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General Discussion => Group Gatherings/Special Events => Topic started by: fastcorvairs on June 25, 2010, 07:34:22 AM
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Will we are on the move again. After a week in St Anthony we moved on to Coos Bay, from there we went back up the cost to Winchester Bay. left there and came down Thur the big red wood trees and ended up in Yuba City CA for the night. Getting ready to hit the road and get a bottle of sand from Sand Mountain NV. then on to Coral Pink. Sent Yummi and email this am and told him we should be there by the week end. Would be fun to run with him. I'll get lots of pictures on soon as we get back. After we leave Pink we will head up and check out Little Sahara Sand Mountain. FY'I any of you Guys with fourwheelers or single seaters want a dream vacation go to Coos Bay. them trails are for you. We got to run Hi speed on the beach for miles. Fourth gear pinned on the revlimiter.
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lucky dogs!!!!
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Duners dream vacation??
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Wow! That looks sweet!
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Sent Yummi and email this am and told him we should be there by the week end.
Yummi is a dork and missed a chance to meet some good folks.
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I don't know about the dork part but you damn sure did miss out on some very good people.
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Will we sailed down Thur the big red woods in CA and on to Sand Mountain NV. I did not have time to unload the big green pickle but got a ride up Sand Mountain with Jerry in his subi car. Third gear 12 pounds of boost at 4000 RPM. Dang is that a hill or what. At the top the car's and trailers looked like match boxes at the bottom. Reloaded Jerry's and Clark's car and off we go to Little Saraha UT. Spent one hour at Little Saraha UT. We did not want to pay the day fee but the BLM people said if we could drive back to The big dunes and get our bottel of sand and get back to the gate in one hour they would refund our money. We did it. Five miles of gravel road at 25 MPH in and out got our bottle of sand and back on the road to Coral Pink. We will be on the sand buy 9:00 this morning. Pictures to at ten.
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:o :o :o VERY COOL!!! Have fun on the rest of your trip and be safe. 8) 8) 8)
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It's past 10 LOL!!!
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It's past 10 LOL!!!
No phone service at camp. Lots more to come at ten.
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That's beautiful scenery!
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Coral Pink?
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That's beautiful scenery!
THAT IT IS! I really like that first pic. ;D ;D ;D
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It's past 10 LOL!!!
He didn't say 10am or 10pm LOL!!!
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YA ,AND TOMORROW NEVER GETS HERE EITHER. lol!!
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THAT IT IS! I really like that first pic. ;D ;D ;D
+1 fast tell the wife nice job on the camera ;) ;) ;D
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OK guys just came down form the top of the mountain at Coral Pink. Got some phone and air card reception now. Dam it is beautiful up there in them sand dunes. Not a whole lot of them but they are nice to run on. We came down to Flagstaff for the night. and are thinking about going back out to Cinder Mountain in the morning. here are some picks we took at Pink.
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Glenn,
I'm thinking there will be some folks that would like the hear the story of you being stuck 2 times and on the rope once!! I'm sure the folks along with me that would like to see those pictures!!
Have a great day.
DAN
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OMG! WHere at?
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Coral Pink
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The plot thickens
gg: ff: gg:
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rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl I GOTTA hear the story!LOL!!!!!
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They are 300 miles from Waynoka. I know he is taking calls on his cell phone.
I sure he will be happy to tell you the story.
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LOL!!!!
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Glenn,
I'm thinking there will be some folks that would like the hear the story of you being stuck 2 times and on the rope once!! I'm sure the folks along with me that would like to see those pictures!!
Have a great day.
DAN
Hell I would like a picture too but the guy holding the camera and dancing and laghing would not let me down load the card onto my laptop. He'll have to post them here. Kept saying that I would delete the card and then there would be no evidence at all. Now would I do something like that. eyes
Ya seem to have been a small reverse problem. Had none. Lost it at Idaho. Got myself into a tight spot at Coral Pink and had to be roped up and have the front end pulled around a bit to get me out of the spot. Seems that the guy that had the tow rope forgot his camera and did not have his cell phone on him ether. The second time that the pictures got taken I hit a small vertical hill that was only about ten feet tall but at 80*and soft at to slow of speed and got hung up. Only had to get out and push back with the help of the camera man. ;D Had to wight for him to stop dancing and taking pictures before we could roll it back off the hill. I told him that I had done that on propose so to give him a photo shot. He didn't believed me for some reason. :o :o eyes eyes
All in all we had some problems but had a great time doing it. Had the best camp spot at Coral Pink. Will for sure go back some day. I am down loading all the pictures from my laptop now and will have lots of pictures to post. I'll put them on my face book account and post the link here.
