It's all ready to roll isn't it . . . just needs to be bolted up?
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well the NP208 has held up nicely and very impressively to a 460, C6, and a very heavy foot...as of 6:24pm Novermber 26, 2004 I pronounce my NP208 out of service! I have some very nice pieces of the broken case laying in the seat waiting to be cleaned and mounted on the wall!
i was yanking the CRAP out of a truck and about the 5th pull i heard some pretty gruesome metallic grinding type noises that would normally freak out someone but i instantly knew what it was and began to smile ear to ear! all my friends thought i was really strange that i was happy my truck was broke but lil do they know what is sitting in my garage waiting to be bolted in. so, sadly my truck will be down for a lil while (prolly a couple of months on my time schedule) but i have to admit my welded rear combined with my welded front is hard to keep up with! i was being followed by a guy with 44" TSL's and he couldn't keep up...prolly the open diffs!
anywho that's my weekly rambling.
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i was yanking the CRAP out of a truck and about the 5th pull i heard some pretty gruesome metallic grinding type noises that would normally freak out someone but i instantly knew what it was and began to smile ear to ear! all my friends thought i was really strange that i was happy my truck was broke but lil do they know what is sitting in my garage waiting to be bolted in. so, sadly my truck will be down for a lil while (prolly a couple of months on my time schedule) but i have to admit my welded rear combined with my welded front is hard to keep up with! i was being followed by a guy with 44" TSL's and he couldn't keep up...prolly the open diffs!
anywho that's my weekly rambling.
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well kinda...i still need to build the linkages for it, got the shifters and internals done. i have some 1/2" flat bar stock i am gonna use as a crossmember so it shouldn't take too long!
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Originally Posted by fishmanndotcom
well kinda...i still need to build the linkages for it, got the shifters and internals done. i have some 1/2" flat bar stock i am gonna use as a crossmember so it shouldn't take too long!
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Originally Posted by proeliator
Its about time! For some reason it always irks me when I break something pullling some yahoo out though...
A) i was waiting for the 208 to bite the dust
B) I have grown up with him and wheeled with him for several years now so it's not a big deal
lol...4lo all the time? i am sure i would break something then! linkages shouldn't be all that hard just haven't done it
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Originally Posted by fishmanndotcom
well...
B) I have grown up with him and wheeled with him for several years now so it's not a big deal
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B) I have grown up with him and wheeled with him for several years now so it's not a big deal
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o yea....i know the feeling! if i am called out (esp when i am not even wheeling and i have to crank my truck just for them) to help someone i ask for gas money before i pull them out! sadly around here i am one of the biggest trucks so i am expected to help whoever, thing is most of the ppl i pull out are highskoolers that are trying to play in the mud with their daddies 04 superduty (or the like)
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Hey cutts you can use a crossmember out of a 87 and newer truck so the front shaft will clear, and for the side mount just use a couple of pieces of 5" wide 1/4" flat steel with a 90 degree bend in each then cut to lenght. Here's what min looks like:
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Not many people ask me to pull them out anymore, the last person that did is when I was still farming, and he knew I had a tractor so asked me to pull him out, what he didn't realize was that I owned the field he was in (he thought it was across the highway from my place and there wasn't a house on it so it was someone from out of the area ) anyway he spent 8 hrs the next day shoveling dirt back into the trenches he tore into the hay field he was in (with his daddy standing over him the whole time) and then had to go to town, and buy a bag of alfalfa seed, and hand seed the area. never came onto my place again. btw that was his daddy's idea, then when he got done fixing my field he had to spend another 3 hours washing daddies truck so there wasn't a speck of mud on it anywhere.
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Originally Posted by fishmanndotcom
lol...4lo all the time? i am sure i would break something then! linkages shouldn't be all that hard just haven't done it
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Originally Posted by proeliator
Its about time! For some reason it always irks me when I break something pullling some yahoo out though...
its o.k.
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Originally Posted by rlh
But if you're show boating in the process and making a chevit or dodgie look bad its o.k.