Well, Jim and I went to Emu Creek some 4wd Monthly Forum members on the weekend, Emu Creek is about 3 1/2 hours drive from Brissy.

On the way there we went the ‘back’ way i guess and ended up having to rescue a car that had taken a corner to fast on the dirt and ended up in the bush…narrowly missing a decent size tree.  Jim just pulled slowly tugged hiim outa the bush, we made sure his car was still ok drive, and let him go on his way back to brisbane.

Once we got the Emu Creek, we setup camp (I got to test out my new Instant Tent, which i sell now BTW, and then found a couple of the 4wdMonthly lads and headed out for some 4x4ing.  The park really hasnt seen much use for a while, because most of the tracks were overgrown and looked very ‘fresh’.  After a while of driving around the park, a crazy old dude (Errol) that came with us decided he wanted to do a creek run that wasn’t on the map.  Was a very entertaining run with nasty side slopes and LOTS of rock…… Until… On a particularly tricky bit, Jim managed to pull one of his front radius arms OUT of the chassis!!

We manged to get it drivable quite quickly i think, we pretty much just jammed the radius rod back in the hole and used a ratchet strap to hold the front axle back so it wouldnt pop out again.  Jim then did one his best drives ever and pushed through the creek out to the road heading back to camp.

We then spent a couple hours welding Jims and Chris’s (4wd Monthly member with a Jeep Wrangler) cars back together.

Jim and I pushed off on Sunday morning, it was a quick trip, but still very fun!