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1901
« on: January 18, 2017, 06:32:37 PM »
Too many clicks have driving the price up to $19k!!! They'll just wait around for some ignorant snowflake to come buy it sight unseen. I've noticed salesmen don't like educated buyers. Makes me want to slap that guy though. Welcome to car shopping in the PNW brother.
1902
« on: January 18, 2017, 06:25:32 PM »
I prefer Smokey and the Bandit version. little lest chest hair on Sally.
1903
« on: January 18, 2017, 01:59:33 PM »
I personally don't have a liking of the colour choice, but not lookin at the yellow I do like it.
I'm not a fan of the pigment choice either, but I take great offense to your spelling of the word "colour". Even my spell check agrees with me. Oh, and I'm half Canadian and have Canadian friends so that's not racist!
1904
« on: January 18, 2017, 01:31:26 PM »
1. Has a job;
2. Drives a pickup truck;
3. Uses the bathroom standing up;
4. Eats meat;
5. And is willing to carry them out of a burning building
Check check check check check. Probably why I'm married to a lady.
1905
« on: January 18, 2017, 10:52:13 AM »
I remember hearing about this on the radio; http://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/21/stolen-bottles-of-extremely-rare-bourbon-recovered.html and thought some good Samaritan ought to get a reward for helping recover such an American icon. Now I can say I know someone that's actually had some. Sounds worth it on a anni-birth-mas situation.
Tate you dodged all the hit man big Don sent your way? Good job
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Had to "move out of town" for the weekend, but I found the passive aggressive post it notes on my front door when I got back from Leavenworth.
1907
« on: January 13, 2017, 06:56:41 PM »
or he's just some guy that had a tool box and found a good deal on a topper for a short bed and didn't have time or plywood to build a tac topper...
I'll patiently await my punishment.
1908
« on: January 13, 2017, 06:06:18 PM »
Tate, is there another option for the wheel speed sensor on a front 60 then the superduty axles? I already have the built 60 front w/o the speed sensors in 5 on 5.5 (stock hubs turned down & redrilled).
Not that I've heard of Sean.
1909
« on: January 13, 2017, 02:22:26 PM »
Currie has a 5x5.5 brg hub conversion but you have to buy custom Wilwood brakes and not saving any money on the junkyard axles. I was just talking w/ Joe at Unlimited off road in MI, and unless that Superduty housing is free, you're spending too much for them at $500+ each wholesale on hubs only, then about $1k on brake conversion. better to do a dynatrac or something similar or just go 8 lug wheels. sorry to sink your battleship there Sean.
1910
« on: January 13, 2017, 01:47:12 PM »
I'm sure one of a dozen or so rigs on your property could handle the transport of the teens to someone else's house for the day. preserve your sanity Norm. Retired farmers' lives matter!
1911
« on: January 13, 2017, 11:23:59 AM »
We've got a "Children's museum" out this way too. Sophie loves it. Looks like your boy does too. Love it when they're concentrating on something and the tongue comes out, lol.
1912
« on: January 13, 2017, 11:19:55 AM »
Nice "rack"
1913
« on: January 13, 2017, 11:04:47 AM »
Shoot, the shop and property alone is worth the selling price! nice work.
1914
« on: January 13, 2017, 10:42:01 AM »
x2^^
1915
« on: January 12, 2017, 05:58:36 PM »
Tate, we are in the 60's and sunny how you doing right now. Weather report from there sounds like whitish stuff falling from the sky in places.
16 Deg at 0600 today. sunny and mid 30's this afternoon. we got a light dusting up north that's sticking around due to the cold but nothing major. Snoqualmie on the other hand... 100 accidents last weekend on I90 in the space of 5 or 6 hours I think. Bad stuff all around. Our customer svc gal was friends with the college kids that died in one of the wrecks. Driving like there was no weather... God bless their ignorant souls.
1916
« on: January 12, 2017, 05:05:17 PM »
the pitman connected to the, pitman arm, the pitman arm connected to the, drag link, the drag link connected to the steering knuckle, the steering knuckle connected to the knuckle head!
1917
« on: January 12, 2017, 04:45:27 PM »
I've heard that to be a pretty favorable setup with the superduty hp60 Sean, pretty sure Brian knows some guys that manufacture those too, i'll look into it for you. fun fact, if you don't wire in a switch to actually disable the active stability and traction on the automatics, the wheel skip of a heavy posi or auto locker like a grizzly will cause the tcm to freak out and throw it into limp mode. thanks Chrysler.
