Re: beginnings of a meet report/ timeline

From: JAMES KNOX (knox.james@Sympatico.ca)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 10:39:34 EDT


Great Going Mike!

All-tho Tom only had 4 beers! Remember they were Canadian beer!

Jim Knox :-)
  

--- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Maskalans" <mike-lists@tepidcola.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: DML: beginnings of a meet report/ timeline

>
> so instead of going to bed, I decided to let my parents know what went
> on this weekend. that made for the start of this timeline.
> considering that I'm only one person, only in one place at one time,
> and necessarily self-centric I *know* I'm missing a *lot*, and probably
> putting some things in the wrong order. I want this to be a decent
> report and I want it to go up relatively soon, so I'd like and
> corrections and omissions. what funny or terrible details do you have
> that belong in the report? I think since there weren't too many people
> there, this should be not overly much traffic for the list.
>
> summation of events:
> wednesday
> some people arrive, some things happen?
>
> thursday
> more people arrive, like Neil. some people arrive late, like me.
> mopar tow hooks go on the front of barry's truck. notable since we
> have to make them work with a brush guard that they aren't supposed to
> talk to (the tow hooks' bracketry replaced the drop brackets the guard
> previously sat on). amusement ensued when after 8 hours of work,
> Barry's hood didn't close =)
> tow hooks go on Tom's truck, Christine (intended to be 2 each front
> and back; only 1 front completed due to PITA factor of drilling through
> 2 3/16" thicknesses. both rear on)
> tow hooks go on the front of my '98 (poking through were fog lights
> aren't, mounted directly on the frame, engaging both sides of the boxed
> in frame with rethreaded and trimmed 8" grade 8 bolts - thanks, Neil!!).
> night run to test Christine's KCs; at 03:30 she goes in the drink. 3
> of 4 light bar mounted KCs are above the water line.
> extraction; christine out by 05:30 thanks to jon's ram's winch, adam's
> jeep/anchor, barry's truck's pulling and my personal swimming
>
> friday
> full fluid changes in christine (drain 2 pans' worth of water, replace
> with oil; etc.), it eventually starts but dies quickly due to water in
> the gas tank.
> first trail runs, I take much time getting onto the bypass for mud
> lane -- it's really gnarly at this point. all the trails are very wet
> from rain.
> adam and I go down to the lower waterfall, adam attempts and fails to
> climb.
> I make the very first full run of the mud pit. unassisted, I complete
> the pass. first truck with a cap to go through =) adam wasn't first
> through this year, even with me egging him on!
> after some other mud pit shenanigans, Ed (and Jason and Norah) have
> the misfortune of having Bobby, the Bleazard's dog, run out of the barn
> and right under his tires. mood *very* somber for the rest of the
> afternoon.
>
> saturday
> SCORE shows up - 2 Willys, 2 jacked up TJs, a couple CJs and a bone
> stock XJ (right?)
> fun in the mud pit. a CJ spins an axle.
> fun in mud lane.
> slippery hill a real mess. over half who climbed it were winched up.
> Both Dave and I were *very* close to the edge.
> adam crests the waterfall, 1 jeep breaks a front brake line
> attempting, the 3-wheel-drive jeep fails, and I fail. I knocked my
> exhaust off my y pipe and ran wide open (and very rich thanks to the O2
> sensors) for the rest of the day. I also had a tire scare when a valve
> stem cap was mangled by an underwater rock backing off the falls - a
> piece of it wedged the schreader valve open, and we all thought I'd be
> changing a tire.
> christine is running mid-day after fuel filter change and re-fill of
> gas. tom makes his way down to the stream as all of us (~20 vehicles
> w/ the SCORE jeeps) are heading up.
> go back up to have some fun at the mud pit, tom takes christene
> through and gets her nice and dirty.
> lunch was followed by a run to the upper waterfall. we startled a few
> people who were just picnicking or something on top of the falls.
> jacked up jeeps and a wide open 318.....
> I know more happened here.
> playing with fire. using up some of tom's bad gas. tom drunk on 4
> beers and wondering what jon is squirting out of his fingers to make
> the fire flare up. hehe.
>
> sunday
> people clearing out. adam and I stay with tom and christine. she
> wouldn't start - fuel pump conked out completely. adam brought him in
> to pick up another while I packed up.
> I pull the truck up the driveway, and we roll her back into the shop.
> we pull the box (that took some lift shenanigans thanks to needing to
> clean a foot of rocker panel) to change the pump since the body mounts
> are a new 3" lift, and the tank straps are original '89. new pump
> works after having to coax it back in after re-mounting the box (it had
> popped up).
> adam takes off after the new pump is in.
> the truck started and ran, tom went to shower and I left.
> I had to change my alternator in Buffalo (couldn't get it cleaned out
> after the mud, even with almost 3 full cans of Coke, quite a bit of
> WD40 and a healthy dose of contact cleaner) -- thankfully the
> open-till-8-on-a-sunday parts store had one in stock. I wasn't done
> 'till 9, though, so I've got a $60 core in my truck bed.
> I get home to find a message saying tom is flying home, cuz
> Christine's trans is fscked. d'oh! not fair... but then again what
> is?
> I start seriously looking into my standing offer to tow tom's truck
> back to 'Sconnie, and hoping that someone here has a trailer to borrow
> to save tom a hundred-plus bucks.
> I decide to write this up because I'm a) dumb and b) still fixating on
> this terrible and wonderful weekend.
> and finally, as I ought to have done 3 hours ago when I got home, I'm
> going to konk out.
>
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