[dieseldog]

Mick is a bona fide Len Beadell, traveling the Gunbarrel Highway!

and yes, I realize the oodnadatta track is in South Australia and kinda sorta follows the Ghan . . .

[calico kid]

Originally Posted by Mickldo

LOL I'm the exact same shirt right now

Boy that some flat land how long is that road

[Mickldo]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Even when i use a laptop, I use a mouse.

Originally Posted by gladly

x2, I can't stand the touchpad, the dell® has a nubbin, and I will use that if I need to, but never the touchpad.

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Well, with the DELL, sometimes I don't use a mouse--but that's because it has both buttons. The Mac's only have the one button, although I know you can work around it, I just prefer the mouse wen I'm using either of my MacBooks.

I have a mouse for the laptop but it is a PITA. It worked out easier for me to just get used to the touchpad. I disabled the "tap to click" feature and use the buttons to click. Now I am used to it the touchpad is great. It is the going back to a mouse that feels unco.

[NaterGator]

Originally Posted by Mickldo

Will do. Thanks Nate.

My brother is doing a bit of researching on how to fix the problem. I think it is more to do with the card rather than Vista as it was doing the same with Linux

Linux wireless is a whole different can of worms. You have atheros native chips with native open source drivers (very very few cards), a few cards supported by the madwifi open source driver (these are the cards you want to buy) and for everything else you are all but forced to cobble something together using ndiswrapper and a windows driver

It works, but it's far from elegant.

[calico kid]

I've got some hills in the way

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Mick is a bona fide Len Beadell, traveling the Gunbarrel Highway!

and yes, I realize the oodnadatta track is in South Australia and kinda sorta follows the Ghan . . .

ssssshhh, did someone say "Gunbarrel Highway"? Can discussions of Woomera and Maralinga be far off?

[Mickldo]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Mick is a bona fide Len Beadell, traveling the Gunbarrel Highway!

and yes, I realize the oodnadatta track is in South Australia and kinda sorta follows the Ghan . . .

Correct

[NaterGator]

And btw, ILUVMYTOUCHPAD. Even on the Eee. You fuckers must have fat numb fingers

You'd make poor neurosurgeons, except for Mick. And probably yoop. He probably has fine motor skills

[gladly]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

The Cruiser looks nicer than the Patrol.

is that a patrol? there's a diahatsu around town that looks very similar to that, which is funny because AFAIK there were no diahatsu's sold in canada, but it is LHD
I haven't seen a patrol that short, most of the ones that outback imports bring in are a fair bit longer

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

And btw, ILUVMYTOUCHPAD. Even on the Eee. You fuckers must have fat numb fingers

You'd make poor neurosurgeons, except for Mick. And probably yoop. He probably has fine motor skills

Well, I can understand why YOU don't like the nipple; however, some of us really love the mighty mouse . . .

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by gladly

is that a patrol? there's a diahatsu around town that looks very similar to that, which is funny because AFAIK there were no diahatsu's sold in canada, but it is LHD
I haven't seen a patrol that short, most of the ones that [urlhttp://www.outbackimports.ca/]outback imports [/url] bring in are a fair bit longer

Dude. Trust me--it's a Patrol and it's just not lifted. One of the things that always struck me about the Patrols I saw in OZ were that they seemed very short and very much resembled our Jeep Cherokee's here in the States . . .



The one above is the 4door version. The one in Mick's post is the SWB 2door version. Like this:



or this one:

[Mickldo]

Originally Posted by calico kid

Boy that some flat land how long is that road

IIRC it is roughly 500km or so in total length but that staight in the photo is only a couple of kms long.

here we go
Oodnadatta Track @ ExplorOz

[NaterGator]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Well, I can understand why YOU don't like the nipple; however, some of us really love the mighty mouse . . .

Oh no you didn't!

[DSRTRDR]

my truck now has rebuilt steering box steering is tizzight

my truck now has a new header the install went surprisingly smooth

the truck runs quieter now

the engine in my truck has no number I have been told that is good

the new tires feel like they run better

[NaterGator]

So all in all the cruiser gods are shining on Claudia.

[DSRTRDR]

the bad news is:

the old header was cracked much worse than we could see at first

it was a chrome header and had an excellent gasket I guess even those have a limited lifetime

on the steering side:

the resistance when steering to the left is not yet gone

the new diagnosis is that it's something in the knuckle

we are going to wallow in the grease mud tomorrow

[Mickldo]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

The Cruiser looks nicer than the Patrol.

