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Shops Garages and Barns / Re: My first garage!
« on: January 10, 2016, 10:49:19 PM »
Had to look at the lines in the siding on the house. Assuming they are level, that'll kinda get your eyes uncrossed. Surely looks like a sump until you do that.

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: Korean Junk
« on: January 03, 2016, 08:24:45 PM »
I guess I can help throw this further off track. :D

I believe unions were a good thing and did some good in the beginning of their existence. Just like most other organizations they went like government programs do and got abused. I have worked as a scab in places with union contractors on the same site. The junk we put up with finally boiled over when tools started falling around us that they were throwing. That all ended with a confrontation in the parking lot. They worked 30 minutes longer than we did because of their lunch break. They also could not walk across the street to the parking lot and had to be bussed over there. Put 3 or 4 angry rednecks at each exit of that yellow thing and y'all can imagine how that turned out. To say the least my experience with unions have not been pleasant. That was almost 20 years ago. I like to think that my reaction would be different now, but I ain't real sure.


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Firearms / Re: Gun Control Executive Order
« on: January 02, 2016, 10:30:55 PM »
That's the first I've seen of that guy, but he sure got my blood boiling watching that.

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I'm with you on that one brother. I had a lot of examples of what not to do and didn't find a good example until I was in my 20s. I learned a lot the hard way. We all have that responsibility as men to be that example to someone even if it ain't our own kids.

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Faith Discussion / Re: Urgent Prayer Request
« on: January 01, 2016, 10:52:47 AM »
Done!

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Topside Creeper
« on: December 31, 2015, 04:00:21 PM »
I looked at them when I pulled that junk off my truck. I was too tight to spend the money. My back and ribs would have probably thanked me if I had spent the extra money.

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: Korean Junk
« on: December 31, 2015, 10:23:48 AM »
Ras,  which dealer are you dealing with?  Sounds like they are worth a plug.

This is the kind of service you get when people are building a brand. Let's hope they never get "too big to fail"
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Gay Family Kia, on 45 service road just north of Galveston. As I'm sure you know they have several brands in that location. I read a few bad things from people complaining about some sales tactics, but the service I have received is 1st class. They dealt with me like they had known me forever. I even met and briefly talked to the mechanic that would be performing the work.

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: Korean Junk
« on: December 30, 2015, 09:24:58 PM »
Sorry to interrupt this highly intelligent exchange, but I have an update.

I got in this morning and picked up the rental car on their dime. When I got to the dealer I got more good news. Replacement long block has been approved. They didn't ask for any service records or anything else. Then it got better. The dealer has the engine in stock and will start on it tomorrow. I told him it wasn't really too much rush. I'm not driving all the way down there just to pick up the car. I go back out next Wednesday and will pick it up on my way in 2 weeks from today. I will pick up the rental here and drop it back off in Galveston. I'm really happy with the service. Hopefully all goes well on the exchange. He asked about them driving it and I told him to let the mechanic bring it home all week and make sure everything was good.

Now that that's done you two can carry on.

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Hide Site / Re: Hide site, retirement site.
« on: December 30, 2015, 09:16:00 PM »
Nice! Looks great.

Now I have to get after that big pile of oak logs and split it all up.

Do you use a maul or hydraulic? I got a Fiskars X27 splitting maul for Christmas, I'm itchin' to get out and see how it works.

That is the best manual splitting tool I have used. I am sure you will like it.

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: Korean Junk
« on: December 29, 2015, 03:18:01 PM »
I don't think anyone is questioning your rudeness. By now we expect nothing less than the full D.O.T. treatment from you.  ;D

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: Korean Junk
« on: December 29, 2015, 07:58:47 AM »
I have to agree about GM service at most places I have been. Apparently front diff seals are supposed to leak on new trucks, and trucks are designed and built to pull really hard to the right. I finally got them to cover both of those, but only after elevated blood pressure and a couple high volume conversations.

 So far I could not have gotten better service on the Kia. It aint over so we will see how it turns out.

