never seen a shift knob put on upside down before, interesting...
I went camping this weekend too, left the house Thursday at about 1pm for the ~5 hour drive, made it fine with the F350 with in bed camper and the ranger on the trailer with the Honda 400EX in the bed of the Ranger, firewood packed around the quad, then about 14 pallets shoved around the Ranger on the trailer... My only problem on the way there was the boost gauge hose melted or broke somewhere, never looked into it... The old 7.3L is a bit more thirsty with the new turbo but it works better... I can push it harder going up hills and it doesn't overheat anymore, still needs injectors, HPOP and intercooler...
Then later that night we went on a drive in the dunes, there were 3 rigs and 8 people, two in my Ranger, two in a Jeep Wrangler and 4 in a Tahoe, Tahoe was in front, jeep in front of me, jeep went over a smallish razorback dune and the front dug in when he tapped the brakes, being dark he was trying to be cautious but the wheelbase monster got him and it endo'd... landed upside down, I pulled up just behind and did the same as him but with a longer wheelbase I was fine and stopped about 5' from the Jeep. My passenger got out and checked on the two in there, nothing too bad or so we thought then, I grabbed my strap and hooked it to the frame and we flagged the Tahoe down (they were 1/2 mile away by now). Other than the hard top and a few things here and there the Jeep will be ok, the driver broke 3 ribs and is sore, passenger mainly just sore... A side by side in the group did the same thing not too far away, they had some cuts on their heads from gussets on the rollcage so they made a group hospital run... in the 10 years I've been going there, this is the most carnage, and none of it was from doing anything stupid, just bad luck and soft sand...
Then on the way home I felt the trailer get a bit squirly here and there, then I felt what sounded/felt like a flat tire, pulled over and 5 out of 8 lugnuts/studs were missing on the rear drivers side tire... conveniently had a floor jack and enough tools along with two other buddies not far behind that didn't have the adrenalin running through their veins to help me get it together, Napa was still open even, was on the road again in about an hour and a half I think... I learned the hard way not to trust that particular impact with lug nuts... now I gotta try to find another of that wheel...
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