We’ve done this show a few times now and this was the first time we got poured on with sap. The oak trees in the industrial park dropped so much sap you could see it.

We arrived at the entrance line up around 6:30a, that would be considered late for some of the attendees. I heard guys were arriving at 4:30am and parking at the Chevron gas station waiting to stage up.

Once we got in we got waved to park parallel, I immediately started setting up our canopy in an area that was ideal for our home base.

We seem to get lucky when it comes to ideal parking spots at shows. I brought my Segway knowing that the Main Street walk would be tough once it became,e hotter.

It was another great experience at C10 Intervention. The day seems to go by some quicker each time we attend.

Upon initial investigation the original crack that was repaired twice failed again.

This is due to poor procedure and not using the proper welding application. The current weld is MIG and this type of aluminum repair requires the TIG method.

I’ve made arrangements to have the rim repaired again. This time by another service. I wasn’t going to burn any more money on

Since we were leaving a day early taking off super early wasn’t necessary, or so it would seem.

Somewhere on the outskirts of Stockton, California we hit a piece of metal that sliced into the side of the tire. This caused a leak that eventually caused a blowout on highway 99 Freeway.

Thanks to the wifey she located a replacement 255/30/22 custom tire and a road service company willing to do the work.

After a couple hours we were back on the road heading down to SoCal. Now time and darkness was not on our side. It was not my idea of a good ride driving through the desert in the darkness of nightfall.

We did eventually make it to our hotel and walked over to the local Dennys for some dinner. The CaDually made it throughout the flat tire ordeal.

I’ll bag the canopy and chairs the next day. Depending how close the next show is I may or may not setup the demo rack in the shop.

If you look closely you can see the “Manetarium” sign on the shop outside shop wall. It has held well throughout the years.

Turned out the 6 leafs can be fairly damn heavy. I will be taking it apart tomorrow and duplicate the configuration I currently have. I should have used penetrating oil and let it set overnight but I forgot to do that.

Taking apart the replacement leaf spring stack was straight forward. I did have a bit of concern that there would be a small amount of energy while being in the same position.

While going down interstate 5 the CaDually snapped a driver side spring.

From the photo you can see that the upper leaf spring snapped in the area where the U bolt is secured to the axle.

Tonight I sprayed PBlaster on the bolts and nuts so I can break it free tomorrow. I’m hoping to be able to reuse the U-bolts again if these are not in too bad of shape.

We get to the venue so early we beat the organizer and the volunteers.

This was a cool event to be at. We had a straight view of the main stage and able to watch the old school bands perform all day.