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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Overnight parts from Japan?

Not really, but from Texas! My engine shipped out yesterday and got here this morning, of course it was shipped terminal to terminal, but still I cant believe how quick it got here. It was packaged and palletized very professionally and then we got ahold of it. I called Grady and let him know it was here, so he brought the engine lift over to my house and was driving the white trash mobile. I think some more pictures need to be posted of this thing to gather the whole spectrum of it. It would randomly stop running, shook like the earthquake today above 70mph, it also had a hole in the 4x4 shift boot area that allowed heat to roll in the cab, the best part minus the nerf bar was how your arm would get dirty resting it on the window seals. So anyway, we roll down to UPS terminal which is in the hood, pull up to the gate and the truck dies, then we make our way in and go in the wrong door, just to be redirected to go outside and go to the other side of the room basically, then stand there behind the window and wait while people stared at us from the other side. Finally, we got someone to help us, they called a forklift driver to go pick the pallet up. I was concerned at first because they knew my name when I said I was here to pick something up. Usually thats a bad sign, but it was all good. The pallet was loaded in the back of the white trash mobile and our journey back home started, after we got the white trash mobile to start again when we had to stop at the guard shack again. Once on the expressway, some guy kept trying to talk to us at 70 mph that we didn't know, a real southern gentleman. The next problem was getting it out of the truck, the engine was bolted to the pallet and we had the engine lift ready. We jerry rigged two straps under the pallet that were too short, so then we proceeded to use a chain to hook the straps to and then hooked the lift to it and it managed to work. Unboxed it and called it a day. Hopefully I'll find time to work on the car tomorrow. Im really excited. 




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