last weekends adventure, brought home a "new" truck-LONG & LOTS OF PICS!!

[Blue_71]

last weekend (5-10-08) jewelz. and I loaded up the K20 with a trailer and headed north to get a 72 highlander from jamie72. here's the pics and description of the events:

so we start up i-65 about 7 am cst. by the way, that road is a ton rougher than i remember from last time!!

somewhere around elizabethtown, ky we see this guy hauling a car up the interstate. anyone know what this is?



weeee downhill (this is a huge hill after E-town towards louisville)



yes my windsheild is cracked and i like it!!!!!

here i am!



still going down..



aaaand moving along... moves pretty good for a 37 year old 3/4 ton huh?



ok skip forward 2 hours, one fueling, and one "uhhh are we going the right way??" anyone who has been to jamie's will know what i mean

first order of the day was to load up a cab thats going on my wrecker. so we unhook the trailer, and unload all the stuff out of the bed of my truck, which included:

floor jack
3 5 lug wheels/tires
6 chains
3 booming dogs
cooler
fold up cherry picker (now your going what the heck right? we were going on sunday to get an engine from Huck, i wanted to be prepared)

so Jamie, Huck, Jewelz and I load the bare cab shell. we then get to talking about gas mileage, so we take a short break to look at the throttle body set up i put on my truck. (thats right, EFI baby )

next on the to-do list is remove the front rallys off the highlander and put on 2 of the 5 lug wheels i brought. afterwards, we go to move the highlander in to the road to be loaded.. the truck started and immediatly died. Jamie is getting worried somethings not right, as he has plans that afternoon. we pour some fresh gas in, get it started, and it just will not stay running. after finally getting it to idle, we try to move it. no go... 3 tries, every time it dies when trying to move.

jamie says what the heck is wrong with this thing!!! after some badgering from Huck, he says:



so do you wanna try it smarty pants??
soo huck then proceeds to try



nothing.... oh wait, wonder if the tranny is full??

1 qt later, it moves!!! yaaay!

then we hook up the trailer, and move it into the road in front of the truck. jamie and I then unload the gargantuan ramps, made for our 20 ft farm gooseneck