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Safely back from Jerome! with HOT oil.
Roger (Nang) & I left for Jerome from san Jose (Norcal) @ 8pm on Thursday
evening and got there just after the noon hour on Friday, a great trip with
the minor hiccup of a fan belt replacement just prior to dawn before Needles.
The timing was perfect and we went though the hot hot desert at night or at
dawn.
The meet was great & as Ronnie says very mellow. I will post a web set of
pictures when I get home from work this evening, no words just pics.
Rachel & Jon threw a rod or something near Lake Havasu, so Rachel accompanied
us back and we dropped her off in Monterey at around midnight on Sunday. I
have a bunch of Jon's stuff still in the 70 westy that will wend its way back
to Monterey.
The Westy certainly has some interesting symptoms if not problems. The
cylinder head temp pretty much stays in the middle of its range at around
250, but the oil temp got up to 300 degrees F in the desert heat, It must
have been over 100 degrees ascending the long grade out of Needles to Barstow!
Roger & I drove very slowly so we got over 25 mpg in a 70 poptop westy loaded
with stuff, great but it took us 19 hours to get back to san Jose instead of
16 going.
Thanks to ABS for such a great meet, but I will have to re-evaluate 35 hours
driving for 36 hours bus meeting.
Sam W
63 singlecab
70 westy