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17951
« on: May 24, 2017, 10:05:20 AM »
Now, having said that
You may see a Ram PowerWagon in my stable some day as well. Disconnecting sway bar and all
I already have the GJ Ruby with the disconnecting stuff. Thing about that jeep is that it feels disconnected from the road like as in all the time :-0
17952
« on: May 24, 2017, 10:02:42 AM »
Hey Don, what about a disconnecting sway bar. Best of both worlds.
I don't think this truck reaches that level. It's a driver, and a hauler. I just end up in the mud and on uneven terrain at the end of the drive, that's all. Remaining practical about it all, there is no need to go all off road with this truck. The biggest factor affecting its drivability are the twisty roads which motorcyclists come in from two states to drive just because of all the twisties.
17953
« on: May 24, 2017, 09:52:44 AM »
Bow tie guy as well. However there are a couple of vehicles that would be on the list if available. Like the late 60's mustang, a 66 Bronco, a IH Scout II...
Yeah, late 60's mustang, hemi cuda, then the standards.
Late 69's stingray, 442, 68-69 Camaro/Firebird, early novas, etc.
Sam, I once owned a 1969 Corvette Stingray, 427 4 speed with 4.11 gears. It was a bit of a pig...Not as fast as you may think, and handling was not good at all. But, stab the throttle and you were in tire smoke city!
17954
« on: May 24, 2017, 09:49:49 AM »
Bow tie guy as well. However there are a couple of vehicles that would be on the list if available. Like the late 60's mustang, a 66 Bronco, a IH Scout II...
IH Scout II ! Sign me up!
17955
« on: May 24, 2017, 09:48:10 AM »
you must have one heck of an EPA disaster somewhere there on your property............
Funny, but I never even thought about that Socialist states sure have left their mark! Too bad we can't do some sort of cleanup on the socialist problem ;-))
17956
« on: May 24, 2017, 09:44:58 AM »
Well first off, little paint would get on my arms. Heck I shave twice a week sometimes!
That tank looked great inside. You going to have a service come fill it or just truck it there when needed?
Gonna try and have a truck come in and top it off I am hearing .40 off list in taxes alone. The trick, I hear is to find out when a service station nearby is getting topped up, then see if they can also deliver to my location. The problem might be in the fact that I am so remote Alternate plan is to pick up a couple 55 gallon drums, and a hand pump, then top up at a local ag-gas place and have the pre-rangers gets loads of arm exercise! ;-)))
17957
« on: May 24, 2017, 09:40:29 AM »
Thank you for that Nate
I think I had that wrong
I once thought the Clintons had reversed it for aesthetics, however the field of stars does lead!
Well done!
17958
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:46:15 PM »
And there ya have it folks, another mess in the making!
17959
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:43:51 PM »
Like I mentioned. it works well on digits as well as palms, backs of hands, foreheads and forearms! Pretty universal stuff if you ask me!
I was using #150 grit, but when the sander bogged down, I switched to just using my hands! THe paint literally flew off. I have palms and fingers that go from #60 to #80 and is harder than asteroid crust!
17960
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:42:42 PM »
The autoclave cleaned interior was rust scale free, so I touched up the intake port with some epoxy paint designed to dissolve in the fuel and clog injectors on John Deere tractors. I'll keep you all posted if the stuff actually works!
17961
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:41:04 PM »
I'll touch up the brush marks with some 220 grit prior to spraying.
I'm going to do 15 coats of candy apple red lacquer followed by a dozen coats of clear. I want to be able to wet sand the imperfections out and get it looking like a mirror!
You buying any of that? Interested in a bridge I have for sale in New York? Kind of guy who spent two hours going from hardware store to hardware store in search for a gallon of half tone dots?
Continuing, Here is the approved thread sealant for tanks and such. Works pretty good on old cuts and blue jeans. The green color helps identify the once good pants as work only clothing! Cool!
17962
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:36:15 PM »
I touched up the bare metal and sanded down rust spots with that epoxy rust sealant paint which both locks in rust and pretty much evenly coats ones fingers and arms...especially if you have an abundance of arm hair. Girly men would fare much better, but then again you'd never find a metro-sexual actually working...
17963
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:33:28 PM »
Then a couple hours later I had the thing all sanded up. Again, I didn't really find anything. It had a red oxide primer base, followed by a coat of silver, then another coat of light gray which I'd say is fairly recent
17964
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:31:03 PM »
After pulling the drain plug, I tilted the thing and blasted away using dawn soap to produce an autoclave like cleanliness!
