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Please do not repost, forward or otherwise publish messages contained in these archives without consent from the respective author(s). These archives may not, in whole or part, be stored on any public retrieval system (FTP, web, gopher, newsgroup, etc.) by individuals or companies, without consent of the respective authors. Received: with LISTAR (v0.128a; list offroad-list); Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:18:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:18:33 -0500 (EST) From: Ford Truck Enthusiasts List Server To: offroad-list digest users Reply-to: offroad-list  ford-trucks.com Subject: offroad-list Digest V2000 #10 Precedence: bulk ========================================================== Ford Truck Enthusiasts Offroad and 4x4 Truck Mailing List Covering the Ranger, Explorer, Bronco 2 and Aerostar. Visit our web site: http://www.ford-trucks.com To unsubscribe, send email to: listar ford-trucks.com with the words "unsubscribe offroad-list" in the subject of the message. ========================================================== ------------------------------------ offroad-list Digest Mon, 21 Feb 2000 Volume: 2000 Issue: 010 In This Issue: WAS IT JUST A COLD MORNIN'? Re: Ford F150 Gears Re: Topo Maps I love the rain! Re: Topo Maps Rear End Swap Re: I love the rain! Re: Topo Maps Re: Stuck again... Re: I love the rain! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bad4dFilly aol.com Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:41:22 EST Subject: WAS IT JUST A COLD MORNIN'? Hey y'all! I'm still alive; just lurkin lately cuz I haven't had much to say, but now I do LOL Ok, another lil mystery for y'all to figure out: I was on my way to school this morning driving for about 2 minutes when I was about to pull into the school driveway a bad thing happened. Then, my wheel locked up, my brake locked up, my engine sputtered and died! I put it in park and started it up about 15 seconds later and it was OK, so what's the deal? I am thinking maybe I didn't warm it up enough this morning? But why would stalling out cause my tire and brakes to lock up?? *~*~Lisa and Envy~*~* *~*~Silly boys..trucks are for GIRLS!~*~* ------------------------------ From: "Nelson Vasconcelos" Subject: Re: Ford F150 Gears Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:35:15 -0500 Are you guys crazy, 4.10's I'm not going extreme rock crawling in Moab. I got my gear ratio info at www.4lo.com . They have great speed,gear ratio, tire, and RPM calculators set up for you to use free of charge. I found it easiest if you first know your stock tire height, new tire height and old gear ratio to enter into the calculators. See Ya, Nelson ------------------------------ From: davesomers Subject: Re: Topo Maps Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:42:24 -0500 My personal experience with maps of NJ is that the Delorme versions were lacking in detail. Maptech is much better. It may vary for other states, since I saw several people recommend Delorme yesterday. However Maptech is $99/state. vs $150/US. Don't know about provinces. ------------------------------ From: JUMPINFORD aol.comDate: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:32:58 EST Subject: I love the rain! Well folks, I've had one expensive weekend! Started Sunday night, went into an area on the south end of town known as the swamps, had some fun roosting mud. Found out that Sport Kings have week sidewalls, but also found out that dispite popular belief, plugs will hold in a sidewall. I dont however recomend this for highway use, just to get out of the brush. Today was fun, because of the large amount of rain, work was closed, so we got to play. Pulled one of the big U-Hauls out of a dirt lot, impressed me as much as the guy I rescued. Then we headed out to the dunes. I tell ya, anyone that gets stuck in wet sand needs to stay on the pavement, I had my 2wd blastin all over those dunes! Motor still runnin too, although the knockin is a lil louder. Had a few lil probs, namely a blown brake line, jumped batter, and a blown hose, but all were trail repaired in a few min. NEVER WHEEL ALONE. Without my buddy Ronnie and his Bronco (which we just finished puttin a 460 into) I would still be stuck lookin at all the water draining out of my radiator. Also on this cruise was my Brother (Spyder2) testing out the 4wd in his new 2000 Ranger. That lil 4.0 runs pretty good. And now its got a few nice mud spots on it to confirm that although small, its still a truck. Well I gotta run, but yall have fun, and keep the rubber side down. Darrell Duggan 74 F-350 "Tweety" ------------------------------ From: "Chris Samuel" Subject: Re: Topo Maps Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:53:40 -0800 Steve, Al, Tom, Thanks all!