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« on: October 07, 2021, 10:49:49 AM »
So, after reading a few articles, it appears she's had a few helo squadron commands, and a couple vessel commands. It is strange that a rotor head is going to be commanding a CVN. I could see her commanding an amphib assault carrier, due to their primarily rotor wing complement. I think this goes back to her being an academy grad from '94. That was the first class graduating to allow women in "combat / aviation" roles. She may be squared away in her career, but I tend to agree with this being politically motivated. We'll see what happens. I wish her luck.
I commend you on your attitude
I (having no irons in the fire) think there were probably a bunch of better candidates. When it comes to command of something this big, and often ordered smack into the middle of some pretty touchy situations (Isn't a carrier battle group hovering near Taiwan at the moment??)I'd want as seasoned a commander as we can produce whether it be man or woman, black white or blue, old or young, tall or short, hairy or bald. None of that would matter as long as the selectee had a history of getting things right. No allowance for politics whatsoever.
Don't forget we had to lower the standards to create this equality. so by definition she must exceed the standards to break even with her male counterparts. There IS a better candidate, probably several. anyone getting the senator from GI Jane vibes here? My AWACS flying buddy that was on the Lincoln for years would be s'ing frisbees right now. I'm sure she's very good, just like the affirmative action hires that took up space in my engineering department when better candidates were available...
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« on: October 05, 2021, 05:07:33 PM »
Update: I have been using the stock transmission tuning now for weeks, driving 4-5 times a week.
The shift out of first now happens almost immediately so the hard shift that used to be there is almost gone.
But
When I use the towing mode that shift rises to a higher MPH and again, sadly, shifts hard to very hard
So I am putting a stop to all that. This week John at SS Transmissions is installing a rebuilt valve body with the Sonnax shift improver kit installed.
Everyone who uses that shift kit loves it. The Trans-Go kit is absolutely NOT THE WAY TO GO! I guess it works well for sled pullers or drag racers or people who just don't care (The type who run "Rollin-coal tunes" or with no mufflers, you know, those without brains) but 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999% of everyone else likes the Sonnax stuff.
Nuff said, that thing will be a part of the Burb's DNA as of Friday, this week.
Moving ahead, the truck still feels like it has very little power. Granted, that is due in part to having 37" tires, and part to being heavy, but 600 horsepower ought to do something. After a conversation with John, he feels the fault lies heavily with the converter.
So I called Monster transmission to talk that through. In a nutshell, the converter I have in the truck is all wrong for this application. It is rated for around 350HP, has a higher stall than factory and is more or less light duty.
My heavy truck needs a lower stall converter, not a higher stall converter. It also needs to accommodate a lot more power, like the later diesel converters handling thousands of ft/lbs of power. After some discussion, I learned that the converter I am using will break or has broken and simply is overloaded in every area.
They agreed to build me a fully customized billet converter with triple discs, anti ballooning welding and plates, and all the good stuff. They will warranty it for years to handle in excess of 900 HP.
So for $1299, I placed my order
https://www.monstertransmission.com/-GM-Chevrolet-4L80E-Diesel-Torque-Converter--Thor-HEAVY-HAMMER--Level-2_p_16586.html
Been selling to those guys for years, even trained their phone team on diff parts at one time. Good folks.
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« on: September 28, 2021, 01:50:02 PM »
Whats the green stuff?
in CA, pot's legal, grass aint, lol
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« on: September 28, 2021, 01:06:29 PM »
I'm on a Robert Trent Jones course and have a guest room, just sayin. looks like fun My morning will be spent as a volunteer for the korn ferry stage 1 qualifing school.
For those that may not know, the korn ferry tournament is the precursor to the pga. Unless you are so good that you get a major sponsor, all pga hopefuls must go thru yhe qualifying school, make the actual korn ferry tour and hope they score well enough to get their pga card.
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« on: September 27, 2021, 12:17:11 PM »
1. Leave the world better than you found it when you woke up. 2. Make someone else’s day better. 3. Be better than I was the day before.
