Cause Dan Said I didn't do anything
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- #182
Just for Greg,
Here are a couple pics of me grooving those militarys. Went pretty smooth and turned out pretty good. I only did one, will to the other one and my used swampers next spring. If I remember will take a pic of them finished and cleaned up as it looked a little wierd with fresh rubber in just a few areas that were grooved.
Cheers
Here are a couple pics of me grooving those militarys. Went pretty smooth and turned out pretty good. I only did one, will to the other one and my used swampers next spring. If I remember will take a pic of them finished and cleaned up as it looked a little wierd with fresh rubber in just a few areas that were grooved.
Cheers
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- #184
No siping, they are just spares for the trucks. yes 16 X 7 wheels, just standard 4.25 back space, so I got a pair of 1.5 in spacers for when I have to throw on the spare. Looks a bit better with knobbies on the roof too!
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- #185
So I decided to upgrade the Rad on this rig seeing it was over heating all the time. I switched from electric back to mechanical fan a while back, but that didn't do much. I noticed the rad wasn't a 4 core, so I got a spare rad we had laying around at my parents place and had it rebuilt to a 4 core, then it sat in my shop for a year. Also a while back when I blew my altinator in the pine pass I had my PG buddy kim order me a new water pump (cause I overheated and spewed fluid everywhere) but just had it sitting on the shelf a few years becuase it was really just my altinator bearing that was siezed. Then I thought my thermostat was also faulty, so I ordered one a little while ago.
So I decided to change everything this weekend and good thing I did. Rad was just 3 core, so upgrade there, the thermostat was some weird ass thing that didn't resemble the OEM that I replaced it with, the water pump was really hard to turn so I think the bearing was fxxxed. Then as I was scraping the gasket off, noticed some chunks in the block, picked at it with a screw driver and out came three old fins from an old water pump that cratered and they were blocking most of the port into the block. Whoever changed the old water pump didn't look into the block and these fins must have been there a long time, but survived. Took if for a spin and most of the drive the needle didn't move from half way. I pulled one of the longest hills in the area (pulled it hard to see what it would do) and the needle moved to about 3/4 up, but not close to the red warning area where it seemed to sit all the time before this fix up. Will see how this impoves when pulling a trailer and hitting hill after hill on the way to tumbler, but things look promising and I might not have to put on the intercooler I was planing on doing on this temporary rig
So I decided to change everything this weekend and good thing I did. Rad was just 3 core, so upgrade there, the thermostat was some weird ass thing that didn't resemble the OEM that I replaced it with, the water pump was really hard to turn so I think the bearing was fxxxed. Then as I was scraping the gasket off, noticed some chunks in the block, picked at it with a screw driver and out came three old fins from an old water pump that cratered and they were blocking most of the port into the block. Whoever changed the old water pump didn't look into the block and these fins must have been there a long time, but survived. Took if for a spin and most of the drive the needle didn't move from half way. I pulled one of the longest hills in the area (pulled it hard to see what it would do) and the needle moved to about 3/4 up, but not close to the red warning area where it seemed to sit all the time before this fix up. Will see how this impoves when pulling a trailer and hitting hill after hill on the way to tumbler, but things look promising and I might not have to put on the intercooler I was planing on doing on this temporary rig
weird problem, did once see a WP that wasn't circulating after its impeller fell apart (on a bmw, not your 3B). Sounds like you're in business for Tumbler though.
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- #187
Damn strait, gonna go over the fluids today, then we are taking off Friday morning for July long second maintenance run (we did one a few weeks ago hauling rocks with quads trailer and bobcat, near got bobcat stuck in swamp hole 
) to get ready for July 20 th trip where we will be pack mules for the girls taking their horses on the trail. Can't wait, will be first wheeling trip of the year and I am itching like five year old with chicken pox!
) to get ready for July 20 th trip where we will be pack mules for the girls taking their horses on the trail. Can't wait, will be first wheeling trip of the year and I am itching like five year old with chicken pox!
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- #188
Well I hadn’t really done much to the old wagon except wheel the piss out of it, so thought I would give it some love this winter. I had spongy brakes for a while, so that was on my list. Then a few weeks ago I was driving in town and lost my brakes at an intersection, swerving around one car and luckily the second car was paying attention and didn’t go. I had to replace a rotor and callipers from spare parts I had lying around, and then all new back brakes. Already feels better without proper bleeding then it did before . Got a new windshield for it cause the old one was cracked bad. Then started tearing it down for a paint refresh. Also fixed some wiring in the rear lights tonight to get my rear running lights working and the brake lights.
. Got a new windshield for it cause the old one was cracked bad. Then started tearing it down for a paint refresh. Also fixed some wiring in the rear lights tonight to get my rear running lights working and the brake lights.
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Well, after getting three new swampers last year, the swamper I got from my buddy Adam was looking pretty cracked up so got one more this year, and the crazy part is it went from 800 a tire last year to 1300! This year. Might be my last set of swampers if this keeps up. I’ve been plugging away sanding the body and wire brushing the rust off the metal tubing. Found a big accumulation of debris from the years ow wheeling under the spare
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Well I have been running this short exhaust since I turboed this sucker and I really didn’t want to build an exhaust but I didn’t want any trouble with the Rubithon tech inspection for not having an exhaust so I built this thing
