DirtyComanche

Toyota frames are terrible. There isn't a production frame out there worth using. Don't kid yourself.

I picked it up used and cleaned it up a bit. Image Not Found I think it's an edelbrock performer? But I think it could be a 'fake' chinese knock-off. There's not much on it for ID other than some numbers cast on the bottom. However, I thought the real edelbrocks had their namesake cast onto the flat surface by the coolant outlet? It's old enough that it was pitted fairly heavily. Either way I don't really care, I paid an alright price. Just I'd rather be honest about it being a chinese knock-off if it is, and anyone ever asks.

X2. Since I'd assume it is actually registered. I'd black out the S/N at least. Maybe there's nothing they can do with it, but I'm a paranoid sort (I don't even go by my real name at the bar :nuts: )

Low end is Free or $50 sorta range, seen them up to $500 if they're in okay shape. Just a stock axle. Even if it's a bit beat up, it should be worth something if you hit up the yota guys, they're always breaking them.

Congratulations :cheers:

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I doubt they're chromo. Get them and prove me wrong. Most, if not all, chromo shafts have '4340' or whatever ('4XXX') stamped into the yokes, which is plainly visible when installed. Also, the yokes are no bigger than the 297X/760X shafts, as they have to conform to that specification. Some of them ship a bit oversized, I'm talking only .050" extra, and have to be smoothed out to fit sometimes (try putting a yukon shaft in a D44, often it won't work). Also, full circlips can be done on any shaft, although it is atypical. Warn, Yukon, and a few other vendors offer stock replacement shafts. As in the same material, but perhaps slightly different physical dimensions.

Basically; if it's beat up don't bother restoring. If there's a few dings/generally straight then fly at it. But in that picture, no, it's not worth fixing that. There's better stuff in the junkyards.

Looks like a write off. I'd build my own bed over fixing one. Er, that's exactly what I did. I know that option might not appeal to most, but I'm one of 'those' people.

This is the trend in all western nations. I'm not sure how it will unfold. Britain allows Muslims to practice sharia law. I'm scared it will happen here. There was a case that was going to go through the courts regarding polygamists and 'religious freedom' regardless if it was directly contrary to law. It got thrown out (the polygamists won't be charged, that is), which I actually saw as positive because had it gone through the courts they would have probably won and thus set precedent that your right to practice religion trumps the law. Which I never, EVER, want to see.

I don't really have any hobbies anymore. Life got in the way. Just this: Oh, and I work on junk like this: Image Not Found (No, I don't work for them, I'm not posting a beer label and then an actual company machine consequentially)

Meh, it's getting warmer here. We used to go years where we'd get a frost at least every month... Now, no. Global warming is no longer the preferred term, they like 'climate change'. If you should be afraid of it or not is another matter; as some climate change is entirely natural. As it sits we're on an artificially accelerated cycle. By a factor of what, I don't know. I'm okay with that, I'm sure my driving habits will get me killed long before the change in climate. FWIW, I've been to places where the glaciers are retreating... And advancing.

Careful on that one... The attic space might not be rated to hold any weight, and will sag out...

It's a light beer? Count me out. PS, it took only 3 year (maybe longer) for that terrible bud light lime to make it here. Now all my friends drink it. I tell 'em at least my lucky isn't a light (woman's) beer.

I have a friend that I give my parts to. He stores them for a small fee. Well, I give him a bunch of useless junk, he keeps it, I acquire more useless junk, I realize I need something that I previously gave him, I take recently acquired useless junk over and trade for the now needed useless junk. But I've still got way too much junk lying around. I keep trying to sell things but people don't bite on it since they think all of my parts are heavily abused. :roll:

Two words on bear/pepper spray... Don't use it in the upwind direction, and DON'T take it into the passenger area of a helicopter because it has a tendency to go off in an uncommanded manner... Oh, get between mother and cubs, and you'll probably be badly enough injured that you will die, before you get the bear spray out. That said, they should probably change all the signs to read like that one... :rotf:

