Benham Custom Snowboards

I found this wakeboard in  a local boardshop for a great deal, thanks Hiddenwave! It has TONS of rocker and no fins. It 144cm long and 15.5" wide at the waist! The board is mostly wood core and is super stiff. I took 3" out of the tail, drilled and epoxied in a couple of inserts to fit my snowboard bindings and cut the swallow-tail in.

This is the most fun I have ever had on a snowboard. Ever. My first run was down from 7th Heaven up at Stevens Pass and it was awesome. Its really stable and fast, and yes its very "surfy" feeling. Big slashy turns! No offense "snowboarding industry" but you should really still make something like this, my 2010 Burton Custom 165cm wide is now on Craigslist.

Interior goodies

I took the hotrod down to Ocean Shores for some clam digging and got to work on the list of problems I ran into:
A weld on my crazy shifter broke and I had to pull the cable by hand from Everett there and back to shift. Got rid of the wierd linkage by just mounting the cable under the lever to keep the throw reversed. Rebuilt the entire frame out of angle-iron, much cleaner. Still needs paint.
Still have some major leaks, its fine when I'm driving but the car just can't sit in the rain or it fills up with water. Both from the door sills and the windshield header seal. In Tacoma on the way back enough water got into the multi-function switch (high/low beam, turn signal, wipers, tail lights) that it started smoking and melted some plastic around a terminal. I got it unplugged before anything really bad happened. Ford had a recall on this switch anyhow, I've seen several with the same terminal slightly burned, just too much amperage running through the same connector. I moved all this wiring down to the dash and put it on toggle switches, starter and everything.