Well I wrapped up my project in PA last Sat jumped in the FJ at 730 am and Off I went.... Made it as far as St. Cloud MN that 1st day. Got up at 430 am sunday after about 4 hours sleep, checked the oil and looked at the Belts, Well somewhere between Chicago and St. Cloud, it chucked a Alt/ h2o pump belt that was in turn eaten by the A/C drive.....
FUCK..... The remaining Alt belt was badly torn up so even trying to get going was out of the question. Low an behold there is a Parts Store not more than a 100 yards from the hotel I stopped at.... Shit its Sun in MN when do they open if at all on sun ...... 10am !!!! Welp back to bed for a bit more sleep. After aquiring 2 new Alt/h2o pump belts and 30 mins putting them on in the parking lot, I was off by about 11am...... 18 hours latter at about 430am Mountain time, I rolled into my drive way, I must say I put a lot of blind faith in this thing and it didnt let me down at all, it ran 70-80mph @ 2500rpm for 32ish hours out of a 40 hour span and it runs better now than when I left PA after DDing it for 2 months.
Anyway finally got a pic I kinda like of it, quick and dirty walking back from a seldom visited fishing hole about 3 miles up the trail, just before dark (so its kinda noisy) tonight about 20 miles back off the paved roads, no fish were caught, but man was it good just to be there.
IMG_6950 by mrsleeve, on Flickr
FUCK..... The remaining Alt belt was badly torn up so even trying to get going was out of the question. Low an behold there is a Parts Store not more than a 100 yards from the hotel I stopped at.... Shit its Sun in MN when do they open if at all on sun ...... 10am !!!! Welp back to bed for a bit more sleep. After aquiring 2 new Alt/h2o pump belts and 30 mins putting them on in the parking lot, I was off by about 11am...... 18 hours latter at about 430am Mountain time, I rolled into my drive way, I must say I put a lot of blind faith in this thing and it didnt let me down at all, it ran 70-80mph @ 2500rpm for 32ish hours out of a 40 hour span and it runs better now than when I left PA after DDing it for 2 months.
Anyway finally got a pic I kinda like of it, quick and dirty walking back from a seldom visited fishing hole about 3 miles up the trail, just before dark (so its kinda noisy) tonight about 20 miles back off the paved roads, no fish were caught, but man was it good just to be there.
IMG_6950 by mrsleeve, on Flickr
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