Devil's Slide Doug

Dammit. At work, could not get the day off (I have a few parts to get rid of too).

Damn, I meant to say hello in person to Jon Held but never bumped into him. Unless, I’m mixing up screen names from back in the 60scool list days. Is it the same guy who sank his Cruiser in the ice pond or was that someone else?

It’s gone, oil seals are fine. Truck is also part time so not much is moving in the front end most of the time.

Thanks everyone. It was a good run (only exception being breakage by Guy in his 4-3-2 Runner) when I get a chance I will post some photos. Quick turnaround and at the river with bad WiFi. Though all the 80’s sorta look the same and I can’t tell...

Looking very OLAF with those rotopax!

That’s a bummer. Not able to iron butt it in the 40?

A horse for ants!

It was an expensive trophy (I upgraded to RCV’s).

My son earned a trophy last year.

You bent that one good!

There was a rumor you broke on the trail waiting for parts.

Dragging the popup would be whistling diesel or top gear type of thing. Sneaking in a quick “civilized” camping trip before I head home and pack for the con.

All packed! Ready to go!

If I was in Truckee, I would take 89 south to 50 west to ice house.

Corrected, brain fart about direction.

Safeway at Missouri Flats if your heading East on #50 and then a top off at Fresh Pond.

congratulations on your new position as Rubithon swap meet chairperson!

Leading a group of mixed wheelbase and tire size and locked rigs you start to learn where different trucks are challenged. The spots where SWB SOA bust pinions, where LWB rigs cut driveshafts in half. A few inexperienced drivers making mistakes...

New ones are smaller and much cheaper (Baofeng). They might have more features but might not actually be better. Programming kinda sucks and radio nerds will argue that they don’t transmit or receive as well.

Got my steering back together! (So far the rebuilt box isn’t leaking). Just need a day off for a bit of road testing before packing and driving up.

We drive our rigs (no trailers) from the coast and hope to drive up Wednesday and camp out at Ice House. People who trailer park the tow rig at either end and drive the trail in and then back out to the trailer or park the tow rig at the end...

Dremel with the carbide bit is the ticket . I just finished slapping together the steering box. Gotta hit the sack.

Got the Delta plates in the mail last night. Just need a day off to get things back together.

I believe the 80 sector shaft and early Saginaw shaft are about the same size. The later 1980's saginaws are smaller?

Funny thing, is the panhard bracket had no visible cracks that I could find and my 300,000 mile sector shaft had no twisted splines that I could see. I already had a spare box so now I have a leaky well used box plus a spare shaft. Doing the...