installed some new rear rotors.
before


and with new slotted and dimpled rotors

 

Nice!!! Are those the Ebay ones everybody keeps talking about? They look like they'll stop a train.

 

Yes. Thier very nice. Good price. Ebay get's me in trouble.... lol

 

Lookin good Eric, well done

 

9 years driving, 23 riding around. i think i got it down.


oh my god, i'll spend MY money how i choose. one of those ways is on fuel.

 

my driver side windshield washer nozzle has lost its ability to spray anymore than 2 inches and doesnt even hit the window. gonna have to look at it but i dont have the time...
had 2 days off in 4 weeks 15 days of which were 12-14 hour shifts. got back late yesterday and found out im working tomorrow and friday in the shop then flying into camp again for another two weeks on monday!.... aint no rest for the wicked i tell ya

 

I used to use a real skinny sewing needle or a straight pin to clean those out.

 

It won't be real fun. My black Excursion had the same problem- it would lose the driver's side spray completely in the winter. After cleaning the nozzle, etc, it still didn't work. I finally replaced the tubing under the cowl panel and that fixed it. Apparently the old hose had a crack in it somewhere, even though I didn't see it.

 

Just saw this on the local news. After googling, it was a 2003:

KELOLAND.com | Crash Kills Four, Highway Patrol Still Investigating

South Dakota State News Home

 

damn! how do i remove the cowl, there are screws correct?

 

1) Remove wipers
2) Remove radio antenna
3) Remove all the screws holding the cowl panel down, that go all the way across (maybe a dozen of them?)
4) Open hood
5) fight with Christmas tree type clips that hold the main wiring harness up by the cowl panel. You have to remove all five or so of these clips to release the harness, because these clips go through tabs on the cowl panel and then into metal below it.
6) Close the hood, leave it open maybe 12" or a little more
7) Work the cowl panels off, starting on driver's side. Basically, pick up and around wiper motors and around the hood.
8) Disconnect hoses from passenger side area
9) Replace hoses
10) Reverse instructions to re-install
11) Make sure the rubber windshield seals are pushed on all the way before you set the cowl panels back down.

It's not really that hard of a job, but I really hate those clips under the hood.

 

Jesus! the one thing that can really do a number on a Ex..a semi. thoughts and prayers to the families involved.

 

hey russ u should start a gas station, then youd get a real discount!


looks like they might have been ejected in the accident. im always wonder what seat my kids would be safest in, i run them in the row behind the drivers and passangers, so i could get them out in a hurry, but then i worry they might get crushed or ejected.. but what worrys me about the 3rd row why it keeps me from putting them they, is them getting trapped inside and so close to the fuel cell..

i do like the fact there is no doors to pop open, but do not like how cheap that latching is of the 3rd row either and the giant windows, the 2nd row seems allot more secure to the floor,

i think a roll gage with expanded metal welded in it around the window areas and crash bars on the sides of the 2nd rows might be good.

one think i like about the 3rd row is, the axle is there to prevent some penetration on the side impact.

its a toss up, but that cheap seat has me using the 2nd row for now.

 

We have 3 across the third row in . They're pricey, but they fit! I was skeptical until I saw the one FedEX box weighed 60 pounds & the other weighed 30! (2 seats in one box, 1 in the second box.) There's some meat to these seats.

Side note, changed out a high-mount bulb & did the front sway bar bushings. I bailed on the heat & beat , but the shop down the street pressed the old bushing out for $20. So it still worked out okay.

 

well i managed to fit in the time to swap out my front row map lights to LED and HOLY *****! those lights made the biggest difference, and unlike the smaller rear LEDs these light up everything including some of the middle row!
Fantastic, i am very pleased.

I also installed LED bulbs into my 3rd brake light but the lens came free from the wiring harness when i wasnt holding it, fell to the ground and broke the screw sockets... i got it to tighten in but now the screws are way countersunk into the lens and im not happy about that.

waiting desperately on a dc power 185 amp blue powder coated alternator, and a new mpg gauge since my compass is broken but the mpg (which i dont care about) still works!