She want complain once you start making some moneys man just play it cool

and yea i dont like gravel my back yard is all dirt and grass or mud when it rains so lay a tarp out and get to wrenching when it rains

 

well cheeto, i did something on the truck, since you were wondering if i made any progress. put the bumper and grill on :flipoff:


about all i could do in the half hour i got the kids to both sleep at the same time.

 

i decided to keep the d60 rear for the time being since no one could answer me if i'd need to do any driveshaft work or not to swap in a sterling. fun funds are low right now, and driveshaft work isn't in teh budget. picked up the wheel cylinders. might try and put em on tonight after everyone goes to sleep and i have "me" time.

got a possible tip on a good truck in a junkyard from a random "colorful" crackhead. weird, i was out there working on it and he drove by, hit the brakes, backed up and got out to tell me that he saw "a truck just like this one in the junkyard, but it had nice rims and big tires, even one of them big ol' chrome roll cage bar things in the bed. if you saw this truck you'd say WOW mang, whys dis in da junkyard".

made me lol, but i'm going to check the yellow pages and make a call to the yard to see if it's a real tip.

 

Just get it going for now so you can have a little fun with it that will help motivate you!


and 'dats when ya say smoke another boozy'

 

that's the plan now i guess larry. the guy with the axles and tires is dragging *** and i unfortunately don't have the cash laying around anymore to drop $1700 on tires and axles when or if he gets around to pulling them from the truck they are in. i'm good at getting money spread out even enough to keep up on all the bills, but saving up money is not a strong point for me.

i'd love to be out of the house working right now, making money to pay off everything we have and get a stock pile of spare cash going, but right now i've got to have a little sit down with the wife and get her head on straight, because right now she's effing us over bad with her decisions lately. i stopped drinking for a bit to get a clear head so i can sit back and assess things. i used to work 60+hours a week when i first got with the wife. money was good, i liked life and had some fun. i miss that, as i don't get much enjoyment at all out of being a drunken house bum.

priority number one is to get her her goddamned license. she's 25 years old for christ's sake and she's never had one. it was bad enough to have to be her taxi before we had the kids, now i'm the driver for her and 2 kids. **** gets old picking up and dropping everyone off for everything, and that's why she got all uppity about me going to apply for that job. if i got it, she wouldn't have a ride to and from work because her ride just switched departments and the rest of her crew is wetbacks who clown car it to work (6 of em in a little toyota) and an older man that she isn't getting along with right now. i'm just going to tell her **** is not working this way and needs to change. she's driven before, so it's nothing new. but she's been on some weird fear kick in the last year or so and she's been using it to get out of doing the driving test. the other day she told me she was scared whenever all four of us were in the car at the same time because we could all die in an accident......REALLY???? stfu, if you think like that all the time you will die young from a stress induced heart attack. i just need to figure out a way to knock some sense back into her because i want the girl i had back. seems like after having the kids something went off in her head, it really became noticeable after jr. was born. she's just not the same and i need to get it figured out because i don't want to be a house bum the rest of my life. i miss being a man

sorry for the rant. got a lot on my mind and no one to talk to about it right now. gotta plan out a way to talk to her as i'm not too smooth with serious conversations when i'm pissed off about something. probably talk to her serious this weekend. kris will be getting hitched while i'll be filing for divorce

 

do it sober, and don't get mad.
also, don't try to preach. just sit and talk to her in a way that does not look like you want to start a fight.

 

progress!!!!














not really, but i did go out and start it for the first time in a month+. this is the most cold blooded sunuvabish i have ever owned. if it sits for more than a day or two it needs a shot of starting fluid to fire again. once it fires it runs like a raped ape, but it kind of bothers me how hard starting it is. gotta fill up the gas can tomorrow because it ran out of dead dino juice, stupid gauges and their dan-ness <-- that means they don't work

going to try to get my *** in gear and get some progress on it to see if i can't run it at hanks 4x4 jamboree this year. they haven't listed a new date yet, but it's usually the 3rd week of august. going to talk to my buddy mike and see if i can borrow his 35'' boggers and attempt to weld the rear up and get brakes working all around. we'll see how that goes....

 

Your confidence is inspiring

 

it's more of a lack of motivation than a lack of ability. kind of like how ron white said something about "there's a lot of quit in that boy". i too have a lot of quit in me and i get pissed off and discouraged easily.

 

ahhh welding rearends just last week i welded the Jeep's rear.... in the dark with it still in the jeep

 

if i plan it all out and time it right and get a torque wrench i'll take the carrier out and weld in on a bench top when i do the wheel cylinders. no sense tearing it apart twice if i don't have to. it'll be my first diff, but i never really planned to keep the d60 so i may as well use it as a practice axle and burn a shyte ton of rods into that sob.

 

Dont weld too much at a time and let it cool in a bag of oil dry or cat litter. Also, make sure you spray it down with "non-clorinated" brake cleaner first and avoid catching yourself on fire...again.

 

it's just fire. skin grows back, it just comes back in weird colors. ise a half messican from the elbow down on my arms

 

That was my main concern since there was still a little oil in there and the gas tank is about 3 inches away

 

anybody know the torque specs for d60 rear carrier caps off the top of their head? i don't have a torque wrench and the couple that my buddy has only go to like 100ft lbs.