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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!

If you use new parts, yeah. Used parts are cheap for the 2wd. https://www.ebay.com/itm/2010-Honda-Rancher-420-Trx420tm-Front-Left-Steering-Knuckle-spindle-9069/122966430745?hash=item1ca15ed419:g:bXgAAOSwLUpag2~J https://www.ebay.com/itm/2011-Honda-TRX420TM-Front-Spindles-with-Hubs/312054137777?hash=item48a7e043b1:g:rl4AAOSwQwZaa7qg https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Honda-Front-Brake-Caliper-For-Rancher-420-TRX420-TM-E-FA-FE-FM-FPE-FPM-07-15/142438977336?fits=Model%3ARancher+420&hash=item212a064f38:g:xw0AAOSwgu9ZYDCF Whole setup except the calipers https://www.ebay.com/itm/2011-Honda-TRX420TM-Front-Spindles-with-Hubs/312054137777?hash=item48a7e043b1:g:rl4AAOSwQwZaa7qg

How close to the front bumper is that fairlead? I had a bumper that someone had drilled to mount the fairlead to the front of the actual bumper, so I put that on my kid's along with a KFI plate.. Haven't decided what I want to do with the other ones yet.

I'm not posting pictures of my shop, because...well it's a nightmare. I recently started cleaning some stuff out because I have so much space taken up storing parts that I no longer have a place to work. That said, I got two big 41" toolboxes (top and bottom) made by Waterloo that were some of my Walmart closeout scores, and they'll hold my tools. Finally got my great grandfather's old drafting desk moved out to the farm shop so I had room for toolboxes and can finally get my parts washer set up. Hoping I get a couple of hours to work out there this weekend. I gotta make getting my shop clean a priority, but life keeps getting in the way. As far as tools, a compressor and impact have helped me more than anything. Makes everything SO much faster and easier.

I really dig that trailer. That thing would come in handy!

Well someone gave me a 2wd 300 a while back. No rear end, no top end, but it's a 95 and had decent fenders, racks, and the bottom end still turns over so I'm going to try to fix it. I have successfully put 07-13 420 brakes on a 4x4 300. The only thing that was required was wallowing out the upper a-arm ball joint hole to accept the bigger 375 ball joint that the foremans use. It's kind of a PITA, but it can be done. After that the 420 knuckles fit right on the a-arms at the ball joints, and I had disc brakes using factory Honda parts. The 2wd upper arms are the same as the 4wd upper arms, so deductive reasoning says you could do the same with 420 2wd brakes from an 07-13 420. I've already bought two spindles and hub and rotor assemblies to try it out. Already have extra calipers on hand.

Guess that's one downfall of the system. Another I wondered about is, if you have a battery that goes bad over time (they don't last forever, even on a tender), and you don't know it, will you have a constant drain on the other batteries while the tender tries to keep up but cannot?

I have several of these carcasses I've picked up. Most were free to $50-60. Rear ends will bring $200-400, but looks like someone has already raided that one. Good bikes if you can get a whole one!

Welcome aboard

Looks like the rear end is gone? If so, probably not, unless you have an 86-87 350 you need parts for. You could buy it and part it, but don't know how much you'd really make on it. Gas tanks, if clean, can bring $.

I stocked up on 45/70 when I found it for $7/box at a store about an hour from home. Made the drive, got all they had. They’re only closing out handgun and “assault rifle” ammo (although interestingly enough the 7.62x51 ball wasn’t marked down). 9mm is under 10 cents a round. Stock up while it’s cheap.