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Korean Junk
« on: December 28, 2015, 11:54:57 PM »
At this point I am ashamed to admit that I own one of Don's favorite vehicles, a Kia Optima. I bought it new in March of 2012 after totaling the wife's other ride. I was in a bit of a rush and did not research it much. It was a little over $20k for a nicely equipped car (leather, power seat, push button start and a few other do-dads that I still ain't figured out what they are for). Up until last Wednesday it had gone 49,321 absolutely trouble free miles. When I started driving 370 miles for my week long trips to work we decided it would be best to drive the car that got double the fuel mileage (35 highway) and cost half as much to replace and leave the dually for my wife to run around in locally. I was about 20 miles from my destination when the trouble started. I was accelerating to merge onto the highway. The thing started making all kind of racket. The mechanic side of my brain said "boy that ain't good". The employee side said "you just gotta make it there in time to get on that helicopter". The freeway ended shortly and I pulled into a parts store. I got out and checked the oil because it sounded like it would if it had all run out. Oil level was fine and really clean on the dipstick. I made it to my destination and did some more checking and got a coworker to look at it too. We saw nothing loose or jumping around other than the entire engine. I looked up and called the nearest dealer. I was informed that I was still under the road hazard warranty so they would tow it to the nearest dealer at no cost to me. I informed the service writer that I would be back on dry land in 7 days and would not need transportation until then. Fast forward to today when they got it in the shop. With Christmas being Friday I expected that. I got a voicemail that there was trouble in the bottom end of the engine and it would need to be replaced. After a few hours of phone  tag I finally spoke to them. I was told that during the inspection they noted the inside of the top end was absolutely spotless, no gunk buildup at all. When they drained the oil it was clean. When they dropped the oil pan the bottom end was really clean as well except for some metal shavings. The #1 and #2 rod bearings had spun. I change the oil around every 5000 miles and have run Mobil  1 filter and synthetic oil since new. He said they could tell it was maintained because of how clean it was internally. A claim has been made that has to go up the line for approval. He informed me that this had happened to several of these 4 cylinder engines in Kias and Hyundais. Apparently they think they got a bad batch of bearings at the engine assembly plant at some point. Not sure yet about availability of a replacement. Some of them are on 4 to 5 week back order, but not sure if this is one of them. I will say that even though this is frustrating and disappointing, the customer service from the dealership has been great. He made several attempts to call me back during our game of phone tag. They are providing a rental car for me to get home that I will turn in locally. Kia covers 3 days of rental but I really just need to get home. 370 miles is a long way to walk and my rear fenders would probably not make it here with the rest of my truck if the wife had to come get me. All this is covered under warranty, but it don't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about this car. They cover power train to 100k. I don't see me keeping it past that for sure.

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Firearms / Re: My son's M4 Cristmas gun build
« on: December 28, 2015, 08:48:13 AM »
The wife might have a different point of view
Build her one. Then she'll want another one.

That might work. It has to be "her" idea though. Gotta figure out a way for her to say she wants one and then jump on it quick. Mine told me she wanted another pistol to keep in a cabinet by the back door. The next day I bought 2. It was her idea so everything was fine.

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Firearms / Re: My son's M4 Cristmas gun build
« on: December 27, 2015, 10:24:45 PM »
I have color coded mags, just not the guns yet. Might work on that when I start doing some cerakote.

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Firearms / Re: My son's M4 Cristmas gun build
« on: December 27, 2015, 10:02:00 PM »
^^AMEN^^

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Firearms / Re: Cerakote for the 1911
« on: December 27, 2015, 09:13:24 PM »
I have read the bake on stuff has shelf life of about 1 year after opening. It kinda makes sense that the air dry would be shorter. I would like to do a couple 4 or 5 color camo pattern rifles. The smallest bottle is 4 ounces, so like you I would have inough for a small armory ow weapons. Might have to get a few guys together and do a bunch after I play with it a little.

