Weekend report. Not great. Not terrible.
It rained all day Friday, all night Friday, and drizzled most of Saturday so it was wet and the dirt we race on is a silt over clay so the silt packs into the tires and then it’s in top of clay so it’s a slip and slide until you can blue groove the clay again. Woke up Saturday to a pond outside the motorhome steps but luckily we didn’t unpack most of our outdoor camp stuff.
And on top of that I fought my coolant system, the hard pipe we ran to the back didn’t have anything for the hoses to bite on so I kept pulling the hose connections apart and letting all the water out. My buddy that made all the piping brought his torch set and the rod he used to weld it all so we pulled all the lines back off and welded a lip on all the connections and jammed it back together for my wife to catch the tail end of her class.
While we were bleeding the coolant system she was strapping in in the staging line and the radiator we have had for the last seven years that was used when we put it in shit the bed, it was leaking front and back from the tubes.
We are potentially building pressure in the system and im wondering if it’s a combo of a nasty old mostly clogged radiator and the coolant pipe runs right next to the header and im wondering if im boiling it right there, pictures of a new radiator and changes in the system to come later this week.
Anyways onto pictures because no one wants to read my incoherent ramblings.
Don’t mind my ugly mug, my daughter was the only one to get half a set of barrels in with Mcjeep and one of the coolant lines let go so we had to pull off.
Luckily the boy has made friends with everyone we race with so when we were walking back he got offered a few different drives and he settled on the truck that ended up taking 1 and 2 in the long class with a father son combo. Both my kiddos just steer while I run the pedals for them.
This is how my hunk of junk sat the rest of the weekend.
But that’s when the fun begins anyways because this is the best group of families on earth so we are and drank the rest of the weekend and hung out with our friends we haven’t seen since the end of last summer.
Made some food drank a shit ton.
We busted out the electric strider for my boy to ride on the RC car track, he’s only been riding this for about 6 months and was smashing berms and jumps and was feet up most of the track.
He ate shit a few times but he’s a tough son of a bitch and as long as there is a picture of him all sprawled out he laughs and keeps going.
My buddy Adam had a rougher weekend than I did, his wife went out and smoked a tree and exploded an aluminum beadlock, he swapped on a spare and then went out and smoked the same tree and had it way worse. He split a second aluminum beadlock, bent three out of four shock shafts, ripped a trailing arm mount out of the 14 bolt, split the axle tube and it slid back and wiped out the fuel cell can. We are all sick in the head so he was ordering brackets off of Barnes during the trophies presentation and we will most likely scramble the jets and do a few all nighters to have it back out in two weeks.
That trailing arm normally lives under the axle we strapped and blocked it up on top of the tube to hold the wagon up to get it on the trailer.
He’s active on the gram at wickedwillysfab if you want to see more on his wagons, race wagon is coil over and bypasses, tons, and a 408 stroker LS. Trail wagon is small block tons and 42 inch iroks and he drives it like an ass hole.
Anyways overall it was a great weekend racing even though the wife and I never even strapped in all the way. Hope you guys dig the weekend reports because most weekends have similar outcomes, if not to damn bad this is a my little corner of the internet Hahaha. Cheers fellas. 🤘🏻🇺🇸
