Cruise Moab trip report,
Purdy Pig not seen on the Jax Trax trail run,
We had the pleasure of meeting Pablo and his son and they are genuinely good guys, we are looking forward to finding them again at some future event and spending more time with them. I was disappointed to find he drove his wife’s car to the event and left his pig home but I’m hopeful we’ll get the chance to see this pig in action soon.
High speed pigs,
Going to Moab I was thinking about the recent talk about driving our pigs at or around the speed limit here in Idaho (80MPH) so I was paying more attention to how thing reacted at speed, on the way there we drove 80/85 MPH most of the way windows up and A/C on and other than the temp rising up a bit on the long uphill sections it really was like driving a modern vehicle, no hood bounce, wandering or darting unexpectedly. We got up at 4am Sunday morning and burned rubber to get the wife home in time to do some stuff she had planned (she reluctantly agreed to spend mother’s day weekend with a bunch of dudes in Toyotas if I got her home at a decent time on Sunday) but we had some high speed issues. The first issue was indirectly related to the gallon jug of water that one of the dogs stepped on the day before, as it turns out if you intend to turn a 55 into a Greek Steambath you need exactly one gallon of water and a big round dog bed, it was early and cold and as soon as we got the cab toasty warm bam a heavy dense fog started rolling in from the back of the pig (now if we weren’t in a hurry to get home we would have just pulled over striped down naked and enjoyed the warm steam for a while) but we were in a hurry so we cracked the windows to let a bit of steam out but apparently pig windows are not designed to be rolled back up at speeds, we had been cruising between 85 and 90 and the windows were getting sucked out of the track on the top front and would stop about ½” from going full up, after about two hours of listening to the wind whistles we came up to a little town with reduced speed section and magically both side windows rolled back up, we repeated this experiment several hundred times (let steam out/ slow down roll windows up) and somewhere right around 70 MPH is the magic number to get my side windows up.
Our next speed issue came with the rain, pig windshield wipers work marginally well on their best day but at 85 MPH they don’t touch the windshield with exception for those three or four little spots where they bounce just outside of your line of sight, I know what you’re thinking why didn’t you just slow down, well the Simi trucks were going 80 MPH and the cars zigging in and out were going 85 (assuming they had working wipers) and when these packs would catch up you were forced to speed up to blend with the flow and try to avoid the tire spray, in-between the packs of cars/big rigs we could slow up to around 75 MPH and get a favorable wiper bounce that was in the line of sight.
The last speed related issue came with a 40 MPH or so headwind, rain had stopped and we ramped to old pig back up to 85/90 and after about an hour I was noticing I would have to keep adding more throttle to keep speed up and we were boosting around 25/30 PSI on flat ground (normally boost runs around 10/12 on flat ground) I didn’t realize just how windy it was or necessarily that is was a head wind but after three hours of pushing a pig with a spare tire strapped to the top in those winds boosting those numbers I pushed two quarts of oil out the breather, lucky we stopped at a rest stop and I popped the hood to check things over I topped the oil off and I slowed down ~80 for the remainder of the drive to keep the boost down the ~20 and the pig seemed happier there.
Stretchy nuts,
I’m not even going to try to say I fully understand stretchy nuts syndrome but the guy in the khaki shorts and Scraps are getting ready to check for stretchy nuts. I’m going to let Ron fill in the blanks.
Okay enough mindless chatter, time for pictures,
Camp setup,
Pigs posing,
Trail pics,
Too bad the drs can't put y'all back together the way y'all rebuild these FJs 
