Post from the V.P. Desert
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 12 3:03 pm
Just wanted to post up here just to let you all know waht is up, we have had an amazing experience here and bit of disappointmen,but Ialways say "expect the unexpected"
we are 5 days in to our trip and about 1000 miles we are in Page arizona about 4 hours from the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
everything was good until Inoticed a clicking in my rear diff,just rebuilt and we most likely have a bearing failure dud to bad quality control from Timkin,perhaps they are using old tin cans from China for steel because the builder has had 3 diffs with new bearings go bad with in 1000 miles .
Luckily I have a couple of locals that joined us with their Petty blue 73 challly.
Phil and John offered their diff from their car (same 3:23 ratio).
We are right smack in the m iddle of Navajo nation ,we were able to borrow 2 service bays at a local petrol station,and the swap began it took about 3 hours .
since the diff is limping along Phil decided to nurse his 73 back to a mates house about 200 miles from here and from there he will get the car home allowing me to continue the trip although delayed we can get get back on schedule hope fully by the end of today.
the internet is really slow here for uploading so no pix yet but I will post up when iget home because we have some just amazing shots of this beautiful area places Like Moab,Utah,arches,natural bridges,,Monument valley,to many to list,as well as an amazing discovery.......we found the bridge/road used for the Jag crash,all washed out many years ago and we have 2 dvd players so we had to use the horizon for reference....and we have it took the better part of the day to figure it out but we did in fact conclude this is the place we have photo and vid documents and Iwill post those up later also...............well we must now get our duo of black chally s on the road ...........Grand Canyon here we come
we are 5 days in to our trip and about 1000 miles we are in Page arizona about 4 hours from the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
everything was good until Inoticed a clicking in my rear diff,just rebuilt and we most likely have a bearing failure dud to bad quality control from Timkin,perhaps they are using old tin cans from China for steel because the builder has had 3 diffs with new bearings go bad with in 1000 miles .
Luckily I have a couple of locals that joined us with their Petty blue 73 challly.
Phil and John offered their diff from their car (same 3:23 ratio).
We are right smack in the m iddle of Navajo nation ,we were able to borrow 2 service bays at a local petrol station,and the swap began it took about 3 hours .
since the diff is limping along Phil decided to nurse his 73 back to a mates house about 200 miles from here and from there he will get the car home allowing me to continue the trip although delayed we can get get back on schedule hope fully by the end of today.
the internet is really slow here for uploading so no pix yet but I will post up when iget home because we have some just amazing shots of this beautiful area places Like Moab,Utah,arches,natural bridges,,Monument valley,to many to list,as well as an amazing discovery.......we found the bridge/road used for the Jag crash,all washed out many years ago and we have 2 dvd players so we had to use the horizon for reference....and we have it took the better part of the day to figure it out but we did in fact conclude this is the place we have photo and vid documents and Iwill post those up later also...............well we must now get our duo of black chally s on the road ...........Grand Canyon here we come
.......... keep em comin 