1918
« on: January 12, 2017, 02:22:47 PM »
well mine would have been so far off you'd have to bend the tubes to get it to line up. at least for the 1st 2-3 attempts.
1919
« on: January 12, 2017, 11:02:33 AM »
Fine work Don. I'm very impressed that you could hand cut those holes on two boards and have them line up so well. Sure you didn't miss your calling as an Amish furniture maker?
1920
« on: January 11, 2017, 01:08:13 PM »
it's a good lookin rig there bud.
1921
« on: January 11, 2017, 11:34:08 AM »
We may trade a vehicle in but I need to see the #s.
The k&n intake and all have this burb a lot of pep and the 6 speed felt great. I'm nervous about taking a note out on an 8 year old vehicle but it would serve duel roles for us.
The only thing this truck would need on my end is new tires in a year. They're replacing 2 of them and I hate having unmatched tires.
Full time AWD or selectable 4WD on that Burb? if it's AWD, they can't change just two tires. if you purchase the vehicle would make that part of the deal to have all 4 changed at the same time. you're right to hate mismatched tires. it's bad news all around
1923
« on: January 11, 2017, 10:51:54 AM »
And I guess I'm getting old. For some reason I thought you were in PAC NW Bob.
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I think he's turned into one of them ree-tired snow birds. we got a lot of those out here
1924
« on: January 10, 2017, 05:30:44 PM »
test drove an 05 silverado 1500 today. aside from how fricken comfortable the seats were, i wasn't impressed. mileage was high and had a nice amount of rust on it..
we then saw a suburban 2500 LT with a 6.0. we said... what the heck, lets see it. lol, we fell in love. this thing is a tank. its an 07 with 124K. Its been sitting on the lot for a while so I am guessing the market for those here isnt all that great. Anyway, we're debating using that as a family/hauling vehicle, then getting a beater pickup when my granola burner is paid off and using that for farm use.
we're still debating and discussing, but my wife rarely says she likes driving something, and its in our price range. I need to read up on that year and setup.
classic Silverado body style or the new smooth door and bumper deal? the latter has been known to have fuel management issues, but with the mileage I would guess that's already been addressed.
1925
« on: January 10, 2017, 12:37:45 PM »
No brake components from me... yet. I'm betting you're probably looking for 77-79 f150/bronco rotors and calipers though.
1926
« on: January 10, 2017, 10:32:49 AM »
I've got hubs in stock for gm/dodge d60 spindles to convert to 5x5.5 fyi. (8x6.5 and 6x6.5 too) Phil's got a set of the 8 luggers on the Ramcharger.
1927
« on: January 09, 2017, 05:52:15 PM »
I like where your head's at!
1928
« on: January 09, 2017, 01:22:04 PM »
And I Just stepped right in it, very good points there Mens.
1929
« on: January 06, 2017, 05:10:25 PM »
And for your world and those that exist in it that is what God has planned for you. I have a lot of the same feelings as you on the subject. Medically excluded before I could even get started etc. but you make a very true and ironclad point, that you can be a superhero for your children and knight to your wife. Like me, your lot in life is to provide and protect them rather than many others. Much smaller scale than some, but just as valid and important in God's eyes. Thank you for sharing here. I've been following this for some time.
1930
« on: January 06, 2017, 05:07:10 PM »
To say the least.
1931
« on: January 06, 2017, 01:44:32 PM »
Did I get that wrong, about that 5.3 being a 4.8?
CRS again...
or CGTR
Nope....I read it too....totally insane that it was a 4.8
You don't need to be old to catch a case of CRS...
1932
« on: January 06, 2017, 12:58:45 PM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/chicago-racially-charged-attack-video.html?_r=0Quotes from the article: The cruelty of the attack and the intense social media exposure prompted President Barack Obama to respond, calling it "despicable." "I take these things very seriously," he told Chicago's WBBM-TV on Thursday. But he said "the incident does not mean that race relations have gotten worse". hmmm... nope, race relations are all good."Chicago police initially said the youth was singled out because he has "special needs," not because he was white. But authorities later said the charges resulted from both the suspects' use of racial slurs and their references to the victim's disability." Hmmm... yep. definitely targeted him for his lack of style and swagger. nothing to do with race. I would post the video here, but it violates too many of this sites standards to even provide the link. I have to say after about 30 seconds I was enraged, sickened, and started theorizing how I could get some of our IL REALMEN to pay them a "visit". If you haven't seen it, I would not recommend viewing within earshot of your wives or children.
