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2011 SOA National Scramble - Ouray, Colorado

This thread is killing me. I keep telling my wife that I want to visit Colorado. Amazing! I never realized how beautiful it was out there.
 
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Home safe & sound. Got in around 11:00 last night. Long drive but worth every second.

Enjoyed seeing old friends, making new ones and the mountians were breathtaking. Look forward to returning some day with Jannie & fuel injection.

Thanks for all the work from the Adams family group (Cliff) along with Bill and SOA board for all the hard work and preparation in putting this together. From the great breakfast on Sunday morning to the SOA event dinner Wednesday evening everything came together seemingly without a hitch.

I would like to personally thank the SOA board along with Ken and all of those that purchased raffle tickets for the generous donation to the Childrens Tumor Foundation. Every penny will go to research for finding a treatment and cure for Neurofibromatosis (NF).

Need to make reservations for the 10 year celebration at the 9th annual SOA National Event to be held at .................. (Fill in the BLank) :woot: :wave:
 
Home safe and sound a half hour after Mr. Beep. A day later, I amd still too tired to post anything significant. I am just sitting in my Lazy Boy wearing my new Jeep hat and Beth is sitting in her new Scrambler camping chair wondering why Ohio has to have such oppressive humidity. How many of my 301 pictures would you like to see?
 
Got home here Sat. evening about 6:00 pm. We spent an ""extra" nite in Missouri just to catch up on much needed sleep and recover a bit from a bad case of road fatigue! To say my 8 wasn't running very well for most of the trip would be a gross understatement, a few times it wouldn't run at all!:angry: I would like to thank a couple of folks for saving our "bacon" on what was about the worst day we had. Let me explain: We left Idaho Springs on Sat. morning, hoping to make the trip to Ouray by late evening. Not far out of Georgetown Co. on I-70, I decided to get off the interstate and take US 6 to Dillon Lake and then proceed down Co. 91 to Leadville. As we pulled off the exit to US 6, my 8 quit running(again!) so I pulled over to make another float level/jetting adjusment. As I was doing so, I noticed the traffic had come to a stop on I-70, and now it was all exiting onto US-6, the same exit we had just taken! I hurried up and buttoned everything up, and started the long climb up to Loveland Pass(elev. 11,992 ft.) in bumper to bumper traffic. About halfway up(maybe 2-3 miles) the engine coughed, sputtered and died, so I pulled off onto a small pull-off oo the side of the road. We spent the next hour there, as traffic was litterally bumper to bumper, stop and go as we watched and waited for it to abate. At that point we could still see both I-70 and the exit for US 6 way down the mountain below us, and then the traffic on I-70 westbound started to move again, and the number of cars, trucks, motorcyclists,( and yes bicyclists too!) started to dwindle on US 6. Continued...next post.
 
Well, after another 2 to 3 miles of endless switchbacks, tight corners and very steep climbs, we had Loveland Pass summit insight when the worst possible happened..... the engine flooded out and quit about 200ft. from the pull-off at the pass!:eek: Trying to restart was futile as I could smell gasoline and knew I had mistakenly set the float level too high on the carb. OMG:eek::eek::eek: I opened the door to step out and raise the hood with countless irate and hornblowing drivers immeadiately behind us! And then it happened........out of nowhere, a voice asked me if we had a towstrap, and as I replied yes, we did, a complete stranger said he would pull in front of me, hook up the tow strap and pull me to the pull-off just ahead at the summit! What seemed an eternity for me lasted less than a minute or so and we were being pulled up the very steep road and onto the pull-off. When we stopped, I knew we were being watched over by someone from above as the stranger was driving a new Jeep rental vehicle! He introduced himself as his wife went to the aid of my wife who was quite literally having a "meltdown" of epic proportion!:crazy: Still a bit shaky from the experience, I shook Scott's hand and tried to thank him as best I could for getting us out of a very bad situation. He said it was nothing, just helping out a fellow Jeeper and would be glad to do it for anyone!:bow: Well, after spending a good long while with us,( he even offered to let his and my wife drive to Dillon so we could fix the 8) Scott and his lovely wife departed down the other side of the pass. Thank you so much Scott, and Rhonda, from Virginia, you both saved our "bacon" and restored our faith in our fellow man!:bow: We would have been in pitiful shape without your help, and sincerely appreciate all you did while you were on your vacation!:cheers: Also want to thank John N., fellow board member here who called us with support, also from Virginia! Thanks too to Bill Espinoza, for calling to offer support and advice. Thank you all so very much:bow::bow:
 
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SeeJayAte said:
A couple of pics at Loveland Pass summit, after our "rescue" by Scott and Rhonda!
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Scott really enjoyed being able to help out. He even texted me pictures of your Scrambler. It sounds like it might be time to do that fuel injection, so you'll be ready for the next event. Glad you made it home, hopefully without much more drama.
 
Thanks John. Yes, next year the 'ol 8 will have a new engine with the best F.I. system I can afford! I have taken an oath to never again put another carb. on my 8, and look forward to many more off-roading adventures!:D
 
SeeJayAte said:
Thanks John. Yes, next year the 'ol 8 will have a new engine with the best F.I. system I can afford! I have taken an oath to never again put another carb. on my 8, and look forward to many more off-roading adventures!:D
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There's a little more to it too, as John called me after hearing from Scott as we were walking into a restaurant to have dinner to try to get Bill's number, which I didn't have on my cell, so I relayed the number to Jason Adams, who I knew would have it..... whew :D

You had lots of Jeepers looking out for you, but that's what's great about this board and Jeepers in general :thumbsup:

You've now been the recipient of Jeep karma, you must now pass it on young grasshopper :rotfl: I got so much of it in the effort to get my postal back from Alaska that I think I'm forever in debt, hence why I try to help so many folks on here ;)

It's a great tale, even if not the ideal trip, and you'll always have those memories. This is the kind of thing that binds us to these great Jeeps :bow:
 
You're right of course Big W, it's the Jeepers on here and all over that make this such a great place to be!:D I kinda of figured you got a call from someone in Virginia during this. Thanks for the help!:thumbsup: I won't even go into the tow vehicle problems we had at 3:00am out on Co. 94,(most desolate road in America?) 100 mi. east of Colorado Springs! Needless to say, we got that sorted out and made back home.:woot: As a side note, I think the hood hinges on my Jeep are near worn out at this point!:D
 
I'll give you $1000 for those hinges, if you throw in the rest of the Jeep in the deal (since it doesn't work anyway). :evil::D
 
I'll give you $1000 for those hinges, if you throw in the rest of the Jeep in the deal (since it doesn't work anyway).
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Appreciate the offer, and I'm sure my wife would have gladly accepted it several times over the last couple of weeks:eek:, but next year I hope to have it all sorted out with a new engine and the all important Fuel Injectioninstead of the current carbaflater.:thumbsup: There's nothing like a poor performance such as this to motivate me to get it done!:crazy:
 
SeeJayAte said:
Appreciate the offer, and I'm sure my wife would have gladly accepted it several times over the last couple of weeks:eek:, but next year I hope to have it all sorted out with a new engine and the all important Fuel Injectioninstead of the current carbaflater.:thumbsup: There's nothing like a poor performance such as this to motivate me to get it done!:crazy:
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I knew I should have talked to her instead of you.:angry:

Hey, if you get it done before the swap meet, you can dump that carb on some poor unsuspecting soul.
 
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