I may have problems......MIGHT not be able to make it.
I went wheelin last night
(ok....it was this morning at 2 AM) in the field behind Countryside Nursery in Crystal Lake with the owner of Countryside. He had a brand new Z71, and ended up getting it stuck on an incline in a pile of mud. He didn't take off his step rails, and burried them in the hill he was trying to climb. He burried them so far, the mud came up to the doors.
He was lucky he gould get his doors open. On my way off the top of the mound (I went up a different way) to pull him out, I got stuck as well. :rolleyes: Burried my frame in the mud!
We tried digging it out, but had no luck. Luckily, one of the people riding with us has a Blazer ZR-2. They went and got it, but were clueless as to how to pull out a stuck truck. I ended up pulling my X off the hill. The Blazer didn't have the balls to get the Z71 out though(even though it has a stronger engine), so I used the X, took three hard yanks, and SOMEHOW, pulled him out(when I say hard, I mean bone jarring hard! I'm surprised I didn't break the stock tow hook!).
He ended up messing up his front bumper, cracking a huge chunk of his driver side rear fender, and somehow got a barbed wire fence wrapped around his rear axle and shreded his brake line!
I went and started my X this morning, and had no problem starting it, but it sounded like I may have seperated, or put a hole somewhere in my exhaust. It was also riding MUCH more roughly than normal. When the engine heated up, the rough sounding muffler sounded normal again, but the ride still didn't feel right.
I'm hoping it's just a case of caked on mud, but I won't know until tomorrow if I can make it. I'm going to wash it tonight and try to get all the mud off the frame and out of all the crevaces on the X, and pray to God that thats all it is.
I'll keep you posted.... :rolleyes: