BigSilverCat

I was posting in another thread about towing in the winter and I will add the pics and posts here so stuff later in the thread will make sense if someone is reading it.
I am headed to Salt lake city to put the engines back in and test the boat.

I have made it across Kansas, through part of Colorado and now in the mountains in Wyoming. Trailer is still mostly black, except for the snow on it.

BigSilverCat

Leaving laramie wyoming towards Salt lake city. The trailer is still black and did not rust away over night which is good because it would probably be hard to find a trailer for a 50' skater in wyoming. It snowed over night so the roads will be covered in salt. It will be warm enough that it will be slush getting thrown all over the boat and trailer. So it will probably look like hell by the time I get there.

BigSilverCat

The roads were a little dryer then I thought they would be so it defiantly did not get as bad as it could have. The trailer pulled a Michael Jackson on us and turned grey from black. #blacktrailersmatter.

Note: the ceramic pro coating made the boat slick enough that the dirt pretty much blew off it while I was running. I think I will put it on the trailer when I get home. (shameless plug, #sendmesomematerialformytrailer)

BigSilverCat

When I was driving towards SLC I started calling truck washes to see if anyone would be open, There was only one that was open and it was going to close at 4 pm and not open till tuesday. It was 9:36 am and my gps said I was 6 hours away. I ask them if they were going to stop washing at 4 or stop the line from adding up at 4. They said if I was in line by 4 that they would wash it. Keep in mind the gps is figuring on speed you would run in a car, not a Freighliner hauling a big boat through the mountains. So I started driving as fast as I could knowing it would slow down going up hills and I would have to make up that time going down hills. I did not stop for lunch, pulled into one truck stop and put in a little fuel as quick as I could to make sure I would make it. While I was driving I called everywhere trying to find a manual car wash that a semi would fit in and could not find anywhere to wash it if I did not make it in time. I ended up calling a guy that I have never met that lives in SLC that is having a new Skater built and was asking him if he knew of any car washes it would fit in. He said there were not any but to just bring it to his house and he has warm water hose hookup and brushes, boat soap, ect. . He said he likes cleaning boats and that he would help me wash it. So I kept trying to make it to the truck wash so we would not have to spend new years eve in the cold washing the boat.

After some pretty insane driving I make it to the truck wash at 3:48 pm and they had yellow caution tape across the entrance and closed signs in the driveway. I went in and talked to them and they said they had told me that so to go ahead and pull around. They washed it and I gave each of the guys in there a tip for staying. They did a good job on the truck (because thats what they do) but did not get the trailer and boat as good as I wanted so I headed over to the Guy that is building a new Skaters house to touch up the trailer and make sure I get the tilt mechanism and air bag suspension system and leveling brackets good because it would be bad if that stuff rusted. When I get there he has hoses strung out to the street a wash bucket with soap and water and brushes ready. He starts scrubbing the trailer and I was following him rinsing it. He is laying on the ground scrubbing the bottom of the trailer and axles, ect. ( keep in mind I have never met him before and its cold and dark out on new years eve, this is what Skater guys do for people) We got it all washed and it looks new again. The trailer is still black again and did not rust away. So to the original question in the post, yes you can haul in the winter, just clean it good when you stop.

BigSilverCat

Here is a video of leaving Wyoming on the way.

BigSilverCat

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That ^^^^ is a monster tow!

BigSilverCat

We have the engines in the boat and have ran it on the hose, we will be testing int tomorrow (friday)
Industrial Injection has a shop big enough for the boat to fit, that was pretty handy.

Here is a dyno chart of the tune we will start with testing tomorrow. Its the lowest tune we have and if all goes well then we will start turning it up.

BigSilverCat

After calling around and trying to decide which lake would not be frozen that is close by so we do not have to haul it all the way to powell or havasu we find a little lake that for some reason has not froze over yet. Normally this time of year it would already be froze over but tonight the water temp is still 40'. It does not make any sense because it is actually up in the mountains a few thousand feet higher then salt lake city is and the lakes right by salt lake city are froze over where people are walking across them.

The lake is Jordanelle reservoir. It is a little lake up in the mountains but has enough water to do some basic testing.

There are ski slopes right next to the lake, that will make some cool pictures, having the boat running with people on the ski slope in the background. Can you imagine if you were sking and see a boat go by on the lake right below you, they will definitely think were crazy.

There are live web cams at the ramp that look over the lake. I will be going back and forth in front of the ramp tomorrow (Friday Jan 5) probably around 10 - 11 A.M. Here is a link to the cameras.

https://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/jo...nt-conditions/

TylerBurich

Tyson, I have been using a combination of Fluid Film and WD40 sprayed out of a pump up garden sprayer for corrosion resistance due to salted roads here in Illinois. I basically spray it on the entire underneath of my Jeep daily driver. You could use it on the mechanical and uncoated parts of your trailer for the return trip home. Good luck with the testing!