So what did you do with your truck today?

[1mouse3]

I got around to finishing up the fuel line and putting good end on the return line on the tank, this what i did to get back running.

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These are the ends I have on the tank and ran feed from the tank to the pump, no more old plastic lines or fuel leaks currently.

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[IDIBRONCO]

I hope you did the work before all the snow was there. Otherwise it would have been a little bit chilly.

 

[1mouse3]

I hope you did the work before all the snow was there. Otherwise it would have been a little bit chilly.

I did that after in a partaly luke warm building. When the snow came, I had to suffer to keep a few snow trucks up and running.

 

[wrecked]

Speaking of traction, this was up the top of Deka lake tonight, in a cleared patch I turned around in. I'm now fully confident in this truck to haul my bloated **** outta snow.

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[wrecked]

Some might wonder... Why is the LF wheel on my Passat chocked in that pic? Gravity comes to mind, but if you insist...

I did the A4 aluminum rear caliper upgrade some time ago, which hit 99 birds with one stone. However (ha!) I decided not to pay so much for the stupid little custom made, one-off torsion springs that go over the P brake cams. Need I say more? It sticks if not used even if parked just 2 days. So...

I had a choice: Pull the calipers and fab up some spingish looking things -- which might break the holders which are very corroded and exclusive to this model (B3 Syncro wagon) number 45 out of no more than 250 sold in N America that year, then see the badly leaking seals on the rear diff, and after cutting my scalp on the aft exhaust mount again, which would not happen if I actually put a muffler there, place my greasy hand on the rotor (total unobtainium) which tilts because the rotor anchoring bolt is busted, and say to myself: self? are you sure those things aren't going to shatter soon? (Answer: no...)
Lay on the ground under the missing wheel and kick the jack out...

Or I could lay a piece of 2x4 on the ground.

 

[wrecked]

oh, and this:

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Let the sound go deep, to where it hurts. If you let it, it will find the way by itself.

Stay healthy my friends.

 

[stick_witch]

In the spirit of our friends in the South and their lil snow storm...

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Heres my truck here in AK before the weekend.... I had literally just cleared the truck, walkway, and driveway 2 hours before this... Struggling just to keep my vehicles visible and my driveway clear these days... As you can see I gave up on the explorer...


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[IDIBRONCO]

As you can see I gave up on the explorer...

It's called priorities.

 

[bilbo]

I put cruise control in my 94 F250. It was so easy I felt like I was cheating.

 

[subway]

I finally let go of my '48 Cub last summer. Had been in the family for 30+ years, but I just didn't do anything with it besides look at it and change the fluids every now and then. My dad restored it back in the early '90s. I mowed my 5 acres with it a few times before I bought my big zero turn, but at just over an acre an hour it wasn't what I called a good time.

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I had the Low Boy version of that tractor and you are right, they were built in a different time. Cool to use but more a novelty with my zero turn moving WAY faster. I also did not like how the deck pushed you after you press in the clutch to stop or reverse.

That and the wifey can easily fire up the zero turn and take care of the lawn for me now

 

[1mouse3]

But I'm finding the performance edge on this truck to be exactly as you describe. Weight on the back, tire pressures and thoughtful use of gears equals very stable and capable machine.

It just down on me what you are trying to say, yes I do know what you are talking about. I learned to dirve from relecs of the past that where for the best of terms aspalt cowboys, first drive was on a ranch around dear lodge mt at around 12-13 in a j10. To dirve a manual is a need to know the engagement point of the clutch, first find where the cluch will stop the vehicle from rolling back. This is the point you hold when stoped at a intersction, sometimes the brakes are needed to stop rolling foward. Now we know a good point to softly bang gears, to shift is pull out of gear as you are stabing the clutch and aiming to be past point of engagement as going in the next. Now with knowlage to get it moving it is about time for steering, you need to set speed of turn before hand and dont brake during the turn. The skinny pedal can aid you in quickly changing trajectory and turning where the tail is going will help maintain a straight line, even if the car is not pointed there. This is what I found with a quick search on the subject of.

http://racetrackdriving.com/driving-technique/throttle-steering/


Over the past past 3 years driving the bmw weekly 160 miles 2 ways have got to know more over what have known, guess I have become a aspalt cowboys myself. What I have also found is that appropriate tires for the situation are important, bad tirea are a cause of understeer. Having understeer when you are looking for oversteer is bad news, the bwm spun me around 180 twice where i end up driving in reverse to fip it back round. Yea yea this is not some bond film with neat stunt driving but those are good education on the subject, once on a washed out on ranp and other a iced up highway. Did not want a repeat situation, so got those winter tires and general gmax as05 for the summer. I liked the generals on the bmw so got the grabbers at2 for the truck, they seem to be good mud snow tires so far. I have also found my posi dose not work well and dont have the front shaft in, so in snow my only issue so far is long steep hills. It will go fine for a bit but when it slips it slows down, when it dose I can give more throttle to preciste up. With this idi I have found dose fine creaping through snow and 1500 is the bottom end of power, if there is issues with movement I need to bring the rpm up to 2500 for best power. When doing this in the snow, sometimes the tail will want to move but steering into that dose fine to correct it where a straigt line is maintained. I would like to add more weight but the rest of my scrap is frozzen to the ground, I have my tire psi at 31 for moment and seem to have decent traction.

 

[stick_witch]

It's called priorities.

Yes indeed


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[Laine D]

I’ve been stuck in traffic for 30 minutes

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[Farmer Rock]

I have been looking for a good utility/contractor cap for a while, and finally picked up this STAHL cap for $300, It doesn't have any dents at all, and all the latches work. It even came with the keys.

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I am very happy with it, but am on the fence about paint. How do you folks think bedliner would look on the cap? I do plan to bed line my truck's rocker panels eventually, so I would like to have it match. I am not sure about the color though. It would probably be black or gray, but I don't like the "blacked out" look and would like to avoid that and keep it looking like the classic work truck it is.



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[1mouse3]

I dont know if she is mad at me for shuting her down or taking here to the car wash, ether way the starter gave up. The old one could not be found to who I got it from, so the denso is replace by a mitsubishi since can be found.

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I did get her throught the car wash and got most the salt off.

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