Stijn!!

[Outback Porsche]

Morning all

Yawn, I've just time traveled into Friday, woohoo

[Outback Porsche]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Wish that were an option. Car is gone and she won't say where it went, best bet in the family is that she sold it.

Well, that sucks.

Time to turn her into biscuits

[Jim Richards]

Sitting in the airport. It seems like I do a fair amount of that these past few years. This time just to play.

[Porsche-poor]

what sand box are you playing in?

[Jim Richards]

Buenas tardes. We're heading to Spain, David.

[RKDinOKC]

Just remember the most important phrase.

Rápido, ¿dónde está el baño

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Buenas tardes. We're heading to Spain, David.

Cool. I think this summer is a trip to Italy.

[pete3799]

Originally Posted by pete3799

So.....I've got to get a price on this tomorrow for the town as our new plow truck.

Any guesses?

This truck was just delivered to the town this afternoon

[porsche4life]

Play time for Pete?

[HHI944]

I could deal with snow if I had something like that!

Took the Harley out tonight. It got a little too cold, but this bike is a blast to ride. It's just easy to ride, not nervous and finnicky like the Duc.

[nynor]

$400k

[porsche4life]

Nah soemewhere in the low 100s. Less if used.

[RKDinOKC]

We had a huge snow one winter in the mid 80's that I had my lifted Jimmy. There were drifts over 13 ft deep which is a lot for around here.

Found it would easily go thru/over snow deeper than it was tall. Laughed at the other 4x4s that would sink up to their frames in the deep snow and had to dig out. The tire size, traction, weight, and power was just right. It would start to spin in the snow, start sinking, but before the got up to the frame it would pack the snow enough it would grab and jump forward, then repeat indefinitely. Also pulled other trucks and cars out of ditches on snowy and even ice covered roads on the downwind side of lakes.

Even pulled two trucks out at once. They were chained together the second having gotten stuck while trying to pull the first one out. Just hooked up the the front one and while they were still trying to decide what to do, jumped in and pulled em both out.

Also used to get a kick out of climbing up and over 30ft high piles of ice and snow the plows made in the parking lots they cleared. It would high center as it went over the top of the pile. We would just get it rocking and go right on over. Wonder what they thought about the tire track going up and over their big piles.

It had rear positrak and a locking transfer case, but a regular diff in the front. That means it had to spin three tires, and if it did start losing traction it left one front tire that wasn't spinning to steer with. If all four would loose traction and spin it would just slide down hill, whatever direction down hill was. The only problem is if you made too many turns in one direction in a row driving around a parking lot to park, it would take up all the slack in the diffs and it would stop. Had to back up and make some turns in the other direction to take out the slack.



Oh yeah, learned I could stop it faster on snow/ice than on dry pavement. Slam on the brakes locking up all four, shift it to revers, floor it, then let off the brakes. It was amazing how quickly it would stop while throwing snow and ice out in front of the truck. That Jimmy was like a snow cat, it could go anywhere in the winter.

Not long after I got it I found the front locking hubs did not work. Lost a U-joint on the rear drive shaft. Threw it in the back, lock the hubs and transfer case, then instead of going it just made gravelly grinding noises. Took it to a 4x4 place and found the front hubs were packed with mud instead of grease and the springs that hold the hubs locked had just turned to rust. It was because the previous owner had used only too big shocks to lift it. I fixed with a proper 4in lift kit that angled the drive shaft to keep it from breaking the u-joint.

To test the 4x4 to make sure it was all working after the fix they took it to the fairground where they had a huge mud pit setup for mud races that weekend. Back then they didn't have monster truck ralleys like they do today, instead the raced thru mud bogs. They told me they were really impressed as it was one of the very few trucks that made it all the way thru the pit. I was just upset that they didn't tell me so I could go watch.

Also drove it down a flooded road where the water came up to within an inch of coming in the window opening. The flood water was still and not flowing so I was in no danger of getting washed away. It made it the length of a football field with the water up to over the door handles. The next day I checked the diffs, tranny, and block for water. There wasn't any, but, the huge stock air filter was completely waterlogged and weighed what seemed 50 lbs.

My oldest brother, the UFO guy, just hated it because I had this truck that would go anywhere, a fantastically trained dog, and didn't even go hunting.

Took my Dad four wheeling in it once. He never said a thing. 2 Months later 3 different 4 Wheeler magazines started coming with subscriptions in my name.

Now I'm just happy to have a 4x4 with all season tires that's comfortable, handles great, and can get around if I need to.

[GH85Carrera]

Good Friday morning all.

My brother and I built a VW based dune buggy back in the 70s. It was ugly and crude but the cage was made of heavy walled 3 inch pipe. It was tough. We fitted dual rear tires and it would go many places heavy vehicles would just sink into the mud. We were playing around in the mud in view of a local highway. Some National Guard guy figured the Duce and half he was driving could show us a thing or two about driving in mud. He drove right into the thick of it and sank to the frame. We laughed a bit and finally drove over to him. He climbed on our buggy and we hauled him to a gas station to call a wrecker. A BIG wrecker. We had to haul him back out to the thing and we drug the cable with us. He got all covered in mud hooking up the cable. The first wrecker was just not big enough. They brought out a huge wrecker and it struggled to get him free. I have no idea what it cost the dude but I bet the base commander was not happy with him. Once they were out of the way we went back to playing in the mud and it had left a huge fun hole in the mud.

[Oh Haha]

It's Friday!

For Valentine's Day I am replacing the timing belt/water pump in the van. I figure the $200 in parts is more than we would spend on each other anyway.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

It's Friday!

For Valentine's Day I am replacing the timing belt/water pump in the van. I figure the $200 in parts is more than we would spend on each other anyway.

How romantic!

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. TGIF!

[Oh Haha]

Actually, my wife will appreciate this more than a store bought card. Weird by some standards but that's ok.

We haven't bought gifts or cards for "Hallmark" holidays in a while. A few days before we always manage to confirm with each that we aren't celebrating.

[RKDinOKC]

Was working nights when i got my Jimmy. Some mornings when we got off work several of us picked up a case of beer and would go to a motocross area along the river in Downtown OKC. Yes, there was a pretty good sized and fun off roading area and motocross track just south of Downtown OKC. We would play follow the leader driving around thru and around the track, obstacles, cliff we climbed, and the river itself trying to see who would get stuck. Since it was early in the mornings there was never anyone there except for us.

One guy went and got a hopped up old Jeep that had big tires and a 350 in it. He used to try to tease me calling my Jimmy and Cowboy Cadillac. Once he got stuck crossing the river. I drove my Cowboy Cadillac round him, hooked the tow hitch he had on the front of the jeep to my ball hitch, and pulled him out. He was so upset that I could go where he couldn't he sold the Jeep the next week.

Ended up buying a Keeper Strap for pulling vehicles out because i never got stuck and ended up being the one that pulled other's out. It was a 3 inch wide nylon strap 30 ft long with loops on each end. It was stretchy so you could use it to bounce vehicles out that were stuck requiring more weight to pull out than you had traction for.

[RKDinOKC]

Interested to see how soon Dead Pool makes it to the net since it is being released today.