dunefreak

jeez! Give me a break. :xmas_lipsrsealed: I forgot to pick some up this time around. Maybe next trip

The weak link was the spindle that broke. The frame broke because of previous cracks that were welded up and it was still weak. I talked to Nannette @ ShortSandCars today and explained the whole situation. She said she'll have Larry call me back and discuss it with me. If ShortSandCars steps up, great...but I'm not getting my hopes up. The only thing wrong with their design, IMO, is the cheap spindles they use. They must be some China brand spindle shafts that are used when making the spindle assemblies or something. I also talked with Josie today (Sick Sand Travel), and unless SSC can help me out any way possible he is gonna help me out. Josie is a great guy and has helped me in the past with my rail. We'll see what happens. I am waiting to hear from Larry, then depending on what he says I'll be dropping off my "sandrail" (or shall I say sandrail parts ) down with him soon. I'll keep ya posted. Maybe I should start a thread for my sandrail frame saga. :xmas_lipsrsealed: Yeah, I know. It will suck for a while w/o the rail though.

No I won't. I can't weld for sh*t. Besides, I'll need much more than a welder to put together my next car. It really isn't fixable in my opinion. There is ALOT of tubing that would have to be replaced. The 2 main horizontal bars that run the whole length of the car are the pieces that broke at the front along with a few other bars.

Does your Blaster have the oil injection on it? I heard many people take it off and mix the gas themselves. That eliminates the oil fouling caused by common problems w/ the oil injection.

Yeah, I'm pretty bummed. I am sick to my stomach as it is really setting in and am realizing quickly how much time and money it's gonna take for me to get back behind the wheel. I really enjoy duning my car and it is gonna suck big time not being able to go on any more buggy runs for a while. All in all it was a great weekend though . We got some really fun rides in. Saturday AM we got a fast 2 wheeler ride in. It was Ragdoll MX, Pauly (on his 4 wheeler though), dnchevyman, me, dncheyman's buddy (forgot his name ), and Joe Duner. Yeah...you heard right...JoeDuner on a 2 wheeler! It felt great to get back on my bike. It's been a few trips since I have ridden it. That sand today was SMOOTH after all the wind last night brought in. It was almost slick. I had a blast just turning everywhere drifting and sliding my car around in the virgin sand. I even pulled a lil tiny wheelie once. It felt like Christmas this morning waking up and opeing the blinds in my toyhauler to see this... Thanks again to everyone for helping me get my car back to camp. I greatly appreciate it, guys.

oh yeah.... -beer can be used as a fire extinguisher -hot coals under your chair are good, but don't over do it. You'll burn your chair. -SOBE's with NO hole in the cap are crazy big (the next camp over did em-wasn't us ) -Rhino King swings hellacious donuts in his lowered F150 in the sand -lots a wind makes your fire wood burn too damn fast -the south pole can be used to find where the eff you are when lost in the dunes -non-holiday weekends rock

we almost posted the same observations

observations from thsi weekend... Rhino King and his kid laugh the same: "uhhh huh hu hu hu" SinCityBlondie needs to pay attention to how far the ground is when exiting my toyhualer GirlWithHorns can't ride RagdollMX's bike. Can we say "lawndart"? RagdollMX does cool tricks over the handle bars (not on purpose) Pay attention to which way the wind is blowing when certain "items" are in the fire and especially when you park close to the fire, other wise you might end up w/ a lil hole in your awning. OGP is hard on axles JoeDuner DOES wear clothes other than board shorts and uggs. kris and Pauly need to watch their drinks (or hold on to them) when in wsky70's toyhauler a 30 pk of beer is never enough beer- even on a kinda short weekend. Fear & Loathing in LV and Supertroopers gets funnier everytime we watch it Pauly's truck has many new multipurposes

After reading through this thread I was like damn nobody mentioned the PIZAZZ yet?

That SuperStrapp is the shizzle! ...it's the best 90 bucks I ever spent.

UPDATE: Truck was found and unfortnuately it was pretty much stripped. They took the all air bags, compressor and what not, stereo equip, seats, wheels, etc. It's trashed. People make me sick. Thanks for looking out though, everyone.

the FRAME is junk.

yeah...my awning! I got a small burn hole in it from some "flying debris" on Saturday. I should have listened to Joe about parking so close to the fire. that wasn't the only reason I got home so late. Today was BEAUTIFUL out! Other than the rail it was an epic weekend.

Thanks Terry. We'll talk about it sometime. I have talked with Tom in the past as well. He is a very nice guy from the conversation I had. Yeah...ya think??? They definitley have a spindle design flaw. Granted the frame broke where it had been welded on in the past, but there is no excuse why these spidnles keep breaking. The frame was probably more than likely weakend from the previous welds from those frame repairs.

Yeah, tell me about it! These pics don't even show how bad the car is. The frame is broke in about 4 spots- you can't really see in the pics how bad the floor and front end is buckled. Here's how we got it back to camp...we took the front end suspension off and loaded it up in Pauly's pickup. Paul's truck now holds the title for most uses out of a pickup in the dunes. As Joe Duner said..."that's one expensive whip mount for that truck!" I posted some pics in the gallery from this weekend here.

It's back and tagged up w/ more DDR stickers than ever before. We went a lil overboard.

They be able to ride. It shouldn't be TOO crowded.

Good times like always. The weather couldn't have been better, sand was smooth. I still can't believe how nice it was especially for what the forecast was for the weekend! It was great hanging out w/ everyone. I'm glad that everyone was able to make it out- even for the day on Saturday. Good times, guys. Some really sh*tty news. My sandrail frame is destroyed. I somehow broke ANOTHER spindle. YES, ANOTHER SPINDLE! I wasn't even doing anything crazy. I was cresting a steep razor and bang...the right front wheel goes flying off and Pauly & I get a face full of sand and came to a stop really fast. I looked down and noticed my frame was broken in about 3 places (non-repairable). The frame cracked and broke right in the spots that had been welded on from previous damage (cracks that developed). Needless to say I am very unsatisified with this spindle design. This time it cost me a sandrail. So I am gonna save whatever I can from the car (motor, seats, shocks, etc) and build another car. I just have to make some decisions and figure out what I am gonna do. I'd like a Tom Pro car for my next rail. We'll have to see how much cash I can scrape together. I'll post up pics soon.

Whats up! Welcome to DDR. Here's what I run...it's actually an LED tailight from some kind of Nissan :chev_bowtie: :finger_smiley:

Hey what's up, bud? :finger_smiley: How have you and your wife been? We need to plan another trip w/ you guys. :chev_bowtie:

Damn! Looks like it sank into the ground! :chev_bowtie: :finger_smiley:

I'm leaving within an hour or so. I'm waiting for sanddunesaddict to get here with some parts for OGP. He broke an axle today on his rail and messed some stuff up on his car. :chev_bowtie: :finger_smiley:

yep...exactly. :chev_bowtie: :finger_smiley:

yeah...like that a$$ pucker feeling you get when he does this! :ahhhhh: :ahhhhh: :ahhhhh: :ahhhhh: :chev_bowtie: sorry dude, I HAD to!

I hear ya. Word of mouth is EVERYTHING these days!