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Gold Hills Posse 4×4 Club · Folsom, CA

New to GHP with a Suzuki Samurai rock hopper

  1. Specialsoundman Member Joined: January 2013
    #15 Jun 2012, 7:04 PM

    Hello all,

    Looking forward to meeting everyone and doing some runs. My wife Lori & I will be at the June meeting to say "Hi" We used to go wheeling two to three times a month 15 years ago, then as sometimes what comes about for a lot of people "life happened" We have known Tom & Ronie Dove for a long time and I saw his wheeling video on Facebook it made the "wheeling bug" come back. Contacted Tom and he invited me to check out Gold Hills Posse & are looking forward to hopping rocks again.

    Our Suzuki Samurai is a '86 with currently 307,000 miles. Stock Engine to be rebuilt very soon with a few internal performance improvements. The suspension has trailmaster 3" lift springs & 4" shackles. Currently in between "off road" tires. I will run 31x10.50x15, it has 4:11 gears. Many future upgrades to come, the main one is Trail Creeper 6.5:1 crawler gears in transfer case. Springs over axle. Armor and building a on board air system.



    See you soon



    David & Lori Fountain

    David and Lori
  2. JohnDF Member Joined: July 2003
    #25 Jun 2012, 7:11 PM

    Welcome. Hang around for a while and we'll get that mod list a mile long 😁

    I used to wheel a lot. . .
  3. Guest former user
    #35 Jun 2012, 7:42 PM

    Welcome to the board. I'm always impressed what one of those Sami's can do with some modifications.

  4. Gregulator Member Joined: February 2012
    #45 Jun 2012, 8:22 PM

    Welcome. I love Sammies. I've had two of them. Great little rigs.

    Um...what?
  5. Tom Subscriber
    #55 Jun 2012, 8:26 PM

    Dave, you'll need to pull out some pics to show how much sound equipment used to get packed in the Sami each Sunday morning. Looking forward to our next adventures.

    If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading -- Lao Tzu
  6. Guest former user
    #65 Jun 2012, 9:08 PM

    Welcome! yeah what they said, pictures!

  7. JohnDF Member Joined: July 2003
    #75 Jun 2012, 9:34 PM
    "finder_87" wrote: Welcome. I love Sammies. I've had two of them. Great little rigs.

    Do you even fit in a Sammi? Did your head stick out of the roof? You're like 9 feet tall!

    I used to wheel a lot. . .
  8. Gregulator Member Joined: February 2012
    #85 Jun 2012, 10:02 PM
    "JohnDF" wrote: [quote="finder_87"]Welcome. I love Sammies. I've had two of them. Great little rigs.

    Do you even fit in a Sammi? Did your head stick out of the roof? You're like 9 feet tall!

    I will admit, I couldn't drive either of them with the doors on. I couldn't get my foot off the clutch.

    Um...what?
  9. Specialsoundman started this Member Joined: January 2013
    #96 Jun 2012, 6:15 AM

    Thanks for the warm welcome, Looking forward to meet you all.



    I will enjoy putting together that mile long upgrade list with ya, it's the 1" long budget that's the problem 🙁



    When I went into Barretts Lake, getting my foot off the clutch was the problem. But I think that was a "operator" problem not a cab room issue. 😳

    David and Lori

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