| sanchius |
Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:48 am |
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This spring I awoke my '87 Syncro Wesy from a 5-year sleep. I had
bought it cheap because the previous owner said the engine was toast.
But, I always had too many other projects and priorities and it just
sat next to the house serving as a very expensive storage bin.
This year I decided it was time to sort out the problems and get it
running again. The engine problem turned out to be a weak fuel pump,
some bad grounds and a couple loose exhaust bolts that were resonating
like a broken valve. After fixing those items, replacing all the fuel
lines and putting some real wheels on it, I'm slowing stretching it's
legs, taking it further and further afield from it's home near Denver.
Last week my kids and I went four-wheeling up to some of the
high-altitude lakes, ghost towns and abandoned mine sites between
Breckenridge and Leadville, Colorado. As we pulled into the Blue
Lakes area, a bunch of baby mountain goats came off the hillside
and started walking around the cars.
In total there were about a dozen. These normally are _very_
shy creatures and they are usually only seen as a small white dot
far away on the mountainside. You can see how close we were, these
were not taken with a telephoto lens. I never seen anything
like this before.
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| ChesterKV |
Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:52 am |
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Bunch of kids in their teens checking out cool cars..... what's the big deal :roll:
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| Gauche1968 |
Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:31 am |
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| They might have some goat version of mad cow disease or something like that. Watch Out! |
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| fairweather |
Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:26 pm |
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| They are obviously used to getting fed Purina Goat Chow, didn't you bring any :shock: |
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| Mofus |
Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:45 pm |
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That is so cool! Having lived in SoCal all my life, an experience like that seems very rare and precious.
Nice van by the way. |
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| floggingmolly |
Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:50 pm |
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| Lucky b*stard. Nice Syncro. |
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