Alright guys this is the big photo/vid post I've been saving up for...
We are 2 days away from leaving on our 70 day, 5,000 mile expedition, and have been working like crazy to pull everything together in time.
Just a brief summary before the photos-
Started late last week with a bang- 60 hours of garage time with 8 hours of sleep.
Ashleigh and I managed to:
Get up at 6, and cover the unsealed hardtop (was missing the visor cap) with duct tape > get coffee > run out of gas > get gas > drive to SOR > drive to santa clarita > take off the hard top > fix broken hardtop visor, paint, rivet back to top, and reinstall the hartop > pull out "offroad seats" > create new bracket design for power BMW seats > install bracket and promptly change bracket design 2 more times> remove SOR rubber carpet kit> dynamat from the firewall down to the middle of the tub > carpet pad over > cut and apply carpet over entire front area > install seats > install interior lights > install power inverter > tighten rear diff > finish carpeting rear cargo boxes > drive to santa monica for brief sleep in back of audi (since I had allready started my sublet) > drive to lake arrowhead to pick up and mount the Diamond Rax safari rack and Cascadia Vehicle Tents RTT > drive to san deigo > drop off cruiser with metal shop for rear tire carrier..........
So today we are cruiserless, as we dropped cliff last night at the metal shop- today we will be rounding up the remaining supplies, ordering an onboard shower, and weighing out the possibility of a second battery for running inverted power after dark w/o draining the main battery.
I will post up again with a more updated route but at this point our first leg will be up and along PCH towards Oregon. If we can get ourselfs a sat phone, we will take the backcountry route through oregon but those details are still very much in the works....
enjoy
picking up CVT RTT
RTT in transit to cruiser
top off for the first time since colorado
YouTube - Duct Tape....
YouTube - Repairing Hardtop Visor