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Great to see you around, thank you for this 1. Leave the world better than you found it when you woke up. 2. Make someone else’s day better. 3. Be better than I was the day before.
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« on: September 27, 2021, 12:12:57 PM »
Yes sir. It’s a MPFI Vortec 454. I can almost make it from one gas station to the next!
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So I hear too, and they pull like a beast. Acually, I believe the 454 and 8.1 are still based on the same block.
same block different heads i believe. nice rig there. Gpa had the 98 ext long bed, loved that truck.
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« on: September 24, 2021, 04:25:13 PM »
smoked tomato ratatouille pappardelle with chicken thighs and roasted red pepper sauce
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« on: September 21, 2021, 01:22:19 PM »
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« on: September 21, 2021, 11:47:12 AM »
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« on: September 21, 2021, 11:42:33 AM »
3 dimensional drawing of a 1 dimensional object with lines and shading to give the appearance of multidimensional existence, when in reality, it's just a drawing.
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« on: September 15, 2021, 05:29:44 PM »
Too bad you don't know any good welders 
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« on: September 10, 2021, 05:09:51 PM »
He looks like a man Don. Well done.
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« on: September 09, 2021, 02:04:38 PM »
Yuk Dave. might have only been sucking air at WOT too, unless you tested for that... sorry man.
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« on: September 09, 2021, 01:38:15 PM »
"Crows" and whitetail are like rabbits out here. no one on the golf course side would shed a tear if they all wound up in my freezer. 3-4 dozen a night wander into the school ball field and eat the nice grass, on the golf course side, they jump our fence to eat the flower buds etc. but the Turkeys are like giant chickens; scratch and dig and uproot and crap everywhere.
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« on: September 08, 2021, 06:34:26 PM »
Made the girls and our houseguest scallops and poached pears with bourbon vanilla caramel.
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« on: September 08, 2021, 06:33:24 PM »
i am sad i was not there...
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« on: September 08, 2021, 06:32:49 PM »
woke up to these guys chilling on the back fence. season opens up soon.. just sayin'
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« on: September 08, 2021, 05:54:54 PM »
Eagle Point getting ready for the 9/11 memorial parade. Everywhere you look in this town has veterans memorials, it's very nice to see.
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« on: September 08, 2021, 05:29:30 PM »
Southern OR is pretty "us type guys" friendly, part of the reason we moved here. although the Kommie Kate laws have trickled down, so you can be flagrantly high as a kite in public and there's not much they can do about it. I'm not very big, but I can do a very deep booming Dad Style, HEY! when I need to. Had a tweaker start walking my way with my daughter and just yelled, "HEY, don't be bringing your crazy over this way!" Dude just about faced and started back towards the corner. had a guy come up to me later in the store and tell me they were packing and watching in case he didn't back down. I think we're about fed up here.
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« on: September 08, 2021, 10:00:00 AM »
And be prepared for an "interesting" ride if you ever have the need to limp it home in front wheel drive. ;-)
I have that T-shirt too 
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« on: September 07, 2021, 02:02:56 PM »
d60 spartan is nearly the size of a 14t grizzly. I wouldn't sweat it at all. with lockouts you'll be just fine. just make sure your driveline is well balanced.
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« on: September 01, 2021, 04:33:54 PM »
Happy birthday. I just have more experience than you lol
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Well Ryan, you might be one of the few exceptions...
HBD Shawn
I'll vouch for him. you know us PNW guys need "two deep validation" to be allowed here.
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« on: September 01, 2021, 11:08:28 AM »
So you’re two years younger than me Tate…… showing your age buddy. I turn 44 tomorrow
Happy Birthday man! I'm the last of Gen X, I guess why I feel so detached from the millennials even though I'm only a couple months away from being lumped in with those morons.
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« on: September 01, 2021, 10:10:07 AM »
That's a handy tool to have around. We have a couple of them. Somewhere.
