As many of you may have heard in email form, we're officially off. We're also officially bogged down with our first (and probably not last) mechanical problem.
The automatic transmission stopped working right as we were coming down over the Richmond bridge on the 580. It would stick in the lowest gear, meaning top speed was 30mph with the engine fired up to 5,000+ rpms. Luckily pulling off and putting it in Park for a minute seemed to reset it and we were not forced to drive the back roads of Richmond at high volume and low speed. So, in the intersts of not being stranded down the line, we're going to have it looked at here in the Bay where we know some mechanics and have places to crash.
There will be some updates to the website over the next few days as I should have pretty steady access. We've got photos of how the truck was set up and we should also get some content going from the other buddies as well.
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