The RED Ball Express, 2012. "From Cactus to the Cape"

[Chassisman]

It did suck a valve only a few minutes after they fired it up and moved the truck.

He and his pop are hopping a plane home tonight. Not sure what the long term plan is, but a trailer to trailer relay would be cool...this is a pretty big SOB, though.

We'll see what he wants to do.

I'll be coming from Memphis Tn to Calif with an empty 53' trailer around Sept 28-Oct 1st....of course thats the wrong direction....lol

[Anotheroldgearhead]

Sorry to hear of that. Hopefully they can figure something out.

[BOOOGHAR]

what about getting the truck down to squirells, doing a engine swap and red balling the truck to the east coast, just a thought

[Brian Lohnes]

I gots lots of free time this winter Tony....

[BOOOGHAR]

swap a engine in the northeast during winter, sounds like a good ol time

[Scott Liggett]

This sucks balls. Damn.

[Caveman Tony]

I'm not pissed that the trip is a bust.

I'm not ticked off that the cam went flat (apparently, multiple lobes upon closer inspection)

I'm not pissed about the motor dropping a valve.

I'm not mad at the plane tix, the cash spent, the effort expended in preparation all gone down the tubes.

I AM pissed that I wrote a novel on all this crap last night... went to hit 'send'... and it all went 'poof', gone. "You are not logged in".

[Deaf Bob]

Oh man... That's why I am in the " stay logged in" mode...

Calm down, make sure you are logged in and try again..

Would have been cool to see what it took to get it going to go on your merry way..

[DanStokes]

It's also possible to type it off line, do a "Copy", then open the thread on BS and drop it in there. At least, it works with a MAC and I'm pretty sure it will with a PC.

Dan

[squirrel]

yeah, it works with a PC, but it sucks that you have to think that far ahead because there's a problem with how the message board software works. The same thing happens on the blog comments...if you don't get the myserious captcha right, it discards what you typed. which is a lame way to have things set up.

[1Y]

I can haul from az to El Paso, maybe midland around the goodguys fall show.

[Mater]

It's also possible to type it off line, do a "Copy", then open the thread on BS and drop it in there. At least, it works with a MAC and I'm pretty sure it will with a PC.

Dan

on long posts or updates in my threads that's how i do it open up a MS word type it in that then copy/past into the thread copy again then hit send if it get's eaten i can just past it and try to post

[TheSilverBuick]

yeah, it works with a PC, but it sucks that you have to think that far ahead because there's a problem with how the message board software works. The same thing happens on the blog comments...if you don't get the myserious captcha right, it discards what you typed. which is a lame way to have things set up.

I've always had perfect luck with clicking "back" and what I've typed still being there. On the blog comments anyways, batting about zero when that happens on the forum.

The V8Buick forum has a nifty auto-save feature that if you pause typing for a couple seconds it flashes "auto-saved" on the bottom right and then warns you if you are about to click off the page without hitting send or if it errors out clicking 'back' works.

[squirrel]

I've always had perfect luck with clicking "back" and what I've typed still being there. On the blog comments anyways

the blog got me yesterday...