Well, we made it home. Steph and I left at noon in her car, took us about 1:45 to get to Solon. I pulled up to Dave's house and he was outside mowing.
Dave gave me the tour of the truck and I asked a few newb 40 questions. He threw in some items to go along with the truck, a lock box for between the driver and passenger seats, roof rack, spare tire carrier, spare, front bumber, a cricket, and some manuals, filters and the like.
Dave showed me his current collection and we were on our way. We got about 20 miles east of Cedar Rapids on Hwy 30 and I got a call from work, server down...okay, no problem, Brett's only 10 minutes away. Called him, he was phone then my phone lost service. No biggie. I pull in to Brents about ten minutes or so later and park. Before I'm even out of the truck, some crazy guy in an escort is coming at me, driving on my side of the street, he snakes along side me and slides in behind me. I got a good glance at him as he passed by, it was Dave Zangerle! Apparently, Dave and Brent had been working on the orange 40's rear-end after Brent "thought" he could burn some rubber...
So, I go inside and hop on Brent's computer, get the work done and then take my new to me 40 back to Brents garage. We open the hood and Brent notices that it's leaking anti-freeze...doh! I had noticed that when I got out, the engine temp was a little high, found the reason quick... Now, had work not called me, or called me two minutes later and my cell hadn't worked, I would have been driving down the road...missing about 2 gallons of radiator fluids...yeah, it was already that low...
So, down the street I went to the gas station for some stop leak...best $2.64 I've ever spent...poured about half of it in, and Brent started filling it with anti-freeze and water. Topped it off, started it up and it was good to go, no leaks or anything. So, Brent says to me, hey you want to make a trade? I said sure, what for what? My new radiator for that lock box. DONE!
Steph and I shoved off about 4 PM from Newhall...we needed to be back by 6:30 to give us enough time to get to baby classes.
We got back about 6:30, and just decided we'd try to make up the baby class some other night as we were both exhausted.
So, my 40 is home. Time for me to go finish the Tall Corn Cruiser Classic article for Toyota Trails...
Thanks ALL for everything, this is what this whole community is all about!