Speaking of tools we lost a great man recently. He came round once a year selling tools and shop supplies. I always looked forward to his visits not only to see the latest and greatest but for great conversation. When he was overdue for our visit this year I started asking around and found his obituary. I know this isn't the prayer thread but say one for his family anyway.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/siouxcityjournal/name/todd-savary-obituary?pid=199980090
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Prayers sent. I've got two parts guys I've been dealing with since i was 16, in '96... not sure what i'll do when they retire let alone pass.
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« on: September 01, 2021, 10:08:52 AM »
Finally bought a cheetah style tire inflator. Tried it out on an old Hummer tire that deflated. I ran these on my old truck 20 years ago and had to use acetylene to mount them on 16.5s at the time. I had tried cheetahs and starting fluid with no success.
Only reason the tank worked this time is because the beads had memory.
ratchet strap and starting fluid. quit being a sissy Ken. those things are worth their weight in gold on those old bias ply swampers though.
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« on: August 31, 2021, 01:34:52 PM »
AMEN!
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« on: August 27, 2021, 03:45:36 PM »
Been there a couple times in the KUB/Dug, what a weird feeling, maybe like flying with you?
No more like when I was in my buddy's GTO and we had just cut a power pole in half and was rolling down a hill...At least that's what I was thinking at the moment
missed the pole, went about 5 yards into a freshly plowed cornfield, about 2 ft to the right of the irrigation canal. pretty sure we had the same buddy.
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« on: August 27, 2021, 01:38:15 PM »
I completely feel your pain on that. stupid beach house...
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« on: August 27, 2021, 01:12:37 PM »
Dang JR. How much have you paid that guy in total so far?
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"Having words with the Arch now, just got another bill for 1K and I have nothing yet and permits have been applied for twice." I think he was talking about the Architect JR
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« on: August 27, 2021, 12:16:36 PM »
Its nice here with just a tad of haze. Guess Tahoe basin is just socked in, events canceled and such.
0-50 air quality is normal. beijing avergages 38.6 which is considered polluted. we're at 139 today and hit 367 two weeks ago. couldn't see a half mile down the road. betting that's what Tahoe is like right now.
In the height of our smoke this year we were down to about 500 yards, was bad.
Light haze now so 1000% percent better.
I'm not a fan of the eerie orange when it gets that thick.
you mean the "blood-red end of the world looking sunset stuff"? no, me neither.
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« on: August 27, 2021, 10:57:28 AM »
Its nice here with just a tad of haze. Guess Tahoe basin is just socked in, events canceled and such.
0-50 air quality is normal. beijing avergages 38.6 which is considered polluted. we're at 139 today and hit 367 two weeks ago. couldn't see a half mile down the road. betting that's what Tahoe is like right now.
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« on: August 26, 2021, 10:38:05 AM »
Trash night, look at the ash inside this box that was under a cover in the back!
I hear you JR. Been using the leaf blower to dust the cars so the morning dew doesn't get the ash wet on the paint. nothing like a little lye to spruce up a clearcoat.
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« on: August 23, 2021, 02:01:48 PM »
Went over to a friend's place last night. Had some good eats.  
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Was your friend's place in FL John?? looks like good eats to me.
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« on: August 18, 2021, 06:11:00 PM »
Reference how many of them actually renounced their citizenship and moved to Canada when Trump was elected. SMDH
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« on: August 17, 2021, 02:39:54 PM »
duuuuuuuuuuuude...
which part.....lol
yes.
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« on: August 17, 2021, 01:47:49 PM »
duuuuuuuuuuuude...
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« on: August 16, 2021, 05:45:09 PM »
that's fantastic news Don.
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« on: August 16, 2021, 02:04:17 PM »
freshly laid gravel is like freshly cut lawn. i don't know what it is in my brain, but that just looks satisfying. nice work
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« on: August 13, 2021, 01:42:16 PM »
The one thing that I would question is fuel pressure. Probably a lean condition. Since it wasn't backfiring before, something changed. Tuning usually doesn't change, and I can't tell you how many GM application fuel pumps I've warrantied lately, no matter the brand. They're ALL junk...Denso, Delco, Spectre, Carter, etc. If the pumps aren't failing, the dang level sensors are.
