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Originally Posted by Spaghetti Legs
In 1994 my buddy and I drove his ‘72 Landcruiser from San Francisco to Moscow, Idaho to see his brother graduate college. We camped out along Smith River, boonies in Central Oregon, Columbia River. We wore earplugs on the freeway sections. Somewhere along the Columbia River, I think The Dalles, a part of the clutch fell off but we were able to reattach and drive on. The gas gauge didn’t work so at fill ups, we’d write the mileage on the window in grease pencil. I’ll never forget that trip.
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Lol, reminds of a trip the future Mrs. William and I took in my 40 from central Oregon to Lake Chelan (up lake from Chelan) to spend one Christmas with family. We had left very early in the morning to try and get to our destination early in the day. Somewhere between Longview and Castle Rock the return spring on the carburetor broke/popped off and was gone. As soon as I tried to slow down the motor obviously kept racing. Pulled off the hi way and manually brought the idle down. I had nothing in my tool box to McGuyver it and it was still too early for most places to be open. Driving a manual when the engine rpm won't go down to shift is a lot of fun (insert sarcasm). Buy the time we hit Olympia things were opening up so we're driving around looking for an auto parts store, engine racing
lurching through stop lights until we found one. Bought some springs (one for the fix, the rest into the McGuyver box) and we were good to go the rest of the trip.
We heard it was snowing on the passes and decided to go up over Steven's instead of Snoqalmie and Blewett. We stopped in Bellevue to get some chains for the rig just in case and continued on. We hit snow going up over Steven's pass but had no issues at all getting up and over and didn't need the chains. It was a fun and interesting ride and even though the 40 beat you up over such a long ride we did many others.
W.
06-03-2020, 11:31 AM
although I did turn the center diff lock on 
Linear Mode
