[ALASHA]

A small group consisting of myself, Jack (Avenger Superchargers) and Sean in his buggy ran Carnage Canyon this past weekend. This is arguably the hardest trail in the State and is definately the hardest trail I have ever run.

Sean:


Jack:


Me:


This trails get ugly from the very beginning with the entrace. Jack ripped off his driver rear tail light and I bent in a rear fender causing a little body damage as well (no biggie) and destroyed the license place mount. Jack got a few more "beauty" marks from there and I managed to rip both rear brakes lines and destroyed both rear shocks before the day was done. I may also need a new driveshaft...


I picked a few favorite pics below but you can see the whole able here:
http://s18.photobucket.com/user/bru...e&page=1&_suid=136741750602408141777888808699

 

[ALASHA]

You can tell from this pic how bad its bent. The one that is collapsed wont come out because of how bad its bent:



Lastly, this is what the underside of my JK looks like now:

 

[ALASHA]

Nice pics man. Looked like a blast despite some of the damage. You running limiting straps?

Thanks. Considering that trail's difficulty, the damage isnt that bad. I was not running limiting straps but I will be adding them once I get new shocks in.

 

[ALASHA]

A few more from the exit:

 

[ALASHA]

Great pics! Looks like fun.

Hard? Yes! Hardest in the state? Noooooo. Let me know when you want to do really hard ones! We've got Montrose and Rangely trails!

If you have something harder than this, then I probably need to do some serious upgrades.

 

[ALASHA]

As for those shocks... my suggestion would be to replace them with a set of 30.00 procomp 1000 series shocks. Yes, they ride like crap, but now that you will be wheeling more of the harder stuff, you will go through those rear shocks like water. If you do a bunch of road time, get yourself another set of the nice ones for driving around... just replace them with the shit shocks before wheeling. Your fronts are pretty safe unless you pull a rock up in there.

I like your thinking but I think I blew them out because of over extension. I think I am going to pick up the same set of shocks but this time:
http://www.jkowners.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1515614

 

[ALASHA]

Yeah man... completely agree with that thinking.

A few trips back I ripped out a bar pin and rolled my axle forward.... got lucky and caught it right before it was going to be a BIG problem. Limit straps would prevent that... so on top of saving your shocks, it will give you another benefit that if ever needed, will save your wallet big time. Cheap insurance!

The rears are at a big disadvantage sitting where they do... I have seen guys run through very expensive shocks, just as I go through the cheap ones. Now my brute force style may not help the situation, but even a careful guy will come off a rock or back into one just right, now and again.

The thing that sucks about my suggestion is while some rock crawling will not care if you run that expensive shock or the cheapo one, when the other parts of the trail call for some speed, you will lose.

Maybe my suggestion sucks! lol

Suggestion doesnt suck. Its a compromise one way or another. I did add a nice "ding" to one of the shocks in addtional to over extending so I did come down on a rock with one.

 

[ALASHA]

You could also do other things.... evo system will clean that up or even going through the tub with different mounting. But your Jeep is beautiful, why screw it up with a saw?

Not a fan of Evo do be honest. Ideally I would want to outboard the shocks but I am not in a financial position to do everything involved in achieving that correctly and yeah my Jeep is too purdy to do what you are doing.

 

[ALASHA]

Great pictures and great timing on a report. I am planning on running Carnage Canyon in the first week of July.
Any words of advice?

My set up is 4.5" lift JKU fully locked on 37's.
I have the same shocks as you do. Bilstein 7100.
Mine are the correct length for my set up.

I have 5160s but close enough.

Advice:
Bring a trailer if you can. You never know who wont make it.
Make sure your winch is in good working order.
Have basic tools.
Prepare for a long day - lots of water.
Small group will make it easier as the day will be long enough as is.
Make sure bump stops and limit straps are in place. That trail will flex you out.
Have FUN!!!

 

[ALASHA]

looks like a pretty gnarly trail. what were ya aired down to?

10 psi

 

[ALASHA]

Got a couple of pics of the drive shafts that I had to replace: