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BigBill
08-17-2007, 08:06 PM
I am new to the Hummer world with the purchase of my 2007 H3, which I posted a few photos in the H3 photo section. I would like to learn more about the vehicle from an off road perspective. Where would I learn this? Specifically using the 4WD controls and building confidence for what the Hummer can and can't do.
I am planning on going to a trail event in Iowa sponsored by my dealer but I also see that Lynch Hummer puts on events as well which are probably more intense! Someday I wouldn't mind enrolling in the driving academy put on by Lynch as well as volunteering in HOPE. Does anyone know if there's a Hummer Club in KC? I pretty much know the answer and wish I were back in my home state - Colorado!
As always, thanks!
Bill
usetosellhummer
08-17-2007, 08:16 PM
Bill, I am a former Hummer sales professional. I have attened the driving school several times at the H1/H2 plant near South Bend IN. Lynch is the best place close to you and your dealer should help you with get to know you stuff with an off-road Hummer Happening. It is also good to look on the net or in the area for the local hang out for jeepers. I wheel local with a jeep club to keep my skills up and feed the need for off roading my H3. Start out slow and if you join the club our events are the only ones supported by AM General and area dealers with trail techs and parts. All Hummer events have trails to fit your skill level. Happy Hummering
usetosellhummer
08-17-2007, 08:47 PM
oops yea
CO Hummer
08-17-2007, 09:25 PM
I have attened the driving school several times at the H1/H2 plant near South Bend IN.
How many times before you passed?
marin8703
08-17-2007, 09:25 PM
Bill, I am a former Hummer sales professional. I have attened the driving school several times at the H1/H2 plant near South Bend IN. Lynch is the best place close to you and your dealer should help you with get to know you stuff with an off-road Hummer Happening. It is also good to look on the net or in the area for the local hang out for jeepers. I wheel local with a jeep club to keep my skills up and feed the need for off roading my H3. Start out slow and if you join the club our events are the only ones supported by AM General and area dealers with trail techs and parts. All Hummer events have trails to fit your skill level. Happy Hummering
:iagree: going to dealer events and hummer happenings is probably the best way to learn what and how you can do. you will see others do things and you will know its possible which will give you more confidence to try it. my advise is dont try to do everything right away. take i a lil at a time otherwise you may damage you truck. theres jeepers all over the place, thres gota be some in KC, their like roaches.:D
DennisAJC
08-17-2007, 09:28 PM
How many times before you passed?
Never.
He always got stuck at the coffee and donut table.
H3slate
08-17-2007, 09:37 PM
:iagree: going to dealer events and hummer happenings is probably the best way to learn what and how you can do. you will see others do things and you will know its possible which will give you more confidence to try it. my advise is dont try to do everything right away. take i a lil at a time otherwise you may damage you truck. theres jeepers all over the place, thres gota be some in KC, their like roaches.:D
:iagree: Also look in your owners manual for directions on how to use the push button controls for your 4wd.
BigBill
08-17-2007, 09:41 PM
There are Jeep clubs here in Kansas City and actually work with a few guys that belong to it. They know I have a H3 but are willing to have me along!
Dennis, I just watched your Hummer Tribute video and think it is by far the best video on the subject! I sent it to my Jeep friend for his viewing!
I tried a few small hills here and the truck did well. Sometimes I want to try something small and get a little nervous. I need some training wheels with an expert! As always I am more than willing to listen and learn.
Bill
BigBill
08-17-2007, 09:43 PM
Also look in your owners manual for directions on how to use the push button controls for your 4wd.
:iagree: - kind of like, RTFM!! I have done that and will continue to do so. Is there any more detailed information on the net?
DennisAJC
08-17-2007, 09:44 PM
Dennis, I just watched your Hummer Tribute video and think it is by far the best video on the subject! I sent it to my Jeep friend for his viewing!
