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Day 2, we headed to Gros Morne National park. Gros Morne is home to the Tablelands. It's one of the only places on the planet you can walk on the Earth's mantle. The landscape quickly changed from the green mountains to an eerie dead zone...

Our first camp in Newfoundland was an epic dispersed spot overlooking the ocean.

After three long days of driving the truck started acting odd. It was fine cruising, but on a long hill, or heavy acceleration, it picked up a BAD misfire. After a while, the misfire was constant, and moving from cylinder to cylinder at random...

One of our first stops was a Toys-R-us, which had closed all of their US stores years ago. The miles just flew by! We even made a detour to have lunch on Prince Edward Island. We figured it was worth the extra miles to add another Province...

It's been a while since I've updated this thread! I'm going to pick back up where I left off. With Newfoundland in the GPS, we set off. First stop was fuel and a weigh in. With the trailer: Without the trailer: Not too bad for a fully...

With that all finished up, it was time for the exterior. I installed my Bowfin roof rack, and finished it off with a set of Touge Nation stripes! I had the enlist the help of my wife on the stripes, she is much more particular than I am...

With the mechanical issues sorted, I turned back to the interior buildout. The dual battery system was finished up. RedARC BCDC1240 Charger SOK 100 AH battary Tesota Overland Power distribution system 12v -> 36v converter (for Starlink) I...

Playing a little catch up here. Rebuilt and the Trail Tailor bumper with all new hardware, and welded the modified crossmember / hitch to the frame. Not shown, but I also reinstalled my aux tank system, with an OEM dual filler neck...

Also, this happened today! Drove it ~30 miles into the office for the first time since ripping apart! Drove great! No issues and felt really good to have it on the road again. -Rob

Next up was to finish up the interior. First was a couple layers of sound deadening. I went with a base of Second Skin Spectrum, followed by Second Skin thermal insulation, finished up with DEI BoomMat. It should be significantly better than the...

I guess I forgot to mention it earlier, but we're now calling the truck "Daisy". My wife says its too pretty to be the Falcon anymore. New carpet trimmed last night. I'll be adding a couple layers of sound deadening and thermal insulation...

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More assembly process. Doors are complete All wiring is complete Roof insulation complete Mocked up the headliner a dozen times, getting ready for installation Started trimming the new carpet Received the new double cardan Tom Woods driveshaft...

So far it's been a thrash putting things together as I have time. I started with the rear of the truck, and moved towards the front. The rear hatch and tailgate are completely assembled. The only thing left is the rear glass, and that will be...

Finally, almost two months later on May 18, it was ready! I picked up a uhaul dolly and headed over with a pile of parts. The plan was to install door seals, latches and handles in order to haul the truck home safely without damaging the new...

Pictures don't do this place justice. We are whipped. Only 186 mikes today but other than the stretch of Hwy 12 from Boulder to Escalante it was rough. I'll get video later. One more day tomorrow.

Installed the rear taillights. Took way longer than it should have. Had to drill and retap 3 of 4 bolt holes cause some dufus broke off 3 of them when disassembling years ago and waited till now to clean it up. Yes, I am the dufus. :cool:

We stopped at the visitor center and the grabbed some decent Mexican food at Chak Ballum in Torrey then we bailed out into Dixie National Forest. We found a campsite at 10,580' by a lake. Unreal. Another awesome 200 mile off road day

Once we got back on Burr Trail we made a loop through Wolverine Loop then up past Boulder and into Capital Reef the back way through south creek. That's a pretty legit tough trail.

It coming together. Tip, don't grease you drive shaft spline while it's still on the bench bf you bolt it up. Use the zirk fitting afterwards. The grease keeps me from being able to compress the shaft joint enough to fit it in. That will be...

80 was dropped off for paint correction and ceramic coating. Check out that transformation so far! 😮 30 years of oxidation going away on the OG single stage white.

I was definitely imagining something much different when I clicked the link to this thread. Was expecting some cool survivor T100 and.... not so much. But GLWS, either way :)

We had to backtrack 30+ miles but it was different scenery going that direction At the crossroads we hit the road south to Hite Crossing. We had to get gas for some and we went south to Ticaboo. I ran all of that from Green River to Doll...

It’s always had a slight miss/backfire on compression so I thought I’d give the distributor a little turn. Made it worse. Then it started dying at stop signs again but I thought it might be from the gallon of old gas I put in the other day. So I...

Rewinding to some time ago. Adding some posts to this thread for remembering the journey... Refurbed the turn signals. Replaced lenses, seals, hardware and mounting grommet. Color changed from OEM gray to black to match color scheme accents of...