17965
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:29:28 PM »
Yep, still has some red dyed off road diesel inside. There was some sediment, but not much and no real rust to speak of
17966
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:28:02 PM »
Found this stuff inside the tank
17967
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:27:02 PM »
Started working on that tank. Concept of the operation was to clean it up pressure wash the interior with hot soapy water, sand it down and get it ready for paint
First up I had to pry out this plug
THis 2" NPT nipple will likely be the pump mount site
17968
« on: May 23, 2017, 09:15:38 PM »
On a side note, if you start cutting any hardwood, the slabs work very well as fence posts. My neighbor has cut a ton of lumber over the past years, enough to build two very large barns. For all the hardwood slabs, he cut them with a chainsaw at 8' lengths, and used them for fence posts. This was for a barbed wire fence to hold his cows. Been a few years installed, and they are still solid as can be. Just a thought.
The top six feet of those darned Cedars are all fence posts. But, don't have any critters (that are actually mine) yet
17969
« on: May 23, 2017, 03:18:53 PM »
Don, I just noticed you have the ball joints on top of the arms. I believe they go on the bottom (push on the arm vs push on the bolts).
It may affect the geometry a little, but Safety is a bigger thing!
http://www.cognitomotorsports.com/media/pdfs/7054.pdf
Holy Smokes!
WOW!! I just looked back on my install from about 50 years ago seems like, and I did the exact same thing Don. Had them mounted on top instead of on bottom...
Glad to see the black truck still putting in work. 
Hey Ash!I thought some gator ate you a year or two back! Glad to have you around Spread some news...What about that Dodge?? (Or Ram??) I'd like to see what you've done to it lately And what of you?
17970
« on: May 23, 2017, 08:53:31 AM »
Sam
Don't beat me about the head and shoulders
Sell it
To some knucklehead
Who doesn't realize
That he is actually $20+K away from a decent (not a great) restoration
I did one...
1970 Boss 302
Back in 1990 when I did it, thing cost me around $15K to complete
Sell it...Spend $$$ on island home and save for replacement truck
Don't buy replacement truck until you have 1/2 to 3/4 of the cost in cash...
Just me...your call of course
17971
« on: May 23, 2017, 08:48:31 AM »
^^^^ Jest' background noise.... 
17972
« on: May 23, 2017, 08:46:33 AM »
17973
« on: May 23, 2017, 08:42:56 AM »
What are you going to do with the inside?
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Inspect, Clean Fill with fuel Assuming I find it to be in very good condition...
17974
« on: May 23, 2017, 08:19:28 AM »
X2. I would have thought the rear would be the place to start. What was the cost of the kit?
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I'll look into it Tex Only reason I stay away from messing with the rear is that 70%-80% of suspension articulation occurs in the rear. I need that with the nature of the off road I did yesterday and 2X times a week. But a smaller rear bar might not adversely affect that since this is mostly a on road truck and the country road driving it the predominate negative to the feel of the thing. Who has one? Addco?
17975
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:44:50 PM »
I drove over a hundred miles of twisty KY roads today with and without a trailer and probably another 30-40 highway as well.
I am really happy with how the truck handles now. It's way different. It stays mostly flat in the corners and allows me to carry more speed through the turns than I did in the past.
Overall, its an excellent mod for the money
17976
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:18:27 PM »
It rests on skids and looks to be recently painted.
I plan to sand it down, then throw three coats of enamel with hardener on it, then mount a 12VDC pump/filter unit I just ordered.
I picked it up for $245 which seemed about right for something in good condition. The inside was full of diesel, but that was removed showing minor rust, which I think I'll blast loose before painting.
17977
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:15:40 PM »
And I think this is a fill port:
17978
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:14:45 PM »
I'm not sure what this heavy steel cap is all about. Could be used as a fill port if you wanted
17979
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:13:46 PM »
The fuel level gage works
17980
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:12:13 PM »
It has a build tag, a serial number, and a UL approval tag along with something else I can't read
17981
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:10:46 PM »
There is a lot going on up top
There is a fill port, then some really heavy cap that lifts up, then a 1.5" NPT nipple deal, then a fuel level gage, then an emergency vent
17982
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:08:31 PM »
Having to routine cleanup work farmside. Things such as clearing the winter deadfall, and cutting grass. May and June around here is grow time. Already the fields are 18" tall with grass going to seed already. I let it seed, then bushhog, which yields a good batch of new grass from all the scattered seeds.
The mill building area is pretty wet from all the rain, so we can't really get in on that without wallowing in mud.
Realizing that I am constantly transporting 15 gallons of diesel down there using the three cans on the back of C-Max, I felt it was time to get some bulk fuel in there.
TO that end, I picked up a used 285 gallon diesel fuel tank from a farmer not far away. It was originally manufactured in Hamilton, Ohio, not too far from here and is known as good quality stuff around here.
17983
« on: May 22, 2017, 10:10:19 AM »
Another square body, love it!! Looks pretty good inside.
Does it dual tanks and is it a 12 bolt or 10?
I won't feel bad about doing the Elky here at all now!
Ya, do the elky!
17984
« on: May 22, 2017, 10:08:28 AM »
These are just more nails in the coffin towards trump. Get everyone as mad as possible, bad moon arising.
