Woodlee
Well-Known Member
Since I'm back and I have had time to settle back in from the King of the Hammers I'll give my take on some of the things that have came up in this thread and the other King of the Hammers thread.
I want to say congratulations to the entire RWR team for a great effort that they put forth. Hats off to them for a great finish to a rough race. Jimmy has made plenty of stabs at me with the success and with that I say well done. I guess I ruffled a few feathers when I said we were redoing some things on Plow Boy that I didn't believe were right. I never called any names but people read into it what ever they wanted to. So, I'll take that heat and say I deserve it all.
Every one that said we should have made time to test the buggy before we left are 100% right. We fought silly issues all week long that would have been easily fixed in the shop. Some say we should have started the rebuild earlier. I wish we could have. Richie came to me early on last year with the intentions of the rebuild ,but my schedule wouldn't let me bring it right in and get to work on it. Needless to say a couple of choices in the build were made to fix this and while we are here lets fix that. Well to do that we lost the time to test the buggy. When we got to the Hammers and started running the buggy we immediately had belt issues. I made Richie give me a list at the first of the rebuild and tell me every thing that he had problems with. Belts wasn't on that list so I never dreamed of having any issues with them. When we got to looking at the belt alignment we noticed the engine plates were bent forward. Well that was the big problem because the alternator and the power steering pump are mounted to the engine plates. Then we recalled that the last two times this buggy was out it was wrecked hard. Once off a big hill at Rush and the other was at Grey Rock on Cable hill. It looks like the engine was shifted forward form the impacts. Again if we would have had time for testing here we could have caught this problem and fixed it. We didn't and that was the down fall.
On a better note the Richie says the buggy drives and rides better than ever. After we get the bugs worked out of it I feel like he will have some fun out of his old buggy. We did a few spring changes out there and spent some time dialing the shocks. I'm excited to see him push it after we get the belt issue fixed.
On Plow Boy 2 some thing came up and bent the rear steer self centering controller. It happened at the worst possible time ever, but that is racing. I have mounted multiple controllers on other buggies in the same spot and this is the first time I have ever had a problem with one. We will move it to where that can never happen again.
We left the desert feeling beat down and bruised. But, that is part of life and we are already looking forward to the next time.
I want to thank all of the people on this board that support me and Wide Open Design. You guys seem to always be there for us no matter what. I feel like I have the best friends and customers in the world and I am very thank full of that.
I want to say congratulations to the entire RWR team for a great effort that they put forth. Hats off to them for a great finish to a rough race. Jimmy has made plenty of stabs at me with the success and with that I say well done. I guess I ruffled a few feathers when I said we were redoing some things on Plow Boy that I didn't believe were right. I never called any names but people read into it what ever they wanted to. So, I'll take that heat and say I deserve it all.
Every one that said we should have made time to test the buggy before we left are 100% right. We fought silly issues all week long that would have been easily fixed in the shop. Some say we should have started the rebuild earlier. I wish we could have. Richie came to me early on last year with the intentions of the rebuild ,but my schedule wouldn't let me bring it right in and get to work on it. Needless to say a couple of choices in the build were made to fix this and while we are here lets fix that. Well to do that we lost the time to test the buggy. When we got to the Hammers and started running the buggy we immediately had belt issues. I made Richie give me a list at the first of the rebuild and tell me every thing that he had problems with. Belts wasn't on that list so I never dreamed of having any issues with them. When we got to looking at the belt alignment we noticed the engine plates were bent forward. Well that was the big problem because the alternator and the power steering pump are mounted to the engine plates. Then we recalled that the last two times this buggy was out it was wrecked hard. Once off a big hill at Rush and the other was at Grey Rock on Cable hill. It looks like the engine was shifted forward form the impacts. Again if we would have had time for testing here we could have caught this problem and fixed it. We didn't and that was the down fall.
On a better note the Richie says the buggy drives and rides better than ever. After we get the bugs worked out of it I feel like he will have some fun out of his old buggy. We did a few spring changes out there and spent some time dialing the shocks. I'm excited to see him push it after we get the belt issue fixed.
On Plow Boy 2 some thing came up and bent the rear steer self centering controller. It happened at the worst possible time ever, but that is racing. I have mounted multiple controllers on other buggies in the same spot and this is the first time I have ever had a problem with one. We will move it to where that can never happen again.
We left the desert feeling beat down and bruised. But, that is part of life and we are already looking forward to the next time.
I want to thank all of the people on this board that support me and Wide Open Design. You guys seem to always be there for us no matter what. I feel like I have the best friends and customers in the world and I am very thank full of that.
but I promise you my next buggy will be a WOD
