A man's fancy turns to ... HUPs!
The day started off somewhat gloomy, but it quickly heated up at the barn. This was the first weekend where the mosquitoes showed up in force. Grant and I figure that we knocked off at least two air wings each of the nasty little pests.
Grant worked over a set of 20 inch rims, Bob fulfiled his honeydo list and I played with the HUP in preparation for its roll out scheduled for today. A quick check of of the cooling system and some electrical trouble shooting, later, the HUP fired up. I still need to connect the vacuum lines and do some general lubrication and tightening, but the engine sounded OK. I have some excessive rattling in the head, but everything else seems to work alright.
Bob heard the HUP's purring and joined us for the event. Unfortunately, I forgot my camcorder, but Bob captured part of the event on his digital camera. The video can be seen here:
http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=HPIM8909.flv
"Whoo-hoo" sums it up for me. Grant and I then headed out to lunch at Mike's Place in Hammond. After lunch, I recruited Bob to do some gorilla welding. He was kind enough to weld my POW cans onto the arse of the HUP. I must say, the old girl is starting to look like her factory photos. Thanks to Bob for the welding and to Grant for the assist in getting the HUP on the road.
The rest of the afternoon was spent fiddling with the 20 inch rims, some general puttering around and chatting about upcoming road trips. Bob and Grant are hitting the road tomorrow for a secret rendezvous somewhere north of the city...all will be revealed.
It was a great HUP-Day at the barn. After leaving some grafitti on the barn doors, I headed back to the city for dinner and a boys night in for hockey.