man it sounds like fun, i wish i was coming!

brett

 

It IS fun... wish you were here!

 

OK, forget seriously, I am staying here for this weekend. I want to be there just so I could give Tyler a hard time, but I guess that'll have to wait.

 

hey did anyone else get a ticket from not paying tolls on 121 to mckinney from the dyno in haltom city?

 

Hmmm, I'm hoping not, otherwise my parents will have got the tickets. And where where you supposed to pay the tolls?

 

no eyedeer

 

Great!

That's what I get for staying late at the shop to make your fuel plate.

Scott, just ask Robert get the ticket dismissed... I sure he wouldn't mind!

 

did you get one mike?

 

I got one too (parents just emailed me), back to the "where in the world where you supposed to drop money at?" question.

 

you do the crime, you pay the time!

brett

 

Are you sure that it's a ticket? 121 doesn't have any manned tollbooths, they have a system in place that is supposed to capture your license plate number and send you a bill for tolls if you don't have a TxTag.

I've never seen one of the bills, but that's how it was explained to work.

 

The ticket (mine) was for $2, I thought I saw a sign that said trucks were $0.60. (I could be wrong though)

 

i got one for $3, called and they said its just an invoice. you can pay it online. i was wondering about that on the way there cause i saw "last free exit" and i didnt have any cash and was going to blow thru the tolltag line. but never saw a booth so i didnt worry about it. then i got the paper in the mail. i got two also but when i got on line it was just one.

 

Another great meet. This one , there was so much work being done, about the only "social time" was at the drags on Friday night. I'll let RJ, bnold and XLR8 tell their stories if they wish.

This is what was accomplished. I'm not even going to try and tell who helped who with what. Most everyone had all the help they wanted or need to accomplish their tasks.

Me: Changed tranny oil to that good Synergin Synthetic. 1st time changed in a little over 200K. It was amazingly clean, but it did have a little burned smell to it.
Next was my e-brake cable. It had popped the solder tip off on the passenger side rear. Holiday weekend and out in the country I was worried about getting the truck back going and was hoping Mike (lazarsmith.com) could come up with something. Sure enough, he looked at it and said "no problem". He tig (I think) welded a stainless steel nut on the end of the cable. He attached his ground cable to the brake cable, "balanced" the nut on the end of the cable and tacked on. I used the e-brake several times last night and today and it's still holding. Thanks Mike and thanks to BrIan for helping me get the monstrosity brake assembly back together. Also, thanks to Justin and his technical expertise on get it adjusted . For an old fart like me...all of my guys are priceless.

Rob: New Fass HPFP pump.

Justin: Changed fluids in tranny, diffs, engine and installed front tow hooks. As long as he worked on it, surely he did more than that.

Tyler: Busy boy....5" exhaust, injectors and lazarsmith.com drag bars. His truck looks a lot different now. It looks really smooth and clean.....not to mention a whole lot quieter.

BrIan: Under hood lazarsmith lights, pulled rear hubs to inspect and adjust e-brake and a new set lazarsmith drag bars.\

RJ: Under hood lazarsmith lites. Man, those thing are BRITE! I'm not going to include all of the things he took apart, inspected or adjusted.

Mike: Besides saving my butt, changed his rear e-brake pads. Now he can get his passed due inspection sticker.

I'll let them add to what I forgot to mention.

 

Now your making me feel bad that I didn't go, I would have switched out my fuel lines, changed oil, and put on a fuel well cover. All I got done was changing the oil (and that was a mess when the hot oil hit my fingers and the oil plug dropped right on the hole for the oil container, that slowed down the oil flow into the container way toooooo much, ah well, it was in the Autozone parking lot and they had litter). Otherwise I probably would have got more school work done there than here. Got to go to the local tractor pull though.
Hey Rob, what's the story on the toll tickets?