Tyler Mattson
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Kind of a dumb navadainian question but I assume we're allowed to have a camp fire but do we need a permit?
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It's been down in the teens over here in Fernley so getting out in the garage has been not so fun. But today I manned up and got some work in. I cut out all the old engine mounts and miscellaneous stuff on the frame rails. Cooper and I then set to work and got the seat box and transmission and trans crossmember cut out. I'm pretty sure this truck has never seen a car wash as there was packed in mud and dirt everywhere. The little buick v6 is not so little and will need some fire wall love to fit but it sits somewhat nicely in there.
- SDS and RobertDingli
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Ok rover gurus I need some knowledge I recently got a new to me d1 and it has rovertyme rear trailing arms that are well worn in. So the bushings are pretty much not there and my question is does anyone know if the rovertyme rear trailing arms use a special bushing or is it just a stock rover. Thanks
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that's how you get the cool new coozie. The invitation only club coozie.
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You can rent sleeping bags from rei???!?!?
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And cotton kills.
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Iv seen hudd130 mention it a couple times and it got me thinking if I'm doing it right or wrong. I'm definitely not bear grills and all my cold weather camping theories are based off of person experience not science. So I figured I mention what I do and see what others think and do and see how I can prevent making my family the next Donner party.
So when I ground camp in the snow I like to have a couple of tarps and a decent tent with a water proof bottom. I put the tarp down then the tent and try desperately to keep the snow out of the tent so it doest create water in the tent, which with 2 dogs and a 3 year old its pretty difficult. Then I put down a pad, iv learned that having a bit of insulation between you and the ground when it has snow on it is a must. Now the fun bit, for cold camping I try to use my bed roll. I'm not sure if bed roll is a technical definition or slang but in the hunting world it's how you define your sleeping bag set up and mostly they consist of a heavy canvas outer sleeve a good canvas sleeping bag,mines rated at -35, and then mine also has a wool liner. With that set up it can be cold as a woman's heart and I'll still be toasty warm. And my secret weapon for sleeping in cold weather is a 40 pound short hair pointer.
Lola is her name and she can not get warm to save her life so as a result she burrows down to the bottom of my sleeping bag and never comes up for air. She then becomes my person foot warmer through the night.
That's most of my ground tent ideas but I'd love to hear others and mabey get into some other cold weather camping ideas and gadgets. Thanks
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51 minutes ago, Mr.BlueSky said:
Yikes! That is nasty. Cooper looks up to the task though!
Mabey, this was him an hour into it.
Don't worry it was just full of sunny d, my flask on the other hand.
- Hudd130 and Mr.BlueSky
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9iCooper and I spent the day getting the floor pulled and the engine out. This is most definitely the worst 88 iv gotten to work on. The grease is baked on everywhere and what you think is a 9/16 is a 1/2, and the farmer who had it before bolted it together with a combination of bolts, self tappers, and wood screws. But through lots of anger, wire brushing, and juice boxes we got it a bit further apart. Then we measured for the v6 and we will probably have to trim up the right side of the fire wall but it shouldn't be anything major hopefully.
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These are awesome I can't give enough praise to Eric and all those involved, iv got an hour and a half commute for work each day and and whenever there's a new one I get excited for the drive.
- Jethro, Elherbinator, Mr.BlueSky and 1 other
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16 hours ago, Motobrewer said:
This will be fun to watch.
love that you happen to have a motor laying around…
Much to Julia's displeasure I think in total iv got 9 random engines sitting around looking for projects to be used in.
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I only got a short bit of time on the truck tonight so I just got the front bits off. I would really like to talk to the farmer who welded all the extra steel to the front frame and then ripped it off. I'm not sure quite yet on how I want to best fix it but luckily that can wait. Hopefully the engine can get plucked out soon, it was a runner just not a good one kinda like myself. So if anyone has any interest in it let me know.
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We missed out on playing in the dunes with Lutz so being land rover depresses we decided to start on Julia's 88. We're gonna call it the "really ugly red rover". The plan is to get it going as cheap as possible with bits and parts that I have in the shed. So first step is to dig out the old engine and trans and swap in a buick 231. Now for the nay sayers this v6 is based on the buick aluminum v8 which as we know turned into the mighty rover v8.
