Helping Waterloo out with an inframe ...

[Waterloo]

Well, she is running, hood is on, bumper, etc... We took yesterday off to rebuild a shower in Rawze's bathroom... More stuff going on around here than you can imagine, I feel like a hired hand, LOL! And I don't mind one bit. ;-)

I'm still in Rawze's front yard, the new Tri-Pac is working, air is on, freshly showered and slightly buzzed and heading to bed. What a fantastic day! I was so filthy and sweaty, 10,000% humidity and ice cold beer. I think I'm in Heaven. LOL!

Rawze cooked up a seafood extravaganza tonight! Salmon and shrimp, all on the barbie! He can cook like some of the best chefs on the planet, I have never ate this good. And the beer... Stella, Heineken, Modelo Negra, 1800 Tequila... I'm in HEAVEN! Oh man... And the FOOD! Did I mention the food?

Funny thing, SnailExpress arrived today, he was here the day I arrived, and he will be here when I depart. We were talking and he mentioned he hauled butane in Utah... Turns out we worked for the same outfit! He was out of the Utah office and I was out of the one in Montana. Like Snail said, small world. What a cool guy, and he likes his tequila. ;-)

Anyhow, the truck is so smooth, the motor is just humming like a fine Swiss watch or a finely tuned Singer sewing machine. All I did was to follow the book, with Rawze's guidance of course... "Watch my F'n videos!" LOL! Trust me, Rawze is a busy guy, he was not babysitting me...

Rawze has a complete in frame series on rebuilding the Cummins CM-871, same motor I have. Just to let you know if you did not know, go to the video section above.

Between his videos and Cummins QuickServe, it was not that hard of a job, as long as you had the correct tools. Tools like the unit to machine the block. Rawze has that.

But anyways, Rawze will program my new ECM tomorrow and I'll run the truck around, try to put a hundred miles on her, then to Speedco for an oil change and back to the house here for another overhead. Then headed back to Michigan on Sunday...

Been an adventure to say the least. A very GOOD adventure. ;-)