Originally Posted by gladly

is that a patrol? there's a diahatsu around town that looks very similar to that, which is funny because AFAIK there were no diahatsu's sold in canada, but it is LHD
I haven't seen a patrol that short, most of the ones that outback imports bring in are a fair bit longer

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Dude. Trust me--it's a Patrol and it's just not lifted. One of the things that always struck me about the Patrols I saw in OZ were that they seemed very short and very much resembled our Jeep Cherokee's here in the States . . .

Both wrong

The car in my photo is a Ford Maverick. Ford rebadged the patrol for themselves. They didn't have the smaller motors, only the 4.2L petrols and diesels and they had a higher level of trim than the patrols.

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Oh no you didn't!

Yep. It brought the funnay.

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by Mickldo

Both wrong

The car in my photo is a Ford Maverick. Ford rebadged the patrol for themselves. They didn't have the smaller motors, only the 4.2L petrols and diesels and they had a higher level of trim than the patrols.

Yeah, well you know that the Ford Maverick is just a Patrol with a different name. Bitch.

[Mickldo]

Originally Posted by Mickldo

Both wrong

The car in my photo is a Ford Maverick. Ford rebadged the patrol for themselves. They didn't have the smaller motors, only the 4.2L petrols and diesels and they had a higher level of trim than the patrols.

The one in my pic is lifted 5" with a 1" bodylift. It competed in the 2001 Outback Challenge in the production class.

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

my truck now has rebuilt steering box steering is tizzight

my truck now has a new header the install went surprisingly smooth

the truck runs quieter now

the engine in my truck has no number I have been told that is good

the new tires feel like they run better

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

the bad news is:

the old header was cracked much worse than we could see at first

it was a chrome header and had an excellent gasket I guess even those have a limited lifetime

on the steering side:

the resistance when steering to the left is not yet gone

the new diagnosis is that it's something in the knuckle

we are going to wallow in the grease mud tomorrow

You go, girl! Sounds a fair day!

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by Mickldo

The one in my pic is lifted 5" with a 1" bodylift. It competed in the 2001 Outback Challenge in the production class.

Well, that's cool and all--but it ain't a Land Cruiser. At least tell me it has a diesel . . .

[NaterGator]

Alright TUT. I'm dozing off at the keyboard so it's time to call it. Adios, fuckers

[Mickldo]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Yeah, well you know that the Ford Maverick is just a Patrol with a different name. Bitch.

Yeah. Even the Ford Lovers admit it is just a Poo Troll

[gladly]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Dude. Trust me--it's a Patrol and it's just not lifted. One of the things that always struck me about the Patrols I saw in OZ were that they seemed very short and very much resembled our Jeep Cherokee's here in the States . . .



The one above is the 4door version. The one in Mick's post is the SWB 2door version. Like this:



or this one:

aha, the one I've seen around here looks to be one of these

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Alright TUT. I'm dozing off at the keyboard so it's time to call it. Adios, fuckers

G'night, Nate. Thanks for droppin' in. I'll keep you up to date on the diving during the cruise.

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by yooper

The regular iPods are better music players. The iPod Touch has a web browser and does email and has a nice screen for watching movies. It's the right one for me because it replaces my Palm that I use every day and it replaces a laptop for me when traveling. But there are some big compromises compared to other iPods in music playing terms. The best music players are the iPod Classics with big hard drives.

is there a way to get my existing CDs onto the iPod or are they all copy protected

[dieseldog]

Mick--so far my KZJ doesn't seem to like these Repco fuel filters as much as Toyota OEM . . .

[calico kid]

Originally Posted by Mickldo

IIRC it is roughly 500km or so in total length but that staight in the photo is only a couple of kms long.

here we go
Oodnadatta Track @ ExplorOz

Now that looks Like one cool trip this summer I an hoping to get to Nevada to find some long trails. I have done some of the Mojave

Off Road Runners


my truck is the green and white 55 and the grey 40

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by srplus

When I did one on my 40 with a Man-A-Fre I used two and never had a problem with them... had to use the half of a lock washer on a couple of the bolts to make it seat properly IIRC.

that was the cool thing, the bolts all came out without issue, the intake manifold was already ground to match, the washers, too

it really was the exct same header design, except for a half inch where the collector meets the tail part of the exhaust - we janked the exhaust forward a bit

I also got a custom frame hanger for the exhaust to reduce vibrations thanks to Kevin