Not sure if I have mentioned this to you all or not? But we have made the decision to pull up roots and move to Prince George BC. We have wanted to do this for a couple years, but with the housing market being so crazy here in the lower mainland of BC we figured we would never have a better opportunity to make this move.

I have found work up in PG, but thankfully their main branch is here locally, so I am getting trained and will work for about a month locally before transferring up to PG. We have sold the house....for way more then we could have ever hoped for in a regular realestate market. We have since purchased a house up in PG...nice new'er house (built in 07) and needs nothing (yeah no major reno's!) on 4 acres outside of town about 15 min up in the hills. Absolutely gorgeous out there!

Now to my trip....we have packed most of the house away, but now I have to deal with the old vehicle sickness most of us succumb to... parts hoarding! I have 3 vehicles, and thousands of parts and tools to get up to PG. So this is the first of probably at least 4 trips I will have to make up there to bring most of my stuff up.

So borrowed a small utility trailer from a friend and loaded up most of the big heavy stuff. Complete 89 Cummins motor, 4wd A518 and Np205, a dismantled 440 and tons of other parts, and tools etc.

 

Trailer all loaded up....



And a couple pics up in the mountains...love this spot!

 

I had reserved a storage unit...8x12...and was under the impression that it was on ashphalt or concrete...well it was not, and it was raised up about 10" off the ground.

I was on a tight time line as well, so now had to get a friggin 1000lb cummins motor out of my truck and into the storage unit. Thankfully there was a pile of used posts near by, so I was able to build up a quick block set-up to help hold the hoist.







Was a lot of muscle required to finally drag the motor into the unit. But got it done with minutes to spare.

 

Ohhh and I only had 4 hours of sleep before I headed out on this adventure!

I was finishing up the loading process here at the house, and was locking up the truck...rolled up the windows and the drivers window went crunch and ping and then dropped halfway down into the door...NOOOOO!

I figured the motor had stripped. So i wrestled the regulator out of the door...what a PITA! and swapped in a spare motor.



Re-installed everything...and yes the older large motors will fit fine. and the motor would turn, but the window would not move. So out everything came again.

This time I had to figure out why the regulator was not working. Turned out the pin that holds the big spring in place, also secure the arm tight to the cresent moon set of gears. My pin had snapped. Well the simple fix would have been to just weld the arm in place, but my neighbour had borrowed my welder, and it was now about 10:30pm....so couldn't be waking them up for that.

So I managed to get the old pin out of the way, find a bolt with a head thin enough to clear the regulator body, and then use a couple stover nuts and washers to hold the spring in place.



Well it worked...at least for now. Got to bed about 1am, and had planned on leaving at 4am, but needed at least 4 hours. So left at 5:30am.

So I left at 5:30 am...drove the 500+ miles one way, unloaded all the stuff, then came back. Only stopped for a 2 hour nap, arrived back home at 6:30am the next morning.

 

question, is that trailer homemade? if so i made one that looks almost the same

 

PG is a beautiful place, you've been spoiled in the winter though. Now you will have to buy a snow blower and winter clothes!

 

No a friend bought it used and abused, and refurbished it. I built the fold down tailgate for it.

 

I had been doing deliveries for Timmies up to PG for almost a decade...that is how I feel in love with the area. My wifes brother and his family are up there as well.

I will hopefully be getting a ramcharger with a snow plow, been working on getting it for a while now. As well as a large yard tractor, bobcat, skid steer, or back hoe to help with work on the acreage, and to clear snow.

 

Awesome!

 

Sounds great

 

Sounds like a good opportunity for you guys.

Truck did fine over all those miles?

 

If I said I wasn't jealous of you, I'd be lying.......

 

we broke down in pg, tcase coupler failed, thanks to gears plus having us back on the road the next day, tcase input and coupler sourced from alberta, we were on a tight schedule to hit the ferry out of prince Rupert going north through inland passage, the Skeena river is a beauty, so is the huge frazier, you picked the awesome place to live.

 

Truck didn't miss a beat.....and when I was loaded, I was running it up the big hills in 4th and spinning 2100-2500+ rpm for several minutes.

Got 17.25 mpg's going up, and over 21mpg coming back empty.

 

Man that's great mileage.

Glad everything has been going smooth for you.