07-10-2011, 01:45 PM
Race 3 began with a race to get a few things done. Thursday was spent checking all the bolts/nuts/fittings that I could. The main areas that I found and will need to pay attention to were that the bolts holding the steering box to the frame were loose, the rear leaf spring u-bolts were loose, and the tie rod/drag link bolts were loose again.
I replaced the all the bolts and nuts for the track bar and tie rods with grade 8 bolts and lock nuts. Everything else looked good with no major leaks or visible signs of wear or damage. That took about all day on Thursday and ran over to about 10am on Friday morning.
Clay got here at about 11 am. We still had to change tires and I had to find out why one tire was leaking. We put it on the tire machine and broke the beads. One bead was damaged a bit. I cleaned the bead seats up and put a fair amount of bead sealer on the tire and aired it up again. From there we had to load up the Bronco and trailer and head out.
It was now 2pm and we were on the road! Made a quick stop to the store to throw some groceries down our necks (heard that saying recently and I think it is kinda funny), and to get some food for the rest of the weekend. From there, we went to Heintz Performance over by Loweâs Speedway to pick up some tear offs for my helmet. The rain started falling and we got rained on from there till we got out of Charlotte.
A quick shot down I-85 brought us to the big town of Spartanburg SC. The race was to be held at the fairgrounds complex, which was a 5/8 mile dirt track at some point years back. We made our way off of 85, following the shrill voice of the GPS. We followed the directions through a round about. It was a 2 lane traffic circle! Quite fun trying to navigate with a 24â trailer attached and a cop behind usâ¦
As we neared our destination, the road got worse, as did the neighborhoods and vehicles around us. We locked the doors and made our way to Fairgrounds Rd. A map of the fairgrounds can be seen here.
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=34.96....1&r=0&src=msl
I replaced the all the bolts and nuts for the track bar and tie rods with grade 8 bolts and lock nuts. Everything else looked good with no major leaks or visible signs of wear or damage. That took about all day on Thursday and ran over to about 10am on Friday morning.
Clay got here at about 11 am. We still had to change tires and I had to find out why one tire was leaking. We put it on the tire machine and broke the beads. One bead was damaged a bit. I cleaned the bead seats up and put a fair amount of bead sealer on the tire and aired it up again. From there we had to load up the Bronco and trailer and head out.
It was now 2pm and we were on the road! Made a quick stop to the store to throw some groceries down our necks (heard that saying recently and I think it is kinda funny), and to get some food for the rest of the weekend. From there, we went to Heintz Performance over by Loweâs Speedway to pick up some tear offs for my helmet. The rain started falling and we got rained on from there till we got out of Charlotte.
A quick shot down I-85 brought us to the big town of Spartanburg SC. The race was to be held at the fairgrounds complex, which was a 5/8 mile dirt track at some point years back. We made our way off of 85, following the shrill voice of the GPS. We followed the directions through a round about. It was a 2 lane traffic circle! Quite fun trying to navigate with a 24â trailer attached and a cop behind usâ¦
As we neared our destination, the road got worse, as did the neighborhoods and vehicles around us. We locked the doors and made our way to Fairgrounds Rd. A map of the fairgrounds can be seen here.
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=34.96....1&r=0&src=msl