Colorado Land Cruisers is a four-wheel drive club based out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and sanctioned by Toyota Land Cruisers Association. We are organized to bring together Toyota owning families and individuals interested in exploring Colorado four-wheel drive trails.
Summer is already half gone, but CLC still has several great trail runs coming up! The next run is the Reynolds Wrap Trail clean up and cookout. This will be on Saturday July 24th. The plan is to run Reynolds Wrap and then head over to Frosty Park and have burgers, brats, and hotdogs. The club will be buying the meat and the buns. All you need to bring is your favorite soft drinks and what ever else you want with your meal. (Chips, catsup, mustard, mayo, jalapenos, pickles, onions, <???>) If time allows we may even throw some horseshoes, or who knows? Bring your ideas to the next meeting and let us know if you will be attending, this way we know how many mouths we need to feed. If you can’t make it to the meeting but you plan on attending the cookout, please call and let me know. 338-3384
The following run will be to Wheeler Lake on Saturday August 14th. This should be a good time so plan on attending.
“Remember we’re all in this together, I’m pullin’ for ya!”
Andy “Minisrule” Johnson
President - CLC
Trail
Run: Reynolds Wrap – July 24, 2004
Join us for CLC’s annual Reynolds Wrap trail cleanup run off Gold Camp road. Meet at 7am, and leave at 7:30am, from the In Town location – Safeway on south Nevada, across from McDonalds. After running the trail and doing our clean up duties, we will go over to Frosty Park and have a picnic. CLC will supply the burgers, dogs and brats plus buns, and you lucky folks, get to supply your favorite condiments and soft drinks! Such a deal!
May even pitch horseshoes! (No bull) Final planning will be done at our next meeting. Be there.
Various noises in your
Ride…
I have a problem when I’m in a vehicle. I can hear all kinds of sounds the vehicle makes as it is driven down the road. Most times these sounds are completely normal, and just the sounds that come from the engine, transmission, axles and suspension. I like quite, smooth mechanisms because that means they are operating as designed. Smooth and quiet are easy for a new or newer rig, but age brings on subtle changes in the noises heard. Noises can be separated out as to the source. There is road noise, caused by the tires rolling over the road surface, engine noise, caused by rotating parts, transmission gear and bearing noise, followed by transfer case and differential as well as wheel bearing noise. Sometime suspension can inject noise, like the klunks from Toyota IFS, and sometimes suspension bushings can squeak when they dry out. These noises can be separated out by frequency, tire noise and drive line noise follows vehicle speed, while transmission and engine noise will follow the engines RPM. One interesting source of noise, over time, is that of a u-joint, which over time is starting to wear. The sound, or feel, is a slight rumbling vibration, which follows vehicle speed, and can be most prevalent at highway cruising speed. (Now, understand, probably 80% of drivers would never notice this.) And such is the noise and vibration I have in my ’72 FJ40. I notice this noise or feel on occasion and know that something isn’t quite right. Just to be on the safe side, I started calling around to locate a u-joint. Not easy to find at this point in time. Not even the popular volume parts houses had one in stock – it could be ordered, with any where from next day delivery to next week. Not even Napa had one in stock, but did say they could have it by noon the next day. I continued calling down the list, and called CarQuest. Much to my surprise they had one in stock, for more $$ than the volume parts houses, but for a few $$ less than Napa. When I picked up the part, I found that it was marked on all 4 end caps, on the cross and the box those wonderful words I love to see: “Made in USA” (Really the box said “Printed in USA”) I like that and I think I’ll check with them more often now.
Now for the fun part: Really isolating the cause of the noise. Since this noise is a bit intermittent in nature, I still have my ‘spare’ u-joint in my toolbox. When I crawled under the FJ to remove the drive shaft, I found that the last trip to Chinaman or maybe on 21 road, my skid plate has become more form fitting to the transfer case and it looks like I may have a little interference between the transfer case and the skid plate. This could explain why I have this noise and sometimes not. Now you can’t really pry the skid plate into shape, so I have learned to use a couple of wood 6x6’s and a trusty 5T bottle jack between whatever weighs the most which is usually a ¾T F250 pickup. This works really well, and doesn’t take too long. Not as noisy and uncontrollable as a BH either. I’ll know soon, as I plan to straighten the skid plate some time this week. I know many of you will want to know if this worked!
Darryl
Hayman Roads Management Information
An email from Kendall:
Hi All,
I got a letter indicating that the "Hayman Roads Management Environmental Assessment (EA)" is now available for review. Please review the following and submit your comments.
Kendall
It is
located here:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/psicc/hayres/travel/roadsEA/RoadEADocument.pdf
Comments need to be in by Aug 15th. The letter indicates that all written
comments be addressed to:
Hayman Roads EA Comments
Attn: Sherri Zufall
19316 Goddard Ranch Court
Morrison, CO 80465
or email with subject "Hayman Roads EA Comments" Attn: Sherry Zufall
to:
r2_psicc_hayman_recovery@fs.fed.us
You can also fax to 303-275-5642
General questions regarding Hayman Roads Management Project call Bill Jackson
719-264-6154
Next
CLC Meeting ~ July 20, 2004 7:00PM
Mark your calendar for CLC’s next meeting, Liberty Toyota, North. Bring your ideas as we plan CLC’s Reynolds Wrap picnic. See you there!
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