DirtyComanche

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? ;)

I didn't even know it existed.

I don't like that kit. But you'd be hard pressed to find something I do like. As said, the bushings are the axle end of the big arm should be heims. Or something else with a hard body (minimal deflection). Also, in that case the track bar should use something harder than rubber/poly bushings. And, they went all silly and laser'd their log in everything. I wouldn't buy something like that. Why introduce a weakness into the design? Bent arms are also not a great idea, IMHO. On the big arm they could have made it a non-issue by having the bend a bit farther forward, where the arm 'splits'. Track bar looks too weak, IMHO. Although it might be comparable to others out there. Which are also too weak. Track bar bracket looks weak. Looks like it comes with garbage shocks.

I'd suspect that you could brush the POR liner on... But, you might want to talk to them about that ahead of time. Also, you can often rent a compressor for a minimal fee ($40) that will get the job done. Or see if you have friends with one that like beer, or whatever. I lend mine out often enough.

Looks like it's a pretty good deal at $180 including the gun.

Okay, obviously I suck at ordering parts or something. I had a box of stuff from polyperformance that I had ordered at the same time as the above brackets. I took everything out and looked at it and it all looked good. That was yesterday. Today I went to put it all away as I don't need most of it yet. But something was bugging me. Normally they thread the jam nuts and tube adapters onto the shanks of the rod ends for shipping. They didn't this time. Hmm. All the JJs are LH thread. All the adapters and nuts are RH. They are ALL supposed to be RH. Invoice says RH, and I know I did because they called me back to make sure I actually wanted all RH when I ordered it. Sweet. So they're sending me RH JJs and a pre-payed shipping label to send back the LH ones. They were friendly and apologetic about the problem, but one way or another it's a PITA/waste of time. Hopefully I don't sound like a chronic complainer. :shake:

So, I gave Ballistic Fab a phone call. Short hold period, explained my concerns... He said they had a bad run and some of the stuff go shipped that shouldn't have. Which I'd interpret as that I wasn't the first to complain, so hopefully they're checking things a little more carefully now. Apparently I have a new bracket on the way. So, I'd say the did a good job of fixing this - however it will still cost me money as part of the shipping always comes up collect when going cross boarder. And I lose time one way or another. We'll see when it gets here.

I will be talking to them on the phone tomorrow to see what they say. I am not happy that they would send this crap out in the first place, but I like to give everyone a fair chance. I will post who it is later... Regardless of the actual outcome of my chat, just then when I post who it is I can post how they rectified my issues (if they do). Fair? To me it is, IMHO this stuff should never have left their shop.

Be careful you guys, and I hope you have insurance to cover any damages.

I'm planning to raise a little hell, but I'm probably SOL as who I bought them from has a policy of no returns after 60 days. I ordered them the last time I was in town, over 2 months ago, and didn't see them until today as I hadn't been back until Saturday. Either way, unless they were nice and agreed to cover all shipping costs, it wouldn't make sense for me to send them back. Also, if they go back, that halts my progress, I don't know how much longer I'll be here, but probably only until Saturday (it takes at least 5 days to get anything shipped here). That is my unique plight as a result of my living and working arrangements. And they're link brackets. So yeah, they're structural. I think most people who'd be install them would notice the defects in short order, and as much as I'd like to make a big deal about it the part that is cracked actually isn't that important. That said, it would be full on hacktackery to run them as-is. It's just poor workmanship coupled with either an entire lack of pride, or zero quality control. Thoroughly unimpressive.

Apparently this is considered to be 'acceptable'. I beg to differ: Bracket #1, cracks in 4 locations: Image Not Found #1, the two cracks on the other side: Image Not Found Close-up of one of the largest cracks, which penetrates 100% of the thickness: Image Not Found Crack on bracket #2 Image Not Found And some NA companies wonder why people buy chinese junk. Well, the chinese junk might be junk, but at least I wouldn't pay a high price for it... I will grind the cracks out, weld them up and grind them smooth; but I have to ask why that should be necessary with something that is laser cut and CNC bent and purchased with the intention that there would be no BS required.

Meh, I thought the thread had some value to it. There was a legitimate enough question for the last post. It didn't seem like it was doing a death spiral either, despite having all the potential to. It's okay, I'm over it already.

I think Islam is the largest religion in the world even if you DO include those Christians. Without a doubt, Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. However, that's a topic for a different discussion, which also doesn't belong on a Jeep forum. It's not officially considered as the largest, as of now, but yes, I'll agree, we might as well avoid the topic. It was just an off-handed rhetoric to something posted earlier.