May 5-7 2017 Tadpole Rally!

[Mr Havercamp]

Originally Posted by Cowracer

P.S. if you don't already... PLEASE make every effort to get over when there is someone broken down on the shoulder. It was truly terrifying laying under the truck with cars and especially semi's screaming by 3 feet away at 70 MPH. If you would have shouted "BOO" at me while I was working on it, I probably would have needed a clean pair of underwear. As it is, It took hours for me to finally calm down afterwords. Give 'em a break and give 'em a lane. Thanks!

Good advice, I have been under a vehicle a few times also on the shoulder of a busy highway, but it's usually almost impossible to move over. There is no shortage of morons who if they are in the passing lane and see that you are attempting to move over due to a disabled vehicle or LEO, speed up and block you. I run into it almost every day on I-70 here in PA. I am certain they now teach offensive driving in high schools.

[Cowracer]

Originally Posted by SilhouettePenny

WHAT flange, Cowracer did his best to explode the entire mounting assembly. No bracket left, no gusset and barely enough metal left to determine what it was. Good job Tim.

I know you're gonna fix it because you had the tranny rebuilt recently, so did I. Almost $5k for a custom built towing 4R100 with a 23 qt total deep finned aluminum pan.

How goes the repairs Cow?

Dropped all the shrapnel... er... 'pieces' off at the driveshaft guy this morning on the way to work. He said the slip yoke and rear flange are good. Splines on the shaft are 'iffy', and will probably have to be replaced. Rear Yoke on the shaft, and front flange are toast. The tube "looked ok" on visual, but he will chuck it in the machine to check for run-out. Right now, I'm looking at about $400 which is about what I expected.

There's not a whole lot of Diesel Excursions in junkyards for me to scavenge a shaft off of. Exy's have their own wheelbase, and diesels have a different shaft than gassers. I asked him how long to make it good, and he said, "probably tomorrow". That shocked me. I figured a week or even two.

Tim

[Starlifter]

Karen and I had a great time! Thank you to Gary and Joyce for putting on such a great event! This was Karen's first rally and she enjoyed it very much! Met some friendly new folks and enjoyed visiting over the campfire. Can't wait for next years rally and the eclipse rally later this year!!

[SYE]

Hello all,

I am not sure of the lady's name that stopped to asked me about my awning poles, I believe that they were from Troy Ohio or somewhere around there, I believe that they were in the Windjammer. I told here I could get a link to show how they are installed, here is the link to the facebook page with the photos.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1241046255925079/

it is the first post on the page that has a picture tutorial.

[SYE]

Originally Posted by Indymule

If your parked next to Tim, you always have a river view!

Been busy lately but I got back on the board and really looking forward to the rally.

This was true again this year as well living up to his name "Aquaman"

[RVChick]

Originally Posted by SYE

This was true again this year as well living up to his name "Aquaman"

Or as Joyce renamed him...Waterboy!

[AquaMan]

Y'all are relentless. By the way it was Tim Brown that called me "waterboy", but he was just upset because I told him I was going to win the cornhole tournament, and I did!

[Capt. Mike]

Originally Posted by AquaMan

Y'all are relentless. By the way it was Tim Brown that called me "waterboy", but he was just upset because I told him I was going to win the cornhole tournament, and I did!

It ain't bragging if you do it.

[AquaMan]

Originally Posted by Capt. Mike

It ain't bragging if you do it.

That's what I'm talking about!