A man who enjoys a good joke.:beerchug:
usetosellhummer
08-17-2007, 09:48 PM
It's a Hummer School dope, Danish and Starbucks what kind of Hummer owner are you Dennis, :beerchug:
DennisAJC
08-17-2007, 09:53 PM
It's a Hummer School dope, Danish and Starbucks what kind of Hummer owner are you Dennis, :beerchug:
Same.
Except I wheel an H2 and I'm 700 lbs lighter than you.
usetosellhummer
08-17-2007, 09:55 PM
more of me to love baby:p
you like the big boy come on face it.
I tried a few small hills here and the truck did well. Sometimes I want to try something small and get a little nervous. I need some training wheels with an expert! As always I am more than willing to listen and learn.
BillWatch for the Moab trips. PM Neo for the one in September if you can make that arrangment.
Experience or none, it's a good time and you'll meet some pretty big dumb asses.:giggling: ;) Always a good time.
DennisAJC
08-17-2007, 10:04 PM
But be careful.
NEO carries a pair of scissors with him and does this weird ritual everytime they do a bypass.
If you value your pubic hair, watch him like a hawk.
BigBill
08-17-2007, 10:04 PM
I have seen some videos of Moab but mostly with H2's; how does the H3 stand up? I was just checking out some of the smaller clips off of Dennis' YouTube collection and there are some pretty interesting clips of the "dumb asses" trying to do things with some pretty interesting vehicle modifications!
Bill
BigBill
08-17-2007, 10:06 PM
Watch for the Moab trips. PM Neo for the one in September if you can make that arrangment.
Experience or none, it's a good time and you'll meet some pretty big dumb asses.:giggling: ;) Always a good time.
I can only imagine what a trip to Moab would be like! I can't wait to drive to Colorado and take to the trails! I am thinking next summer for sure! I might just make a trip out to Moab and then swing back around and hang out in Colorado!
I have seen some videos of Moab but mostly with H2's; how does the H3 stand up? I was just checking out some of the smaller clips off of Dennis' YouTube collection and there are some pretty interesting clips of the "dumb asses" trying to do things with some pretty interesting vehicle modifications!
BillYeah, it's alway fun.
Supposedly the 3's do ok out there, but I've yet to see actual video of one doing Escalator, Potato Salad Hill and Tip Over.
Doesn't really matter as there are bypasses around the most difficult obstacles.
Besides, there are some things you just may not want to do. For instance, I never went up Lion's Back, and it's not hard. Just a drive to the top of a rock... that's real narrow... and real tall... and eats trucks... and stuff like that. Too damn skeered.:o :D
timgco
08-17-2007, 11:16 PM
MOAB= best time I've ever had wheelin!!!!!!!
Throw some more 35's, UC protection, rock rails and you'll have a great time in Moab. Also get a spare tierod assembly and tools to change them.
With those mods, you cna have tons of fun in Moab. The H3's do very well in Moab. Being you first time there, you may not want to do some of the harder options, but it sure is fun to watch at the same time. Most every trail there has ways around the harder stuff.
An it is true, Neo is a great guy to go with, a little strange, but fun to wheel with. :D
marin8703
08-17-2007, 11:32 PM
But be careful.
NEO carries a pair of scissors with him and does this weird ritual everytime they do a bypass.
If you value your pubic hair, watch him like a hawk.
:giggling:
OldHiker
08-17-2007, 11:49 PM
Neo is a good guy. He actually allowed an H2 owner to come into his house during a downpour!;)
Neo is a good guy. He actually allowed an H2 owner to come into his house during a downpour!;)If it's raining, and I'm covered in mud, can I go into your new place to wait out the storm?:p
OldHiker
08-18-2007, 12:09 AM
Only if you can catch me!
Only if you can catch me!:jump: :excited: :excited: :jump:
blindzebra
08-18-2007, 12:41 AM
Hey bill did you go to college at bgsu?
yat74
08-18-2007, 05:27 AM
Pops nice Avatar, is that a chipmunk? :perfect10s:
tower
08-18-2007, 09:10 AM
Big Bill, I went on a trip with some friends from this site and learned quite a bit. There are some really knowlegeable wheelers here.
