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JUNE 8-10TH - HAWK PRIDE : PICS, VIDEOS, STORIES, LIES.... CARNAGE
Big Dave:
--- Quote from: clark123456 on June 10, 2018, 04:17:17 PM ---That heat was unbelievable. I'd been riding around in ac almost the entire trip, but the floorboard was radiating heat like a jet engine. Then one of my "friends" decided to play a joke on me after moving my jeep forward while I supervised John's repair from a distance. The joke was to slide the temp control to the heat area..and it was funny, but it got not funny when the slider wouldn't move back to the cold section! I had to ride all of the way back to camp deciding between hot air flowing, or no air moving through the jeep. I don't know how you gays and gals without ac did it. Oh my.
The fix was really easy...I should have tried it on the trail. Stuck flapper control on the air flow box.
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We brought wash clothes from the hotel & dipped them in the cooler water. It worked great!! This will be our go to in the heat.
06ljrubby:
I really didn't take many pictures;but we had a great time thanks again to Big Dave and Jason and it was nice meeting Sam. It was hot but good to see some other people I haven't seen in a while.
kvom:
I had a trailer tire blow on I65 Friday morning right before Cullman, so needed a 60 mile detour to Huntsville area to get a replacement. I decided to just buy a second spare wheel and tire to avoid this type of problem in the future. Got to HP early afternoon and had a fun easy ride with Jason leading.
Saturday joined up with John's group and all was good all day until John broke and I was about to have heatstroke. [skull] Headed back to camp without waiting to supervise repairs. [rolleyes] I was very happy to get back to the motel.
Since we had 8 rigs in the group we didn't stop for any of the harder potential obstacles. The trails were still reasonably challenging as far as needing to pick some lines, but nothing that one was worried about getting through. At least many were in the trees for shade. I'd consider going back in the future with cooler weather; with an audiobook to listen to on the way the drive isn't bad.
Found a surprisingly good Japanese restaurant in town, and ate dinner there twice.
I found that my winch battery was dead again, but luckily never needed to winch. Also the Painless controller seems bad as the indicator light never lit up showing charging the batteries. I'll need to attend to that before the next ride. I could link the two in series, but if one battery goes bad it drains the other; so the switching idea makes sense if it works.
zrxmopar:
--- Quote from: kvom on June 10, 2018, 07:01:45 PM ---I had a trailer tire blow on I65 Friday morning right before Cullman, so needed a 60 mile detour to Huntsville area to get a replacement. I decided to just buy a second spare wheel and tire to avoid this type of problem in the future. Got to HP early afternoon and had a fun easy ride with Jason leading.
Saturday joined up with John's group and all was good all day until John broke and I was about to have heatstroke. [skull] Headed back to camp without waiting to supervise repairs. [rolleyes] I was very happy to get back to the motel.
Since we had 8 rigs in the group we didn't stop for any of the harder potential obstacles. The trails were still reasonably challenging as far as needing to pick some lines, but nothing that one was worried about getting through. At least many were in the trees for shade. I'd consider going back in the future with cooler weather; with an audiobook to listen to on the way the drive isn't bad.
Found a surprisingly good Japanese restaurant in town, and ate dinner there twice.
I found that my winch battery was dead again, but luckily never needed to winch. Also the Painless controller seems bad as the indicator light never lit up showing charging the batteries. I'll need to attend to that before the next ride. I could link the two in series, but if one battery goes bad it drains the other; so the switching idea makes sense if it works.
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series would give you 24 volts. Parallel is what you want.
kvom:
true that
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