superhawk996

If you want to be able to weld on it, make a metal table then a wood/melamine slab you can throw on top of it for doing other things. If you don't weld, you could do the opposite and have a steel topper for your wood table, but I don't think you'd need steel unless you expect to drop heavy/pointy stuff onto it. Thinking about solving your problem solved one for me. I have a large SS table but mostly hate working on steel so it's been a junk shelf, I might make a wood/melamine topper for it, or maybe just lay a sheet of melamine on it if it lays flat on its own.

So you're saying the hardness is closer to cold cheddar than warm butter? It looks like you could just have the new jack push on the frame and have the pin just to keep it from being able to slip outward. If not, I'd weld a loop or large nut onto the lifting pad of the new jack, or eliminate the pin and make a 'cup' for the lifting pad to sit in.

I listened to a couple minutes of the video before having to turn it off, the dude sounds like a goof. He implied that it's cheap and easy to make, but his video hits me like an infomercial trying to sell the stuff. If he isn't trying to sell it and is merely dumbing it down for dumb people to understand it that's fine, I'm ok with being wrong about him.

We should go to meetings or something. Yes. Be sure to send me the details so I can attend, I need this. And let me know how big of a vehicle I should bring. I'm nearly out of normal fasteners in a few common sizes and it kills me. By 'normal' I mean not stainless, not socket head, etc. I 'should' buy a few bulk boxes of them, but then I'm sure I'll run across a stash of them somewhere and regret it.

2012 is past the years I'd say are simple reliable trucks. That ship probably sailed when the 5.9 was replaced by the 6.7. I'm curious about the valve thing, is it valve springs breaking or are they just sticking in the guides? Or is it some other valve, not intake/exhaust? I'd gladly trade my 7.3 for a properly bulletproofed 6.0.

You want something simple and reliable that gets good fuel mileage, or a new truck for $70k+ that you can't depend on and is a bitch to work on? My roomie Randy bought a new Ram 3500 diesel, it has about 6 miles on it, the dealer fun has already begun. It didn't break down, yet. It had a few things that needed doing, they said it was a 3 hour job 3 days ago. They knew he needed to pick it up yesterday for a crack of dawn road trip this morning, at around 3PM yesterday he discovered that nothing had been done, including one thing they'd told him was already done the day before. It's no knock on the truck, but an indication of how it might go when it needs warrantee repairs.

The intake grid heater on some years, I think it's a screw that falls out and gets ingested. The primary fuel pump, AKA lift pump. When it fails the engine still runs but the injection pump runs hot and can take a crap. I think it'll probably die without doing engine damage, not entirely sure.

Anyone who's spent enough time with red heads is bound to end up with SPS, unless he manages to keep her away from the knife drawer.

Meh, nothing special, they're everywhere. Around here.

Add electrician to your long list of professions.

$50 for everything shipped. I'd offer more, but since they're unopened that means that you haven't detailed them which is damn near a deal breaker. I think I recall you talking about buying them, but don't remember details. Why did you, and why selling?

Every diesel has screwups/weak links, except my 7.3's of course, they're perfect. The early Cummins used in Rams are known to be very long lived, but they have a few stupid little things that can kill them.

He's using the pipe wrench to remove (try to remove) a fitting.

I've had nitrile gloves go bad, I don't think they were ancient, but most likely over a year. It seemed to mostly effect the ones near the opening of the box, as I was about to give up they got better. I was given some that were of unknown age and storage conditions in closed boxes, all were quite weak. That gift included some latex gloves also, those had put themselves into recycling mode.

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Most hybrid and electric cars call for the low resistance tires, but they're not mandatory. Back then they might have used a goofy size, but I'm sure there would be something off the shelf close enough to work fine. With our first Prius I replaced the normal tires it had with a set intended for old air cooled VW Bugs (somewhat tall and skinny with a low weight rating), the ride got better and it picked up a few MPG. They were free NOS, only about 10 years old 😬

Absolutely. The white construction workers are more likely to use meth so they'll be able to work faster and get everything properly done in the allotted time.

