Hi everyone! It's true, my dad and I hauled the Eagle over to Rich's place today! I see there's a picture of it in Rich's signature already, awesome! Here's a couple of pics I took of the move.
Here it is about 7:00 this morning as I was getting all the parts together.
Got the 4.0 in the bed of the truck! My dad's putting the bumpers up on the rack.
Here comes the trailer.
And the Eagle's up and ready to roll. Check out the load on the truck. The back tires are practically touching the wheel well.
Here we are getting on the 55.
The 91 was so dang bumpy we pulled over to make sure everything was still where we wanted it to be.
You can see how low the back of the truck is sitting again
And here it is at home in Rich's garage. Man, it was so good to see it in a garage again. All that oil on the cardboard is from the extra NP242 transfer case we brought over, but the Eagle drips a little bit too.
And here's Rich taking the 4.0 down from the hoist.
Loading the engine was a little tricky and the truck worked pretty hard pulling the grade on parts of the 15 and the 138 but all in all it was a really smooth trip.
When I got the Eagle off the trailer and drove it around to Rich's garage I was having a hard time getting the car to move forward. I thought, "Ut-oh, is the transmission slipping?" It was acting fine when we loaded it up earlier. Then I remembered I set the parking brake.
Duh, the car moved fine after that.
It was sad to let the car go after owning it for so long but I felt really good about leaving it with Rich. I really think he'll be able to get this thing back on the road where it belongs. I can't wait for the 4.0 swap! I hope I get to buy it back from him someday
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