Wild and Free

Another forum I am on has a thread that is right now 64 pages long and 1260+ posts discussing this topic. There are about 6 main guys in the forum that are all having good and at times bantering debates but all is well all looking at it from different aspects with different points of view.

At that point you will be in need of a long resonator or a very good muffler or both to eliminate that noise. On my 2010 Hemi a couple years ago I had a guy back into my right rear and kink the exhaust pipe shut and the system on it has a resonator right in the end of the exhaust with a short tail pipe exiting the side, I thought I would take off the factory resonator and see how it would sound and perform and it basically ended at the axle under the box as well. Was the longest month I had, it sounded like a straight piped derby car dumping it underneath like that even with the mufflers, I was totally amazed at how much quieter it is with a simple resonator at the end of the system. I ordered a factory resonator and tail pipe assembly and have not been happier.

Someone else seems to disagree with your stance on success. He handed out phones, I am going to stand in line for my own tower then when trump gets elected

Your livin my dream life there Jag, so super jealous seeing that right now. Wife and I are going on a week long cruise to the east coast of central America with 4 day stops in the not so distant future. Sailing out of Tampa to Roatan Honduras, then up to Belize city Belize, then up to Costa Maya Mexico and last stop to Cozumel Mexico and then back to Tampa. Wife and I have never done a cruise before nor have either of us been to that area of the gulf, knocking two things off our bucket lists in one vacation.

I would not do it personally. Looks to be too much of a money pit. If one had time one could do a straight across the board trade and part the dodge out and come out a bit ahead on the deal but that would be the only way I would go about it unless one was just after a beater like that to build as a play toy like crawler or mud runner ect.

Apple claims they do not have any way of hacking their own encryption system on the new phones, to do so would be very costly and time consuming and counter productive for the reason of encrypting them in the first place and then it would open up pandoras box for law enforcement of accessing them all for any reason.

Another handy tool one should carry is a small simple glass hammer seat belt cutter. I have seen and heard from lots of folks who were in an accident situation where they could not for the life of them break out a window and or have come across extremely obese people in a vehicle where they could not get around them to unlatch the seat belt. I have seen numerous videos of people using all their might to break out side windows with a hammer even and it took several tries before breaking them out.

I have been following the Apple versus government debate and it seems all the other tech companies have now sided with Apple as well on this one. I have to stand with them as well. This is a slippery slope that would have no positive outcome for the general publics privacy if it does happen even though they have done it in the past under different circumstances. Probably the one last thing the gov can't have access to "Yet" and it pizzez them off bad.

I agree, but one must not just run in and put ones self in danger as well, one needs to do a thorough look over of the accident scene to make sure it is safe for you to go in and help, you are no good if you get hurt along with it. Also in todays day and age of new and improved blood born pathogens one needs to be extremely careful there as well and if one doesn't have the correct personal protective equipment in the first aid kit then one needs to make that judgement call on your own of weather or not you want to take that chance of contracting a blood born illness or even just a fluid transfer exchange or contact in some cases.

Pawn shops always have a big selection of snap on tools and torque wrenches are always piled up, at least in my area,may want to check there for a good deal on one.

I would call a torque calibration shop and talk with them on which they see as the best quality and serviceability. I know from dealing with them all the high end tools mfgs. like Mac snap-on and matco ect are very good but there may be other lesser known brands that are actually cheaper and just as serviceable. We have all torque wrenches calibrated yearly at work and I have my own personal ones done every few years as well. When I worked for independent shops and dealers they would pay to have every ones wrenches calibrated yearly as well. I worked at a couple shops that instituted this after having major warranty repair issues arise from miscalibrated wrenches.

One thing I found on my 05 when I replaced the factory replacement Kyb shocks with Bilstein shocks on the front end was the Bilsteins were longer. I had the rig on my hoist so the axle was hanging at full droop and when I unbolted the old shocks the axle dropped about another inch, when I went to install the new Bilsteins they were long enough to bolt right in which I see now makes a big difference with the extra 1.5-2 inch leveling spacers I have in it. Normal driving one would not notice but if one was off road bouncing and getting to full droop the shocks would have been taking a beating from being bottomed out and acting as the limiting strap and could have failed causing other issues.

My 05 was the same way, hazed fairly heavy all the time and then added smarty JR for several years and it cleaned up the easy driving haze but would down right belch black on hard romps more than stock and was about the same or maybe a wee bit more smoke while pulling heavy with the smarty jr. I now have a Smarty touch and for some reason the thing is a lot cleaner overall.

