Night Eagle's kind of a build thread

Dang that is impressive, did you get to come and watch him drive?

 

Unfortunately no. We built it and sent it back to Honda so they could finish the chassis work before the race. Watched it on the big screen from the shop

 

Today was a good day, I got the bug up and driving today. Took it for a 15 minute drive, it has an idle issue right now and I had the front drums a little too tight. so i will have to loosen that up tomorrow night and tune the carb some more.

 

This thing's falling apart.





*Check your spindle gussets for cracks with B/S talk

 

bummer

 

Its happening on both gussets and my lower shock bolt is rusted into the spacers for my spherical bearing. It was a great day. Every 1-2 hour job turns into an all day project it seems. But I guess that is what happens when you use your truck, instead of driving it to the mall.

 

Yup, You guys do get out a lot and see some beautiful places. I say it’s worth it.

 

Ya it is worth it, just a little frustrating.

 

I hear ya. So you know, as you get older you learn to let things go more often. Give it another 10 years.

 

Ya that is not a strong suit of mine.

 

Well today was a good day, I got the lower bearings replaced, got the spindle gussets fixed with an extra gusset welded to it, and started the limit strap install. @Squeaky Penguin helped me out with the welding.

 

I made it to rock thearapy this year and ended up meeting and wheeling with @TMFF and also wheeled with @Squeaky Penguin. This was definitely a different rock thearapy then I had been to before but I enjoyed it more because it was a lot more low key.

We ended up running flat Iron Mesa on Friday. Parts of this trail had changed a lot from when I ran it two years ago. The main difference was that the Easter egg, which is the major challenge on the trail, was not even a challenge at all. The approach to the "obstacle" was more of a challenge. But all in all was still a fun trail.



@TMFF s DD gx450


He had a little clearance issue but was fixed with a grinder at camp.


Had to get a pic of my co-pilot


Also pretty cool to be in the desert with snow capped mountains in the background.


Saturday we ran metal masher. Metal was mashed on the trail, luckily it wasn't my drive shaft this time unlike three years ago. TMFF ended up crushing his exhaust on one of the obstacles. We ended up needing to back him up a little to reposition him a little and heard metal on rock, we thought it was his hitch but found out it wasn't.









We got Brett nice and flexed out at one point.


Sunday Brett and I, Tim had to head home, ended up running wipeout hill but I did not get any pics of that day. After running wipeout hill we we had to head home as well. All in all it was a great trip but moab traffic is getting ridiculous.

 

Hopefully I'll be able to make it out there with you guys next year.

 

Nice trip. I'll have to try and make it out one year for rock therapy. Ran metal masher earlier this year and it was fun.

 

It would be awesome to wheel with you again.

It is well worth the trip. You get to meet a lot of people and see a lot of different built trucks. How was the Easter egg when you ran MM? That is the obstacle right before the squeeze next to the cliff.

 

Sorry got my obstacles confused between trails for a minute there.

 

all good. Never ran flat iron before. Did all the obstacles on MM except rock chunker/ chucker or whatever it's called

 

Ya we hit most the obstacles but we can never seem to find rock chucker.

 

It's fucking huge, can't miss it. Probably drove right past it not realizing it was an obstacle.

 

Need some kings back there!