Probably not as bad as later builds in AZ. They're still allergic to using enough stucco to cover the chicken wire and they seem to have doubled down with other fuck ups. Greedy builders are kept in check by incompetent inspectors, and possibly bribed inspectors. A friend of a friend was a building inspector here and moved to Phoenix. He said that the amount of incompetence he's having to work with is unimaginable. The head guy there knows less than a first day guy here. There's a home inspector there that does YT videos, Cy Porter. He is very thorough. He's been sued (unsuccessfully), harassed, and threatened by builders, he still calls them out in his videos. He doesn't call them out by name, but their sign somehow always happens to find its way into the shot as he's walking past it.

Tire talk lead me down a small rabbit hole and I landed on a video from CNBC explaining how EVs are a gold mine for tire companies because they wear tires faster. One of the reasons given was regen braking because when you let off the pedal on a gas car they coast, but EVs go into regen which adds tire wear. Fucking morans.

AT 117.1 they all disintegrate. There are lots of opinions on what a speed rating is, I say opinion because asking/googling reveals several different answers, even from tire manufacturers/distributors. What I've always believed is that it's the maximum sustained speed a tire can handle at full load before heat buildup becomes a problem. For that to be true and have any degree of accuracy I think there would have to be an ambient test temperature and I've never seen that.

You're done, but this is for the future or other people. The weight rating doesn't matter if you don't use it. Even if you have the "heavy payload package" the lower rated tires will be fine, you just won't be able to use the truck's maximum weight capacity without exceeding the tire's capacity.

It's been several months since I did it but I've only taken a few local rides, about 100miles. The sprocket and surrounding areas are clean, the wheel still spins easily, the chain is fairly quiet. I kept meaning to feel the chain's temperature after a ride, that would give a decent indication of how well the lube is working, but I forgot every time. I haven't ridden it in months, being in the house and a small chore to take out is partly to blame. "Ride the R5" should be put on my to do list.

Luckily, your bus had way fewer windows than what the normal kids rode in.

I loaded a few with light hollow points designed for 30-30, 125gr. I think. I didn't have the right powder to safely push them to the limit, but IIRC I got almost 4,000fps. The cartridges looked silly, big ass cases with tiny bullets. If you enjoy watching fruit explode, that's the tool for it. Before that the most impressive was those bullets from the 30-30, turning them up around 1500fps made a yuge impact. Yes, I left that dangling fruit.

I never liked artichoke 'till I had them from my yard. With store bought I could mildly enjoy the hearts, the petals were a no. With mine I enjoyed the petals, the hearts were meh, the stems were pretty good. Unlike everyone, I enjoyed them without the mandatory dipping sauce. Objectively, store bought tend to have fibrous/stringy petals and mine weren't. Subjectively, we all felt that mine had a better flavor. I gave some to friends and they loved them also. The hearts of mine were too mushy in my opinion, possibly overcooked, dunno. Everyone else liked them. Best were the first ones from plant #1, we got around 15, the plant was a monster. The later ones were smaller and not quite as good. Plant #2 was a bit of a late bloomer, those also weren't as good as early ones from #1. All were better than store bought, tho I haven't re-visited store bought and it's possible that my taste has changed. Both were planted at the same time a few feet apart, but they might have had differences in the soil from previous amendments for different plants. Plant #1 gave nothing the first year, plant #2 gave a few. Since I "knew" that I don't like them Ashley was in charge of picking them, she didnt, they went to seed, all that work wasted. Plant #1 grew huge, around 6' tall and about as wide and gave a ton on year 2. Plant #2 stayed fairly small and only gave a few on year 2. Those plants gave me more evidence that I under-water, we had a ton of rain that year which seemed to coincide with the growth and general healthy look of them. My guess is that by not producing on the first year, #1 was able to grow bigger and stronger leading to the better yield. Pretty sure I've experienced that with other plants but don't remember which.