lomodyj
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- Joined
- Mar 21, 2005
- Location
- Out in the Middle
As some of you know, last Monday I was haulin' ash down through West (by God) Virginia on my way home from Camp Jeep (in Wisconsin). I was 11 hours into the trip and had a little over 4 left to go. I decided to not stop and get a room for the night...I put the hammer down and knew I'd be home by about 0100 on Tuesday...Get to sleep in the same bed as my wife for the first time in 10 days.
Just north of Beckley the truck lost all kinds of power...then it started making lots of noise, and then the smoke...Not sure what I did to it, but for sure, I let the magic smoke out of it.
Had to keep rolling another 7 miles or so to a rest area. Had to get to a phone...WV has nothing for cell service along the toll road.
Got to the rest area, call the wife and said "trip over". Curled up in the cab and got some sleep, long, restless, uncomfortable night. Got set up for a tow to a dealer in Oak Hill in the morning. Long and slow ride in the tow truck, him pulling my CTD along with the YJ on the trailer.
At the dealer I pulled the YJ off the trailer and moved the camping gear around. Pointed the Jeep towards Chapel Hill and started the longest ride, on the street, the YJ's had in about 4 years. BTW, unballanced swampers suck big time on the highway...
4.5 hours later I was pulling into my driveway...I felt as though I had done more abuse to the YJ in that one drive, than all the abuse I've ever given it on the trails. My body was beated and battered, and I felt I had been to a bad Chinese masage.
Through some very fortunate postings on this board, I had a new to me CTD motor delivered to my door on Friday night. Now all I had to do was get the Dodge and the trailer home.
Jon Loughry, probably one of the best friends you could find, offered up his truck, his 18 ft trailer and his time...So the recover was on. Sunday Morning at Oh-dark-thirty he rolled out of Raleigh headed towards me, picked me up in Chapel Hill and shot on up to WV. 5 hours later we were all loaded and getting really nervous. The CTD barely fit on the trailer, and it looked like we were flexing his deck some. No easy points on the truck for tie downs, so we had to invent some crazy strapping.
Jon rolled out from the dealership, white knuckled and worried. That pig is heavy...and it was doing some bouncing on the trailer. Stopped and tried to pull the front end down some and take out some bounce. That helped...Rolled all the way to the fuel station at Graham where we put another 30 gallons of Diesel in and just for fun weighed the rig...I think Jon would have pulled the truck off the trailer at that point and said..."You are on you own...", but no, we climbed back in and rolled the last 20 miles home...Knowing that we were about 5000#'s over his tags...(who knew that my truck weighed that much!)
The CTD is sitting in the driveway now...There's a long block sitting in the garage...and my Wife really doesn't sound all that pissed that instead of going to Hawaii this year...I got a new motor...(hopefully that lasts...)
It is expected that Keith will be picking up my trailer on his way home from Michigan today...We will have to see how it does behind his MiMiVan...If it doesn't pull well, I'll grab the neighbors Denali in the morning and head back up to recover it.
A huge thanks to Mr. Gadget for dragging my junk home. You are truely a good friend. I owe you.
Just north of Beckley the truck lost all kinds of power...then it started making lots of noise, and then the smoke...Not sure what I did to it, but for sure, I let the magic smoke out of it.
Had to keep rolling another 7 miles or so to a rest area. Had to get to a phone...WV has nothing for cell service along the toll road.
Got to the rest area, call the wife and said "trip over". Curled up in the cab and got some sleep, long, restless, uncomfortable night. Got set up for a tow to a dealer in Oak Hill in the morning. Long and slow ride in the tow truck, him pulling my CTD along with the YJ on the trailer.
At the dealer I pulled the YJ off the trailer and moved the camping gear around. Pointed the Jeep towards Chapel Hill and started the longest ride, on the street, the YJ's had in about 4 years. BTW, unballanced swampers suck big time on the highway...
4.5 hours later I was pulling into my driveway...I felt as though I had done more abuse to the YJ in that one drive, than all the abuse I've ever given it on the trails. My body was beated and battered, and I felt I had been to a bad Chinese masage.
Through some very fortunate postings on this board, I had a new to me CTD motor delivered to my door on Friday night. Now all I had to do was get the Dodge and the trailer home.
Jon Loughry, probably one of the best friends you could find, offered up his truck, his 18 ft trailer and his time...So the recover was on. Sunday Morning at Oh-dark-thirty he rolled out of Raleigh headed towards me, picked me up in Chapel Hill and shot on up to WV. 5 hours later we were all loaded and getting really nervous. The CTD barely fit on the trailer, and it looked like we were flexing his deck some. No easy points on the truck for tie downs, so we had to invent some crazy strapping.
Jon rolled out from the dealership, white knuckled and worried. That pig is heavy...and it was doing some bouncing on the trailer. Stopped and tried to pull the front end down some and take out some bounce. That helped...Rolled all the way to the fuel station at Graham where we put another 30 gallons of Diesel in and just for fun weighed the rig...I think Jon would have pulled the truck off the trailer at that point and said..."You are on you own...", but no, we climbed back in and rolled the last 20 miles home...Knowing that we were about 5000#'s over his tags...(who knew that my truck weighed that much!)
The CTD is sitting in the driveway now...There's a long block sitting in the garage...and my Wife really doesn't sound all that pissed that instead of going to Hawaii this year...I got a new motor...(hopefully that lasts...)
It is expected that Keith will be picking up my trailer on his way home from Michigan today...We will have to see how it does behind his MiMiVan...If it doesn't pull well, I'll grab the neighbors Denali in the morning and head back up to recover it.
A huge thanks to Mr. Gadget for dragging my junk home. You are truely a good friend. I owe you.
think his is 8k to 8.5k or so.
I will do just about anything once!!
He is post turbo thinking 950 6" after EB add 300 or so
