Scoutin the Pinlands part 2

[cookiedan@domain.elided (Daniel Nees)]

So, I said, that's it for me. It is now Dennis's turn. He gets set, 4
low, hammer down, 4 bls screaming, mud flying, and, boom! Dead in the
water. So I drag him out this time. Now he decides that the middle the
place to go, not the sides, Now evidently he had gotten some water into
his diustributer cap on the first shot and didn't know it. He get's set,
lines up, hammer down and cough, splutter, back fire, into the puddle he
goes. He get's the farthest of any of us when his engine stalls out. (He
probable might have made it if it haden't stalled) But, he can't restart
it. So right away we pull the distributer cap and spary it with WD-40,
still nothing. So I drag him out with no help from his truck. Just pure
345, 4bl, no EPA garbage, 4low, Trak-Lok power. I was really impressed.
We start diagnosing the problem and decided that his Gold Box has gone
south, and no one knows how to by pass the thing. So, Sele gets on his
cell phone and makes some phone calls and finds a new gold box less than
a half hour away. We plug in the new box and she starts right up.
   Now, while Sele and Dennis are gone Joe decideds that he's going to
give this puddle a shot with his 4" lift. He backs her up, 4 low, T-19C
in first, hammer down, mud flying and, nothing dead in the water the
same spot everyone else got stuck. So, I suggest I pull him out front
wards that we we can say some one got through that blasted puddle. So I
drive around the bypass with my lift gate up because it was covered in
mud and hit a verousious bump and crash down onto my bump stops and I
hear BANG! My lift gate ripped the hinge out of the window frame! So, I
had to rip the other hinge off and remove it. I then hook up to Joe's
truck via his brush guard bolted to his frame using the bumper bolts.
The guard has tow hooks bolted to it. All hardware is grade 8. I get
set, 4 low, hammer down trak-lok loking, truck bouncing around on the
end of the strap moving forward ever so slowly when, I suddenly get
launched down the trail!. I dont know what happened!. I stop and get out
and there is Joe's truck, still stuck, sans brush gaurd. The guard is
lying over to the right in another puddle. It sheared the welds off the
bolt plates on the bumper bolt and as it left the front of the truck
punctures the plastic grill and bent some sheet medal on the front, then
flew about 10' and hit an 3" pine tree and cut it in HALF! I'm glad it
went to the side and not straight ahead! I then decide to pull him out
the back way.
(to be continued in part 3)  

Dan Nees
cookiedan@domain.elided

   1979 Scout II 345, Auto, 3.07's, Lexan window's in TravelTop. One
Ugly and Trusty Truck!

1971 Scout II 304, D30/44, D20, power steering.

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