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Front End light vibration and travel
rokinn replied to Myersalec's topic in MJ Tech: Modification and Repairs
I've actually had a pretty good experience with Cooper Discoverer M&S running on my Subaru. I in fact just swapped them back off yesterday. I bought them a few years ago after I retired when I was living off grid and had to drive about 5 miles off the highway up a pretty bad sometimes steep dirt road. I got them mainly because of the aggressive tread. They never skipped a beat going up that road. I run Michelin's normally and can't say the difference is particularly noticeable. The only issue I had with them is they can track the sections of the highway that have especially crooked grooves in concrete highways a little too well.- 18 replies
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I'm duly impressed. Like my uncle often said...Where there's a will there's a way!
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I'm assuming there was an MRI of your brain?? My mother and a cousin began having seizures and starring later in life. I wouldn't want to appear to be second guessing your docs but there are a number of other reasons for seizures. I'll leave it there. Best of luck.
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what year did the bench seat get headrests?
rokinn replied to Pete M's topic in MJ Tech: Modification and Repairs
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Well, maybe it will still be there when the quarantine is over. Maybe send the guy a note of your situation and if he doesn't get rid of it before hand at least you'll still be able to contact him. Just a thought.
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https://fortcollins.craigslist.org/pts/d/cheyenne-free-old-hop-cap-fiberglass/7092157338.html It's not pretty but looks to be salvageable. In Cheyenne. And it's free.
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Bench Seat vs Bucket Seats: which do you prefer?
rokinn replied to comanche47's topic in MJ Tech: Modification and Repairs
They look pretty similar. Mine's a Cavapoo. A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and Poodle mix. Came from an Amish breeder. Very well tempered, smart, and feisty and loves the snow as well. What's yours? Good idea, looks like she had her own water bottle too. -
Bench Seat vs Bucket Seats: which do you prefer?
rokinn replied to comanche47's topic in MJ Tech: Modification and Repairs
I acquired some nice buckets to install but didn't because the dog needed a place to sit between us. The dog died so I thought now I can install the buckets because I think they would be more comfortable. We weren't going to get another dog but kids kept pushing and showing adoptable dogs to us and now we have another dog so I guess the bench will stay for the foreseeable future. I did double up on the springs and reinforce them with zip ties so it's pretty comfortable now. Got him to keep the beasts out of my garden. -
Very well worth watching. Know your enemy, as they say. Stay healthy people!
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@Jeep Driver, I really don't desire to get personal and I know your vehement retort is assured but nothing you have listed there can be classified as a fact except perhaps your feelings toward the whole of mankind. You listed the Bible as one of the books we all should read in the books to read portion of the Pub. Might I suggest these two passages for review (just 2 among many). 1 John 4:20-21 - If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? Mark 12:31 - And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Pandemics pop up periodically and people die when they otherwise wouldn't! Incompetent reactions, superstitious attitudes and beliefs make the problems worse which cause more deaths than might have been. And yes, I classify paranoid conspiracy theories as superstition. Massive testing is necessary to find out who has the virus and to isolate them. Unfortunately we do not have this capability due to incompetence, lack of foresight and outright denial. The next best thing is social distancing until a cure or vaccine can be developed. Perhaps you might enjoy a nice relaxing cruise to sooth your hatred of humanity. My apologies to others reading my post but sometimes some things just piss me off.
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham....Autobiographical story a woman bush pilot in then British East Africa between the world wars. Best written book I believe I've ever read. Hemingway said she could write rings around him. Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne. About Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the COMANCHES. For WW2 buffs.....How Hitler could have won WW2 by Bevin Alexander. Shows critical mistakes he made and how he could have easily won had he not made them. Thankfully he did. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Ivan Doig's Montana Trilogy.... English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair & Ride with Me, Mariah Montana. Lonesome Dove books....Larry McMurtry or anything really. Eye of the Needle....Ken Follett, love all of his early books.
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The U.S. is going to get hit hard by this. Primarily because there is a dearth of testing taking place and and hospital workers will become ill due to a lack of protective equipment in short order, nearly all of which is currently made in China. Hospital capacity will also fall short because cases will spike because we have very little idea who is infected and not showing symptoms. We have the private capacity to much more testing but it hasn't been activated as of yet because they all want to know who is going to pay for it. I think Dzimm is right on in regard to mutations. From what I understand there are already two versions of it. "A comparison of the age distributions of Covid-19 cases in Italy, where they are only testing people who show symptoms, and S. Korea, which has broad testing. A whole lot of 20-29yos out there who feel just fine but are v contagious."
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Is that last picture on Lolo Pass in Idaho? No, it's Santiam Pass from Bend OR to Salem. Lolo pass is much prettier in my opinion but you can't complain about this one either.
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Somewhere in the Great Basin between CO and OR and the west side of Santiam Pass into Willamette Valley. Looong trip.
