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A generator is not a thing of beauty in that setting. (LOL) Out in the desert we argue over propane stove (my good friend) vs. old fashioned gas pump stove and lantern.

Leslie I gotta wonder is that bear country? I made the mistake of reading a book about bear attacks last year. Never realized just how really stupid I have been on so many occasions.

Speaking of Syracuse, this place, Destiny Motorsports are really good people and fixed us up with fresh tires and oil changes on both bikes before we arrived at Lake George last summer.



This is a nice little shop on the North side, near the fairgrounds,



Paul, yes the M170 was Korean war era, and up into Vietnam, just before the "Colonel Killer" (the air cooled motor with Independant suspension, VERY prone to roll over,hence the name). So the M170 was equal to, I think it was, CJ8. They are just 14 inches longer, with the spare mounted beside and a little behind the passenger. That leaves two bench seats, (really the rear fender wells) with room for two (remember the spare) on the passenger side, facing 3 sitting behind the driver, both sides facing the middle. 55 mph is just about all it will do, but the motor had so few miles on it when I got it that I couldn't bear the thought of messing it up. This one in the pictures, (now my brothers) was a 1963 vintage, and spent its entire military life at the Marine Depot at 29 Palms here locally. The corps overhauled the engine when it had only 24,000 miles, (probably primarily for training) but the rebuild was done without the 'Pawl nuts' which are lock nuts on the connecting rods. The inevitable happened, a rod came unbolted, busted a rod, and the military sold it at surplus. I don't remember what I had to give, but it was what I thought was an awful lot, (but I was not successful bidder on a couple before this) and I paid something like $1,000. This was in 1975 or 1976. My brother supplied another rod, seat frames, a windshield, spare and spare rack, and I paid to have the crank turned. I ran a light hone thru the bores and didn't even replace the rings. My biggest problem was always distributor caps, which are bizarre things that fit inside the waterproof housing as it is all sealed for fording. The caps are prone to cracking and are a frequent source of misfires. It has the shielded, (you screw it all together) ignition wires and plugs like you see on aircraft, again for fording, and a royal PITA to work with.