jpcamb wrote:Chris wrote:nostaw wrote:I finally dropped off John C last night at ~8:30pm...
So what happened to John's XJ??
It died and wouldnt start on the trail day 2 was towed most of the way back to the camp and then started up OK in the moring for the trip home. Then in southern CT it chose to die again in the third lane with no median strip. It was a bit hairy but as I understand it a state trooper pushed him to safety. We unloaded JWs XJ and John drove JWs XJ and Jon trailered Johns XJ home.... Its a bit of a mystery at the moment what caused it to kick out like that but if anyone can figure it out its John...
Day 1: About 5 minutes into playing on the Comp Course, a front brake hard line popped a hole (had it patched up before most people knew I was broken). Got back to see NHDave stuck on an obstacle. After he and Ryan were back safe on level ground, we all headed out for the trails. First obstacle was a sloped ledge climb. Some ahead of me made it, some didn't. I tried a line, failed. Tried another line, heard a loud BANG! and thump, thump, thump. I knew something in my rear drive shaft let go. Didn't know it was going to be the 32 SPLINE YOKE OFF MY SYE!!!!!!!!!!!! (along with snapping an ear off a Tom Woods gold seal u-joint!) Pulled the rear shaft and front wheel drived it back to camp. Nobody local had that part, Lou is closed on Fridays, Quadratec didn't have one, ended up calling Advanced Adapters to have one shipped out overnight priority. Ended up spending the rest of the day riding biatch with Kurt.
Day 2: The guy at AA was talking about a possible 11a.m. delivery on my part, so it was back to riding biatch with Kurt with visions of a new yoke dancing in my head. Wasn't until a little after 1p.m. that Mark got the call that my package was in at his hotel. Kurt and I headed out to pick up the package (along with more ice), a short time later we were back and I had the new yoke and my drive shaft back in the Heep and ready to go! Kurt and I caught up with Ryan, Dave, Dennis, and Edrick over at Rock Creek. I stuck to the trail that runs along side while Kurt joined the others running down the "Creek". Dave ended up pulling off the "Creek" at the cross over I was waiting at 'cause he was hearing some funky noise. Turned out he pulled the bolts holding the tranny skid off on the driver side. A few minuets with my welding gear got him back together enough to make it the rest of the day. While working on Dave's rig, a guy with a broken down buggy came over and asked if he could use my welder to fix a control arm break......................
Man this is getting long!!!!!!!!!!! Short wrap up........ buggy guy got fixed, my steering box blew the o-ring seal on the top cover plate when we were leaving from helping buggy guy, bypassed the lines on the box to keep going, Heep wouldn't start, fiddled with things, it started back up, I stalled it 40 feet later on a rock (no power steering now remember!), wouldn't start again no matter what we fiddled with, Ryan strapped me back to camp, Heep started right up when back near camp, got a bit P.O.'ed and stabbed fender of Heep! Spent rest of night drinking beer and helping Carl with his steering issues.
Day 3: Rained overnight, packed up wet camp site, Heep was firing right up but "check engine light" was coming on. Heep was running fine all day, at lunch stop noticed the C.B. antenna had a funky bend to it, at another stop for Jeff to play musical tires noticed my C.B. antenna was pointing South, swapped on 2' antenna Dave found on trails, got to just before exit 11 on I84 in CT when engine gave good backfire and died in the left lane! called 911, trooper car pushed the Heep over to the right lane, Jon W. came back around with his trailer and picked me up, drove Jon's Jeep back to NH, Jon brought my Heep back to Townsend, discovered I had left my wallet in Jon's Cherokee and had to drive back to Nashua to get it. Finally got myself back home at 9:45ish.
Day 4 (today): Heep wouldn't start in the A.M. used the starter to crank it off Jon's trailer, moved the trailer, starter cranked the Heep in front of garage, pulled upteen codes off computer, checked several components on code list, TPS wasn't working but that has nothing to do with no spark, checked through power circuits to ignition, could some relays clicking while wiggling out big 60A fuse marked "ignition system" to check it, tabs were dirty so I cleaned them down and slid the fuse in and out a few times, that got the Heep to have spark and it fired right up but wouldn't rev, swapped TPS out, now starts right up and revs fine
Steering box is out (o-ring looked REAL sad), tent is dried and packed back away. Now I need to find a new seal for the box, a clutch for the cooling fan (think I found my start-up squeal), and DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON A GOOD ELECTRICAL CONTACT CLEANER
lost a brake line in the comp course first. 
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