Got the jeep fixed today, this is what I sent my friends:
Ok here's the details from the last couple days of our trip home: friday morning after 4 hours of driving the alternator in the truck seized up and caught fire, 20° outside in tonopah nevada, drove the jeep 2 hours to bishop california to the closest parts store, headed back, and spent 3 hours installing parts and trying to get the truck jump started after sitting in the cold for 11 hours. Hit the road at about 8pm, drove 2 hours slept for 3, started yesterday morning at 1am and drove till we were just outside of oakridge OR, coming down the hwy 58 pass, the tow bar broke loose from the jeep and it started to move into the oncoming lane, I slowed the truck into the jeep and eased it to the side, tried to just drive the remaining 2 hours but somehow the jeep broke an axle shaft, call my brother and he brings a trailer, load the jeep on, start the truck and it starts screaming like a banshee, the starter was going out and the a/c pump was fried and seized solid. At that point we unloaded the jeep, limped it into oakridge for the night and used the trailer to get the truck home, went back this morning for the jeep, we are home, truck is already fixed, glad to be out of the woods. been a very stressful last month and a half!
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