we lost an offroad icon

[buglebuster]

Yesterday we lost an icon to the offroading community. A local from our own state, Bobby Long of longfield super axles. RIP Bobby you will be missed!

[92xj]

Yep, happened last night. 
He made some great products.  I ran his ujoints for years.
Was a good man and would give you the shirt off his back.
You will be missed Bobby.

[buglebuster]

When i bought my longfield birfs for my toyota i went to bobby's house and picked them up. Almost half off normal price! Also wheeled in a grouo with him at elbe once.

[timberghost72]

He was fighting some pretty nasty stuff. Sad and a big loss.

[deerhunter_98520]

R.i.p

[CAMPMEAT]

Who and what did he do ?

[timberghost72]

http://www.nw-wheelers.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=108

[Austrian Hunter]

It does not give the whole story without registering.

[buglebuster]

Bobby Long is the owner of Longfield Super Axles and the inventor of the Longfield.
Here is his website to get an idea of what he did for the hobby of Rock Crawling: http://www.longfieldsuperaxles.com

If you own and wheel a toyota you know that the axles in the front of the toyota straight axle, known as birfields are the weak link. Once you lock up the front end, you will break one! I broke 4 before i decided to spend the $$ and buy his product. He was the first in the industry to design an "unbreakable birfield" and he has an unconditional warrenty for failure, no matter what. I have seen the break but very very uncommon. People have tried to duplicate but nothing compares. The toyota offroad world would not be the same without this man.

[huntandjeep]

Wow what a loss i ran his shafts in my yota for years. A freind just bought a jeep with his shafts, never knew he made Jeep stuff also.

[CAMPMEAT]

So what happened to him ?

[buglebuster]

He had a large cancerous tumor in his back, had something like 11 surgeries on it over the years, i think 3 in the last year. I guess he was in unbearable pain and was almost wheelchair ridden.

[CAMPMEAT]

He had a large cancerous tumor in his back, had something like 11 surgeries on it over the years, i think 3 in the last year. I guess he was in unbearable pain and was almost wheelchair ridden.

That's too bad.

[Yankee]

Yep, real bummer.  I run his birfields in my '73 Land cruiser, was a great dude.

[kentrek]

wow..seems like just the other day i was at his house...

the world needs more people like bobby

[BigGoonTuna]

man, that's sad news.  his family will be in my thoughts.  been a few years since i was into building toyotas, bobby was a great guy.