Night Eagle's kind of a build thread

Took the bug for an hour ish drive today. Fired up on the first try after sitting all winter. Have an electrical issue to track down and replace the seals in the trans at some point. But man do I love this car. Who needs a radio when you can just listen to the motor purr during the drive.







Also bought a steam cleaner today. Hope to have it by Friday. I plan on pulling the front seats out of the truck and giving it a deep clean this weekend. We will see how it goes, and I hope to figure out why my horn stopped work. I am hoping it's not the clock spring.

 

@Reh5108 has a turbo now, so @Night Eagle wins the Pony Express award now with his 35s and stock gears.

 

I guess I should admit that the truck isn't exactly a happy camper at the moment with those tires and stock gears. But the new gears are sitting on my living room floor.

 

Yeah buddy!

 

Hey you don't want to get too ahead of your self.

 

Been pretty lazy and just now posting these photos of @Squeaky Penguin and I's trip over the weekend of the 4th.




We had to finish cuting this 25" diameter tree that someone cut for a side by side. We cut what we could at the time because we need to get to some where in Wyoming that night. We will probably head back up at some point this summer to finish clearing that tree.






Saturday we spent most of the day picking somewhat random 2 track roads to make it to rawlins, WY and then up to the sweetwater. We did finally make to the sweetwater around 6 and then booked it down to the river to get some fishing in, and caught my first brown.



Also caught an awsome sunset.



Sunday involved a kind of slow start to the day but spent about 4 hours on the river. We caught another half dozen fish.



Then we decided we should start heading back to steamboat with a little adventure on the maze of two track near the Oregon Butte. Much of the two track was part of the Oregon trail.

 

awesome! Bummed I couldn’t join. Just got back into fishing. Haven’t caught anything yet so I guess I am just casting at this point.

 

Don't feel bad I spent most of last year and the begging of this year doing the same.

 

Finally got the last peice of the puzzle.


We will see if it all gets into the truck before my trip in the beginning of August.

 

Lots of great progress Leo. I need to repaint my sliders but the rust may be getting a bit deep on the passenger side

 

That is what I thought on my sliders Andy but took a good bit of time with a grinder and wire wheel and they cleaned up good.

 

Well the truck now officially is rolling around with 4.88s. With babying the gears I can already feel a tremendous difference in how the truck drives. I have a feeling I will love it on the trail too.

 

Oh shit you too

 

Oh ya and it's in the truck too.

 

Well it is about dam time I post pics from @Squeaky Penguin , @Reh5108 and my trip from a month ago.
















Never get tired of the awsome Camp sites we end up staying at.


@Squeaky Penguin finaly found a chair that fits him and we also had a visit from @w.adventures . was starting to think he was like big foot.
























The night prior to this picture was very unpleasant. We ended up reaching this location the day before and it started to rain and rained till about 3AM. It was raining hard enough that there was no way I was going set up my tent, so I ended up sleeping in the driver's seat.












Great sunset for the final night of our trip




A great final fish to pull in before we head back to Colorado and the real world.

 

Pic/post credit to @Squeaky Penguin

1st annual, but certainly not the last, expo fishing trip. 10 days in WY/MT. Fishing every day. 2k miles. 5 different kinds of trout landed. Many ten minute tenkara (TenTen) fishing competitions. 2 reroutes. 1 blind, shitty beer showdown. No strict schedule. All the fun with good friends. @Night Eagle @Reh5108 and a quick hello from @w.adventures


And that's as much of a trip report as I'll ever do.

Photo dump time:

IMG_1879-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1880-Pano by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190803_115905 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190803_120348 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190803_120353 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1887-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190804_200959 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190804_201054 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1888-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1891-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1895-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1897-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190805_211503 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1904-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1909-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190806_120500 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190806_120544 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1913-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1914-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190807_110421 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1915-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1916-Pano by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190807_183716 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190807_194918 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1919-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190807_203926 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1920-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1924-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1925-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1925-Pano by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1929-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1937-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1940-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190808_152209 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190808_162648 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1941-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1944-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1946-Pano by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1950-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1951-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1953-Pano by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1962-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1964-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1970-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1971-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1976-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1980-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1992-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1994-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190810_120922 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190810_123854 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_1996-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_2006-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_2007-Pano by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_2011-2 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190811_090758 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190811_092336 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190811_092601 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190811_095620 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

IMG_20190811_105745 by Brett Bjorgum, on Flickr

Pic/post credit to @Reh5108

Put 4,125 miles on the truck since July 30th. Half of that was moving to Idaho, the other was chasing trout around Wyoming and a bit of wheeling with @Squeaky Penguin and @Night Eagle

I fished almost entirely with a Tenkara rod and found it to be a lot of fun. Fishing on the Green River was the only time I thought a traditional fly rod would have been better.

More shitbox problems...

I ended up melting the T fitting for the turbo water return line. Not sure why I ordered plastic ones. :Facepalm: Fortunately @Squeaky Penguin had an airline T that worked perfectly as a trail repair.

Noticed that I lost another bed mount spacer and that the center crossmember is beginning to crack as well.

Managed to pick up a screw in my rear tire while in the middle of nowhere.

Added some more high clearanceness to my gas tank with the assistance of gravity and a boulder.


Random pictures from the trip. I'm pretty impressed by the Pixel 3's camera.





Oh and 2 out of 3 contestants in a blind taste test say Yuengling sucks compared to the competition. I'm sure Brett will have more on this exquisite test of domestic beers in his thread.

 

Wait...
What?

 

Is it time for the next trip yet?

 

I am not moving that was ryan moving.

I am ready for another trip.

 

Couple updates on the truck. Maintenance on it is getting out of hand. 125k miles and 5 years later and an unknown number of running hours I have had to replace this.



Also I have bought an #EAF product that I told myself that I would never buy. But the more I thought about it, my long trips would be soooooo much easier with it.













































Here is a picture of it.
































































































Dometic CFX 40W.