I did have some major problems with the trailer and got run off I-40 east of Amarillo TX buy a 18 wheel truck in bumper to bumper traffic. Had to stand on the binders and run off onto the shoulder when he come over onto me at 70 MPH. Don't know what the deal was but it could have been bad if I had not got slowed down and on the side. Lucky that there was enough room behind me that the guy fallowing me had time to slow to. Never did catch him to get numbers. Buy the the time I got my rig back in to traffic and up to speed he was gone.
As for the trailer we were coming out of Cedar City UT and I dam near lost the rear gear on my trailer. The shackle nuts had came lose and the lower springs turned side ways and tore into the tire. By the time I got it stopped It had dug into 10 ply's of the 14 on the tire. Had to happen on the Interstate to. No fun changing a tire and getting and axle back in place on a four lane interstate with traffic going buy at 80 MPH. Don't try going thur Zion National Park in UT with more the 50 foot of trailer. They turned me away and said that I was to lone for the the roads. Had to go way down into Arazona to get to Coral Pink.
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=938416&id=1637888905&comments=&alert=# (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=938416&id=1637888905&comments=&alert=#)!/?ref=home
Ok everone here are the pictures from our dream vacation of 2010. Just click on the my facebook link and it should take you to nine photo albums. Start with the first one that reads Coos Bay and beyond. Then work up. We had a wonderful time and got to spend time with some of the best people there is. This is only a fraction of the pictures that I took on this trip.
Ok don't know what happend but this link takes you to David's Facebook page. Just go up the the upper right hand corner and click on HOME and it will take you to my page. But you will see some nice pictures of when we were in Idaho.
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=938416&id=1637888905&comments=&alert=# (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=938416&id=1637888905&comments=&alert=#)!/?ref=home
Ok everone here are the pictures from our dream vacation of 2010. Just click on the my facebook link and it should take you to nine photo albums. Start with the first one that reads Coos Bay and beyond. Then work up. We had a wonderful time and got to spend time with some of the best people there is. This is only a fraction of the pictures that I took on this trip.
Ok don't know what happend but this link takes you to David's Facebook page. Just go up the the upper right hand corner and click on HOME and it will take you to my page. But you will see some nice pictures of when we were in Idaho.
Just copy and paste the link and it will go to my page.
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Even copying and pasting it did not work for me. Anyone else get it to work??
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nope - looks like it requires a log in.
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Try these
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24975&id=100000492395288&l=b73457b3ff (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24975&id=100000492395288&l=b73457b3ff)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24974&id=100000492395288&l=f5b1d2d8c2 (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24974&id=100000492395288&l=f5b1d2d8c2)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24971&id=100000492395288&l=d87abce6f8 (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24971&id=100000492395288&l=d87abce6f8)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24956&id=100000492395288&l=4b4f1cf45e (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24956&id=100000492395288&l=4b4f1cf45e)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24955&id=100000492395288&l=3e5abd8a95 (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24955&id=100000492395288&l=3e5abd8a95)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24954&id=100000492395288&l=5550d14842 (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24954&id=100000492395288&l=5550d14842)
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Wroks just fine - CP looks nice. Sorry i missed it.
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Those links DO work most excellantly! Thank You!
Just started looking and its only getting better!
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10: THOSE ARE SOME AWESOME PICS FAST :o
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10: THOSE ARE SOME AWESOME PICS FAST :o
That's not even half of them. Just got tired of posting.
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I like the pics Fast, thanks ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
So how many miles did you put on your truck from that trip?
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That's not even half of them. Just got tired of posting.
In the gallery section on this site we have a mass upload feature. Might want to re-size them as well - they will upload faster - in case you don't know - highlight all the files - right click and select "re-size pictures" (This assumes Vista or Windows 7)
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I like the pics Fast, thanks ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
So how many miles did you put on your truck from that trip?