Look at it this way, I installed factory snow plow springs in my 02 which lifted it about 1.5 inches over stock with the extra weight of a ranch hand bumper the same as what leveling spacers do and they still use the same track bar regardless from OEM. A 2 inch leveling kit will be no different, no need for a longer or adjustable track bar for anything in the 1-2 inch levelling arena, go over 2.5 inches then yes. I have leveling spacers on my 05 and have had zero issues and recently replaced the OEM ruber bushings with lukes links bushings in the OEM track bar.

I would look at nothing but Fiberglass shells as well, heavier but a lot more durable and will be less issues down the road, here in the north land where we have weekly hail storms aluminum is all but a thing of the past except for all the hail damaged ones that leak all over and sell for really cheap.

As a constitutional "Statesman" or modern term libertarian.

Same here, they have a barn with straw in it and that's it, 20-30 below doesn't seem to phase the chickens, ducks or Guineas. They free roam and have run of the entire farm yard freely, no heat sources at all just straw and wind break in the form of a barn. We just sprinkle feed out for them in the winter and throw out all of our food scraps from fruits vegies and other odds and ends and they vacuum it up. Very self sufficient critters especially the guineas very strange birds there and annoying and noisy as heck.

I grew up doing that every summer as a kid, was surrounded by birds and processing them was a community action thing, everyone helped everyone else process them all in a weeks time, hundreds and hundreds of them and as a kid I was always the pin feather picker that sucked big time, there was no skinning them even now as that's the best part of the bird hold the moisture and flavor in and nutritious. Wife and I tried keeping laying chickens a few years ago but our female red heeler developed a taste for fresh chicken and killed about a dozen of them in a weeks time and then a skunk got 2 or 3 and that ended that adventure and the last few remaining ones went to the mother in laws farm. We still raise our own beef but do not process them ourselves, we have a local meat processor slaughter, cut and package to our specs, we just deliver the critter to them the day of and wait for the call to pick it up about 2 weeks later. We do process all of our own wild game like deer and pheasants ect.

I read something a week ago or so, can't remember where now that RV's are the number 1 item of all time that are defaulted on and repossessed the most. Which goes along with dripleys comment of not paying more than 75% of sticker price, from my observations these things have the worst value retention of anything, Buy new pull it off the lot and it drops 30-40+-% of value in 20 feet of ownership.

That is one of my bucket list items Dripley.

There are many many options for rear carrier options that mount to the frame of 5ers designed to haul most anything now days like atvs sop that is not an excuse. I guarantee I can squeeze the same size 5er or 5th wheel through spots one would never try a bumper pull. I wish I could have filmed the look on my wife faces when I have told her it will make it in there when positioning our 30 foot flatbed or 20 foot stock trailer in some tight spots I would have never thought of trying with a bumper pull with out unhooking it a couple times to reposition it with the pickup. I personally after owning nothing but bumper pulls for 20+ years and having pulled goosenecks and 5ers and have now converted my whole trailer fleet other than my 72 Avion and pontoon trailer over to gooseneck will never in my life ever own another bumper pull trailer again. I have spent many days playing with boat and axle position of the toon trailer to get it to pull half decent though.

That is the same way Nash's book "Becoming your own banker" is, need to re read it to gain new things each time and to let it "Sink in" and then other things make sense.

Have not listened to Dave Ramsey but just got done doing a couple year research on my own financing direction and chose whole life as a fund I can use my own cash which is also able to work for me and gain value rather than sitting around doing nothing. I can borrow from myself and have an extra retirement fund as well as protection for my assets and wife. There are so many benefits to a lot of whole life policies that most bankers brokers and even life insurance companies do not know how to harness and use them. One needs to find the right insurance agent for starters. I have a local agent I have know for years who self educated in this and works closely with the man R Nelso Nash who has for years taught people how to use whole life to ones advantage. Also known as the Infinite Banking system. http://infinitebanking.org/about/ http://fiscalbridge.com/what-is-the-infinite-banking-concept/

I paid $2200 bucks for my 1972 Avion you know cause I had that kind of cash laying around lol....................No finacing that classic

I am sure in the 90's and early 2000's the interest rates were not even close to 0 - 3% for vehicles either probably More like double that on the low end of the spectrum. But then one can finance this for near 10 years on vehicles now too were as 10+ years ago 4-6 years was a very long term on a vehicle. Heck look at the RV and boat market most loans there start at 10 years and go up from there, crazy. One has to figure this into the cost as well if one finances a rig.