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I told little man to tell mommy he wants to go to Orlando, he said it just so plain and clear. My wife's reaction was Oh my now I have 2 of them saying it! That off course that got him to walk around the house for the next 10 minutes saying Orlando, Orlando!!
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Started building another M966 hood yesterday. My buddy from down the street came and looked at all the work I have been doing to the Dodge, I need to pick up a drive shaft seal and get that replaced since it is leaking.I also need to get 2 wiper blades and a thermostat. I think they removed the thermostat since it never really warms up in the winter and the heater blows mostly cold air. The new door speakers should arrive by Friday so I can get those installed this weekend. I guess the next thing is looking into replacing the 2 rear tires. It has 2 fairly new mud claw radial m/t tires up front and 2 worn out wrangler tires in the back. Then it will be a new drivers door and interior parts. My wife asked what am I going to do with it when I'm done. I said fix it up slowly and sell the suburban when I retire.
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Started building another M966 hood yesterday. My buddy from down the street came and looked at all the work I have been doing to the Dodge, I need to pick up a drive shaft seal and get that replaced since it is leaking.I also need to get 2 wiper blades and a thermostat. I think they removed the thermostat since it never really warms up in the winter and the heater blows mostly cold air. The new door speakers should arrive by Friday so I can get those installed this weekend. I guess the next thing is looking into replacing the 2 rear tires. It has 2 fairly new mud claw radial m/t tires up front and 2 worn out wrangler tires in the back. Then it will be a new drivers door and interior parts. My wife asked what am I going to do with it when I'm done. I said fix it up slowly and sell the suburban when I retire.
I said fix it up slowly and sell the suburban when I retire.
I think you enjoy work too much.
We should have a new Jeep by the weekend. We are looking at 2019 Cherokees. USAA aprroved us for 25k Payments will go up less than 50.00 over what we are paying now on the 07, insurance 150 for 6 months. Thanks to their car buying service I have 6 dealership to talk to.
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OK so slowly is going so well right now, more like get done what I can. It's finally starting to look nice. My daughter crawled up inside yesterday and commented on how much better it is looking.
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I don't mind working but I can find plenty of stuff to keep me busy around the house instead of going to a job. I want to be able to take my son to school and pick him up every day instead of working.
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Here is what we bought
https://www.landmarkdodge.com/auto/n...w-ga/27535678/
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[QUOTE=hturner12;18081634It hard to stop doing what you have done for decades. It took me several years to adjust to it.[/QUOTE]
I think I could adjust pretty quickly.
The jeep is super nice. Congratulations!
I think I could adjust pretty quickly.
The jeep is super nice. Congratulations!
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Tell you wife you want a Demon but if money is tight you will settle for a Halls at. Landmark had 2 Demons and 1 Hellcat in the show room. The Hellcat was cheap at 70. 1 demon 88 the other was 95.
They fired up the hellcat up while we were there. Just some thing about 700hp coming to life
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I feel we got a great deal on our car. If I bought a Demon or Hellcat I would have to keep working past my retirement date goal, I think I'm good for now but they are super bad. I can do a lot of vacation trips for 70 to 95 thousand.
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I could do alot with that much money also.
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My daughter said the other day that she got the dodge 2 years ago and it finally took me that long to get around to messing with it. I said has it really been that long? The new front speakers came in yesterday so I will get them installed this weekend and that will finish up the radio stuff. Stopping to get a transmission output seal on the way home so I can replace that leaky little devil this weekend. I am also going to get a thermostat and some wiper blades.
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I got 99% of the grass mown around the property.this afternoon!!! I have one more place but it's small and won't take long tomorrow to finish up.I am going to install the new speakers in the truck in the morning before everyone wakes up since I get up early. I picked up the trans output seal, a new thermostat and gasket and wiper blades on the way home..