What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (78 Viewers)

[JaketheSSnake]

Another Iowegian!

We could take over IH8Mud, but our rigs will dissolve from rust before we could accomplish that.

No kidding, I envy people from the south picking up rust free vehicles 20 years older than our rusted out heaps .

Any good wheeling areas or get togethers in Iowa? Sounds like I'll have to start hanging with Jeep people to get anywhere. I haven't done any wheeling in about 10 years, and it wasn't exactly legal back then!

 

[120mm]

Iowa sucks for wheeling opportunities. Unless you count B roads, which is all I can get to from my house when I lived there.

You do know that tickets to PHX are like $150 and that many Mudders will help you buy a nice rust free rig remotely, right?

Right now, I'm in Germany for at least another year.

 

[ontopofm]

I just calibrated my ultragauge so I know exactly how fast im going and also get the accurate miles to empty etc. here is the step by step

Here we go

How to calibrate distance using a GPS and a calculator:

NOTE
This distance calibration method is based on using GPS speed.
GPS speed is most accurate when driving in a straight line at a constant speed.

Step 1: Add a speed gauge (e.g. on page 1 zone 1 of the Ultragauge)
MENU Gauge/Page Menu .. Select Gauge/Page .. Select Gauges Select Page 1 Gauges
Use UP & DOWN keys to Navigate to MPH or KPH
Press MENU. This will cause the cursor to blink.
Pressing UP or DOWN change the number to 1
Press MENU to assign the Gauge to that Page 1 Zone 1.
Leave the menu by selecting Back, etc
The Ultragauge should now show the MPH or KPH on page 1
Step 2: Grab your calculator and your GPS navigation device, get in your car and head for the motorway.
Step 3: While driving at a constant high speed for at least a few seconds note down the speed readings of the Ultragauge and the GPS.
The readings are probably different.
Step 4: Find a convenient place to stop, switch on your calculator and do the following calculation: GPS speed reading divided by Ultragauge speed reading.
Step 5: Adjust the "Distance cal." factor in the Ultragauge
Menu - Vehicle Setup - Calibration - Calibrate Distance
Note the distance value shown by Ultragauge and on the calculator multiply this by the factor found in step 4
Press MENU and press UP or DOWN to adjust the distance value to the calculated value.
Press MENU to store the updated distance value. The Ultragauge now shows the new Distance cal. value
Leave the menu by selecting Back, etc
Switch off your calculator
Step 6: Take another drive on the motorway and check if the GPS speed reading and the Ultragauge speed reading at constant speed are now the same.
Step 7: If necessary make fine adjustments to the distance calibration value until GPS speed and Ultragauge speed are identical.

You also need to calibrate the Fuel used. I haven't and the Distance to Empty is WAY OFF.

 

[surfpig]

 

[retrofive]

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Are you there yet??

 

[surfpig]

Are you there yet??

 

[LS1FJ40]

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I don't get it

 

[LS1FJ40]

Oh wait, is that a puddle on the ground behind it?

 

[retrofive]

Oh wait, is that a puddle on the ground behind it?

Blown HG ya know.

 

[DKBrulles]

Built a sweet bumper today, get your orders in quick before I run out of cardboard.

 

[NLXTACY]

Single wall or dual wall?

 

[LS1FJ40]

Blown HG ya know.

That sucks! Yeah, I drive a 3FE, I don't know anything about that.

 

[Dragos80]

3FE = 3 Flintstones Engines?

 

[DKBrulles]

Single wall or dual wall?

Quadruple wall bro!

 

[Dragos80]

Quadruple wall bro!

Honeycomb?

 

[NLXTACY]

Honeycomb?

Interested. Do I need to fold and glue myself or can it be palletized?

 

[LS1FJ40]

3FE = 3 Flintstones Engines?

Damn straight!

 

[SammyT96LX450]

Little wheeling today. Got way to warm and muddy. #ih8mud

 

[ewillis]

Got me some new @NLXTACY gear. Well made and well packaged electrical components! If you're like me and can't build stuff like this yourself, I can highly recommend these for auxiliary wiring. Now I just need to put the sticker on my window and lower my property value about 100K!

 

[nuclearlemon]

Broke in the new year properly.