Ungh...tired...
Got delayed Thursday morning in Spokane, WA looking for an air filter for it. Found one in Coer D'Alene, ID (might have spelled that wrong). Then all sorts of construction IN THE MOUNTAINS made that even slower and then met a couple at a rest stop on the east side of the mountains in Montana...
...who blew out their auto tranny cooler "in" line...
...and had NO tools to fix it with. Did I mention they were towing a horse trailer with a Dodge V10 dually all the way to the other side of Montana? Nice folks but clueless fit them well. No cell phone reception at all and they were burning quarters at a payphone calling their buddy back in ID. Helped them figure out what they needed and then moved on. I couldn't fix it myself and they said to keep going.
Guy was amazed that I had my tool box and socket set...you know...the stuff I had shipped to Kenny so that I'd have it for my trip across the country...especially the ROCKIES...some people...
Lost a good 4 hours and that threw me off track a lot. To make up time Friday became a 27 hour non-stop trip from Sheridan, WY to Grand Rapids, MI. Rolled in about 8:30am this morning. Tired...doing laundry now then back to bed.
The K5...has been awesome. Kenny was being polite when he said the interior is disgusting. That said it's all fixable and the body is great (peeling paint but what GM of this era doesn't have that?) and the thing ran and drove great.
Kenny, I took 20psi out of each of the tires and holy crap did it drive better! He had each tire at least at 50psi. I put them at 32psi or so and whalla, handled much better.
Drove great, got decent gas mileage, and reminded me why a fullsize SUV is nice. Long range and lots of room. Going to need some interior stuff and a front bumper but I'm happy. A big thanks to kenny for doing all this. Also a big thanks to smalltruckbigcid for meeting me at the Minneapolis airport and then all the driving advice. Nice meeting both of them.
I have a bunch of landscape pictures and such from the PNW and Montana-Wyoming. Going to have to wait on those and pics of it. Won't be home until tomorrow evening. Taking the winch off tomorrow with my buddy and then heading home.
Wooo fun!
