shots from the garage...

So pulled the intake and epoxied a pinhole in the water manifold. It’s an old Craftsman truck piece so who knows the history. I have couple more and in inspecting them was surprised how rusty they are inside. I always store the car with glycol so who knows. I should be out in the garage, but I needed a break... thankfully it’s been busy at work.

The trip to Bakersfield once again proved that ANYTHING over two years on trailer tires in the desert and you are on borrowed time. Stopped at a rest area near Boron CA and three of the tires were at 160-164..... and one at 185. I’m well versed in this dance and within 10 min we were back on the road as the high temp tire was eating itself. On the way back we hit an early fuel stop so we traveled non stop. Monday night checking things over the only good tire was the spare we had put on... so another big racing expense. The Load Star E rated tires we’d run to 6/32 so overall, they did pretty good. My two spares are Tow Master G rated 14 ply tires. I ordered 4 more so this will be the latest experiment in trailer tires. They’re supposed to handle 4K lb each which might be well suited as we are 18,600 combined loaded for racing.
We’ll be packing heavy as our next race is Labor Day weekend at Oahe Speedway in central SoDak. Nice 2600 mile round trip. Spare gears, prob take the 727 and associated parts to swap.... just in case :). Looking forward to the road trip