After flop maintenance?
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Alright verdict is in... was down some coolant & about a quart of oil. Found some extra gear oil up near rear vent tube so using as an excuse to drain and change. Popped a few rivets on fenders where my inners connect, those are fixed. Need to wash, rattle can the scrapes, should be wheeling again by next weekend
It would be a pretty epic ALS support video though.
I lost almost a quart of transmission fluid when mine flopped.
It was @macleanflood who put the adsorbent kits together and handed them out with pigmatt. I helped assemble but it was his expense.
I gave my ABSORBENT kit to him for @MagnumV8 flop. I sell this stuff. It's 1:1, 1gal absorbs 1 gallon of fluid (and it's lightweight), encapsulates any hydrocarbon, blood, acids, etc. and breaks it down to carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, fertilizer.
No need to remove it from the spill site and is approved in Miami County (and others) for landfill disposal if desired.
Also works in water, since it absorbs everything but water.
If we get together again I'll have more than a small baggie.
https://www.biomatrixusa.com/
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And Mac used biomatrix for the cleanup. It's still laying there.
I told Jeremy earlier, sucked seeing both of you flop but learned a lot from it.
+1 I have a kit in my jeep thanks to Mac! He sent a bunch on Pritchett for us, though fortunately we didn't need them.
It's like that fuel pressure gauge on my rail. Almost cheapest Chinese fuel pump and zero issues.
Carry a spill kit or a first aid kit...well...not going to say it...
@notnsuv should make spill kits and sell them on the forum, Amazon and to others.
-Mac
I can do the forum but not Amazon. Contractual.
Shipping might be prohibitive.
I'll check it out after my month or so camping in Montana.
Within an hour of getting the rubicon axles in my 97 working i flopped it "testing" them. It happens to most of us if we push our rigs
The transmission changes how we push it. Since auto swapping I can pretty comfortably test a few lines that are risky that I likely wouldn't have before with the NSG370. Of course, if a tire slips or other sudden traction change happens all bets are off.
Glad everything worked out and you finished the trail (you got back on the horse that threw ya’.)
What do you have in the way of a roll cage and how did it fare through the experience? Did you have on a shoulder belt, or something else?
What do you have in the way of a roll cage and how did it fare through the experience? Did you have on a shoulder belt, or something else?
I forget the brand but my cage has been upgraded, it has the bar over the dash and supports to the frame. As far as I can tell only damage was torn padding and a rip in my soft top. Have stock seat belt, it did its job. Problem with seatbelt was that it sinched down so tight I couldn't get it to release, thought I was going to have to cut it to get out. I have aftermarket seats with side bolsters, they were huge help! I was able to really wedge myself in place between the seat and steering wheel as it went over and they saved my ribs when I landed. The absolute hardest part with no doors is not sticking your arm out. All the scratches and damage were around where the door would have been. I could see the rock as I fell, when I stopped my elbow was rested on it
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