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I cant believe how steep los primos is in person.
pretty radical guys jump that.
Awesome guys, be cool to get together and ride some time.
brad you ever checked out aop in south pittsburg?
i need to extend the reservoir on the saginaw pump, it gets pretty unhappy and tends to puke fluid once it gets warm. Ideally change from single ended to double ended ram for more balanced steering. Thinking about the old simple radiator hose method.
brad its spool 14 bolt rear detroit lp chevy 60 front. Chromos and ctms psc full hydro atlas 3.8 & manual th350.
convertor stall is too high for my driving style want to go with closer to stock stall this winter.
Those Toyota front ends, are the weakest there is, just ask Rory @ Trail Mater on YouTube, in Moab, UT
he has welded a bunch of them back together, so they can creep back down off the rocks west of Moab..... or, he drags them home behind his wrecker.
this Square Body blue truck is the latest edition to his wrecker fleet, the best one is brown and looks glued together, as it was over ten plus years, each mod he adds to it, makes it stronger.... all of his wreckers have tools and welders on them.
the last mod to Blue, was a Custom Built Transfer Case, that he special ordered, it has a Double Low gear in now, "doubler", that 454 ci with FI, will crawl up the slopes, so slow you don't think it is even moving... and pulling a big Jeep, or Toyota, behind it, and not even "slowing down", as it is already crawling like a Centipede...
Those Toyota front ends, are the weakest there is, just ask Rory @ Trail Mater on YouTube, in Moab, UT
I guess it depends on what you do with it. I see a lot of stupid driving on the trails. This isn’t a Rock Bouncer racing up the Hammers. I prefer the slow crawl and find a line that works without a lot of wheel speed. With dual t-cases (2.2:1 & 4.7:1) I have a crazy low crawl ratio and far more torque than traction (20 forward gears). I drove this truck 150k miles on the street and have been playing in the dirt and rocks for over 25yrs.
I am planning another engine rebuild. The one for the race car’s engine this time. It’s a Ford Duratec 2.0 HE I4. It needs at least a forged crank (factory is cast), stronger longer conrods, shorter pistons with higher compression and all timing pulleys keyed to their shafts. Yes you read that last part right. The factory design uses friction washers. 😬
Wut? When has logic ever been in play when it comes to toys?
anytime your wife voices her opinion!
years ago I built a 454 for my '77 K10, ported polished .040 over, custom cut cam, double roller timing, edelbrock intake, hyper-eutectic (sp) pistons, balanced to 1 gram after about 1 week of driving it I found a stroker crank which would have made it almost 500 cubic inches, my wife stopped me!
Just met a nice young man at the fuel pump. Hes headed east with his new truck. But hes got oil in the valley and coolant. Didnt have much time, but i told him to get on here, and sent him after a bluetooth obd 30 miles away. Hopefully he can get sorted, hes headed to maryland, and capped at about 60mph.
Well, we discovered this past weekend just how freaking crazy the real estate market still is here on the south side of Charlotte. The "coming soon" sign went up Friday at noon (not showing until this coming Saturday), but we had a "site unseen" offer at 9:30p Friday night (same day as sign) for $10k above asking price. I told them it was too soon, and they would have to add another $15k for me to take it back off the market that fast, and they said OK! We had a signed contract for $25k above asking within 24 hours of having the sign posted, and that is after having raised our starting price by $50k earlier in the week after our neighbors sold their house for full price in one day. We never had to get the house "staged" for showing, get measurements for a floor plan print, have any pictures taken for the listing, or ever have any public showing at all! The final sales price is almost double what we paid for the house less than 4 years ago, and it was "move in ready" when we bought it!
We are SO blessed and SO fortunate! It's rather humbling!
Well, we discovered this past weekend just how freaking crazy the real estate market still is here on the south side of Charlotte. The "coming soon" sign went up Friday at noon (not showing until this coming Saturday), but we had a "site unseen" offer at 9:30p Friday night (same day as sign) for $10k above asking price. I told them it was too soon, and they would have to add another $15k for me to take it back off the market that fast, and they said OK! We had a signed contract for $25k above asking within 24 hours of having the sign posted, and that is after having raised our starting price by $50k earlier in the week after our neighbors sold their house for full price in one day. We never had to get the house "staged" for showing, get measurements for a floor plan print, have any pictures taken for the listing, or ever have any public showing at all! The final sales price is almost double what we paid for the house less than 4 years ago, and it was "move in ready" when we bought it!
We are SO blessed and SO fortunate! It's rather humbling!
Congratulations, hope your buying end goes well too.
05-29-2023, 02:22 PM