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"The issue here is that, if you look at actual causes of death in the United States, gun deaths don't even make the top ten." Actually that's not the issue! By logical extension you could say, 'everyone dies'.... therefore nothing matters and anything goes! But let's use the auto accident deaths for comparison. First off, to drive a car you are required to obtain a drivers license to show proficiency as well knowing the laws for the rules of the road. If you drive without it your right to drive will be taken away for a period of time. You have to prove that you can see well enough to negotiate traffic and highways. Next, a car has to be registered as well as insured for liability in the event of an accident. If you are proven to be at fault in an accident you are liable for the damage (via your insurer if you are in compliance with the law}. Negligent homicide has even more onerous punishments, vehicular homicide yet more so. We don't just say, have at it if you can afford it. But none the less, accidents happen and people die. Laws have been instituted to try and bring down the number of deaths. Since seat belts were required in all cars, the number of lives saved is estimated to be about 300k. Air bags are now required and save lives also. I suppose you could say, drivers and cars are "well regulated." Supreme Court...DC v Heller Antonin Scalia for Majority opinion. 2008 III "Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.... Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms." Underlining mine. Current law gives the right to put restrictions and controls on the sale and use of firearms. Enough said, I'm done with this conversation. I can find other things more productive to do like work on my MJ.
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@Eagle... I agree with you about what is typically understood about a mass shooting. Had I looked at how GVA categorized and defined such incidents my number would have been different (at least for what we were referring to). That's on me. It pays to not jump the gun, so to speak On the other hand, officer involved shootings in that category (4 or more injured not including the shooter) I think we can safely assume that the vast majority of such incidents involves someone other than the officer wielding a firearm. I don't see anything on the site that would lead me to think they are lying or intending to deceive. From my point of view the level of gun deaths and injuries and how to bring them down is the bigger point. Nothing that we do will eliminate all of them, granted. Responsible people and societies at least make the effort. IMHO.
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My statistics were correct. From 2014 to 2019 there were 2,089 mass shootings (and that's with the tighter definition). 417 in 2019 alone. Divided by 6 equals 348 per year on average for those years. Like I said, nearly one per day. Look it up. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ There are a great many ideas on how to deter mass shootings and gun violence (google it). Will they all work, who knows, but clearly the status quo isn't working and one can rationalize their position all they like, it only seems to get worse as time goes by. It's clearly a societal problem and more guns do not create safer streets and neighborhoods. No other developed country has the level of gun related deaths as we do. Deduce anyone? If your philosophy and politics are for the status quo and/or looser gun laws then you bear responsibility for not acting (say voting) to create ways to deter a societal ill (think school children). To drive a car you have to have proficiency test, liability insurance, registration, ya know, for example! If you don't give a schit, or your fear ideology dictates your unwillingness to be a part of the solution, then so be it! That's between you and your God, oh! and by the way, me, my neighbors, and my loved ones. Peace out!
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I've owned a firearm since the age of 10 and own several now. I have an expert ranking for the M14 and the M16 from the military. I can hit small targets in rapid succession from the standing position with an open site AR 15 at 300 yards (no I don't own one). My brother has his FFl and my father before him. What I haven't heard in this discussion is one IOTA of a sense of RESPONSIBILITY on the part of those of the gun rights/2nd amendment persuasion on how to prevent the now on average daily mass shootings (4 or more killed at one time in one place) in this country. All I hear is it's MY RIGHT (based on how you would like to read the 2nd amendment) that is paramount and the paranoia that Tyrannosaurus Democratis will render me defenseless based on some narcissistic Ramboism and nihilistic orientation. And yes, I will match my knowledge of fascism, totalitarianism, communism, with anyone on this site. I got my Safe Hunter training and badge (which I still have) from the NRA. The NRA now is just a front group that is part of the Military Industrial Complex and has nothing but money at it's base of priorities and lip service to......gun rights?? The notion that we have laws for murder and yet we still have murders misses the point entirely. Murder happens, imagine if it weren't against the law, would there be more or less of them. With laws against it, at least there is a way to hold those accountable who commit it and remove them from society. Gun rights are a problem for society today and comparisons to the "letter" of the constitution based on then is to look at the world through a straw. Is the National Guard a well regulated militia as compared to the average citizen today? At this point the polarization on the issue blinds everyone to coming up with a solution that prevents the needless slaughter of the innocent on a daily basis. What is the cost of freedom? Ask the 6 year old at Sandy Hook, or the music lover at a concert in Las Vegas.
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Mine had that high quality red powdery lubricant as well with plenty of space in them to cut down on road vibration.
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Removing some footprints from my hood.
rokinn replied to Manche’nopoulos's topic in MJ Tech: Modification and Repairs
My guess is it's probably an ink stamp. They sell such things on amazon, etc. If none of the suggested chemicals work or end up just screwing it up even further and you decide to go the cheaper route of rattle can and rattle can clear coat, take the hood off and paint it vertically. The finished product will be so much better. A pro paint job is of course preferable but not everyone wants to invest that kind of money in an old truck. It doesn't look terrible Conversation starter??? -
I didn't get around to seeing or reading anything but just a glimpse of that content but I wholeheartedly support the notion of pulling it. There's a whole big internet for that kind of thing out there. CC shouldn't be one of them, IMO.
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One possible way of switching an efan..... I installed an efan in my now open cooling system last spring. To house the switch I installed an HO thermostat housing. Rodney Dickman has two 3/8 npt switches, one is for a 195 degree thermostat. On 210, off 200. I used to have constant problems with high temps when slow steep towing or sitting in traffic for extended lengths of time. I never overheat now under any conditions. http://rodneydickman.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=69&products_id=235 Wiring plan I used. https://www.davebarton.com/pdf/coolingfandiagrams.pdf