One of the places I MUST go at some time. :thumbsup:

I didn't think you were :cheers: Oh, I bought a new roll-cabinet today, and emptied my old box. We'll see if I can work up the courage to give it a heave. Well, maybe I'll ask around at work and see if I can get a case of beer for it first. I find it very strange, but I feel guilt for owning things that I don't use. Oddly, throwing them away absolves me of that guilt. Which makes very little sense in the respect that throwing them out doesn't lead to them being any more useful than had I kept them lying around. :dunno: It was a 'liberating' experience when I moved out of my apartment as I used the 'Well, this isn't worth moving' excuse on about 70% of my stuff. Maybe I'm gonna go all long haired earth muffin on everyone. :doh:

Today I did something that I don't think I ever could do before. I threw away a tool. As in, picked it up, and tossed it into the trash. Not a broken tool, but a tool that functioned as well as it did when it left the factory. There was no rage involved, only simple reasoning. And it's opened up a whole new avenue to de-cluttering my life. It was my PA (like Harbor Freight) water pump pliers that got the chuck. I used them once, found them to be terribly useless (water pump pliers are basically hack anyways, and these ones were especially poor) and left them in the bottom drawer of my 'extra' toolbox at work for the last year. I took that box home today and went through it. I managed to throw away my fried digital calipers (another junk tool bought in a pinch), along with half a pound of mismatched used hardware. I had managed to start throwing away most used hardware sometime last year, but this stuff had escaped notice as I rarely opened that box. Not new hardware though, I can't throw that out, regardless of how useless it is (I have a pile of 'special' bolts which do not fit regular sized holes, but they're NEW!) Nor anything that seems like it might be 'really useful'. The next step I think will be buying a toolbox that actually fits my tools, then throwing this box in the scrap metal bin. I'm not there yet. I do still have the receipt for this box, and know how much money I wasted on it. Hopefully at some point I can rid myself of all my bent/broken screwdrivers I keep thinking might be 'useful'. That's a distant goal.

Good luck, let us know how it goes. :Canadaflag:

Reminds me of the 'cow catcher' off of a train. Granted, they had a little more style about it. Slope the bottom more, add in the piece missing in the middle, extend the sides out and around to the flare (for those willing to cut) or just out farther with a slope on the ends. Don't use tie-downs for D-rings, add real D-ring mounts that go through and attach to the brackets that tie the bumper into the uniframe (which I hope are long brackets that pick up all the steering box bolts and etc). :dunno: I wouldn't buy a bumper either way.

I think it's BS. Like most things arriving via chain mail. I meant to try it when I first heard it. I just use the torch or grinder method instead, so it's hard to say.

Got that right Dirty. Investigated moving up there but your gov. immigration bastids want most all of my retirement check for the privilege. Same for Down Under. Financially tough to do it legally. :nuts: It's a pretty screwy system. Basically, if you're either employable, have money (and want to spend it), or are white, they really aren't interested in having you. I don't have anything against minorities, however, they really go out of their way to allow a lot of people with no useful skills or assets into the country. As an example, my brother is a university graduate (with a real engineering degree, no 'fine arts' crap), and picked up a GF that was a foreign student while he was there. She's Russian born (speaks fluently), spent 8 years in Japan (speaks fluently, went through their :nuts: school system too), and attended university here (thus, her English is fluent, and she can write better than me too) to obtain a degree and payed a LOT for it. Were they interested in allowing her to immigrate once she had her degree? Nope, not really. After all, she actually would be an employable immigrant! Anyways, she's got some extended work visa/greencard or something now (after a lot of fighting with the .gov), but I'm not sure if they're yet interested in allowing anything to be permanent. :doh:

We knew things were bad when the illegals we were hiring here were Americans.

Clean = Not Dirty :cheers: I feel threatened by the wording of this statement, as it makes a very obvious reference to me, and me specifically. After all, I am 'Dirty'. Where do I lodge a complaint? ;)