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A great weekend on the rock, the weather even cooperated for the most part.
We setup Thursday around 5pm, tore down Sunday 10am, home by 3pm.
James toured about 1/2 to 2/3 to the train tracks on North Trail Saturday afternoon, he and the FJ both performed well and had a blast.
We chatted with Evan @Toy-Yota on Friday and Saturday a few minutes. We missed you on our return trip from North Trail by 5 mins.
I prefer summer camping, but both Matt and James carried on about the superiority of fall camping. The breathtaking colours and lack of bugs sure were awesome. As was the blueberry grunt James made in the coals.
Looking forwards to the next trip.
We’ll keep an eye out for you Friday afternoon/evening Steve.
Less than a week till I roll out from Shelburne!The TacomaWorld crew is aiming to stay on the North edge of Black Lake, marked by Red arrows on the image attached.
I intend to setup camp on the South side of Black Lake, at purple arrows.
If we relocate due to weather, I’ll do my best to put the location and screenshot up here. Depending on the direction of the wind, the location will either be really guarded, or really exposed. Have to play by ear.Tuesday in The Shop; my buddy Eric dropped by so I could put new-used struts into his 2019 Subaru WRX. Ever since an “incident” involving a curb, his Subi has been plagued with a minor pull/trend to the right. He’s previously replaced LCA, tie rod, sway bar and end links, bearing and hub, and had a bunch of alignments performed, but nothing cured the pull. We figured it must have been something internal in the strut, so he bought low km takeoffs from facebook. In less than two hours we had the job done, and were out road testing. Eric is a happy dude now, his car is completely fixed! That WRX hauls ass, And once again in a straight line.
And here’s a something this thread is missing, a picture of me working (or at least contemplating working).
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Hey @Slick_Yota I got to use the sandblaster for about 45 seconds today! Worked pretty well.
It took me about a half hour to find the appropriate air fittings, another half hour to setup the frame, drag everything outside and find the “sweet spot” on the media feed valve which prevented clogging in the nozzle. Finally, after all the troubleshooting, my kids wouldn’t stop fighting and whining to let me get some work done. So I packed it all up for another day.Got some time in the shop today to replace my burnt out brake light bulb, upgrading most of the bulbs to LED while I was in there. Only the brake light remains with an old school filament, the 1157 is dual filament and my LED version was incompatible.
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A handsome collection you’ve acquired in your time. You’re under an hour from myself and a couple Yota buddies here in Shelburne.
There’s a big trip to Parry Sound first weekend in October. Will prolly be a couple dozen trucks up there, only a handful are members on here though.
@Dieseldude that’s quite the fleet you’ve got, a real Toyota addiction! Welcome! You’ll fit in just fine here.
Where abouts do you call home?
Keep an eye out on the “Meets and Events” section for trail runs. We have a few recurring get togethers, but 2020 has been kind of a bust (at least for myself).
With lots of help from Matt, we put the hardtop back on Redee. Three days later I still have not finished bolting it down, but she’s without a trans cable, and the urgency to bolt the roof down is very low.
Sunday in The Shop, new tools after meeting up with @Slick and Melissa. Great to meet you both, hope to see you in Ardbeg in 2-weeks!
That is all. No work done yet, but Truckee is gonna see some attention in the coming weeks. Tires, rear brakes & cables, leafs, carrier bearing… all this to come after I get Redee mobile again. The new shifter cable should arrive today sometime.
BLACK LAKE!
I keep writing Clear Lake, only out of stupidity though. Black Lake is where we’ll be.
Keep an eye out for our convoy; Redee, Matt’s 4th gen, James’ FJ.
No worries Steve, we’ll figure something out. If there’s a BS session on Sunday I might make it down.
Finally got the broken shift cable out, such a pain. I can only hope that getting a new one in will somehow magically be less of a pain in the ass.
