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TLDR: didn’t see a huge rock downhill in the center of the trail past the hood, high centered the front end and it caved in the stock steel bash plate and broke the power steering motor off of the rack.
My group of 10 friends in 3 high end sxs and my basemansquatch is from Texas and visited Colorado for a couple day bachelor party weekend. I planned us out a pretty serious 64-mile-1-day trail loop starting at Tincup pass, to Napoleon pass, Waunita pass, Black sage, Tomichi pass and Hancock pass back to where the tow pigs were. I was driving extremely fast for the terrain, they didn’t want to go any faster. After replacing one RZR XP belt, and a tire plugged with a screw and electrical tape leaking, they hauled ass and I basically got left behind on Hancock pass right as the sun was setting. They stayed within walkie range but were trying to get the flat tire sxs back before running out of compressor battery. Anyways, I was rushing down Hancock pass to Saint Elmo and was looking for the 2nd moose that was spotted and my passenger wasn’t providing any helpful trail spotting. There was a small almost flat spot followed by a downhill spot and my hood hid this from me:
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With the front wheels embarrassingly dangling in the air, I tried to back off but it was stuck stuck. I did still have steering at that point. Once they came back to pull me back uphill a little ways off the big rock, I found the steering wheel was locked up solid. Not like typical no power steering, actually locked up. The stock steel bash plate caved right in and it cracked the electric power steering motor off of the rack partially. My theory is this new angle made the belt that is in there come off a ways until it wadded up in the case and wouldn’t let me turn even manually. So what was the solution as the sun and temperature fell and our moose spectator kept coming towards us? With a few random hand tools and rocks, we broke the motor the rest of the way off of the rack, cut the belt and pulled it out with pliers, zip tied the motor up and put the skid plate back on. I HAD MANUAL STEERING NOW! Finished Hancock pass with the steering wheel going full lock at the snap of a finger on rocks, threatening to break my wrists and thumbs haha. Made it all the way off the trail, back to the cabin, to Breckenridge the next day to hang out, then the 12 hour drive home to Texas! Never left me stranded! Ford performance severe duty rack and procal on the way from lethal performance as I type this
My group of 10 friends in 3 high end sxs and my basemansquatch is from Texas and visited Colorado for a couple day bachelor party weekend. I planned us out a pretty serious 64-mile-1-day trail loop starting at Tincup pass, to Napoleon pass, Waunita pass, Black sage, Tomichi pass and Hancock pass back to where the tow pigs were. I was driving extremely fast for the terrain, they didn’t want to go any faster. After replacing one RZR XP belt, and a tire plugged with a screw and electrical tape leaking, they hauled ass and I basically got left behind on Hancock pass right as the sun was setting. They stayed within walkie range but were trying to get the flat tire sxs back before running out of compressor battery. Anyways, I was rushing down Hancock pass to Saint Elmo and was looking for the 2nd moose that was spotted and my passenger wasn’t providing any helpful trail spotting. There was a small almost flat spot followed by a downhill spot and my hood hid this from me:
Continued:
With the front wheels embarrassingly dangling in the air, I tried to back off but it was stuck stuck. I did still have steering at that point. Once they came back to pull me back uphill a little ways off the big rock, I found the steering wheel was locked up solid. Not like typical no power steering, actually locked up. The stock steel bash plate caved right in and it cracked the electric power steering motor off of the rack partially. My theory is this new angle made the belt that is in there come off a ways until it wadded up in the case and wouldn’t let me turn even manually. So what was the solution as the sun and temperature fell and our moose spectator kept coming towards us? With a few random hand tools and rocks, we broke the motor the rest of the way off of the rack, cut the belt and pulled it out with pliers, zip tied the motor up and put the skid plate back on. I HAD MANUAL STEERING NOW! Finished Hancock pass with the steering wheel going full lock at the snap of a finger on rocks, threatening to break my wrists and thumbs haha. Made it all the way off the trail, back to the cabin, to Breckenridge the next day to hang out, then the 12 hour drive home to Texas! Never left me stranded! Ford performance severe duty rack and procal on the way from lethal performance as I type this
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(I got the version with the tune)
