Troubleshooting Triumph

We started off the morning with an oil change on Chase 1 at 7:30 am in the hotel parking lot. Kudos to Dave and Tony. Followed by meeting the fuel guy at Estero Beach at 9 am. Rest of the day at Estero Beach was spent on carburetor tuning for lack of power. Dave tracked down a timing light, courtesy of the JMSDA crew, and we discovered we had some timing issues. (Remember, we have a death wobble issue in the front end that we have to figure out too- more on that later). Back to the story.... now, we have a hard core rocket with all kinds of Baja desert crunching power that is very usable for everything from slow rock crawling to high speed gravel straights. In the process of tuning, we burned up a starter. Dave had it changed out within 10 minutes and re-installed with wire ties. In the meantime, John and Nancy were on the hunt for a new steering stabilizer in hopes that it would cure our death wobble. John changed out the old soft steering stabilizer for a new stiffer stabilizer. Voila, death wobble gone, now the car is ready for the 140 miles of Baja highway driving. Yahoo!!!! Still need to wash, decal, mount the rally tracker mount, organize the tools, and try to get Yokohama's Robert Dole into the car for a short test ride. We want to show him how well these Yokohama Super Diggers work for this car.
John is finally happy and feeling like everything is good to go. All of our drivers are registered. It looks like we really might have a chance to beat the Baja. We went to a service tonight with Steve Hanson sharing some words about heros, challenges, and being the kind of people that rise to the occasion with God's grace and love. Here's to success.
Chris, I love you and miss you. I wish you were here. ---- Tony