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Okay, I'll wait for Dave's pic to see the relationship with the crossmember.
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Tomarse posted:You should at least let him into the house, feed him some meals and give him a drink and have a bit of conversation and then let him go back out into the field Lol I have offered him the house. He chooses to stay outside of his own will. Thankfully he's agreed to come in when it gets really chilly and I have a mattress waiting for him.
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Man reading these two threads let's me know one thing about AI. Y'all some good people in here.
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So some updates. Got home from work and found Dave taking a nap out in the jeep with no shirt and black latex gloves on. I decided against waking him up. But I did take some pics! The van is now a troll van. We may have to paint the truck red now so that it can go faster.  Also 14 found some of my spare sickle blades I have laying around  Also it may be hard to see but there's a gap between the crossmember and the belhouse caused by I think some indexing posts. It's just really not made to match together and some articles I read suggest just removing the trans crossmember period. I'll confer with 14 later. 
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14 is an artist. It appears that the shade canopy had a bit of an accident at some point.
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Pretty sure he's one of the MekBoyz actually. Which is guess is a kind of artist.
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djdanno13 posted:The van is now a troll van. Completely reasonable for you to not know the intricacies of warhammer 40k, but I can assure you that those are orkish sigils. e. Space orks are latent psykers. Their assemblages of machinery and jagged spiky pieces of rusty metal shouldn't' properly work, but they do anyway, because the Orks believe that they work.
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I know 40k, hence red truck more faster. 40k trap sprung. I really just forgot they were orks and had a brain fart.
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Shade canopies are like horses. Once they fall over, you have to put them down.
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How hosed are the tires on the van? Someone should salvage the license plate too.
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Yeah, turns out Nebraska gets real windy, and v we didn't have that canopy secured in any real way. Oops. Tires on the van are pretty trashed. Like, we probably shouldn't have driven 1600 miles on them bad. License plate is still a goid valid FL tag. Registered til next June! 
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How close are you to getting home Sims? Any crazy bus stories?
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djdanno13 posted:Lol I have offered him the house. He chooses to stay outside of his own will. Thankfully he's agreed to come in when it gets really chilly and I have a mattress waiting for him. I read this post after reading a feral cat thread in PI. Congratulations on your new house14". Hopefully you can train him to not pee on the floor or scratch your furniture. spog fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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I'm sitting in a bus terminal in Atlanta, should be back in Orlando by 3 or so. So far I've gotten separated from my box of tools, back in Denver, which I am REALLY not happy about to say the least. Supposedly it'll make its way to Orlando without me, but I'm still not thrilled. Watched a big fat overall wearing redneck try to start a fight with a black woman in the Denver terminal because he said cockroach were coming out of her luggage. Got held up in Kanas City because a lady missed the bus, got in a fight with driver, and then stood in front of the bus until the cops showed up. And I also me a very strange man. Claimed to be a former ranger, Master aircraft mechanic, and a holder of three degrees. Told me stories about how he had broken a bus window by getting in a fight with two people trying to rob him. Also kept saying how he worked for some PMC and couldn't talk about his job. Also met a very jolly looking grandpa guy who talked about how he couldn't wait to get back to his mushroom and LSD collection back home.
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And I also haven't really slept more than about 5 or 6 hours in the last 36 hours. Fake edit; Also, there's a drunk steam punk guitarist wandering around this station. He got kicked off his bus. Lol
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ExplodingSims posted:I'm sitting in a bus terminal in Atlanta, should be back in Orlando by 3 or so. Real life something awful forums Also - sucks about your tools. I'm sure they'll turn up. We talking hand tools, or power tools also?
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Nov 4, 2016 12:27
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Yes. My M18 set and also all my hand tools
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My last bus trip (greyhound, only about a 5-6 hour ride) I decided I'd never do that poo poo again. I don't know why people on the bus are always crazy people.
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Im still trying to figure out how taking greyhound is even financially viable, flights from DEN to MCO are cheaper than busses...