1933
« on: January 06, 2017, 11:32:58 AM »
When I was casually looking at upgrading my lb7 they offered $8k. I literally just got up and walked out. "sir?"...
1934
« on: January 05, 2017, 06:41:48 PM »
And see I thought the article was about building up a 6.0 and turned out to be a 5.3L but then again, I thought my kids aveo was a chevy at one point...
1935
« on: January 05, 2017, 05:52:04 PM »
Oh, might as well announce here as opposed in another forum
TexasRedNeck is no longer with us....
bahahahahahah. Dang, if you can tolerate Shawn, I KNOW you can tollerate Charles!!
btw, that was a 4.8 chebby that pulled those numbers. I posted the article a while back....somewhere.
Probably where I read it.
1936
« on: January 05, 2017, 01:48:36 PM »
Get a Donkey. my late, great uncle who lived to be 98 years old was a sheep rancher in Alberta, Cardston area. Ranched by himself just over 200 head until the last two years of his life when a stroke took him out of the game. Donkey's will kill wolves, coyotes, you name it, eat the same as the sheep and are slightly smarter.
1937
« on: January 05, 2017, 01:38:12 PM »
DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT ... Way to go Kyle. 1st rule of DOT club is you don't talk about DOT club.
1938
« on: January 05, 2017, 01:30:52 PM »
Well Don.... that's a long story.
It's a stock Boss 302 Coyote block. It was very carefully blueprinted by yours truly. Stock crank...Eagle H beam Rods, CP Pistons, 11:1 actual compression ratio. Billet oil pump gears, and arp fasteners. The heads are Boss Coyote...CNC ported by a good friend who almost forced me into letting him play with them...stock shimmed valve springs and valves also. So... in effect a almost stock bottom end with some reliability upgrades. And a almost stock top end as well....
She spins it 7200rpm *usually which for a Coyote is conservative. So far no oil consumption or unusual issues. Given the engine has seen VERY close to 4 digit rear wheel numbers on a max E85 tune...the "around 750rwp" tune it usually runs is rather low stress. At least in theory...
Much less stressful on me anyway than the 6 dyno runs to 8400rpm we played with this fall. But WOW at how much HP is hidden between 7200 and 8400 rpm...and it's a head rush to know with a tank of E85 a laptop and some slicks...mid 9's are a reality.
OK, copy that
If you were in that bottom end already, We can rest assured it was done correctly
Norm, I am floored by the numbers these motors these days are capable of!
Nearing 1000 RWHP if beyond comprehension. That's 1200 or so at the crank, unbelievable
But having said that I remember once watching this project build. Point was to see if you could take a junkyard run of the mill 5.3 LS style motor and get it to make 1000HP on a stand before grenading it. So I believe the plan was to test it, replace the head bolts, pull the pan for inspection, small cam, then add a turbo. And the test began... It made 500, 600, 700, and they thought it was going to fly apart, so the decision was made to push it to when it broke. Injectors, valve springs, more boost, less timing, better gas, and 800, then 900, and then it produced 1000! A used 5.3L Chevy truck engine!!!!! Not satisfied they ran the boost up even more, and it passed 1100HP!!!! They pulled it again and it made a documented 1267HP and It didn't explode!
So these guys pulled it down for a close inspection of the pistons and rings and rods and so forth.
That's when they made the discovery that sent this thing into orbit. It wasn't a 5.3! Nope, IT was a 4.8L!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.trucktrend.com/how-to/engine/1213tr-vortec-5-3l-big-bang/Read the same article a few months back!
1939
« on: January 05, 2017, 11:59:10 AM »
early Titans from a drivetrain perspective are garbage. They put a modified dana 44 like the JK under a slightly more than 1/2 ton truck w/ more power and towing capacity than the diff can handle. They also outsourced their diffs from dana overseas and are unable to sell individual parts to repair them, thus $3000 complete housings are your only option if you have a single spider gear fail... bad juju. can't speak for the diesel option, as I've not sold parts for one yet, but I would imagine they would have a more robust rear end. FWIW, I sell aftermarket components for the titan diffs about once a week.