-) SNIP< -> Oregon to Alaska? That's some offroad trip! -> -> Tom Yes, it is! The plan is to stay off pavement as much as is possible! It's at least a year away, but something like this needs to be planned ahead, things like fuel, and the occasional shower (SWMBO Requirement), could get tricky. Are the Delorm maps on CD better then their print versions? If not, well... in Oregon at least, they aren't accurate!!! Roads where they aren't and none, where they have been for a century! Good for general navigation, just don't plan on accuracy when it comes to secondary or "unimproved" roads. SNIP< -> On the Web there is a site called TopoZone -> http://www.ford-trucks.com//lc/lc.php?action=do&link=http://www.topozone.com/ -> that has free maps. KOOL SITE! Hadn't tripped over this one! -> On CD, the best I have used are maps from Topo! by Wildflower -> Productions. -> They are much more detailed that those put out by Delorme on -> their Topo USA CD. SNIP< -> Al -> 87 Bronco 300 I6 Thanks for the offer to send a copy, I'll take your word on it just compare them to the maps on topozone, more detail, less, or same? Again, Thanks to all! Muel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:57:00 -0800 From: Adam McLaughlin Subject: Rear End Swap I know that someone, somewhere and now on either of these lists knows what I am talking about. I would like to swap in a 4.10 gear ratio 8.8" rear end from a Ranger to my 1988 bronco II. Which year rear end works best? And, what will I have to change to make this work? Can I carry over my brake components, lines, pads, etc? I have never tried this before and I would like all of the information that I can get. Adam ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:12:33 -0800 From: Jean Marc Chartier Subject: Re: I love the rain! JUMPINFORD aol.com wrote:> > Well folks, I've had one expensive weekend! Started Sunday night, went into > an area on the south end of town known as the swamps, had some fun roosting > mud. Found out that Sport Kings have week sidewalls, but also found out that > dispite popular belief, plugs will hold in a sidewall. I dont however > recomend this for highway use, just to get out of the brush. SNIP > > Darrell Duggan > 74 F-350 "Tweety" Darrell, My wife's 99 Explorer with the Firestone Wilderness AT's got a hole in the sidewall. I went to the local Firestone it was safe and I was assured that it would hold up just as good as a new tire. The local rep who sells the kit put a hole the size of a dime in his sidewall and then patched it up. That was 2 yrs ago I was told and the tire is still on the vehicle. Not as a spare either. I now am a believer of this patch. I wish I knew the name so I could pass it on. Regards JEan Marc Chartier ------------------------------ From: AWood70928 aol.comDate: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:13:07 EST Subject: Re: Topo Maps In a message dated 2/21/00 10:56:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, fourmuelz email.msn.com writes:<< compare them to the maps on topozone, more detail, less, or same? >> I think the detail is the same or maybe a little better on the TopoZone web site as compared to the Topo! program by Wildflower. I have not played with the TopoZone maps much, but did just go look at them again to refresh my memory. I use the Topo! program because I can integrate it with my GPS and add landmarks and notes to the maps that I can print out. A bit expensive if you need more than one or two states though, and some states take two different disks. Well, hope this helps and you have a safe trip when you go. Al 87 Bronco 300 I6 (starting to look like a truck again - the project continues) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:39:16 -0500 From: James Oxley Subject: Re: Stuck again... > At 04:51 AM 2/21/00 -0500, you wrote: > >I gone done it again. > >My truck is once again spending the night stuck. This seems to be an > >annual, albeit unintentional, event. The problem this time is that I'm > >basically highsided on a pillar of ice. This wouldn't be a problem if I had > >lockers... Sounds like you need a 6000 lb winch. It will get you out of much more than lockers will. If you plan on keeping it, I'd upgrade to an 8.8 and dana 35 front from an explorer. At a minumim, I would upgrad the front. The stock dana 28 is very tiny and limited in aftermarket support. OX ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:20:17 +0100 (MET) From: Bas van der Veer Subject: Re: I love the rain! > good as a new tire. The local rep who sells the kit put a > hole the size of a dime in his sidewall and then patched it > up. That was 2 yrs ago I was told and the tire is still on > the vehicle. Not as a spare either. I now am a believer of > this patch. I wish I knew the name so I could pass it on. Wow that's amazing! I was always told sidewalls can't be fixed reliably. I had a small hole in my sidewall once, and I just had to limp home filling it up every hour orso. Thank god I have that york air compressor! Ended up buying 2 new tires. Not a big disaster because the tires weren't that great anymore to begin with, although I think I could have gotten another 10k miles out of 'em, would have been worth it. On my other old tires the sidewalls were cracked when I bought the truck. At the time I was advised to replace them. Now 1.5 years and 30k miles later they're still on there and doing fine. NB these are BFG's. 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