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Had a good look around for Scott think it was his coupe no one around when I looked a few times but think I seen them in it way over the other side once but had gone by the time I got there well nearly made it to Laramie but blew a rear tyre 20 mile out and as some helpful person had removed the spare from the back called a tilt truck and got carried in to town first job in the morning is tyres and try and find anther uni lug rim and lock this one in the tray
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Well landed in Delavan late this afternoon after a run up through cedar rapids and across to Galena nice country up there and good to have a break from looking at CORN having a look at some f1 parts tomorrow in Waterford mmmm bench seat and then hopefully onto the Harley museum in Milwaukee
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Well landed in Delavan late this afternoon after a run up through cedar rapids and across to Galena nice country up there and good to have a break from looking at CORN having a look at some f1 parts tomorrow in Waterford mmmm bench seat and then hopefully onto the Harley museum in Milwaukee
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Thanks Rob will do still sort of working that part of the trip out but intend to do as much of route 66 as possible caught up with a nice older guy in Waterford who kept us entertained for most of the day picked up a nice bench seat and he threw in a couple of sets of good inner fenders and a couple of boxes of small bits and pieces and then had to shoot over to Monroe in Michigan as the guy Ron I bought the Fulton visor from had his appointments at the Va hospital changed so shot over there and missed the Harley museum but hey there's always next year, spent this afternoon at Niagara falls both sides cool place
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well the old girl spent the night on the hoist in a workshop as she started leaking uncontrollable did a rear main seal DANG bloody chev engines (HA) bought the parts thinking I will just jack it up and do the usual repairs from underneath but not the case found a workshop with a hoist and a young guy keen as to help so pulled the trannie put a service kit through that and did the rear main seal and the filter housing sleeve and oil pan gaskets as well finished about 11 last night and added the oils this morning fingers crossed so far so good ended up in Crawfordsville this afternoon having a few beers and yarning to the locals
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Well not far from the boarder into Texas trucks running fine engine oil usage has stopped but low and behold transmission oil usage has increased looks like the imput shaft seal has cracked a sad ah well will monitor it met some characters today at the junction of Foyil OK one of the old boys had a mint 71 SS Chevelle ? the three of them had a good look and pick at me pickup and come to the conclusion she was all right Thanks Boys HA Hell theres some stuff to look at along route 66 took some photos of a lot of cars just off the road and had a yarn with a couple of guys there who wanted to sell me at least 10 of the cars and buy me pickup as well once again a few coldies and a check over of the old girl before bed
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well its been awhile HA went feral and no internet done the route 66 or what's left of it criss crossing and swapping around but hey it was excellent ended up hunting and drinking and talking crap for three days with some locals from Seligman and listening to the karaoke at the stage coach inn and some other guys that we had been passing here and there wasn't on the plan but had a bloody good time and that's what it was about ended up buying a bottle of rainix for the last few days through Vegas and into California Hmmm have to look into a wiper system, old girls all washed up and sitting pretty parked up in the importers yard, and where sitting in a LA motel for the last couple of days done about 11000 mile just roughly and had an absolute ball here in the US meet some real good people and picked up some nice parts along the way Thanks everyone ,Next year is already in the planning Will start a Build thread for the old girl when she arrives at here new address
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Hi there, I cant think of a better way to travel around the US and meet people, every body loves these old trucks. So you will meet a lot of really nice folk. Enjoy your adventure.
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Hi Ben will get some pics together basically drove her home from the port on a permit parked her up and flew out to work for 2 weeks been speaking to an engineer about some mods and changes with suspension and running gear and sofar has no problems with what i want to do