1940
« on: January 03, 2017, 01:23:19 PM »
1941
« on: January 03, 2017, 01:05:03 PM »
Tate.... Yeah I have eyed those axles up a few times. But given one axle costs more than I intend to invest in this entire project...no can do.
What if I told you I might have a half dozen of those fancy tapered bearings new in the box? I haven't checked the part number yet to be sure mind you...but they were in the same box as the 3 or 4 new ho72 No-Spin's and the Ho72 gasket kits, and shims/carrier bearings...So chances are fair. I really should go through all that NOS stuff I bought.
I may build it with a Dana 60 front at first because it's quick and simple and then refine it latter...right now I am concentrating on the important stuff...600hp or so and windshield wipers which is no small feat getting good wipers on a M37 LoL
check the numbers: TK 5519790030 if you do in fact have those, I have several buyers lined up, as well as the no spins.
1942
« on: December 29, 2016, 12:22:54 PM »
Well, I think you may be slightly disappointed w/ the "intelligence" of the sheep, but I think they're a little smarter than chickens.
1943
« on: December 29, 2016, 11:46:44 AM »
now Don, you wouldn't want to encourage any lurking "snowflakes" out there to use compressed air to clean their clothing would you? That's a workplace hazard!
lookin really good there Kyle. might have to stop by and borrow a few things...
1944
« on: December 27, 2016, 06:24:37 PM »
Any photo-journalistic results? I assume all went well.
1945
« on: December 22, 2016, 05:37:10 PM »
Tate it's similar to the difference between a sniper from long range and sticking someone with a knife up close and personal. They both get the job done, it's just a style thing.
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I like it!
1946
« on: December 22, 2016, 03:56:39 PM »
Yup, your gun's bigger than mine. Alright TX, you win again ;)
1947
« on: December 22, 2016, 03:08:41 PM »
Oh they don't, that's for sure!
1948
« on: December 22, 2016, 03:08:21 PM »
More off topic, am I just in love with the F14 Tomcat because I was 6 when top gun came out? I know they're pigs, but in my models the G.I. JOES always won.
1949
« on: December 22, 2016, 02:38:49 PM »
can I get an overlay of the two? this is particularly amusing to my young trainee behind me here. (Berniefreak). He's learning as we go here and having a hard time finding an argument to combat this. We've agreed that if he can no longer come up with a logical and reasonable argument we will no longer discuss any particular subject. So far it's been pretty quiet...
1950
« on: December 22, 2016, 01:20:07 PM »
Don your observations regarding the ring gear strength is a serious point to consider no question. That said, the Dana 60's 9.750" ring gear even in a reverse cut application, gives up a lot of strength to say the HO72's 10.125" ring gear.The almost 2" pinion shaft that dwarfs a Dana 60 or a 70, and even the 14 bolt will not fail. A third pinion bearing, a load bolt to stop ring gear deflection, and a fairly ridged steel housing you can weld to almost anywhere.
A drop out third member makes gear swaps a quick fast process. No crush sleeves, just simple brutal 1940's brilliance LoL
I can pick between 4.10 4.57 and 5.14 ratios...I can buy say a 4.57 dropout with a No-spin for $100 Available from 1948-72 they are not at all hard to find in these parts.
If I want I can "modernize" a Ho 72 and drop a 14 bolts Detroit in the carrier, and then use 14 bolt axle shafts in a rear axle application...I can also use 14 Bolt disk brake components....oh and front and rear can be simply shaved to Dana 44 size under the pumpkin.
Now.... Lets say I want to drive this wreck to say Moab and go wheeling. I can run a 4.10 rear third and with my 40" rubber, that old 440 will think it's hauling a old imperial down the hyw. Run some two piece 14bolt rear alloy shafts and I could swap 3rd members to the 5.14 locked set like I have in the front, and go wheeling in a half hour.
No final plan yet....but It's tempting me.
You need to talk to Jim Jackson. TORQ DEVELOPMENT CO http://www.torqaxle.com/. HP, as in reverse cut 14t w/ pin support. boom. Scrap that HO72 talk. pin brgs alone would run you upwards of $500.
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