![]() Besides being a serious backpacking experience (one has to hike 1.5 miles or so, from the parking lot to the campground), the trails there are reputed to offer interspersed GREENERY OVERLOAD with “my goodness gracious, I didn’t know scenic vistas were legally allowed to be THAT gorgeous.” As the photos posted below will demonstrate, those are both fair contentions. Lo and behold, Mount Greylock, the tallest mountain in MA at 3491 feet, came up. I started researching places in Massachusetts with good hiking and better views, as the state is close enough to be a good test run, but still a very different creature than Connecticut. Why the hell am I putting this off, what is stopping me?” What, indeed. That said, about a week ago I finally said to myself “the summer is nearly done, and I am still nowhere close to my goal of camping at least once per New England state. Prep and arrival black bears, not as many as expected This blog post chronicles the first of these NECE trips. That means between 1 and 3 camping trips to New England locales per month, every month, until I escape this New Haven in May 2014 (and let me assure you, I am quite ready to escape). That means 4-day weekends, every weekend. I am stacking my class schedule for the fall to be Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday only. But I promptly fell into that bad habit of too much work and school, again, up until about a year ago. So, with a car of my own, and my camping gear mostly still with me, I came to Yale intending on camping quite often. It was mostly left over from my days as a Boy Scout, and it was all in mostly good shape my dad even bought me a $150 Eureka tent, which I never even opened.īut I let things like school and work, and not having fun, get in the way of going out and thriving in the elements. I had, with me in Warshington DC, for 5 years and change, all the camping gear one would ever need. I planned out, and as of very recently, did the work involved in a couple of modifications and additions to the vehicle. ![]() Thusly, given that this week saw me move to pushups on a 45 degree incline at physical therapy, and then on Thursday I received the permission of the surgeon, I have returned to my beloved MFALCON.īut I was not idle during my convalescence. Definitely a fun vehicle to drive (and to think, I didn’t even get the chance to off-road with it), but too expensive per mile for me to drive any longer! I also ran Lucas fuel additive through several tanks of fuel, and both improved the fuel efficiency as well as brought the idling RPM from 1100 down to approximately 575 or so. As I send the Jeep back, the hood struts have been replaced (so the hood can remain open by itself) and the tailgate lock actuator (so now the gate can be opened from the outside AND locked). So to be sure, it has been a massive blessing to have borrowed my friend Andrea’s Jeep – but I am ready to be back to my car and the stick shift’s far finer control. time will tell.Leaving the Jeep better than I received it I'm totally happy with the box and I hope it maintains this precision for a long time. Its no rack and pinion, but the steering is now very good. But so far, the box is a massive improvement over what I had before. ![]() I don't have a lot of miles on the box and because my car is set up for road racing, I really dont put many miles on the car in general. I called a few places and they all recommend a smaller t-bar because they thought the factory box was a. 220 and it turns out its a touch heavier than my stock box, i think this confirms that the stock box is. I felt that the stock steering weight was a little light, so i went up to. 210, i was never able to verify this but I think its correct. It seemed that no one knew the torsion bar size in the stock ws6 box, but after doing a lot of searching i found a post on this forum that said it was. I know the delphi 600 series steering box is all the rage, but usually these are around $650 bucks and that was just more than I wanted to spend. I got Sweet's 700 series box part number 206-12220. I know a lot of people have gone with Lee in the past, but i have heard they have had issues so I decided to try someone else. So I finally had enough of my worn out stock box and decided to give Sweet Mfg a try.
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