That being said, I don't remember if you put in a race pump or not.
That's not it ken.
I have a "Race/forced induction" fuel system in there. It has large lines and two very high capacity fuel pumps. One for normal and the second kinks in above 7psi fuel pressure.
And here's another thing
Since I had it supercharged, that was the first time I ever stuck my foot into the throttle that far for that long. I just don't hot rod around all that much
underperforming injectors maybe?
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« on: August 12, 2021, 05:57:34 PM »
it's a little concerning when most the wiring is green red and black and white and you ask, which of the 3 black wires goes with the white one?
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« on: August 12, 2021, 11:00:30 AM »
I do miss the salt... glad you guys had a good time.
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« on: August 06, 2021, 06:04:27 PM »
manually adjustable rancho 5000 for wheelin' = fantastic. all other rancho, = garbage
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« on: August 04, 2021, 11:15:53 AM »
I broke the ring Tate was mentioning on the pass side of my rear grizzly....no idea how I broke it. I just whipped up two new ones out of tool steel and its back to working as it should. Probably should have took pics...
it's about the only thing you can break, and it's really only under a heavy shock load
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« on: August 03, 2021, 06:46:12 PM »
For the record I was in favor of Shawn carrying a spare.
Tate it did buck in a straight line a couple times. Other than putting it in the grass and seeing if it spins in both how would I test it? And what all is involved if I have to replace that part?
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pull from the housing, split the case in half, swap the broken small rings out which are outboard and easy to get to with unbroken ones and install is reverse of removal. pretty straight forward wet grass is honestly a good test, w/ two buddies so no one has to stand behind it.
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« on: August 03, 2021, 05:21:00 PM »
So question for @eltate do you think any damage was done to the grizzly driving it for that long with mismatched tires?
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if it starts bucking in a straight line, you broke the clutch hold out ring. otherwise it's pretty tough. you can remove it making the action much more aggressive, like serious off road action, or I can send you a new set, either way. if it drove normal after you put the same size tire on it, you're probably fine.
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« on: July 30, 2021, 06:02:14 PM »
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« on: July 30, 2021, 12:13:52 PM »
Good thing you didn’t have to mow the lawn, never know where that zero turn would have ended up
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That will never not make me chuckle.
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« on: July 29, 2021, 12:03:52 PM »
This company here is violating their sales agreement with Banks Performance buy selling products below market price, it will be fixed by Saturday!
https://performancetruckproducts.com/
Discount code Banks10
But I took advantage of their mistakes which I don’t know What happens after but I saved $160 bucks on my order which gave me my ram air, I dash, pedal monster, derringer program thingy, for $1400
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It's happening all over the internet with the huge demand in truck and car parts. Companies are racing to the bottom on the lowest price bid to compete w/ Amazon to get the sale while cutting their throats in the same breath. I deal with it daily. Just ask Seth, half my stuff you can get on Amazon for less than i can manufacture it because they don't care about losing $$ on items because they make it hand over fist in subscriptions. point being, if Amazon is the seller, and it's several hundred under whatever everyone else is selling it for, buy it. might not ship, but if it does their loss and your gain. i can't win with forcing them to adjust MAP agreed upon pricing, so I'm letting people know about it so they get hosed in the margins. maybe after a while they'll see the losses add up...
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« on: July 28, 2021, 03:48:10 PM »
About the time the carp start getting things in control the herons will move in and well no more fish.. and the darn things are protected.
in the PNW someone might see and care. in the Tuck... what Heron.
Funny looking turkey…..oh well, drop it in the fryer.
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Man these drumsticks is skinny!
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« on: July 28, 2021, 12:40:11 PM »
Call tater and get one of the.lube locker gaskets they sell. You will not be disappointed.
WISH I had them for the trans pan. get calls all the time...
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