Postal is awake again
- Thread starter bigwalton
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- City
- Ducor
- State
- Ca
Looks really good. Great job!!
- City
- Dexter
- State
- MI
Took the Jeep and trailer for a test run up to the sand dunes to MrBeep's place. Jeep tows the trailer fantastically well at 72-75 on level ground (I am slightly undergeared with 4.56s and the 35s, which works out great for highway driving) in overdrive and downshifted nicely for hills while maintaining speed. I didn't have a large load in the trailer since it was a test run, but the Jeep was loaded reasonably well (having the spare out of the back is spectacular!)
Took a series of no-look photos to try to show RPM and speed. This was right around 70.
And out on the dunes. I didn't air down the tires more than 14 psi because I just put them on the wheels last week, but they did fine in the wet sand. Absolutely in love with the TnT Customs tire carrier and the Icon Rebound wheels. I knew I liked the design on the wheels the instant I saw them in the press release and they only look better now that they're on the rig.
I am planning on having Laura paint the camo look on my armor
Took a series of no-look photos to try to show RPM and speed. This was right around 70.
And out on the dunes. I didn't air down the tires more than 14 psi because I just put them on the wheels last week, but they did fine in the wet sand. Absolutely in love with the TnT Customs tire carrier and the Icon Rebound wheels. I knew I liked the design on the wheels the instant I saw them in the press release and they only look better now that they're on the rig.
I am planning on having Laura paint the camo look on my armor
- City
- Rochester
- State
- Mi
Wheels look awesome! You had a great opening day out there! The weather look beautiful!
- City
- Dexter
- State
- MI
Yes and no. With the cold and wind, you wanted to be looking at the pretty view from inside the Jeep. At least it was better than the day before...
Had to upload my awful handheld no-look video of driving out to the cleanup after listening to how stupid I sound
The weather rolled in just as we walked out of the pre-meeting and we were sheltered in the trees until the moment you can see here. Watch the flag bend and the sand blow. What's even crazier is that until almost the very end we were somewhat sheltered by the length of Test Hill, the largest dune there. By that point we were more or less driving straight into the wind.For your enjoyment:
[video=youtube_share;IM1esp4sju0]https://youtu.be/IM1esp4sju0[/video]
- City
- Rochester
- State
- Mi
"this is spectacularly a bad idea" Great quote and video! Looked like an adventure. Those are the days you remember and talk about a decade from now!
- City
- Dexter
- State
- MI
So I eventually (after becoming 100% soaked and frozen while saturating the driver's seat) figured out that the way to do the cleanup was to get to one end of our "zone", put my driver's window to the lee side of the Jeep, unzip my window and drive through the zone looking out the window for trash. I'd jump out to get it and be mostly blocked by the Jeep and when I got to the end, I circled back to start over at the other end again.
That was until a guy with his two kids in a pickup truck from the next zone over motioned for me to come help him. He'd found the remnants of an old wire fence line and posts. He wanted me to hook the wire to my Jeep to pull it out of the sand. Luckily a ranger pulled up just then and we tried to use his ball hitch but the wire just kept breaking. We finally gave up and the ranger said they'd have to come back with shovels, but not without standing out in the full brunt of the weather for at least 20 minutes. It was just misery and I was right, a spectacularly bad idea
- City
- Dillsboro
- State
- IN
Three opening days for me, Sunny and beautiful last year, gail force winds, rain sleet and snow this year ant the first year we had white out blizzard conditions. 6 to 8 inches of snow there yesterday and last night. ya' just gotta love Michigan springtime weather. 