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I wish I could tell you... We have hords of unannounced people and trucks... Ive given up on trying to keep track but I will say this will be by far the biggest SS rally to date.
Pretty darn exciting!!!
Contact cement... Kenny has a speedy stich up at the rally... bring it and you can stich the patch after gluing it.
Guys im gearing up to leave tomorrow eve... if anyone needs anything please speak up now as it will be near impossiable later.
The weather looks kinda up in the air right now...
After watching Kenny having to change a brake line on the side of the road about 2 years ago on the tractor I go NO WHERE with out having 2 sets of compression fittings from 1/8th" thru 1/2" in the truck... It SO MUCH EASIER to splice than it is to try and find fuel or brake line at 2am on the...
What a weekend... Now that I am in front of a puter rather than typing on a phone while trying to draft Kenny and keep up...
We ended up yanking the fuel stops on both trucks, mine was being a dog and holding up the world. I cranked the fuel over 2 turns, tightened the throttle linkage and then...
well we made it bout 430 . . lost my clutch in the last 40 miles. . . kenny says were havin a rear main seal rehab clinic at the rally. .
now we get to car it down home . . another 220 miles.
Left Matts at 12. . . in ocala now. . . my rear main is showering the world with oil but were still cooking.
oh yeah . . Ken has the 09 in tow and we now have a 105 in my bed he . . . he . . he
stopped at matts (green gem) in live oak . . . we were gonna nap but might be spending all of our time salavaging!!!
hope to get on the road by 12 and in orlando by 5 or 6.
first . . my arse hurts. second. . . tow bars only help feed the od addiction by allowing me to be even dumber and get us haulin a cucv in the middle of this trip!
jim andy and darrell Thank you!!!
were commin up on macon right now, lost a fuel line and had to do some patching. running almost...
Guys I have made a lot of revisions to the main post on this thread over the past several weeks, I suggest everyone go back and re read everything to be updated on the information.
AJ,
I pulled the threads for him, im well informed (I didnt need to go read them, Ive seen them as they come up in the forums) and thus so is he... He can afford it and for what he wants / needs an AH truck is right for him. He can handle the repairs, problems, $ if they arise. Over all its...
Im workin with Lane on this... Hopefully it will be moving next week... The money is laid out and paperwork in the process. The poor sucker still doesnt know he's got OD fever!!! Even while watchin CUCV's on U Tube half the day he's in denial!!! If I have to hear one more sound bite of a diesel...
Ever sence the movie Fast and the Furious I can no longer walk into a parts store!!!! *sigh* They all think stickers and LED's make cars go faster and wouldnt know a 1 ton front axle from a drive shaft if they tripped over it!
RE: Lookin
Yes yes yes... J pipes are rare these days!!! *ugh*
I have the gaskets comming in (new item) and they should be here Fri... I'll send you a set.
As for the valve... Ive been debating listing a cabled shutoff valve which can be controled from the cab and mounted in one of the many...
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