TomEf

Trying to finish up my glamour shots from the trip. I've got another 100 or so to go through, but as a teaser here's Ben's rig on portals doing the first river crossing on Poughkeepsie

Not higher than the windowsill, but it gives some more width to get farther inboard. I switch between the lower armrest and the upper armrest.

Send @nakman a message, he may be able to adjust shipping depending on where you are. The bags are very, very nice.

I was due for AHC globes at about 160k and it was no big deal. Removing the AHC protection plates from my Slee sliders was more annoying than any other part of the job, and that wasn't particularly difficult with the right tools. I have a little...

Just surface rust as far as I can see. An afternoon with a wire wheel and some rust converter paint would take care of that. I don't see real rot or anything to actually worry about. The "worst" of it is the gas tank skid, and if you already have...

The 5mm allen head on the tensioner likes to round out, even without corrosion. A new bolt and a bolt extractor bit would be good to have on hand. I ended up finding one at Ace that was a few millimeters too long and just ground it to size, but...

It's worth pointing out that the resistance may get more and more out of spec at operating temperature. Bench testing at ambient doesn't always reveal an out of spec condition. I have been hearing more and more solenoid failures in modern...

https://alignmentsonly.square.site/ Russ is the man.

If you venture north enough to hit SLC, I'll send you to the best alignment guy I've ever dealt with.

It's worth pointing out that solenoids can test good on the bench at room temperature, but have issues at operating temps. I've never actually been able to diagnose a known bad solenoid on the bench at room temp or at operating temp, so your...