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Humor, Good Stuff, and Red Neck Practices! / Re: An Anthropological Primer
« on: December 27, 2015, 09:06:44 PM »
I did not put that up to be taken factual at all. I thought it was funny. That's why I put it in the humor section. I don't drink beer, or any alcohol for that matter, and I will eat sushi every now and then so I don't fit that conservative definition exactly either.

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Firearms / Re: My son's M4 Cristmas gun build
« on: December 27, 2015, 08:57:27 PM »
Chop chop. I want to see the eagle eye shots from the boy.
I'm just excited is all.  I want to built another

Raising boys into RealMen!!

I think we tried to warn you about that problem.

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Firearms / Re: Cerakote for the 1911
« on: December 27, 2015, 08:55:15 PM »
That looks real good from here boss. Nice job. I'm sure, like most of us, you are your own worst critic.

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Ammo & Reloading / Re: Enjoying my Christmas present from the wife.
« on: December 27, 2015, 12:15:49 PM »
I really like the work station. I need to put something together like that to organize some of my junk.

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Humor, Good Stuff, and Red Neck Practices! / An Anthropological Primer
« on: December 27, 2015, 08:04:02 AM »
This was copied and sent to me by a guy at work. It came from  http://www.rightsidesd.com/?p=20459

 I thought yall would like it.


Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel.

Beer required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.

These two were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals.
2. Conservatives.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer.

This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing.

This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men evolved into women. Others became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that Conservatives provided.

Over the years Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass for obvious reasons.

Modern Liberals like lite beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard Liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: many Liberal women have higher testosterone levels than their men.

Most college professors, social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, film makers in Hollywood , group therapists and community organizers are Liberals.

Liberals meddled in our national pastime and invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink real beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, engineers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the Liberals remained in Europe when Conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history. It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to this post.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be shared immediately to other true believers and to just piss off more liberals...

And there you have it. Let your next action reveal your true self. I'm going to have another beer.




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Firearms / Re: My son's M4 Cristmas gun build
« on: December 26, 2015, 09:53:55 PM »

Guess my build will be up next, just need a 12" gas tube (OOS everywhere)
Any specific tube you looking for? Primary arms shows to have some in stock.

http://www.primaryarms.com/ar-15-gas-tubes/c/101204/filter/100000000739eq100000004741/

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Shops Garages and Barns / Re: My first garage!
« on: December 26, 2015, 09:43:57 PM »
You will really appreciate that when it gets done. One of these days I will build one. Right now I work in the driveway, under my horse barn, or borrow space in a family member's shop for a couple days.

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Firearms / Re: My son's M4 Cristmas gun build
« on: December 26, 2015, 09:15:08 PM »
As they have said, at that age supervision is a must. It depends a lot on the individual child and their capabilities as you already know. Take him out shooting with just his gun and do some training. Safety being 1st priority of course. Get a few mags and just load one round in each. Go through the drill over and over. Clear, load, get on target, safety off, finger on trigger, fire, safety on, drop mag, clear.........

Some folks think I'm nuts for teaching my girl about guns and talking about safe handling at 3 years old. I know she don't get the whole concept at that age, but I don't make a gun like the forbidden fruit. She knows she can go with me to shoot when she wants, mom is always there to help watch her of course. I usually sit in a chair and shoulder the gun. She stands between my legs and pulls the trigger. She also knows that she can't touch a gun without daddy's help. I have tried a few times to get her to take one from me and she won't. I make sure it is clear beforehand and I would not actually give it to her. Her reply has been the same every time. "I can't take that silly, you have to help me". Another thing I will not have in my house are "toy" guns. In my mind there is no such thing. A gun is a gun. The main thing is enjoy the time y'all spend together training in safe gun handling and teach him to respect it.

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Firearms / Re: My son's M4 Cristmas gun build
« on: December 26, 2015, 01:26:05 PM »
I agree, start building. Good luck finding the parts you want right now. Christmas has hit most places hard. A lot of stuff is "out of stock"

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Build Threads / Re: The Bus
« on: December 25, 2015, 11:43:48 AM »
I wonder if cause I have a short bed it would be to close to my rear tire.  1500 degrees is kinda warm for tire rubber I think. 


