MEB Fall Crawl, Oct 12-13, 2012 Harlan, Ky

[joe]

Knock on wood... no breakage so far. I still need to clean it up good and do some preventative maintenance before the next bashing, but so far so good.

The more comfortable I got in it the harder we beat it. I am still trying to keep the sheet metal straight so I avoided the body damage inevitable trails. I built it with KB's white/red flame rig - he always kept it very nice with straight panels and still wheeled the you know what out of it.

The only think I need to look into... during Friday wheeling my pass. front brake caliper was sticking and you could smell it getting hot. When we stopped, it was smoking. I let it cool and it kept doing it. I pulled the caliper off Saturday morning, pressed the piston back in, and while reinstalling the caliper the tapered bolt that holds the slide & spring in broke - before it even got tight! Without anything to hold my caliper, we tacked the caliper to the mount and never looked back. It didn't heat up again on Saturday so the only thing I can think is maybe it had a little trash in the line that I pushed back into the MC when I pushed the piston back in. I've heard that a lot of people have trouble with the D60 dual piston calipers. You never know what you are buying anymore - some china man is getting paid $2/day to build these and don't think he cares if it hangs or not.

Robert,

It was great seein ya again, hope to wheel with ya in the spring

 

[SC74]

Joe- I've got a video of you going up cream puff and will have to figure out how to uPload videos.

I have looked at the spring run in AL. It's about 8 hours for us. I've got some kinks to work out over winter but still have hopes of making it there. Good to see both you and Natalie again.