall installed.

I flexed the Jeep out with a huge floor jack and came nowhere close to rubbing when disconnected, just need to get in the dirt to flex it out 100%

Lets start a thread in the Great Lakes subforum and plan it out!

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Old Mar 14, 2011 | 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Blendo
Nick,

I have the Teraflex leveling kit and the KM2 '35s' are more like 33.5" tall installed.

I flexed the Jeep out with a huge floor jack and came nowhere close to rubbing when disconnected, just need to get in the dirt to flex it out 100%

Lets start a thread in the Great Lakes subforum and plan it out!

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Do you have flat fenders? also.. did you turn your wheels all the way to the right and left? I jammed my wheels a couple times pretty good into the wells and had some slight rub.. nothing too major, but rubbing just the same. I think there is a thread already started for the next planned weekend at the badlands. I am not sure if its under great lakes though. I travel regularly from champaign up to the wisconsin border and everywhere in between and soon down to stl.
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Old Mar 14, 2011 | 09:26 AM
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you can see here I just crept up on a small rock and my tires is pretty high up in the fender. Now imagine me falling hard off a ledge... i would definitely say theres a difference between looking at flex while up on a jack or lift... and watching your jeep flex coming down/up on a cliff.
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Originally Posted by TheDirtman
There will be several forum members running the badlands the weekend of the 26th-27th
I'm gitting up some pepole to go on the 19th to if interested pm me
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Old Mar 14, 2011 | 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by ed-de
I'm gitting up some pepole to go on the 19th to if interested pm me
I think most of the guys who went this past weekend is going to some off road park down south this coming weekend. They dont want to do badlands 3 weekends in a row.
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Old Mar 14, 2011 | 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by TheDirtman
Yep we are looking at redbird this saturday.
I meant to ask ya.. how does the bottom of your jeep look after playing leap frog with those 3 boulders?
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