Raising boys into RealMen!!

If it's 1500 back there the tires will be the least of your worries. The melted pistons dripping into the crankcase would be more of a concern at that point. ;D

I'm bored so I had to give somebody a hard time today.

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Message from the Owner / Re: Merry Christmas, 2015
« on: December 25, 2015, 11:16:36 AM »
My little brother sent me a picture of the dry erase board on his fridge. He had written this note.

"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house no one was stirring not even my spouse. I went to the room to find her asleep, so I kissed her goodnight on her angel like cheek. As I rustled in bed she grumbled and groaned.  I thanked our Lord Jesus for a Christmas not spent alone"

Having spent a few away from home myself (including this one) I thought it was pretty cool. Like some of yall he has spent several away serving this great country. He just started his last 3 years before retirement at a shore duty assignment so he is happy to not have to leave again.

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D.O.T. / Re: Who is traveling for christmas? Where you goin?
« on: December 24, 2015, 09:20:59 PM »
I'm not traveling, but I ain't at home. I'm out in the middle of this oversized pond trying to keep oil flowing out of the earth. It's all part of the job, but man this stinks. Y'all have a Merry Christmas and safe travels.

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Firearms / Re: Building my First AR15
« on: December 24, 2015, 08:05:19 PM »
I have not used locktite on the mag release and wouldn't. If it moves back and forth easy it should be fine.

I don't use it either. The thing won't turn to loosen by itself anyway. That was on a new Daniel Defense I bought. The mag release button was blue around the edges and stiff so I checked further and found the bolt catch covered in it too. That explained why it would not lock back on an empty mag. The only thing I could figure was they put them together and put them in a rack upside down. Who knows. It was a pretty frustrating day trying out a new gun that I expected to be great. That was the only issue I have found. Once that mess was cleaned up it runs perfectly.

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Firearms / Re: Building my First AR15
« on: December 24, 2015, 10:54:08 AM »
I think Bobby was asking about lube on the bolt catch, not the bolt. Make sure it is lubed good and works smooth. The mag follower doesn't put a lot of pressure on it to lift.

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Firearms / Re: Building my First AR15
« on: December 23, 2015, 11:47:13 PM »
I bought one that did the same thing. It wound up being a bunch of blue loc-tite around the bolt catch. Whoever assembled it got carried away with it putting the mag release in I guess. I'm not saying that is your issue. Just don't overlook the simple stuff.

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Build Threads / Re: The Bus
« on: December 23, 2015, 03:53:47 PM »
I was bored so I plugged more numbers in that calculator.
5 th (.71) at 70 with 3.73 = 1780 rpm
6 th (.62) at 70 with 4.10 = 1708 rpm
5 the at 70 with 4.10 = 1956

That is according to that calculator not my redneck math.

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Build Threads / Re: The Bus
« on: December 22, 2015, 08:56:36 PM »
Ha. I already have a 6k tranny I this truck. Will hold 850 at the rear wheels.   In 5th at 70 with 35s what will the RPMs be?


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1780 according to the calculator in the sticky


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Firearms / Re: Building my First AR15
« on: December 21, 2015, 11:04:44 PM »
I had to go back and look, but the one I measured came from the same seller on amazon. Same part description you bought. I bought a few several months ago. Only have that one not being used. No issues with the others. You just got a bad one I reckon.
That is not something I usually measure but now I'm curious. I'll blame you when I start taking buffers out of perfectly good guns just to see what that measurement is.

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Firearms / Re: Building my First AR15
« on: December 21, 2015, 06:49:03 PM »
Just picked up an extra one I had and checked it. 6 7/8" at the top and that little lip on the bottom is about 1/16" longer

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That link is the trump video again.

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I like the tank wrap. It seems you can get a Molle wrap for just about anything. Orca coolers even makes one for some of their ice chests.

