Today marks the official, One Week Out from the beginning of the 2021 Cross Country Chase! I’ve made a few adjustments on the Servi Car and ordered up a few maintenance items that I feel will give me some peace of mind during The Chase. I’ve experimented with getting my tire pressure where I like it along with fiddling around with my transmission shift linkage. I determined that my original shift lever lower pivot hole is worn to oversized now causing changes in fully engaging third gear and reverse. I am taking a new repop with me in case I decide to change it during the event. I also performed a full tank to bone dry run and discovered that my range is 65 miles to reserve and then reserve gives me another 20 miles. Of course that will fluctuate depending on my riding style for that day. I rode hard that day and hope to be able to run a little more leisurely on The Chase. That should help with my fuel range a bit. I also did another wet run during Tropical Storm Claudette just to see if any electrical gremlins showed up. We’ve had tremendous amounts of rain across the state this June that I’ve had to spend so much spare time keeping all of the grass around the house and pasture cut. I am finishing up packing the Servi Car, the truck and trailer this week and plan giving the grass another go before leaving sometime Saturday afternoon and arriving in Cape Girardeau on Sunday the 4th for tech inspections.