Welp. Those of you who follow me on IG already know but had a pretty major issue in the middle of the desert this weekend. Thanks to cheap plastic parts, I lost all my coolant a few miles down a wash.
The plastic connector components of the heater hose were brittle and broke in numerous spots. Luckily one of the guys who came with was a ford mechanic for a while so was able to Jerry rig something to get me back to the road after a long detour to the “parts store” near ocotillo wells.
Once I got back to the road it happened again and this time around there was no Jerry rigging it. Another buddy was stoked he could finally use his ARB tow strap so pulled me a few miles to the Iron Door bar where I called a tow truck. $1000, 7 hours, and 3 tow trucks later I finally got it towed to my local dealer and of course with it being the holidays they are short staffed and won’t get to it until Thursday or Friday.
On the cool side, we all brought our first born kids who are all young so they had fun playing in the dirt and eating snacks while we tried to fix my truck. We did go to the wind caves and they thought that was cool. I sent my daughter home with one of my friends since 4th grade. My daughter and his son have been playing together since they were born so I felt ok doing it. When they got home wifey picked her up at their house so I could deal with the tow truck drivers. The goal was to introduce off-road to the kids and they got to play in the dirt the whole time so overall I’ll call it a win.
Also saw this dope rig
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