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Build Threads / Re: The Bus
« on: December 15, 2015, 05:22:26 PM »
That will never run out of uses. If you aint tearing a truck apart you can use it to form supressor baffles.

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Firearms / Re: MP Shield
« on: December 15, 2015, 05:16:28 PM »
I have a shield and yes the Apex Tactical trigger is worth every penny you pay for it. I have actually swapped all 3 of my M&P guns to some version of their trigger. For the shield I use the duty carry kit with the replacement trigger. I think it increased the pull slightly, but it is a lot smoother and shorter. I did not pull it with a scale before and after. Comparing it to another stock one a friend has I think it is slightly higher. For my full size ones, I put the forward set sear and trigger kit in them. The Apex triggers are like Glock with the little safety tab in the middle of the trigger instead of the bottom portion being hinged in the stock M&P. Mine all have the aluminum trigger, but I think the polymer trigger kit would be about the same.

Of course this advice is coming from a guy that cannot leave anything he owns alone. I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Doesn't really matter what it is.

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Firearms / Re: Cerakote for the 1911
« on: December 15, 2015, 12:10:53 PM »
This looks real interesting. I have been looking into the stuff required to do the bake on.

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You're welcome.  ;)

That was not at all an intelligent correction of terminology. It was a bit of useless knowledge from a sarcastic oilfield hand. When you spend half your life on a platform with 20 guys, you hone those skills.

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That don't work when you are trying to order replacement bushing for one. After spending 2 days trying to figure out what I was actually trying to order I never forgot that name.

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I pulled out the two piece pulley (probably has a technical name but I don't know it) and hardware.



Split Taper Bushed Bore

I've probably removed and reinstalled a couple hundred of them.






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Build Threads / Re: Project: "Don't do this at home"
« on: December 14, 2015, 09:18:18 AM »
Nope he wasn't abducted. He just left to go gather up some used parts and head to your weekend place. He's gonna finish up that project while you are at work this week. All that money wasted on new parts was bothering him. ;D

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Build Threads / Re: The Bus
« on: December 13, 2015, 03:26:39 PM »
I have read good things about wheel bearing inc. no personal experience, but worth looking into.

http://wheelbearingsinc.com

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Build Threads / Re: Project: "Don't do this at home"
« on: December 13, 2015, 12:01:18 PM »
I like it, but it aint fair.

From the description of your place you could put together a fleet of vehicles from parts laying around. In the search for parts for this thing you may find a complete running truck you forgot you had. Growing up on a farm I completely understand it. I was taught to cobble stuff together with parts laying around from a young age. This should be fun to watch.

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General Maintenance, How to/DIY projects / Re: Deleting LML
« on: December 13, 2015, 11:49:41 AM »
I did get new tunes that took care of the CEL and the tire size. I went to work for 2 weeks so the delay was not on the tuner. I had the tunes in an email within an hour of calling them when I got back home last week. I am not sure what they adjusted the tire size to in the tunes, but the speedo and the GPS match. Now I can say I am happy with everything and PPEI had good customer service in my opinion. Now I just need to get some monitoring capabilities. For some reason every time I intend on buying a CTS 2 I wind up spending that money on more gun parts. I guess I need to ask for an allowance increase from the budget dictator.

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Build Threads / Re: Thinking of a smaller SUV, comments
« on: December 12, 2015, 08:19:03 AM »
My little brother bought a Toyota minivan and he likes it. I do pick on him about that. The middle set of seats recline with an actual foot rest that pops up and it has the TV in it. He claims there is no better way to travel with 3 kids. The oldest one is 5 so yall can imagine. With the Navy telling him where to be they travel a lot. I pick on him about being in the Navy too of course.

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D.O.T. / Re: Gas prices and Gas Buddy App
« on: December 11, 2015, 04:53:00 PM »
Cheapest I have seen diesel was $1.97. Gas is around $1.50 - $1.60. I don't buy much of that so I don't really notice the exact prices.

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