- SDS, RobertDingli, LR4HD and 5 others
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Well even without camping we were planning to head to scullys to drop off an axle. But we hit the edge of reno at 10 and spent 1 hour making it about 5 miles and according to Google we were still 3.5 hours from sac so we gave up. Have fun on the beach and take pictures for us to live vicariously through you.
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I wish we had a cool excuse but it sounds like as of now we might be snowed in on this of the hill and as much as I love all of you rover nuts I don't want to be stuck on that side of the hill on Sunday with the snow storm that's on its way. I'm pretty bummed that it didn't work out because it's in my bucket list to beach camp so hopefully we can recreate this trip again. Thankyou to Lutz for all the planning to set this up.
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53 minutes ago, Mr.BlueSky said:
Hey folks, sorry to say, but we won't be making this one this year. Super bummed, but Henry caught a bit of a cold and we don't want to add that + rain.
I think out of of everyone Henry is the most upset. Even now he glares at me from inside his bundle of blankets... Catch you all next time and hope everyone has a great time!
Julia's gonna be pissed
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It should be ok on the sand its a small lightweight trailer and we can use it to string a tarp if needed. I was gonna trailer the 88 with the truck but with the snow on the pass on Sunday I'd rather not be dragging that set up in the snow so it'll be handbag lr3 for me. Everybody bring your straps for when I get it sunk in the ocean.
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We're gonna head out tomorrow morning with a pit stop in sac. So hopefully we'll be there around 5, a bit of noob question do we need a little sand flag for the car? And do we plan to set up a bit of a base camp on Saturday? I have to drag my little jeep trailer down to drop off parts but I'd rather not drag it around the beach if possible.
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we just put in for our reservation so i hope i did it right. that being said we may be trailering down Friday and stopping at scullys to drop off on axle if he's around that day, so is there a place to store a truck and trailer near by or would someone mind letting me leave it in a driveway for the weekend?
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It was a fun trip and i have to thank all the guys for putting the trip together, and for letting me join in. I was definitely the anchor on the trip as i was the only one who ended up needing a strap twice and to hook up the winch. Julia has been begging to go run this trail for a few years now and I'm glad her first was with a great group and in the snow at that. Sorry for the poor quality pictures but every water crossing would fill the little 88 with steam and the camera lense kept getting fogged over or covered in rain drops. Thers a ton of stories that will probably best be told in person around the camo fire or i suppose on Erics NCLR podcast. I cant wait for the next one and here's a couple of pictures, more in the photo bucket.
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Well it was a success, we had 3 tags in total in our group and filled 2 of them. It was probably one of if not the toughest hunts iv done with 9 days total spent in the desert. We spotted over 100 doe and only 3 bucks and only 2 of them were worth taking. But to the fun part for this forum, the little range rover put in the work with about 1000 miles of dirt travel and no issues to speak of. We pinstriped the living hell out of it and got to run full heater in the cold mornings and full a/c in the afternoon. But for a 30 year old British truck beating around the desert I expected atleast some hiccup but none. It is exceptionally beautiful country out here and someday if people are interested I'd love to lead a few of us around to the hot springs and mines, but for now hopefully on the next camp out we will have some mule deer snacks.
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Just finished up the last two with timm cooper and honestly you should just call that retirement because I'm not sure how you top that. My hats off to Eric and Goose and all those involved in the podcast it is top notch and just the right amount of technical talk, bench wheeling, and banter, well done.
- Jethro, PaulD and Elherbinator
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I drew a little land rover on the doller I pinned up. It's a cool little piece of nevada history. It was originally built in the 1800 for a horse swap place for the pony express then later purchased when highway 50 went through and turned into a bar. I was told the money tradition started because there was no banks in the area, you would write your name on some cash and pin it up then when you came through you would have cash there. It's still has the only "true" old school fuel pump iv used where you pump the gas then go in and say how much you filled up then they dig out the calculator and figure the amount you owe. Now for the miles related part they just recently put in a tesla charging point there, but it's ran partially off the diesel generator so a bit ironic but still cool to see the history.
Lola is her name and she can not get warm to save her life so as a result she burrows down to the bottom of my sleeping bag and never comes up for air. She then becomes my person foot warmer through the night.
2023 Annual Shaver Lake Snow Run
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Oh dear the windshield wipers in the 88 don't work I guess that's now priority 1.