29 OCT 06 Knik glacial expedition

[RSOVJR]

Attendees:

• Murphyslaw with Lostbychoice riding shotty in the big crew-fab
• Myself and Mrs RSOV riding copilot in my cutvee

Starting it off, Murphyslaw and Lostbychoice see AKFord on the side of the road on the way to Knik and stop to help...

Originally Posted by AK_Ford

My 3 month old, $2500 tranny blew up halfway there It went bang and lost everything but second. Thank you alaska gear and transmission, at least it came with a warrantee

Not a good thing.

We showed up about 25 minutes late of our start time of 0900, **** alarm clock didn't go off or something... get out there, Murph and Lost start untrailering the Crew-fab off the trailer... them dinky tires make it look funny

On the way out to the glacier, everything went smooth up until I went down a dropoff that was a bit harsher than I thought, even easing down I ended up nailing either my class 3 hitch or the pintle hitch, either way it caused enough flex in the frame to pop my rear rollup on the blazer. Not freakin cool.

Get out to the glacier, had lunch, poked around an interesting ice archway, watched my dog play stupid dog and fall thru the ice (she's ok) and got some pictures and stuff posing here and there. Generally a fun run.

On the way back, stopped to jump some circled problem.. i mean ford powerstroke, dude had just shut it down to talk on the phone easier and it wouldn't start. With my hood popped, we noticed that my accessory system battery was cooking rather well through the vents. Disconnected it from that alternator, and it cooled on down and is fine now. Don't know what the deal is, future research for that.

Somewhere along the line, Murph lost his CB antenna. Guess we need to fab up a shielded mount system like we did the other day for my CB/Scanner/dualband antenna array on the top of the truck. Which did wonderfully other than I didn't tighten the antennas themselves down enough on install and had to crank them down on the trail.

Otherwise, a wonderful little day trip, 10 AM-4'ish, pretty good time. Great weather on the run other than some sprinkles, no snow for us out there

All rivers are easily crossable by **** near anything.

Both murphyslaw and lostbychoice should have some nice pictures to post here shortly once they get home and upload.

Pleasure runnin with you guys, and I'm sorry your tranny went AKFord.

Pace

[murphyslaw]

ok im home now(well have been for about 20min.) lost headed home(hope he makes it in that bronco). I have some reengineering to do but nothing major. the deepest crossing was not even to the top of my 38's and I never put it in 4wd the whole trip(gotta love having a 7k lbs subaru). lost will post some pics sometime this evening i guess he told me he would. it was fun, akford sry bout ur tranny, i'd push that thing threw the front door or the tanny shop.
good luck.

[LostByChoice]

What he said up there.

I have 97 pictures, so I am only going to post my favorites. If you want to see them all, click this link... http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...%20Oct%202006/

Here we go!

















Like I said, there are 97 total, so click the link up top for the rest.

There are also 2 short videos. Not the best since I was in the cab, but they came out decent. Here are the links...

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t=MVI_0087.flv

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t=MVI_0086.flv

Thanks to MurphysLaw for letting me tag along! And nice to meet RSOVJR and MRSRSOV, had fun wheelin with you!

EDIT!! Video links are up!

[Sham]

nice helmet

[RSOVJR]

Was wonderin who'd say somethin bout it first

Hey, all the better to wheel with a smile than a trail full of curses and growling when I 10 point my nug on the cab roof.

[Strat]

Great photo's thanks for posting, love the military K5. OD green and chevy go together nicely.

Nice helmet there airborne.

[RSOVJR]

LOL don't they?

I need to paint a punisher skull or something on the helmet.

[4X4GUY]

Looks like a great run with some good trucks.

[ODDBALL]

The crew cab is nice! The head gear is cool.