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We headed out to Barstow to pick up my M936 and SS Old Lincoln County Iron’s (from NM) M936 and look at SS Maj Malfunctions (from OK) M936A1.
Matt (Castle Bravo) and I left my house in Tonopah, AZ at 0215 Tuesday morning to meet up with two other friends Charles (Groundog) and Bill. Left the truck stop at 0255 and hit I-10 and started west. Stopped for fuel and some food in Indio, CA.
Got to Barstow and the USMC base at 0845. Got signed in and was told to go park outside the GL lot and the GL rep. would come help us in 5 or 10 mins. Well after about 1:20 mins I went and checked.
We arrived at the two trucks about 1030 and started to check the normal things.
Ready to go about 1130. Drove about 5 miles and had lunch at Pizza Hut.
Then we started home. Well the first hill was not fun. Matt was behind me and will post a funny video of the hill climb. My speedo did not work, so I did not know how fast we were going, but I could say I could have gotten out and ran around the truck and got back in.
After some hills and about an hour out we stopped for fuel. My truck was full of fuel when we picked it up, so I did not take much fuel but Matt got a tank of good fuel and the truck could climb and ran better. After more fuel later they got better and better on the hill climb. So I think old fuel affected our performance early on.
It was around 1500 and I was taching 2000. Making good time and the outside air temp was 112 degrees. HOT!!! The metal in the cab was 120 degrees and the floor board was 136 degrees. Note to self: Do not pick anything up in the summer time.
After 325 miles in the blistering heat we made it back to the Tonopah truck stop and Matt made it to his house ok. Just outside of Tonopah, I hit a bad place in the road that jerked the truck over to the right. It was a tense moment. Matt was trying to figure out what the heck I was doing and then he ran into the same truck groves! I am thinking I need more air in the tires. Only had 70 pounds, but need 90.
Both the trucks have locked tool boxes so we do not know what is in them. Hope we have a lot of BII goodies! Mark from UT (Maj Malfunctions) is going to send me some keys to try . I hope one works.
Will post more pics as I get them.
Matt (Castle Bravo) and I left my house in Tonopah, AZ at 0215 Tuesday morning to meet up with two other friends Charles (Groundog) and Bill. Left the truck stop at 0255 and hit I-10 and started west. Stopped for fuel and some food in Indio, CA.
Got to Barstow and the USMC base at 0845. Got signed in and was told to go park outside the GL lot and the GL rep. would come help us in 5 or 10 mins. Well after about 1:20 mins I went and checked.
We arrived at the two trucks about 1030 and started to check the normal things.
Ready to go about 1130. Drove about 5 miles and had lunch at Pizza Hut.
Then we started home. Well the first hill was not fun. Matt was behind me and will post a funny video of the hill climb. My speedo did not work, so I did not know how fast we were going, but I could say I could have gotten out and ran around the truck and got back in.
After some hills and about an hour out we stopped for fuel. My truck was full of fuel when we picked it up, so I did not take much fuel but Matt got a tank of good fuel and the truck could climb and ran better. After more fuel later they got better and better on the hill climb. So I think old fuel affected our performance early on.
It was around 1500 and I was taching 2000. Making good time and the outside air temp was 112 degrees. HOT!!! The metal in the cab was 120 degrees and the floor board was 136 degrees. Note to self: Do not pick anything up in the summer time.
After 325 miles in the blistering heat we made it back to the Tonopah truck stop and Matt made it to his house ok. Just outside of Tonopah, I hit a bad place in the road that jerked the truck over to the right. It was a tense moment. Matt was trying to figure out what the heck I was doing and then he ran into the same truck groves! I am thinking I need more air in the tires. Only had 70 pounds, but need 90.
Both the trucks have locked tool boxes so we do not know what is in them. Hope we have a lot of BII goodies! Mark from UT (Maj Malfunctions) is going to send me some keys to try . I hope one works.
Will post more pics as I get them.
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