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?
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...