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stevebradford said:
I’m not sure if it’s entirely ethical but Elk lake has a nice shallow boat launch you can easily take a cruiser for a swim at to rinse all that salt from the frame and underside of body off.
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That's a good idea....except they'd have to bring these guys in after I drive out, haha! :lol:
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stevebradford said:
I’m not sure if it’s entirely ethical but Elk lake has a nice shallow boat launch you can easily take a cruiser for a swim at to rinse all that salt from the frame and underside of body off.
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I drove my ‘73 Monte Carlo into Otter Lake in Tulameen back in the early 80’s after a 35 hr drive down from Whitehorse. My cousin took a pic of us sitting on the roof with the rear bumper under water. Before paving. Some thought it funny, some weren’t impressed. To be young again.
I don’t think I’d drive my salty Cruiser into a lake. That’s what wand washes are for now.
I just spent about $17 it was worse by the time I actually got to the car wash today.

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I do hate bathing in my own filth. Your right! a river would be ideal. Send all that salt and oil back to the ocean where it belongs!

Just like all the road drains.
 
GTSSportCoupe said:
That's a good idea....except they'd have to bring these guys in after I drive out, haha! :lol:
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Ha, like when car washes used to have the engine wash feature... I suspect a few 3b owners killed that option. :lol:


Not that I ever wash my trucks. 40 minute daily commute during the three months of torrential rains after salt season gives it all the rinsing it's gonna get.

Pretty much like being in a car wash for 1.5 hours a day. :hillbilly:
 
stevebradford said:
Our future.


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The Soylent Corporation produces the communal food supply of half of the world, and distributing the homonymous brand of wafers, including "Soylent Red" and "Soylent Yellow". Their latest product, "Soylent Green", a more nutritious variant, is advertised as being made from ocean plankton, but is in short supply. As a result of the weekly supply chain and distribution bottlenecks, the hungry masses regularly riot when supply runs out, and are brutally removed from the streets by means of "Scoops" -police crowd control vehicles that literally "scoop" the rioters from the street with large hydraulic shovels.

While being taken away, Thorn shouts out to the surrounding crowd, "Soylent Green is people!"
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Just discovered that Soylent Green was set in 2022.

Just a coincidence I'm sure.:cautious:
 
seapotato said:
Nanaimo Toyota trying to pretend they gave a s*** about 40 series cruisers for the past 35 years.

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The newer one is missing a marker light…

I was checking to see if it needed vent covers… and I could sell them some for special Toyota prices since they are NLA. Retail is about $150 a pair :D

I’d sell mine for 5x what I paid and track down more. ;)
 
I collaborated with Jeremy on this truck for over 10 years, not sure why they put those shackles on a factory toyota cruiser. The original truck had a mid 70s rear tub and Jeremy was at my house often to measure and take pictures of my BJ42. He ended up pulling the frame apart, he drilled out all the hot rivets and seperated the frame for sand blasting, then put it back together, one of the few guys I know who can do the hot rivets(not sure the correct name).

They spent a fortune on panels and parts, looking forward to seeing it in person.
 
Diesel Cruiserman said:
I collaborated with Jeremy on this truck for over 10 years, not sure why they put those shackles on a factory toyota cruiser. The original truck had a mid 70s rear tub and Jeremy was at my house often to measure and take pictures of my BJ42. He ended up pulling the frame apart, he drilled out all the hot rivets and seperated the frame for sand blasting, then put it back together, one of the few guys I know who can do the hot rivets(not sure the correct name).

They spent a fortune on panels and parts, looking forward to seeing it in person.
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I've done enough riveting, making riveting tools, forge work, etc... that I figure I could do them... but I have no desire to do them.
 
Just saw this in the winching section. This FID thing is pretty cool. No idea what they want $$$ - Factor55. But this video is a wicked
good demonstration on how to resplice or just put an end in a synthetic line. Don't really need the tool, but it would be a big help.
I also liked how he indicated the known problem with synthetic rope is its abrasion weakness and propensity for breaking. Something
to think about before giving away perfectly good steel wire rope.
I like the teaching aspect of this video, worth watching for everyone.

 
cruiserpilot said:
Just saw this in the winching section. This FID thing is pretty cool. No idea what they want $$$ - Factor55. But this video is a wicked
good demonstration on how to resplice or just put an end in a synthetic line. Don't really need the tool, but it would be a big help.
I also liked how he indicated the known problem with synthetic rope is its abrasion weakness and propensity for breaking. Something
to think about before giving away perfectly good steel wire rope.
I like the teaching aspect of this video, worth watching for everyone.

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Cool fid design. Nice to need only one for all sizes.

He should have tapered the buried bit tho. Make it nicer to use. ;)

I have a set of these ones with the barb in the back. They work pretty well too.
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Certainly better than the ones I had 30 years ago without the barb... Doing a rope to wire splice and having the fid come off halfway through can harsh your mellow a little bit.

Crazy how easy it is to splice that new synthetic stuff. Cored yacht braid is a pain in the ass by comparison.

For the ones I did that'd go on the ocean floor for years they'd get a few stitches through them too.
 
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