Idaho dates for 2017 8/12-8/20

[lsxsonoma]

Guess you just might need some help... or motivation... ill be over tomorrow with both.

[dsrace]

your welcome to come help ...not sure who you are and i should know where milftown is but then again i've been married quite a while. lol   wait a min thats milford town ....they have a fantastic pizza parlor on the north end of town!

[lsxsonoma]

They do have an amazing pizza parlor... but less about pizza and more about ms3

[dsrace]

pizza trumps all!  lol

[Enemy]

LS!! Sonoma??
I heard those blow up a lot, sure it would make the drive??
 

[dsrace]

and i didn't say nothing before the post but did afterwords      damn carquest machine shop 

[dsrace]

got dougs harness run...not complete but run. looks good too ...very clean but forgot to get a 2nd 02 bung weld.    lxssonom came and out helped ,he wants to go .....i told he can crash on my couch in the toyhauler...he`ll bring his 450 dirtbike.

[lsxsonoma]

Definitely going. i put off going back to school for 6 months to go on this trip 

[dsrace]

well then i hope you have fun!

[Lance-W]

Ready to go 




VEGAS baby!




A day at the lake.




Virgin sand in those big bowls with quite the cornice from the wind the day before.  Too much cornice for this duner!  It SCARED me!




They had a lot of fun being maniacs in the water.




True redneck engineering at the lake.  "Hmmm what do we have that's the right size to plug this very old Tygon fuel tube?"




Does this look like the promise of a perfect day tomorrow or what?




The Heim machine!  This is Doug's masterwork.  The fine touches are just amazing.




Just another day at the lake.



North of Vegas on the way home.  Wynn nursing it down the road 3 miles to the truck stop and the guy wants to know why I just don't change it.  I say " It's 107 degrees out and I have money?"  He just smiled and said pull it over there in the shade it'll be next.

[fabr]

" I say " It's 107 degrees out and I have money?" " 

[sandvw]

Lance,
Last year when I left Idaho I made it just past Black Foot and tire was smoking from being drug down the road. I went and put a tire monitor on the trailer before I came up here. It tells you pressure and temp. It really works nice too. On the way up here I stopped for 2 weeks and when I started down the road it gave me a signal of a low tire so stopped and put air in it. I had a bad valve core. But it saves the tire. $ 200.00 is what I paid for it.

[fabr]

I did that over 5 years ago. I have all my tires monitored. Peace of mind!!

[Enemy]

Well this one was definitely an adventure for all in attendance!! Lots of WICKED dunes. Nick and I put well over 100 miles on the Brutes in a couple days, but unfortunately his didn't want to run on the last day of riding.. Another chapter in the continuing saga of Gremlins running around messing with everybody's equipment! My gremlin decided that I didn't need to be able to shift my truck when leaving my cousin Shannons on the way to Idaho.. Got up in the morning, got settled in the seat, pulled the shifter to "Drive" and SNAP! Busted the aluminum shaft in the column that attaches to the trans cable.. BUT, it was in Drive range and I could move it to Neutral.... Down the road we go! The big passes were interesting, and had to crawl under the truck to put it in neutral at fuel stops but manageable.. THEN, 20 miles out of Rock Springs my fuel pump decided it had had enough and died on the interstate.. Grrr.. WEll, it had seen some use when I had my previous fueling woes, so blaming that on the failure. I will swap in my spare on the side of the interstate! Got that all done, keyed up, and NOTHING! My spare, fairly new pump would not spin... SHIT!! So after the old pump cooled off enough to touch it, I beat the piss out of it while hooked directly to the battery and it took off again.. Bolted it back in and it got us into Rock Springs and an Oreilly's that happen to have an aftermarket replacement.. A little parking lot mechanics and we are back down the road! Much better than on the interstate with 80mph fly-by's! Found a used column at a salvage yard in Idaho Falls and fixed my shifter at the dunes on Wednesday. Much more enjoyable drive home... UNTIL at a little shit hole fuel stop called "Point of Rocks", I noticed a few cords showing on the RT rear trailer tire... OK, swap it out... Nick got the jack out, slid it under the trailer and had a peculiar look on his face...

"Dude.... Your leaf spring hanger is almost busted off the frame...."

Well, nothing can be done here! Down the road we go! Got it back to my cousins over Laramie pass for the evening and decided it has been this way for quite a while by the looks of the cracks. Mild Redneck engineering could of made sure it went no further (or a welder) but was confident it would last the remaining 450 miles and thankfully it did!

Still a great trip with lots of awesome memories with a crew that I consider family.
Ready for the next adventure!!
Some pics of the climbs we did, we went to the dune fields on the North Side of the mountain called Juniper HP, very cool to look down on the dunes and ride sand that is like running across water it is so deep and fluffy! The Brute was porpoising like a boat on the stuff! No other tracks in site! I have some vids of the climbs as well.

[dsrace]

ya heck of a trick and sand vw sorry i didn't hear the phone when you called for a ride. i was trying to figure something out and didn't hear it. all in all great trip ! the people make them great trips!