Later, I took a course from an extraordinary guy who has no vehicle bias. His name is Bill Burke and he is, in my opinion, the most knowledgeable authority on off-roading. Period. You can find him here:
http://www.bb4wa.com/bill/bill.htm
Drainbamaged
08-18-2007, 09:36 AM
During the June Moab Trip i went to Neo and a few other H3's went up Tipover Challenge and Wipeout Hill with no problems. There was also a H3 that went up Golden steps with no external help and also finished golden spike with no problems. H3's are very capeable vehicles and they can do alot of things that I would have never expected them to do.
During the June Moab Trip i went to Neo and a few other H3's went up Tipover Challenge and Wipeout Hill with no problems. There was also a H3 that went up Golden steps with no external help and also finished golden spike with no problems. H3's are very capeable vehicles and they can do alot of things that I would have never expected them to do.That's awesome! I can't wait to see some video of this and all the other claims out there.
It'd really shut up the Heep crowd.:excited:
BigBill
08-18-2007, 03:41 PM
That's awesome! I can't wait to see some video of this and all the other claims out there.
It'd really shut up the Heep crowd.:excited:
Has anyone seen videos of H3's doing their part?
BigBill
08-18-2007, 03:43 PM
During the June Moab Trip i went to Neo and a few other H3's went up Tipover Challenge and Wipeout Hill with no problems. There was also a H3 that went up Golden steps with no external help and also finished golden spike with no problems. H3's are very capeable vehicles and they can do alot of things that I would have never expected them to do.
Has a H3 been up and down Lionsback? I think that would be awesome to see and in the future do, either driving it or riding in a H2! Just a curious thought here on Lionsback - I take it you don't ride your brakes going down it? How do you drive something like that?
deserth3
08-18-2007, 04:00 PM
Has a H3 been up and down Lionsback? I think that would be awesome to see and in the future do, either driving it or riding in a H2! Just a curious thought here on Lionsback - I take it you don't ride your brakes going down it? How do you drive something like that?
Put her in 4 low, lock the differencial if you have one and put the truck in 1st gear. The H3 crawls great.
But Loins Back is closed.
BigBill
08-18-2007, 04:11 PM
Put her in 4 low, lock the differencial if you have one and put the truck in 1st gear. The H3 crawls great.
But Loins Back is closed.
I do have the off-road package with the locking differential. Why is it closed?
BST1YET
08-19-2007, 02:07 AM
I'm working on a trip down to the Kansas Rock Park - http://www.ksrockspark.com sometime in early September hopefully with some other people that were also interested on the Hummer X forum. The park is only about 1.5 hours from KC so it is relatively close.
I have read that extra parts are always a good thing! Other than the stealership, where would I get these parts? I saw something about tie rods. Are the ones in the H3 robust or do they break easily?
For long trips into the boonies, like Moab, what do people do for fuel?
Bill
Bill,
I am in the KC area, Overland Park to be specific. I take it you have talked to KSTreker about a trip down to KS Rocks over Labor Day or some time early Sept. There are only a few of us Hummer owners in KC that are okay with getting their trucks dirty. Everyone else seems to be all about the bling (especially around here in OP and Leahood)
deserth3
08-19-2007, 02:13 AM
Lions Back is on private land. The new owners don't want to deal with the liability issues.
DennisAJC
08-19-2007, 02:27 AM
But Loins Back is closed.
What gay adventure park do you wheel? :giggling:
Bill,
I am in the KC area, Overland Park to be specific. I take it you have talked to KSTreker about a trip down to KS Rocks over Labor Day or some time early Sept. There are only a few of us Hummer owners in KC that are okay with getting their trucks dirty. Everyone else seems to be all about the bling (especially around here in OP and Leahood)Get in touch with marcmedic. He's out there and only busy on race weekends.;)
dont buy into all the H2ers negative vibes , we can do alot more than they will ever admit :giggling: :giggling:
check it out http://www.elcovaforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26267Hey NEO, I know you're doing a ton of wheeling there and that's great, but where's the vids of PSH and Escalator? We keep hearing about it being done in a 3, but haven't seen it. Just pics of a 3 at the bottom and at the top.