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I just wasn't sure if it work out with me bringing like 100+ lbs of tools in a box. Fees were like, $100-$200 extra vs. $15 for the bus. ExplodingSims fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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i'm 6'3", and about half of that in leg, from my rear end to my knee when sitting is probably over 2', so just picture someone who literally cannot fit in a bus seat lengthways as opposed to width. I commuted from Kitchener to Toronto (about an hour each way) every day, on a Greyhound bus. For two years. I'd rather walk.
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Larrymer posted:My last bus trip (greyhound, only about a 5-6 hour ride) I decided I'd never do that poo poo again. I've always assumed it's because crazy people get banned from flying for being crazy, but Greyhound just looks the other way cause they need the fares. Also it's way easier to bring your personal supply of whatever drugs you prefer on the bus.
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I Rode A Bus: Bad Decisions ITT
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Pham Nuwen posted:Also it's way easier to bring your personal supply of whatever drugs you prefer on the bus. People bring drugs on planes, people do drugs on buses.
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Dagen H posted:I Rode A Bus: Bad Decisions ITT I vote this for new thread title. Fermented Tinal posted:People bring drugs on planes, people do drugs on buses. Also, I once looked for a bus / train ride to NYC (a 6 hour car ride for me or like 1.5 hour flight). Tickets for the bus / train were within 30 dollars of a train, and both were going to take between 12 and 16 hours.
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Nov 4, 2016 14:34
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Take the train, the seats actually have room and it's generally enjoyable even in cattle class.
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Ewwww. There doesn't appear to be any support under the rear of the trans, either. E: 
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Fermented Tinal posted:Take the train, the seats actually have room and it's generally enjoyable even in cattle class. Outside of the Northeast, the train is useless. I took the bus once from Boston to Albany. It was me and about 10 Amish on the bus. Fun fact: The Amish LOOOOOVE themselves some McDonalds. The bus reeked.
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Dagen H posted:I Rode A Bus: Bad Decisions ITT Haha I was thinking this. Once I compared a cross country train trip to the most convenient flight, and the train was far more expensive. But I guess that's where literally YMMV.
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Shoulda drove the Jeep back to FL 
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ExplodingSims posted:If I weren't in a bus right now I'd draw up a picture, the original BH had some rubber mounts it sat in that bolted to the side of it. Is there no trans crossmember/mount? I think that's actually a possibility with the old front engine mounts (as opposed to the middle mounts the V8 is using. The transmission just sort of hangs out there unsupported? e: Dagen H posted:Ewwww. There doesn't appear to be any support under the rear of the trans, either. Yeah, that. So some sort of fabrication for the rear side mounts, then.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Shoulda drove the Jeep back to FL 14 drives Jeep to NE. ES drives Jeep to FL. 14 finishes up truck. 14 drives truck to FL. Cliffhanger for next season: Will 14 drive the Jeep back to WA?
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Yeah, the transmission has no actual support. The I6 engine bolted down on the front, and the the bellhousing was held down on the sides, but the transmission is just kinda there
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Just fab some sort of crossmember out of steel that can clear the transmission and mate up to the frame and be welded to it. Sure, it makes pulling the transmission out a royal pain in the dick, but eh.
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no bones about it posted:Just fab some sort of crossmember out of steel that can clear the transmission and mate up to the frame and be welded to it. Sure, it makes pulling the transmission out a royal pain in the dick, but eh. There's always: 
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So my emergency toilet paper. Request: further truck work and pics go here to avoid bouncing endless relay noise between the two threads. Pics more once I find my second loving phone hahaha
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Alternatively, just avoid bumps and stopping when you get the transmission running so nothing can jostle it out of place
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Whittle a temporary wooden x-member in better-than-nothing fashion
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Fabricate a sling for the transmission out of an interlocking mesh of zip ties. There's just about no automotive problem you can't solve with some combination of zip ties and jb weld, right? With maybe the odd C clamp or if you want to get really fancy, a ratchet strap or two.
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Why do I imagine 14 trying to fabricate a trans crossmember out of trees on the side of I75 somewhere in Georgia
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