Mr.BlueSky

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Agreed - that thing is amazing! As long as it does not come with Dysentery I'm down to find one : ) @Tyler Mattson I would totally be down to run this as a trip!

We will be up in our rooftop tent with the little one. I find that copious amounts of libation will help one sleep through the night... or the nuclear option, Kirkland sleep aides! 🤣

Major bummer! We will be sure to get your goodies out to you soon! Take care and heal well!

At Sasha's request - please find a club photo album here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/FZzzcQTnGiPSWVPn7 Upload at your leisure! Looking forward to hearing the stories!

I would have loved to make it, however, after a very successful and uneventful (in rover breakdown aspect) - Snowflake has developed a nasty shudder that I suspect is either torque convertor and/or transmission related... It showed up right after I passed through Watsonville on the trip home Saturday... It seems I get to play rover mechanic once again before the EMHT trip! Take some good photos and let us know how it goes. Hope to get up there soon for one of these trips.

Just getting back from Texas and slowly getting caught back up. Boy, I do not miss premium California gas at $5.50+ a gallon!! Spent the night about 20 miles outside of Needles Friday night, boy was it warm at 8pm! But it cooled down pretty well for sleeping. Sasha is working to compile the campsites we spotted on the scouting trip and then I should have what we need to get a final itinerary out - stay tuned!

Super behind on this thread... : (... Back on Friday of last week, the winds finally won and finished what the winter storms started. The driveway tree came down mid-trunk. Johann, using his brute strength carried it up the driveway while I spotted him with the LR3... We used the skid steer for the remaining cleanup and afterwards did a flex check. Rad flex bruh.

And then we were down to only 3 spots open....

We are unfortunately out... but will live vicariously through the photos! Hopefully we can make another weekend out there... need more snow time!

Looks like an awesome trip - I'd be down, but the classic is in pieces in the garage : 0 so we are definitely out for this one.

Wow! A ton of activity over the weekend! We are down to 5 open spots left. Oliver needs a seat! : 0 Stickers and Patches should arrive soon! Sasha is working to get a T-shirt order in over the next few days. Currently we have: 2x LR3 2x Discovery 2 2x Range Rover Classic 1x LR4 1x L405 1x Discovery 1 1x Defender 110 More updates later this week!

I'll try to get some information on this one by Thursday - generally we are usually only 60 minutes or less to pavement.

Absolutely - 50% gear oil, 50% JB weld. A formula so good it should be patented as "FormaTooth *TM" /s

In preparation for the upcoming long haul trips I've begun to burn down the issue list on Snowflake. The easy ones: Cleaned out the truck and removed the old V1 sleeping platform (now Obsolete - Thanks Henry!) Removed the original 2nd row fridge mount and re-installed the 40% seat Took a bunch of measurements for the new fridge to be installed in the rear. Ordered fridge slides. Installed missing screw on driver side cup holder. Tightened up the very annoying Safari Gard rear bumper (again). Oil & Filter Change (20W50 VR1 w high zinc content) Reconditioning the attachments on the 3rd brake light The not so easy... When we got back from the Shaver Lake Snow Run I unloaded, and backed it up and out of the way. Out of the way means up on slight hill with the nose pointed downward. A few days go by and I go to start it, we've got spark, and air but no fire. Considered for a bit that it may that the fuel can't be reached by the pickup due to parking angle and low fuel. The next day I added about 10 gallons of fuel, same result. Fast forward to today. Johann and I pulled Snowflake down to the asphalt and maneuvered the nose into the garage with a gentle push from the skid steer (the spare tire coming in handy as a bucket bumper). Out of the rain we begin going through the "no-start" electrical tests in the workshop manual. Tests 1-4 are a lot of multimeter work. Wired connections pass. The coil... mostly passes. There was a brief moment where there was doubt, but a second test showed the coil was good. Test 5 now requires access to the distributor pickup. On many of Classic motor configurations, you are unable to access the port without removing the entire distributor as the spark amplifier cannot be removed in-situ. Before I tore into this, first, I made a jumper between the coil and spark amplifier to rule out a connection issue. No start. Remove the jumper. As a last resort, I pulled the new spare coil and hooked it up. START! Interesting... so it must have been the coil we think. Return everything to the original state as we were going to video-document going through the test procedures as the internet was fraught with mis-information and no good videos of these tests being ran in order. Start filming the symptoms... but Snowflake was camera shy and FIRED RIGHT UP... Spent the next hour jiggling connections, re-testing, examining connections and wiring... We could not re-create the issue. So, I'll just chalk this one up to Rovers being Rovers and the new coil is back in the trail spares kit until next time...