Went up to Elbe friday after work to camp out and wheel for the weekend. I got there around 4:30, set up camp, and ran the sunrise out and back, waiting on Nate to get there. I picked up a passenger at the start of the mainline.:redneck:, which was a 3' plastic frankenstein halloween decoration, riddled with bullet holes. Nate showed up around 9, and after he set up camp, we headed out and ran the alder loop and the inner alder, then headed back to camp on the mainline, where Nate proceeded to bury himself in the big mudhole near the busy entrance. Luckily he had stopped when it started getting deep, cause I just backed up to the back of him and yanked him out. We ran the sunrise back to camp and called it a night.
Pat had shown up friday night, but due to starter problems related to the 2.0 liter swap, his sami stayed on the trailer till saturday morning when we decided to just pull start it and leave it running.
When everyone had woken up and eaten saturday morning, we took a stroll up the road to the rock pit, running just the short seperate section of the rainier vista, playing around on the rocks a little, and checking out the view from the goat trail.
From here, we headed back down the road to the gotcha, and ran that back to the 9 road, where my rig decided to have carb problems. Nate towed me back to camp, where it started right up.
After hanging out for a bit, we decided to take another run, which started out with the sunrise. Dogboy had left by then, so it was just the 3 zooks. We were cruising along just fine when I noticed smoke around my hands on the steering wheel. :haha: I looked under the dash just in time to see the coil around the temp sender wire going up in pretty blue, white and yellow flames, only to turn to full blown flames seconds later. :eeek: I grabbed the fire extinguisher and shot the FIRST fire, then went to the hood to pull the battery cables. Oh good, more fire. :redneck: I doused that one and quickly got the terminals off the battery. Well, not wanting to rewire in the middle of the trail, we got it turned around with a little help (and of course an equal share of hinderance) from a few toyota guys. Drug it back to camp, and after cooking up some beer brats for dinner, I got to work rewiring it by lantern. I lucked out and only the alternator wire got damaged under the dash, which was the ultimate cause of the short. It had been rubbed through by the temp guage wire, then shorted on it, causing the whole mess. the ignition wire running to the starter relay was what got hot under the hood, and also caught the headlight and fan wires, but that was the extent, and after completely replacing the alternator wire, and patching in the others, I was ready for the trail again by 11pm saturday night. We went out and ran the alder loop up to the mainline, and through the easy wild, running the roads back down to the inner alder on the way back to camp.
Sunday morning, my dad showed up around 9am, we had some coffee, Pat packed up and headed for home, and after breaking camp, we headed off to tackle the busywild...........
Pat had shown up friday night, but due to starter problems related to the 2.0 liter swap, his sami stayed on the trailer till saturday morning when we decided to just pull start it and leave it running.
When everyone had woken up and eaten saturday morning, we took a stroll up the road to the rock pit, running just the short seperate section of the rainier vista, playing around on the rocks a little, and checking out the view from the goat trail.
From here, we headed back down the road to the gotcha, and ran that back to the 9 road, where my rig decided to have carb problems. Nate towed me back to camp, where it started right up. After hanging out for a bit, we decided to take another run, which started out with the sunrise. Dogboy had left by then, so it was just the 3 zooks. We were cruising along just fine when I noticed smoke around my hands on the steering wheel. :haha: I looked under the dash just in time to see the coil around the temp sender wire going up in pretty blue, white and yellow flames, only to turn to full blown flames seconds later. :eeek: I grabbed the fire extinguisher and shot the FIRST fire, then went to the hood to pull the battery cables. Oh good, more fire. :redneck: I doused that one and quickly got the terminals off the battery. Well, not wanting to rewire in the middle of the trail, we got it turned around with a little help (and of course an equal share of hinderance) from a few toyota guys. Drug it back to camp, and after cooking up some beer brats for dinner, I got to work rewiring it by lantern. I lucked out and only the alternator wire got damaged under the dash, which was the ultimate cause of the short. It had been rubbed through by the temp guage wire, then shorted on it, causing the whole mess. the ignition wire running to the starter relay was what got hot under the hood, and also caught the headlight and fan wires, but that was the extent, and after completely replacing the alternator wire, and patching in the others, I was ready for the trail again by 11pm saturday night.
We went out and ran the alder loop up to the mainline, and through the easy wild, running the roads back down to the inner alder on the way back to camp. Sunday morning, my dad showed up around 9am, we had some coffee, Pat packed up and headed for home, and after breaking camp, we headed off to tackle the busywild...........
