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'90 K5 - The Nevada Blazer [Post 1437: School me on alternators)

That is cool. :thumb:

My kids are in grade five, our daughter draws awesome, our boy...not so good.:haha:

But they both would have told me all about the sweet blazer that the teachers brought the camera in. :bow:
 
I went over to "owenst7's" house yesterday evening and pulled my front driveline and clearanced it a bit. Then this evening I went down to "alexsdad's" house and reinstalled that driveline and checked the transfercase mount. The bolt in the passenger side of that mount was hardly more than finger tight, so I pulled both bolts out (one at a time) and put some red thread locker on there and retightened them. I put the truck first gear in low range 4x4 and went out into his street (he lives on a dirt road) and romped on the throttle, and got no problems at all. YES! So glad to have that figured out. We'll see how it does when the passenger tire droops, but I think I'm good to go.

Now, to find time to install bumpstops and fix my parking brake cables.

Going wheeling tomorrow with "alexsdad," so that will be fun and give me an opportunity to confirm that I fixed the problem with my front driveline.
 
Went out wheelin today with "alexsdad." We drove down Lousetown Road, which is an historic road turned 4x4 trail. Actually, a truck like ours could handle the whole thing in 2wd, but it's terribly bumpy/rough, so you wouldn't be bringing a car out there. Had a lot of fun.


Lousetown-1 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

Here's the first remnant of Lousetown. We presume this was a sort of city building or something.


Lousetown-2 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


Lousetown-3 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

Here's the second remnant - the foundations of an old house.

Lousetown-4 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

The view was pretty stunning, though this pic doesn't do it justice.

Lousetown-5 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

Looking at a view, the bottom of the tailings of a pit mine indicate where the first structure pictured is located.

Lousetown-6 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

We ended up parking my truck and taking "alexsdad's" truck down a short distance of "Bronco Canyon." Pretty cool trail. Will like to take mine there once I get my bump stops and sliders on. We got "alexsdad's" truck flexed out - maxed. In fact, he's only got 2 wheels touching the ground in this pic.

Lousetown-7 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


Lousetown-8 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


Lousetown-9 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

After we tested out "alexsdad's" flex, he turned around to head back out since I didn't really want to have to drive my truck down the trail if there became a problem. I doubt there would've been one, though, as his truck is real capable, and the remaining part of the trail is technical, but not quite as flexy as that spot. I hiked farther down the canyon to see what I could see.

Lousetown-10 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

We took a short cut to get back to Reno a different route. This pic is looking across the valley in which Reno sits.

Lousetown-11 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


Lousetown-12 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

We saw 60+ wild horses today. As we finished the trail we pulled over to watch a herd of 16 walk by. "alexsdad's" dog sniffing at one of them:

Lousetown-13 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


Lousetown-14 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

I'm standing about 10 feet from this horse in this pic:

Lousetown-15 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

Zoe dog checking out that previous horse's foal.

Lousetown-17 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

Mrs. Horse didn't like that very much, and tried to kick Zoe's head off. She escaped without a scratch, but it scared me! (And her!) The blurry white spot in this photo is the horse's hoof flying through the air at the dog. You can see my pup recoiling to get away. :yikes: Just seconds before they were nose-to-nose, which is what I was trying to photograph when I got this shot instead.


Lousetown-18 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

I'm still fascinated by all the wild horses and burros here. Pretty cool.

Also, still having some driveline problems. I'm going to try one more clearance idea for it, then I'll have to try dropping my t-case or using some angled shims in the front. I sure don't want to use shims in the front for fear of introducing death wobble. I'm sort of wondering about what it would cost to have a shop spin my pumpkin on my axle tube a few degrees and weld it. Probably not feasible.
 
Yeah, they're like our version of deer... except for the deer that are here. I just mean that they're all over. They walk right through "alexsdad's" yard all the time. It still strikes me every time I see them though.
 
Nice shots as usual! I sure wish i could relocate somewhere like that. Unfortunately i dont think there is any Boeing shops in Reno...
 
No Boeing. We have entertainment, mining, and warehousing/shipping. Also: Prostitution. Perhaps you'd be interested in doing that?
 
Cool pictures. I wonder what those horses eat out in that area? Seems odd to have them out in the desert.
 
There was a rash of wild horse shootings going on for about 3 months back in 1997 between Virginia City and Reno. Two guys, (one of which I knew from work but never really talked to), shot a total of 20-25 horses right after Christmas. One of the horses they shot was giving birth when she was killed so in turn, the foal died as a result.

They ended up getting caught and it turned out that one of the guys had gotten a new AR-15 for Christmas and he had to try it out. They ended up getting no jail time but they had to pay something like $10,000 in fines and they had all of their hunting privledges stripped for life.

I never understood why someone would want to shoot those damn fine horses. :dunno:
 
snuffy74 said:
There was a rash of wild horse shootings going on for about 3 months back in 1997 between Virginia City and Reno. Two guys, (one of which I knew from work but never really talked to), shot a total of 20-25 horses right after Christmas. One of the horses they shot was giving birth when she was killed so in turn, the foal died as a result.

They ended up getting caught and it turned out that one of the guys had gotten a new AR-15 for Christmas and he had to try it out. They ended up getting no jail time but they had to pay something like $10,000 in fines and they had all of their hunting privledges stripped for life.

I never understood why someone would want to shoot those damn fine horses. :dunno:
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Funny, I also worked with one of the guys. I seem to remember it being 3 of them and closer to 99 or 2000, but yeah, It was messed up.
 
chevydan3 said:
Funny, I also worked with one of the guys. I seem to remember it being 3 of them and closer to 99 or 2000, but yeah, It was messed up.
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It might have been 99 or 2000. The dude I worked with was at Western Nevada Supply on Rock Blvd. He was a little off in the head, (obviously), but this dude walked around like he was little Billy Badass.
 
Today I pulled my front driveline out again to double check all the clearancing I've done. I found one flange/ear/whatever on the driveshaft side of the CV that was making contact. Now, after clearancing it, I am hoping I'm good to go.

I measured the driveshaft angle at level ride height. I'm sitting right around 16* . I measured it at full articulation on a table, and it came in around 38*. I think I should be good now. I sure hope so, anyway.

Here's an unfortunately phallic image of my d-shaft clamped to a table for reference to it's max angle.

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