Busco Beach in NC, April 7-9 2017

[Deedeelin1]

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[ARGOJIM]

With a few hours on it now the chains probably need adjusting, or could be a stick down in the tub or stuck in the tracks or loose lug nut.
Hope Kris feels better soon.

[john swenson]

anymore busco video mike coming up for our viewing pleasure ? johnboy

[Mike]

I have been working on the footage off and on. I wanted to create something special this time since it's been so long since my last video so I'm putting more time in it than usual. Sorry for the delay but hopefully it will be worth it.

[john swenson]

thanks mike for your efforts.......sounds exciting, you always do a super job. like many others, i watch them over and over again. j.b.

[scott8x8]

I like watching them also Johnboy.
I finally met the young lady in the old video, riding the blue max 2 and using a stick to row. I was wondering what happened to some of the folks from the old videos I had not met in our last few meetings.
Hope in the fall we can see everyone there.

[Deedeelin1]

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[Mike]

Are the lug nuts loose? Are the studs or wheels damaged?

[Deedeelin1]

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[Mike]

I had something similar happen to my Max IV. In my case, I could get the nuts off but the studs were just a little too big for the holes in the wheel, causing me not to be able to get them off. I knocked the tire, kicked them, hit them with a sledge hammer, etc. and they wouldn't budge. I finally had to use a grinder to grind the studs off so I could get the wheels off. It was not fun. Good luck.

[Noel Woods]

It's for those reasons that I use acorn style lug nuts. I saturate the studs before I put the acorns on, then put some lube inside the acorns then install. Since I switched to this technique a few years back, have not had these problems anymore.

Swamps are a very corrosive environment and everything we can do to put off the rust and make the parts last longer, the machines will go that much more.

[tbone9]

Good idea. I always use anti seize and never had a problem but I like the acorn nut idea.

[scott8x8]

Ralph, is that what was making the noise you heard at Busco?

[Deedeelin1]

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[john swenson]

deedee, i just realized the helmet thing you were talking about. i put it in your ox the morn i left. ( you were still snoozing !! ).i think it was dan that said it was left in his ox, and thought it was john or scotts. since you were the closest to them, i dropped it off. if it's not theirs, i don't know whose it is. busco mystery !!!! johnboy. p.s. keep at those lug nut's.