5,450 miles on the truck. 681.25 Gals of diesel fuel at and average price of 3.00 =$2,043.75 Best tank was about 9 worst tank was 7. Total weight of trailer and truck was 24,500 LB's. Really did good I had set my budget for fuel at 2500. Worst stretch of road was Donner Pass at Reno NV and old hyway 50 from Fallon NV to Utah was indeed the longest and loneliest. Couple of time along that road I was wishing I had packed a spare can of diesel fuel.
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In the gallery section on this site we have a mass upload feature. Might want to re-size them as well - they will upload faster - in case you don't know - highlight all the files - right click and select "re-size pictures" (This assumes Vista or Windows 7)
Don't got Vista or 7. But I do have my camera set for smaller easier pictures for uploading to PC.
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5,450 miles on the truck. 681.25 Gals of diesel fuel at and average price of 3.00 =$2,043.75 Best tank was about 9 worst tank was 7. Total weight of trailer and truck was 24,500 LB's. Really did good I had set my budget for fuel at 2500. Worst stretch of road was Donner Pass at Reno NV and old hyway 50 from Fallon NV to Utah was indeed the longest and loneliest. Couple of time along that road I was wishing I had packed a spare can of diesel fuel.
Good thing you had some jerky to chew on ;D
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5,450 miles on the truck. 681.25 Gals of diesel fuel at and average price of 3.00 =$2,043.75 Best tank was about 9 worst tank was 7. Total weight of trailer and truck was 24,500 LB's. Really did good I had set my budget for fuel at 2500. Worst stretch of road was Donner Pass at Reno NV and old hyway 50 from Fallon NV to Utah was indeed the longest and loneliest. Couple of time along that road I was wishing I had packed a spare can of diesel fuel.
DAMN, You did put a few miles behind you. :o :o :o
Pulling 8 mpg avg. isn't bad for the weight your were pulling and the up and down terrain. 8) 8) 8)
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It's refreshing to hear an honest account of mileage. All the Dodge boys around here try to say they get 15+ miles per gallon pulling 30K +. LOL!!!!!! Looks like a great time was had!
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It's refreshing to hear an honest account of mileage. All the Dodge boys around here try to say they get 15+ miles per gallon pulling 30K +. LOL!!!!!!
The older Dodge's with the 5.9 cummins can get 15 mpg pulling that much weight. 8) 8) 8) 8)
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The older Dodge's with the 5.9 cummins can get 15 mpg pulling that much weight. 8) 8) 8) 8)
Word - i wish i had my old truck back....
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That's after Fast did some upgrades on his truck, otherwise it probably would have been around 5 to 6 mpg. Those 6.7 cummins are some thirsty pigs. Nothing like the old 5.9 cummins. 8) 8) 8) 8)
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OMG,trans and yummi. You guys are part of the Dodge conspiracy to discredit Duramaxes!!!!
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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rofl
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It's refreshing to hear an honest account of mileage. All the Dodge boys around here try to say they get 15+ miles per gallon pulling 30K +. LOL!!!!!! Looks like a great time was had!
Will the other dodge I was pulling with is and 01 5.9 and he was pulling about the same weight and he got about 15 to 16. Yes the 6.7's are a thirsty pig. Most of the Dodge boy's that are bragging about high fuel milage are driving two wheel drive 3/4 ton single wheel trucks. Pulling 8.000 or less.
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I was being polite. The goof balls around here try to claim 20+. I think our inbreds don't know how to figure mileage. I get 8-12 pulling trailer/truck of approx 20K with the '07 duramax dually . All around towing of approx 9.
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No goof ball here.
With the 5.9 2500 4x4 chip and filter i got 21mpg around town / highway. Towing was less - about 13 - 14 mpg with 13,000#. New truck with 6.7 gets about 16 - 17 town / highway. About 10mpg towing. Gonna do the dpf delete in about a month. Hope that helps.
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Those figures I can believe. 13K truck/trailer combined I assume.
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The 13k is a rough guess for total. I never ran the scales.
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No goof ball here.
With the 5.9 2500 4x4 chip and filter i got 21mpg around town / highway. Towing was less - about 13 - 14 mpg with 13,000#. New truck with 6.7 gets about 16 - 17 town / highway. About 10mpg towing. Gonna do the dpf delete in about a month. Hope that helps.
Been there done that. Do the complete turbo back and unplug the EGR while your at it. I found that doing the EGR Cooler delete was a waist of time. Not needed.
Be sure to get a good tuner. I am using the Edge and I hear that the Smarty is better for the 6.7 Dodge.