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I've done the whole "hook a rope/winch cable to it and it will fall the way I want" I've luckily never had one fall on a house or on me, but it only took one time to learn that that rope or cable isn't going to steer that tree the tiniest little bit. It's going down and that rope/cable isn't going to change it one bit.

Viper Max worked well for me too. The Viper Classic I bought didn't last long at all. Warn is the best but I have a hard time paying new prices when I can get an 8K Warn Jeep winch cheaper. I've picked up several used Warns lately for $100 or less

LOL. Reauxdolph the red nosed gator?

Sounds like something is hanging up. I'd check the spool first. I wouldn't think it would freeze while you were using it.

The All Balls I just got were packed in the plastic box/tub container. The apparently NOS older ones without the side seals were on a cardboard backer and shrink wrapped. Pic here.

Kid is a class act, and Orgeron is too. After the Arkansas game this year he said “There wasn’t going to be celebration for beating Arkansas,They haven’t beaten anyone in a long time.” The press jumped on it, and he apologized. I didn't feel like he owed anyone an apology. What he said was 100% correct. Jalen Hurts is another class act. Glad to see the stage have some good people on it now and not just brash, arrogant thugs.

Yeah you have to have a receipt. The new bearings have the All Balls part number embossed on the side of the inner race. That's what prompted me to call them, which is when they told me they are All Balls bearings in Pivotworks packaging now. I got a few sets of Foreman 500 bearings for $22 over Thanksgiving weekend on Amazon. Wish they were the good old Pivotworks bearings but they're not. That said, I have the receipts so I'll get one time free replacement on them when they wear out. I'll be popping the seals off and packing them full of good synthetic grease before I install any of them.

Oh I got you. Yeah they just send a new pack with bearings and seals together.

Pivotworks I've gotten in the past haven't had side seals. They've been open on the sides like OEM bearings. Looks like All Balls bought them out in 2016 and they've transitioned to All Balls bearings (with side seals) in Pivotworks packaging. Since you only get one replacement, which you'll use when you send your bearings in, there won't be any future warranty on the ones they send as replacements.

Put a shot of starter fluid in the air cleaner. If it fires off for a second you have a fuel delivery problem. If not you have other issues (compression or timing, if you have spark).

Eh, better to have and not need, than to need and not have, right? I did pick up some 300 BLK for a buddy. His kids use his for deer hunting (younger boys who don't like recoil...yet) and it was $5/box, so I grabbed him 4 boxes of that. I guess I'm old enough to remember when these were normal prices on the stuff, and like you, I don't shoot like I used to. With a house full of girls, only one of whom has any interest at all in shooting, and that's limited interest, I don't do much shooting anymore.

They had XM193 for a hair under .17/round. Not a bad price at all these days.

I've more or less cut that out Fish. I finally came to realize that at the rate I'm going I'll never finish my own stuff, much less so if I continue to be the charity mechanic for everyone else. Saw a guy in a restaurant after church yesterday and he asked if I wanted to rebuild a 700 Pioneer for a friend of his. I said "Not just no but ! NO" He laughed because he remembered the fits our mutual friend's Rincon gave me. My wife said "I'm proud of you for actually telling someone "No" when they asked you to fix something for them"

I've run a ton of the WWB 9MM through an early 70's Colt 1911 and an old Ruger P85 that I had in my younger days. Never had a hiccup, but they would eat anything. That P85 was like holding a brick but it went bang every time. Most stores are sold out of the clearance stuff. My local store had some Remington green box 45 on the shelf this morning that she'd just restocked. $25/100. Everything else was GONE. Only thing I bought was some CCI shotshells for a 38/357 and the same thing for 22 They make good snake cartridges when I'm fishing.

If you aren't enjoying it, at least to some degree, take a break. If you stay away from it for a bit, the desire to work on it again will return. I go back and forth from Jeeps to ATV's to my old truck to boomsticks and then start the whole thing over again. Have a lot more hobbies than I have time to do them, but I do get tired, frustrated, and irritated to the point of walking away from it. I take a break, tinker on something else, and eventually work my way back around to the projects. Here lately I haven't been able to do any wrenching with this new kid. Needless to say I'm practically frothing at the mouth to get back on it. Nothing makes you want it more than being away from it for awhile.

Well not only is teaching them right and wrong the right thing to do, it will also serve to protect my children! Had that kid been taught not to ride on other people's property, there would never have been a situation where he was struck and knocked off of his bike. What if Carlos had been more aggressive and done something that killed that kid, even unintentionally? Yes, Carlos would face consequences in such a situation, but those consequences would have have brought that child back to life. So ultimately, the problem starts with poor parenting. A child that has not been taught any better isn't responsible for his/her actions, the parent is. Carlos likely went a little too aggressive in dealing with the problem, but had the parent done his job the whole situation would never have happened. When you look at the problems we face as a nation, the overwhelming majority of them can be traced back to someone not wanting to be responsible for themselves.

I was going to try to scrounge one of those but then decided I'd just not fool with the stock rears anymore so I won't need one.

Kid wasn’t hurt, should have learned a lesson. Yeah Carlos was lucky the kid wasn’t hurt, but ultimately he wasn’t. Dad should have been thankful his kid wasn’t hurt, and should have tanned his rear for riding where he didn’t have permission. A few weeks ago all the kids in a Science class got in trouble with the teacher. I grounded mine and made her go apologize to the teacher. All the other parents complained that the teacher shouldn’t be so strict. In the real world, Carlos could have used a wire, and the kid would be dead. The dad didn’t teach his son properly, so the whole thing is ultimately his fault

Every hoarders dream. see the same thing in the Jeep community, but most of the AMC stuff is gone now

I had someone give me a 95 2wd a while back. Misding rear end, top end, and a few other odds and ends. Think I’m still going to make a guest bike out of it (I like that term Fish lol)

This might sound like a stupid question, but you have a good fully charged battery on that thing? The newer bike electronic stuff seems to get squirrely if you have an iffy battery on them. If you were to order another of those computers for a dealership, is there a part number or something? I know the tools like the oil pressure gauge for reading oil pressure on the Rubicons had a Honda part number @toodeep

Those sound awesome. I have a couple of old military 1/4 ton trailers for my Jeeps and they were originally designed to float as well. Sometime prior to me picking them up others cut out the rear panel and make a tailgate.

Yeah but the rest of us don't! Writem up!

You can rewrite, for example, your "how to adjust vavles" thread for this forum. Stuff like that will help when people are searching the web on how to do something.

Impressive project. Missed it till now, but looks great!