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17985
« on: May 21, 2017, 08:54:45 PM »
I read that
Ouch
Saving money and converting that into something useable when the paper stuff goes "Poof" would be advisable
Zoom out one more level and you see economic collapse coming in and converging and from many different industries.
I hear all the money the fed is printing is being spent on legal fees for all the investigations in DC
17986
« on: May 21, 2017, 01:37:55 PM »
If I understand correctly all Oakley glasses are safety rated. Truth?
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I don't know how to answer that question Shatter resistant: yes Some are blast resistant as well I can say this. I started wearing them in my early 30's. When I retired from the Army, I tested at 20/10 vision. ANd think about it, I was exposed to more ultraviolet than a lot of folks being a pilot. I carried 20/20 up until last year (age 62). Something made the difference. Most of my buddies were blind in their early 50's!
17987
« on: May 21, 2017, 01:31:03 PM »
I have been wearing Oakley glasses almost every single day since right after desert storm.
I have 5-6 pairs stashed everywhere, so no matter what I am doing, I'll have a pair handy
17988
« on: May 21, 2017, 11:47:23 AM »
The swamp is fighting back
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Yes it is Us: The Swamp Them: The deep state
17989
« on: May 21, 2017, 09:43:13 AM »
17990
« on: May 21, 2017, 09:28:07 AM »
We don't want to insult Muslim women and ask them to remove their headwear, so we look aside when a nun is frisked?
And
No chance a Muslim agent would look aside while her cousins boarded with a satchel charge...
17991
« on: May 21, 2017, 09:23:36 AM »
DEMOCRATIC GOAL : BETTER TO RULE IN HELL THAN SERVE IN HEAVEN
Stop Trump by any means possible regardless of whether it undermines democracy. Use innuendo, hearsay, anonymous sources, slander, conspiracies and leaks. Have the media minimize Trumps successes and emphasize Trumps mistakes [and there have been many ]. Scream, yell, march, demonstrate, foment disorder, misdirect, feign outrage, delay, obscure, and lie when necessary lie. All for the purpose of casting a cloud over the Trump administration; of delegitimizing both the election by claiming Russian Interference and Trump by claiming Russian collusion. Their immediate goal is to take back the House of Representatives in 2018 and then get Trump impeached. It is a revolt and it is a war. The left realizes this is a make or break moment for Liberalism, Socialism, Multiculturalism, Open Borders, Globalism and a bunch of other "isms" too long to list.
Power and Control is all that matters to the left and winning is everything. The end justifies the means in liberal politics and politics is everything. It supersedes Race,Gender, Religion, Morality and Country. If you are black and a conservative you are a traitor to your race, if you a woman and support the right to life; you can't be a feminist. if your religion is important to, you are a fanatic ( Parenthetically, Liberalism is the religion of the left. It is the godless religion and like a religion you must accept its doctrines based on faith, rather than reason ). If you believe fences make good neighbors, you are both a racist and a xenophobe. If you are a patriot and think America comes first you are a small minded, selfish dolt .If you believe in the second amendment, you are a knuckle dragging sub-primate. If you are Jewish and believe in Israel as a Jewish state (rather than a state with Jews in it), you must be a bigoted Palestinian hater. If you are a liberal, these are the rules and if you don't conform, you will be ostracized.This how identity politics works.
Morality and ethics are only terms and only have meaning if it serves the liberal cause. This is the socialist, liberal hell we inexorably seem to be headed for. But to the left, as Lucifer said, in Mllton's Paradise Lost, "Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven"
17992
« on: May 20, 2017, 08:03:23 PM »
JR,
I think I bolted this thing on correctly, although I noticed I installed a couple of the cylinder head bolts upside down!
17993
« on: May 20, 2017, 08:01:01 PM »
So far, so good!
Six years old, 74K on the clock and one small dent...On the hood left side leading edge. Killed a buzzard that wasn't quick enough on his departure roll!
And he was the first I ever hit. Then not a month later I took out his cousin!
17994
« on: May 20, 2017, 07:56:15 PM »
He is never far away!
17995
« on: May 20, 2017, 07:55:25 PM »
All done and tightened back up
Second pic is the view a Cube has when I'm tailgating at 80MPH
17996
« on: May 20, 2017, 07:53:57 PM »
While underneath, I decided to readjust my bumper.
I had noted that it was difficult to get the right headlight out. Looking underneath, I think I push one too many trees around, as the right side mount was sitting full aft and the left side was 3/4 forward
17997
« on: May 20, 2017, 07:51:36 PM »
The end link takes some fussing with to clear the Fabtech lift kit, but in the end it all fits
17998
« on: May 20, 2017, 07:49:50 PM »
The bar and hardware make for a well fitting and clean installation
17999
« on: May 20, 2017, 07:48:34 PM »
The new end link mounts normally at the bar end, but is set up to pivot on the control arm end
Poly bushing shown. It got plenty of poly grease
18000
« on: May 20, 2017, 07:46:33 PM »
Here is a side by side
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