Fresh in frame, firing her up at Rawze's for 1st time!

Been an adventure for sure, I have learned more in a few weeks than I would have in a college course. The knowledge alone, along with meeting so many good folks was worth every penny. My eyes are wet right now with that statement.

Rawze, his family, his wonderful wife, opening her house to me and treating me like family... Jerry, who owns Haggai, everything he and his daughter have done for a guy off a website that they have never met. This is what trucking used to be like.

 

Yep, thanks.

 

Cool, miss you brother, only fitting you are here to send me off.

 

Snail, we will have a toast, and you will have the honors!

For you that do not know, Snail was here on the day I arrived. Again, only fitting, and a good sign. I am truly blessed to know such men.

 

From what I have seen in the past two months, this is pretty common. At least the dealer sent the correct parts, most would have told you to go pound sand.

 

Well, she is running, hood is on, bumper, etc... We took yesterday off to rebuild a shower in his 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 he 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... LMAO!

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... Rawze.com, go to the video section.

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.