Well, whadyaknow?
It's done - and with time to spare, no less.
Which means I've got 19 days before WOS to figure out what I've overlooked . . .
Let me pose this bit of coincidence with the hope it doesn't return ironic.
One of Mark's faster customers has Sprite Midget Race Series Spridget that simply crushed the series last year - COVID notwithstanding - and I understand he's spent time on the podium this summer as well.
Mark called in a favor, and his customer loaned me a 4:55 open diff - so I now have a 4:55 gearset between my axles.
I'm headed to WOS loaded for bear with the 4:22 and the 4:55 gearsets, 2 - 20.75 diameter tires and the original 22.5 tires.
Mark put it pretty succinctly - "I want you take along every possibility for success".
I mentioned coincidence/irony earlier.
The loaner of the differential - to whom I owe a debt of gratitude - is a fellow named John Salisbury.
Can't make that up.
Crew is going to be a bit lighter than I had hoped. My dad has backed out, although he will be our crewchief in Absentia - which is a suburb in eastern Iowa.
Sadly, Mark is staying home as well. I think he's afraid I might have him help me change out pumpkins.
So it's just me, Kate and Nick.
Got to retrieve the trailer this week.
