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We Tackle Pismo over Memorial Day Weekend

Mega Titan vs. Pismo
Posted May 30 2008 12:06 PM by Stover 
Filed under: Editorials, Past Four Wheelin' Events, Robin Stover

Carnage Fest!


What started out as a fun weekend away from the office to test out the new ProRock Dana 80 rear axle in the Mega Titan ended up causing me to scramble this week in preperation for TTC.

Mega Titan ready to go

 

The testing went well for the most part.

Testing

 

Testing continues

That is until the driver's side rear lug nuts decided to let go.

opps!

We discovered that someone forgot to re-check torque on the lug nuts on the left rear tire.

The result is a 6,700-lb truck with only 3-wheel drive.

That didn't stop us though. We simply tossed the now unusable tire and wheel on the back of the truck and using both front and rear winches we sucked down the opisite corners of the rig's suspension. This lifted the driver's rear up out of the sand so that we could drive it back to camp for repairs.

Get'r done!
Repair job

 

 

 

 

On BIG Saturday night we took the rig out to Comp Hill and proved the new Dynatrac ProRock 80 can survive 400-HP and 46-inch tires.

Comp Hill Saturday night

 

Thanks to our good friends at Mickey Thompson we have a brand new wheel on hand so that the Mega Titan can be present for TTC.



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