BklynH2 crashes Rover Rally in Virginia

[BKLYNH2]

Here I am pulling up to our campsite. It took 12 1/2 hours to get here from NYC, mostly because of traffic getting out of the city. We got to the site at 4oam and boy was I exhausted. I thought I would just set up my tent and go to sleep. Wrong. Just to get to where our campsite was, I had to offrad two miles in the dark and cross a river. Talk about a tough commute

[BKLYNH2]

This red stuff is the nastiest mud I have ever seen.

[BKLYNH2]

This is me going up a really long, steep and windy hill climb.

[BKLYNH2]

Most of the rovers couldn't make it up this hill, so it was my big victory of the day to get up without the winch.

[BKLYNH2]

Near the top it got very tricky.

[This message was edited by BKLYNH2 on 10-13-03 at 07:11 AM.]

[BKLYNH2]

almost over the top.

[cyberaxe]

Great Pictures
My son goes to school up there,
(FUMA)
about 10 miles from whrere you were.
He's a LR nut, and knows many of the guys that were there.

His LR photos:
his 97 Discohttp://www.discoweb.org/murraypadgett/index.htm

I used to have to take my Chevy 2500 to "rescue" him, now it should be easier with the new H2!!!

[Buckeye Hummer]

I'm glad you didn't take Steve along. He tends to start trouble by going up hills backwards. I don't think the GM engineers ever did that test.

[DRTYFN]

BklynH2,
Great pics!! Looks like you had a great time.
It doesn't look like you aired your tires down. Did you? It would've helped in the mud. Let's your tire flex a little to shed the mud.

[DiscoDancingRover]

Glad you enjoyed MAR. I wish I could have gone. That 130 and 101 are sooo nice!!!!! Cyberaxe-your son has a real nice disco!

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"

[BKLYNH2]

Drtyfn
Funny you should mention that, because how much to air down was a big question for me. I started off a 30psi. I then was at the very location at the top of this page(page 2) I started to lose traction going over that hump and the weight of the H2 made it start to slide down and sideways(gravity. I then tried to take the pass around to the right of it which was also very muddy and I slide sideways into the woods. My friend said my tires weren't unloading the mud and that I should let some more air out. At that moment I could only do the drivers side because the passanger side was right up to the brush. I went down to 20psi which definately gave the tires some flex. As I tried to get out of my predicament I got some better traction but I also started to get pulled left. On the left after that hump is a big trench a little wider than the H2 and about 30" deep at the low point. Well I wound up sliding into the trench sideways. It was really hairy I thought for a second I might roll. As the H2 slid in, it hit the far wall of the trench and the rear tire got knocked off the rim. After a lot of winching I got to flat ground and changed the tire. I was afraid that I had the air too low at 20psi and that was why I lost the tire. So then I made all the tires a unifor 24psi and did much better. Couldn't get out of that mud hole but I don't think less air would have made that much of a difference. Because of the H2's weight I think anything less may be flirting with disaster.

[DURAMAX TIM]

BklynH2, the tires and wheels I got cost about what u'll pay for just the BFG MT.
One guy in our group had them, in person they look about the same tread pattern as my Generals.
BFG MT are around $200 each.
I paid $110 each for tires and wheels and got a little break on the set ($850).
I also had them put the extra short brass valve stems in when they mounted them, the whole thing is less than 3/4" long, so rocks or sticks wouldn't tear them up so easy.
The tireshop wanted $650 for the TSL on white spoke steel wheels, they had about 50 miles on them.