Big_Mark

lol

just not busted open and broken works for me, I glued mine back together with gorilla glue and had to use tin to repair the screw mounts, but the reverse light area is open to the elements so when it rains, thing is gonna get wet, lol

kinda cool but still $$, sadly I'm in the market for driver side fixture, durn trees got me a couple months ago in the woods

I regularly see 2 or 3 other Comanches around here, not sure if you are members or not, but if so post up! Also I am looking for someone who knows "where the trails are" around here, DM me, I'd like to know where the locals go wheelin. Peace

Hello Everyone, My work schedule has lightened up so I am going to start work on updating the site. While I am working on the site it may be offline at odd times, for extended periods of time, or not functioning correctly. Don't worry I'll get it working, but it might just be a bumpy ride for a minute. I'll post up here as I hit milestones. Fingers crossed this goes well!

After a few years I finally got my new tires: Mud-Terrain T/A KM3 265/75 R16 Same size as my 14 year old BFG TAs, only brand spanking new! The last time I had fresh mud tires was on the CJ8; 44" Iroks, it's going to be a fun time in the Naches this summer for sure!

The old script from what I can tell is baked into the site service/runs on the host virtual machine (Ubuntu ultimately). I saw it (can't remember the name of the resizing service) as an option to enable in the site management settings once but am not able to find the "toggle" again. The "whoever" was working on the site updates in the past sent an email to Pete talking about the underlying database engine having issues post upgrade which somehow degraded the image resizing software etc. but as I am not a database guru I don't know what it meant. Stack that on top of the site is behind a few versions, to get access to the new versions it requires a $ubscription. Once the site is updated, things may or may not work which is a major concern. There doesn't seem to be any level of support beyond another forum for this site service. As for Claude and "Chad GPT" unless you are somewhat knowledgeable of the thing you are trying to fix, I would steer clear of those options. I use Chad daily for my job and honestly, it's a great way to waste time %80 of the time, however there is that %20 of insight that often get me to my solution, but GAWDAMMMMM is it hard to get there. Anyways let m know if you have any other ideas or questions. Ideally if the "whoever" could come back and UN***k this i'd by them some beer

Agreed, not sure who that was or why they stopped but it puts the rest of us in a bind. I wish I have time to learn all this stuff but my job uses up my "tech Brains" by the time I'm off I just want to go out and mow my yard, pull weeds, anything but sit at a computer and do computer stuff. With that said I will keep looking for a solution, there has to be a non Facebook way to continue at a reasonable price.

Negative, less than nothing from them. It appears most of these forums are mostly self-managed, meaning the site owners keep them up to date, customize them etc. I've started looking into other platforms to see if there is somewhere we can bounce to. Sorry gang I wish I had better news here.

I just sent the help request and will report back when I have something to report In the meantime, keep your uploads small people! :-D

I'll ask the sales people at Invision for guidance and will get a solid price then will post up here. I really hope we can pull together to get this handled, this site is a great resource, and community, especially for us "non social media" types, WEB FORUMS FOR THE WIN!!!!

it's not so much a coding thing, it's the actual website application update issue. To get the update "we" need to subscribe to the, presumably free, "Invision Community" edition of the website software. I think if the site was updated, we could get the image resizer working since it looks like it's a built-in feature. The caveat here is, if we update the site software and something breaks without support were back to square one, or worse. So, we need someone familiar with the Invision Forum web applications Sign up for Invision Community - Invision Community or "we" the userbase needs to pony up some $$ to get the site updated and hopefully the image resizing will work again.

Hi all, Pete has tasked me with sorting out the site performance issues. I am an IT guy but not a web site guru so this may take some time to fix. Why is this happening? The main issue is image uploading, the site server only has so much storage, when photos are uploaded from mobile devices or not edited, or compressed before uploading, they consume lots of disk space, when the disk fills up the server stops serving What can you do? If you are able to reduce the file size of the photos you upload here please do so before uploading them. PhotoShop "lite" (I believe this is free on PC) is a great tool for this purpose, yes it's a pain in the A** but so is this work I'm doing, any help is appreciated! What am I doing? I upped the server disk space to stop the bleeding and get the site back up, next I will work on a script to resize the uploaded images so we can get the disk size (and monthly costs) down. What to expect: The site may be unavailable at times. This may be due to me taking it offline while I am working on these issues, outages will be unannounced. Why this matters. Pete is paying out of pocket around $30 a month, upping the disk space bumped it up to about $50, I am pretty sure Pete doesn't have a money tree in his backyard, so we all need to respect his investment here. This is a FYI only, if any of you happen to be Linux web admins please reach out to me directly, maybe you can help sort this out faster. Peace! Mark

I welded a plate to the inside of my driver side frame rail, it was about 10" long and the height of the frame. to that I mounted a shackle/bracket to it, then from that shackle a HEIM joint, and two HEIM joins at the axle bracket. I think I might have some photos but will need to dig deep to find them, lol

Controlling axle wrap helps get the traction to the ground, otherwise you start wrapping and bouncing, when you start bouncing, ya start breaking sh*t FYI I'd run those, as long as the frame mount has some kind of additional plating to spread the load of the tourque on them. Otherwise you'll end up breaking the frame. So back in the day I was "the Scrambler Guy" in my group. One of my wheeling buddies "Jeepmauler" was the Cherokee guy. he swore by attaching a plate of steel to the unibody (in his case) by sandwiching the body between the 1/4" plates he custom cut to fit. Places like the floorboard where the A and B pillars connected to for instance, and later various versions of antiwrap bars, rods etc. He finally nailed it all when he scratch built a tube buggy thing lol. Anyways like I said this is free advise from an old timer, hopefully it helps! Enjoy brother!