More from the East Coast Xterra Challenge

[gothamist]

Still waiting for any pics of me in action...

Anyway, here you go.


Hey, are those...stock Xterras? I haven't seen one of them in a while.


You just know the townspeople down below were telling their kids "don't go out to the mountains today...there's some damn weirdos up in those hills!"


*shakes head*


Swampwrecker makes it up (and thankfully doesn't run over me.)

[Schludwiller]

I saw a picture of your fender on ITW. Did you damage it? How did that happen with the ARB there?

[Synchro]

well i didn't take this one from this weekend, but it is of me, which is rare.

[gothamist]

Schlud--I did damage the fender.

I came up over a hill (same one that Nissan Mike toasted his second tie rod on in the picture above) and came down HARD on a rut that I didn't know was there. The ARB slammed into the ground and seems to have flexed upwards just enough to slam into the rocker. The frame is still straight and the ARB is only a little bit off (about 3/8" right there, kind of like what happens if you winch really hard off of them), but the fender panel mounts are bent a bit. I loosened all the bolts and was able to mostly fix it but I need to take the panel off to really fix it near-perfectly.

In similar bad news, when I came down on the ARB the bumpstop compressed and the driver side tire was forced up into the fenderwell, ripping a big chunk of it out (the size of a Swamper lug) and also putting some cuts in two of the lugs.

I'm really starting to think my 32's are just too damn big to run unlifted.

[Philosopher]

OPERATOR ERROR!

[Philosopher]

There are other pics around:

http://www.angelfire.com/super/xterra/4x4.htm

http://community.webshots.com/user/rootboy69

http://www.fototime.com/inv/315FA8D21F301B4

[Matt Peckham]

Originally posted by gothamist

In similar bad news, when I came down on the ARB the bumpstop compressed and the driver side tire was forced up into the fenderwell, ripping a big chunk of it out (the size of a Swamper lug) and also putting some cuts in two of the lugs.

you should call Interco about the lugs, they may be cool about it, and repair or replace them. someone I heard ripped a few lugs off theirs and they got a brand new tire from Interco, I think they are still good at the customer service game, as they have a limited market.

Matt