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Title: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Zukipilot on July 06, 2007, 09:45:23 AM
What are those Crazy Minnesotans up to this time. What is this riding with Mike at the Melt ???  :o  8)

(http://izook.com/toc/jul07/zmpix/slideshow/5july/1946.jpg)

(http://izook.com/toc/jul07/zmpix/slideshow/5july/1917.jpg)

Nice Sami!

Zig
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Yankee-Tim on July 06, 2007, 09:53:08 AM
What is this riding with Mike at the Melt ???

I might be wrong, but I think it's a 4x4 truck. ::)
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: mrfuelish on July 06, 2007, 10:27:25 AM
It must be hungry, looks like it is chewing on someone underneath it!
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Zukipilot on July 06, 2007, 01:10:32 PM
What is this riding with Mike at the Melt ???


I might be wrong, but I think it's a 4x4 truck. ::)


 :P

I think it's the tube frame Sammi form the ZW ride at Apple Valley  :-\ but with the other end wasted this time (or he quit wasting money on body panels):

(http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg)

http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg (http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg)
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: copperzuk on July 06, 2007, 01:43:50 PM
What is this riding with Mike at the Melt ???


I might be wrong, but I think it's a 4x4 truck. ::)


 :P

I think it's the tube frame Sammi form the ZW ride at Apple Valley  :-\ but with the other end wasted this time (or he quit wasting money on body panels):

([url]http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg[/url])

[url]http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg[/url] ([url]http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg[/url])



 Same rig. The full body pic must have been just after he went over backwards.  Check out the doors....
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: mrfuelish on July 06, 2007, 02:00:27 PM
What is this riding with Mike at the Melt ???


I might be wrong, but I think it's a 4x4 truck. ::)


 :P

I think it's the tube frame Sammi form the ZW ride at Apple Valley  :-\ but with the other end wasted this time (or he quit wasting money on body panels):

([url]http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg[/url])

[url]http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg[/url] ([url]http://www.zukiworld.com/month_080105/images/minnesota-wiconsin/small/dsc02401.jpg[/url])



 Same rig. The full body pic must have been just after he went over backwards.  Check out the doors....

ya the woman in the pic looks happy hanging onto it,LOL
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Mikerpm4x4 on July 08, 2007, 08:30:52 PM
 Im home! Yay! 

Zig, you already have 2 more pics than I do. ;D I forgot to get batterys for my camera and didnt feel like uprooting the rv to go to town to go get some. I think Floyds wife may have took a few.

;D I had a great time at the melt this year. They did a great job as usual. It was a little hot though. I hooked up with my freind Floyd and his wife Carol this year. Thats their Sami next to mine. He had a bad cartwheel last year and the tub was severly damaged. Now its streched 10 more inches to add more stability.

We traveled together this year in their new Freightliner toterhome rv. Talk about sweet. I felt spoiled all weekend and I liked it! ;D

  We pulled in 3-4 pm on thursday and promptly went for a ride till the park closed.   8) The next day we slept in till 11 am cause we were so tired from not sleeping the night before. (drove straight through the night) We played in the quarry and red trail till the rock race began. It was kinda nice being just 2 rigs cause we covered a lot of ground in a short period of time but the rigs were taking a lot of abuse from not having any down time. I had smoke billowing out of my transfer case shifter. ( thats a sign to give her a little break! ;D ) The rock race was hard as heck this year. Only 6 rigs entered. When I saw the coarse I almost bailed too cause I still had another day of wheelin left and didnt want to finish my rig  off here.  A little peer pressure and I was in.  ::) I was flyin through at a good pace when I fell off my line and got a little jacked up in some giant holes. :'( I ended up breaking an axle shaft trying to get free. Only one guy completed the coarse so clearly he won. He deserved it. Right where I screwed up he did too and almost flipped it over. Most people would have asked for the strap, he hit reverse and saved it. Very cool. 8)

 
  We hooked up with 3 really cool guys out of texas, 95geo (ZWmember) and had a great run on saturday. Crawl magazine hooked up with all of us and was shooting pics for about 4 hours. I ended up breaking an inner axle on something that really wasnt that hard. Im pretty sure I stressed it in the rockcrawl and it just failed there.

 Floyd and I headed out to the dunes to bomb around for a while till the group photo and raffle.

Good times.  ;D

Mike

 
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: john1974 on July 09, 2007, 10:20:27 AM
hey! I just got back from the ZN "Fall Crawl dry run" im from minnesota also, and you would be this way if you spent a winter in sota! ;)
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Zukipilot on July 09, 2007, 12:00:36 PM
Im home! Yay! 

Zig, you already have 2 more pics than I do. ;D 


More I found on iZook  8)

(http://izook.com/toc/jul07/zmpix/slideshow/7july/02039.JPG)

(http://izook.com/toc/jul07/zmpix/slideshow/7july/2235.jpg)

(http://www.midwestsuzuki.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/ZookiMelt%202007/normal_DSC03235.jpg)

(http://www.midwestsuzuki.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/ZookiMelt%202007/normal_DSC03237.jpg)


(http://www.midwestsuzuki.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/ZookiMelt%202007/normal_DSC03239.jpg)

Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Zukipilot on July 09, 2007, 12:06:09 PM
And More  ;D

(http://www.midwestsuzuki.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/ZookiMelt%202007/normal_DSC03308.jpg)
(http://www.midwestsuzuki.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/ZookiMelt%202007/normal_DSC03347.jpg)

Not that I'm a stalker  :-\ I'm just good  ;D

Zig

Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: WorkInProgress91 on July 09, 2007, 04:42:50 PM
I'm still working on uploading the 300 pics that i have from zukimelt, should have them up by tomorrow.  We came home with no mechanical failure, and the body damage was well worth it >:D
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Mikerpm4x4 on July 09, 2007, 07:54:12 PM
Not that I'm a stalker  :-\ I'm just good  ;D

Zig

Damn, you are good! :o

Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Bigzook on July 10, 2007, 03:41:51 PM
he's just jealous ;D
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: barcus on July 10, 2007, 05:31:26 PM
hey mike i can barely recognize your ride... is that with the dual control arms front suspension?
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: 37kicker on July 10, 2007, 06:53:06 PM
i can answer that.   yes.     stan   ;D
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: barcus on July 21, 2007, 09:14:39 AM
hey mike can your ride still run on 4-hi with those meats? im planning to upgrade my tires to 35s soon and my worry is that the gears might not be low enough on 4-hi. im running an auto tranny with the 4.24s and 5.71 r&ps.
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: Mikerpm4x4 on July 21, 2007, 06:39:46 PM
It can pretty well but it doesnt see much street these days. If your rig will pull 35s will bepend on a lot of varyables. Your vehicle weight, engine strength, tire/wheel weight, (lighter is better) will all play into that equasion.

Mike
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: barcus on July 22, 2007, 04:21:37 AM
alright. come to think of it i think my rig is on the heavy side. i guess its time to cut back some weight. thanks
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: MAA on July 22, 2007, 05:20:46 AM
alain,
tube it
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: barcus on July 22, 2007, 09:11:23 PM
like this?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/MAKOY/RAK/DSC_2965.jpg)

sorry mods OT.  :)
Title: Re: OMG!! Those CRAZY Minnesotans!!!!!
Post by: HotRod on July 22, 2007, 10:23:09 PM
Gonna drop that 4dr body on that too? ;) ;D