We need vids!!!
BTW, did you answer the question about the SFA 3 in FL? Looks awesome.:beerchug:
deserth3
08-19-2007, 01:01 PM
What gay adventure park do you wheel? :giggling:
A better one than you amature. Are you going to delete this post too?
DennisAJC
08-19-2007, 06:27 PM
Fixed:dancingbanana: :dancingbanana:
Your an AMATURE:D
OMG!!!! A newbie calling another an amateur.:jump:
We still don't have ANY video footage of H3s COMPLETING ANYTHING in Moab. Potato Salad? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!:OWNED:
And what is Loin's Back? A gay man's 69er? You're not a newb at that I'm sure.:confused::OWNED:
DennisAJC
08-19-2007, 06:30 PM
P.S. I didn't delete your posts.:shhh::OWNED::giggling:
DennisAJC
08-22-2007, 10:02 PM
we can start posting our videos on this forum again
but first i want you to post up the video's of
#1 dennis VIDEO going up tater salad with 3 other H2s :giggling: the story is great
#2 dennis on Escalator video making it up on his 2nd try in his H2 :p its another great story
#3 dennis on Hells , gotta post the winching and yelling at spotter :shhh: :giggling:
and last #4 Body snatcher instead of taking the by pass ;) and PhilD taking out his window in his 6" lifted H2 hour long video with half a dozen spotters , gets out unscathed . but dont leave out all the drama.
one more request lets see the tie-rod clips too. But he's never broken a tie rod before or anything else in 3 tours in Moab.
hope im not askin for too much :D
It's ALL on video buddy.:D:OWNED:
DennisAJC
08-22-2007, 10:05 PM
The sad thing here is, NEO lives there and NOT ONCE can produce ANY proof of the H3 completeing ANYTHING in MOAB.
:OWNED::OWNED::OWNED::OWNED::OWNED:
Sing it hippie!!!!!
deserth3
08-23-2007, 04:00 AM
Dennis I will be there 9/23-9/27 waiting for you at neos so bring your rig and i will show you how to drive it winch boy!
Damm, wish I could be there to see that.:giggling:
DennisAJC
08-23-2007, 04:19 AM
The sad thing here is, NEO lives there and NOT ONCE can produce ANY proof of the H3 completeing ANYTHING in MOAB.
:OWNED::OWNED::OWNED::OWNED::OWNED:
Sing it hippie!!!!!
We don't need to prove anything. We always back up our claims.:jump:
Thanks for your enragement again.
Yours Truly,
DennisAJC
P.S. I leave you with a quote from a respected member,
Total idiots. That's why nobody wants to wheel with them. They always break down and that idiot NEO can't wheel worth sh1t why on earth was he even spotting people that day! He points and hits the gas and breaks his junk. Ask him since he lives right there and he wheels all the time, he can't show one proof of completeing any known obstacle like tater salad? Because it was a lie that humbebe put them up to. I hate that stupid hippie! He needs a shower to! LOL!
DRTYFN
09-07-2007, 06:12 AM
A better one than you amature. Are you going to delete this post too?
:OWNED:by spelling & then bolding the misspelled word.
DRTYFN
09-07-2007, 06:14 AM
We don't need to prove anything. We always back up our claims.:jump:
Thanks for your enragement again.
Yours Truly,
DennisAJC
P.S. I leave you with a quote from a respected member,
Total idiots. That's why nobody wants to wheel with them. They always break down and that idiot NEO can't wheel worth sh1t why on earth was he even spotting people that day! He points and hits the gas and breaks his junk. Ask him since he lives right there and he wheels all the time, he can't show one proof of completeing any known obstacle like tater salad? Because it was a lie that humbebe put them up to. I hate that stupid hippie! He needs a shower to! LOL!
:OWNED:
Deserth3 sure got quiet quick.
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