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Well came home last night and to my surprise Jess had knocked out a President's Day video already!! I think it came out great but I'm bias. We had a great weekend and for the most part our group showed up in force despite the weather reports. I feel the weather was not nearly as bad as everyone predicted. Some of our group arrived the Sunday before and did nothing but brag about the good dunes and weather they had so we were determined to make it a great trip. We pulled in Thursday around 1030 and the road sucked!!!! But we got situated and went on our first run. I put stiffer springs on front of the car and my god what a difference, it just eats everything up. This was our first long weekend out with it and the nastier the dunes the car didn't care and made it through the weekend without incident. During the course of our first ride one of my buddies had an incident in his car causing him to roll. Luckily he is the smart one and wears a helmet. His car, while looked bad held up great and should be back up and going soon. Then the rain came and I got bored staring at each other so I rounded some peeps up and we duned lightly in our trucks and had a great time. The Utah portion of our group had planned a year ago it was time to erect a new South Pole and it came out awesome!!! Lots of cool trinkets on it thanks to broken buggies lol. Overall great weekend and looking forward to the cleanup and sub group meeting their holding out there.

Awesome video thanks for sharing

Lovin the South Pole, great job.

Last trip my rear main shaft bearing started going out. I noticed a pretty loud grinding/ growling noise that got worse with speed. It was also noisy at the back of the trans near the shifter at idle since the main shaft is always spinning. So with a little redneck engineering I fabbed up a bearing puller. It was either this or pull the trans completely apart to change it. I can't take full credit for the idea. @KRUSTY and a few others told me how I could do it this way. Oh and it helps to have a mid-engine car. Step 1: Remove the rear shifter cover. This is what you'll see. Step 2: Using an impact gun, remove this nut. Step 3: Find a 1 inch socket you don't care about, a long fine thread bolt and a nut with the same thread. (I used the center bolt from an old steering wheel puller. I had to drill out the center of the socket to 5/8" so it fit through.) Weld the nut to the back of the socket and then carefully weld the socket to the inner race of the bearing. Thread the bolt through the nut and pull the bearing out of the trans. Note: Be careful not to lose the shim that will likely be stuck in oil on back of the bearing. Step 4: Once have your new bearing (gently tap it into the case). With a hammer, use the old bearing and welded puller as a driver to seat it fully into the trans. Install the nut and torque to 78 lb ft.

You should touch base with @jalper aka Jason @ Alper Motorsports. Set a lot of guys up with power steering. You definitely won't regret it either.

Thank you! Happy you like the video. I was excited to surprise you with it last night!

Great to see all the pics of the future generations of duners! Kids are off at college now, only guarantee I have of seeing them is to tell them we are camping at Glamis or Dumont. Brought back some memories, Thanks