NotLaw
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- Joined
- Mar 18, 2008
- Messages
- 498
- Location
- Cedar City, UT
- Car(s)
- '90 Saab SPG, '84 K5 Blazer, '67 Fairlane 500
The grille has been damaged since the day I bought it, and while I was replacing the engine, some of the bars in the middle broke out. The aluminum had fractured on one end of the broken section some time ago, and the heatcycles combined with the constant beating from the wind means that the moment I touched it, a big chunk fell out. Needless to say, when that happened, I accelerated my efforts and plans to find a replacement for a reasonable price. They don't re-manufacture the grille at all for these cars, so I'm stuck with finding an original in decent shape.
Todays post brings us up to September 9th
Back on the 9th, I was in Cedar city again, having reinstalled the original early style harmonic balancer, and so I decided to go on a bit of a drive over UT 153 in the Tushar mountains, though I've always called them the Marysvale mountains. The waypoints on the map above roughly correspond to where I stopped.
UT 153 is paved from the town of Beaver on I-15 up to Puffer lake (also where the ski resorts are) and then it is dirt until a few miles outside of the town of Junction.
I left Cedar city at 7:00 am, so that I could experience the mountains in the early morning hours, which I think are the prettiest.
My first stop of the day was at nearly 8:00 am, partway up the canyon just after the road started to seriously climb. UT 153 hits over 10,500 ft IIRC.
After a while, the road leveled out for a bit before the final climb, and the view in the valley was gob-smacking, so I went a short ways up a 2 track and took the opportunity for a photoshoot:
Right after the turnoff to Puffin Lake (on the left) the pavement ended.
And there were about 10 miles of cruising along the top of the world. (at 40+ mph )
Right at the hairpin to start the descent down into Junction was another good photo op, and the perfect spot for a 360? panorama.
Then it was back to Cedar.
The car performed well despite the vibrations, but it was really getting on my nerves that I was so close to having the right parts to fix it, and right at the end I managed to convince myself it was the damper, so when I got back to Cedar, I ordered the right flywheel, as well as some relays for my headlights, and made plans with a friend of mine to go up to Spanish Fork for a weekend and fix it right.
Todays post brings us up to September 9th
Back on the 9th, I was in Cedar city again, having reinstalled the original early style harmonic balancer, and so I decided to go on a bit of a drive over UT 153 in the Tushar mountains, though I've always called them the Marysvale mountains. The waypoints on the map above roughly correspond to where I stopped.
UT 153 is paved from the town of Beaver on I-15 up to Puffer lake (also where the ski resorts are) and then it is dirt until a few miles outside of the town of Junction.
I left Cedar city at 7:00 am, so that I could experience the mountains in the early morning hours, which I think are the prettiest.
My first stop of the day was at nearly 8:00 am, partway up the canyon just after the road started to seriously climb. UT 153 hits over 10,500 ft IIRC.
After a while, the road leveled out for a bit before the final climb, and the view in the valley was gob-smacking, so I went a short ways up a 2 track and took the opportunity for a photoshoot:
Right after the turnoff to Puffin Lake (on the left) the pavement ended.
And there were about 10 miles of cruising along the top of the world. (at 40+ mph )
Right at the hairpin to start the descent down into Junction was another good photo op, and the perfect spot for a 360? panorama.
Then it was back to Cedar.
The car performed well despite the vibrations, but it was really getting on my nerves that I was so close to having the right parts to fix it, and right at the end I managed to convince myself it was the damper, so when I got back to Cedar, I ordered the right flywheel, as well as some relays for my headlights, and made plans with a friend of mine to go up to Spanish Fork for a weekend and fix it right.