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Old 02-20-2013 | 11:27 PM
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haha,I was being silly. He has the cc 250 shortbed.white with calypso two tone...aka "titty pink" according to the very prim and proper grandma...seriously!
 
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Old 02-21-2013 | 07:08 AM
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After being married for 51 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Fifty one years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl. Now ... I have a $500,000.00 home, a $35,000.00 car, a nice big bed and a large screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 73-year-old woman. It seems to me that you're not holding up your side of things."

My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.
Aren't older women great? They really know how to solve an old guy's problems!
 
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Old 02-21-2013 | 08:20 AM
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LOL great one Tom!

Reminds me of "I like older women..how about you!"
 
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Old 02-21-2013 | 09:37 AM
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You ain't kidding! I would love to see something make Obummer ease up on the coal industry! I think that would do it. Maybe I could get back to working some overtime and GET MY CC DONE!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I have to admit that you came to mind while I was reading that article. The areas that the coal industry would affect are some of the hardest hit areas of the country economically speaking. And that industry has the same "trickle down" effect that the oil industry does. It would be nice to keep some of our energy production domestic too.
 
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Old 02-21-2013 | 10:51 PM
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This thread was allowed to descend below page one? It must be stickied! To prevent that travesty from ever again occurring.

 
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Old 02-21-2013 | 10:58 PM
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I dont think I've heard that song since grade school... Remember the local top 40 channel used to play it constantly back in the day.
 
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Old 02-21-2013 | 11:04 PM
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Old 02-22-2013 | 09:01 AM
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If you wired open the ebpv, would it make the damn truck hiss or should you just hear that sweet turbo. I think i wired it closed.
 
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Old 02-22-2013 | 11:32 AM
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If your hearing a hissing sound with loss of power then you wired it shut.
 
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Old 02-22-2013 | 11:51 AM
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No loss of power, but she sure sounds bad
 
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Old 02-22-2013 | 12:32 PM
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Unwire it and see what happens
 
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Old 02-22-2013 | 01:34 PM
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I wired it the other way. Sounds better and feels the same
 
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Old 02-23-2013 | 07:42 AM
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Man oh man the price of tires has gotten outrageous! I just ordered 2 new fronts and I'll do the rears in a month or so. Trying to not put it on the card. I went with the Cooper Discoverer ATP. I've heard good things about them and I'm pretty sure William is running them. Not to mention they come with an E load rating.
Originally Posted by tshrager
Well discount tire won't to do 2 fronts. They only install on the rear. Ridiculous. I said man all you're doing is making me rotate them when I get home. He says ok, buy 3 get the 4th for free. 530 out the door for 4 new Cooper Discoverer ATP's. turned out all right!
I'm running Discoverer ATR's. ATP's are different.
They have a new tread pattern out now though that is friggen awesome. I almost switched, but they were 250 a tire. I got mine for 185 a tire.

Originally Posted by tjc transport
still makes no sense. you want the best rubber on the steering axle.
Your rear end is more likely to wash out in a front wheel drive car than the front, same with a pickup. Good tires and I went across a bridge sideways last night. Wasn't very fun.

Anyways, unless your running slicks in the front, your front has the weight and is more likely to have traction with less tread than the rear which is almost always lighter.

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The company seems to think that if you've got worse rubber on the rear, it will increase the risk of losing control in a hydroplaning situation. At our shop, we don't care. If you buy tires from us, we'll put them wherever you want them.
It is true though. It's a liability thing as to why they do it that way.
Insurance companies blah blah blah.

They just go with the facts of whatever study was done and if somebody takes them to court, they will win.

Originally Posted by joshjen2000
I am a huge fan of Discount Tire! They have taken great care of my vehicles in the past. Their prices on rims are really great as well. Plan on buying a set for my '97 f250 this year some time.....They were only $80 or $90 per rim.
If you keep shopping discount tire, your discounts will keep getting better and better.

The guys there are almost always (99%) of the time great to deal with. (Everyone has a bad day here and there)
 
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Old 02-23-2013 | 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Talyn
I'm running Discoverer ATR's. ATP's are different.
They have a new tread pattern out now though that is friggen awesome. I almost switched, but they were 250 a tire. I got mine for 185 a tire.



Your rear end is more likely to wash out in a front wheel drive car than the front, same with a pickup. Good tires and I went across a bridge sideways last night. Wasn't very fun.

Anyways, unless your running slicks in the front, your front has the weight and is more likely to have traction with less tread than the rear which is almost always lighter.



It is true though. It's a liability thing as to why they do it that way.
Insurance companies blah blah blah.

They just go with the facts of whatever study was done and if somebody takes them to court, they will win.



If you keep shopping discount tire, your discounts will keep getting better and better.

The guys there are almost always (99%) of the time great to deal with. (Everyone has a bad day here and there)
The ATP's are what Discount had. I really like them so far, plus I feel I got a great price on them.

BTW I prefer a crow bar to your 2x4. I usually have 2 or 3 of them in the truck at all times. Speaking of which my crossbed box is a mess right now. You guys ever post up pics o what's in your crossbed's?
 
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Old 02-23-2013 | 09:22 AM
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The ATP's are what Discount had. I really like them so far, plus I feel I got a great price on them.

BTW I prefer a crow bar to your 2x4. I usually have 2 or 3 of them in the truck at all times. Speaking of which my crossbed box is a mess right now. You guys ever post up pics o what's in your crossbed's?
Like I said.

ATR's are discontinued.
At discount at least.

Are you talking about the bed toolbox?

I keep a chain and whatever straps and my shearing gear in there and a tool kit.
 


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