Well, really sorry you couldn't make it Robert. It turned out to be a good day, even though it kind of started off crappy.
I started up the Jeep only to notice the Christmas glow of the CEL. I figured it was probably nothing, the Jeep was running well, so I ignored it and headed out. As I was climbing the final two hills on the way out to the Buckman Springs exit, the Jeep started spewing white smoke out the exhaust and my rear window was coated with some sort of gunk. I figured I'd press on and stop at the exit to take a look at it....not to mention Gary was supposed to be there, so an extra set of eyes wouldn't hurt.
Well, as I finally pulled off the 8 onto the exit, sure enough, Gary was there with his hood up and cell phone in hand. My first thought, "Well this was a quick run!" {And being that
now has the "No BS Crew" and the "BSC"...I'm thinking Gary and I need to start our own group call the "CEL Crew" =D}Turned out he just has an issue with his IAC. My smoke appears to be the result of oil spewing from the sending unit and/or oil filter assembly.
So, other than a later start than expected, we figured the damage wasn't critical and headed on down the road. We hit 4 corners about just before 10am, aired down and headed off towards Sidewinder. After Sidewinder, we looped around to Bronco Flats and headed up and over to Bronco Peak {Holy crap, Mike! You weren't kidding....it's a friggin' highway now!} Being that I'm only locked in the front, a few well placed rocks were needed to get me up and over. We stopped and chatted with another group that had just made it up for a bit, took a brief break, and decided to head on out. It was at this point I looked at my watch and realized it wasn't even 12:30 yet. =) (I really love running with just a couple rigs!!!!) Neither of us intended to do Bronco Peak Connector, but Gary had a buddy with him, and we headed over just to show him the rock garden. It turns out they didn't just take the bulldozer up bronco peak but up the connector as well.
I have no doubt that we could have run it and headed out gunslinger to complete every trail available to us in CC, but unfortunately about 8 rigs were sitting at the top waiting on a CJ that had a busted drag link. So we backed out to the campground, aired up....met a couple folks and shot the sh!t with them while airing up (note to self: When buying an air compressor make sure to buy spare fuses and relays!). So after I burned up Gary's compressor, we managed to rig it by jumping the relay to get air in the other three of my tires. =)
I got home, and while some oil residue is apparent, it seems like whatever was causing the white smoke is no longer an issue.
So all in all, was a good day! And still got home in time to get some crap done. =) (Did I mention how much I love running with only a few rigs?!?!)
Hope y'all had an equally fun Sunday!
