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CSM

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  1. Is this in C Springs?
  2. I never had a problem with RV275s or stock injectors.
  3. If you aren't afraid of paying the money... Use this P/N,5015114AA, and search moparonlineparts.com. only $161.
  4. There is an intermittent and loose connection somewhere, something backfeeding into the system (any loops of aftermaket wiring near a relay?) or something intermittently failing due to temperature. As for finding it... that is going to be very tough. I wish there was a simple brute force fix, but other than going to a manual valve body, I really don't know! Even then though, it wouldn't control lockup.
  5. It was 10 in the springs this morning. One grid cycle and it fired right up. However, it stumbled and bogged when it tried to transition to 3cyl idle the first time. I kicked it out and the second 3cyl high idle cycle was fine.
  6. I love 2 post lifts.
  7. CSM replied to hex0rz's topic in General Conversations
    Wheelbase helps too in your 2500. Wheelbase helps too in your 2500.
  8. Stock suspension is pretty decent imo. It is going to take a lot of trial and error to get equal suspension towing capacity with a lift. However, if you don't tow at gcvw, that isn't a priority and you have a lot of room for changes. One thing to keep an eye on with the shackles is pinion depth. Stock, as the truck squats, it should actually pull the pinion yoke out, but with changed shackles it may change the geometry there. You posted a 4 link drawing. I'm assuming coil overs too. Nice for a lot of applications but you may get equal utility at less cost with simple trailing links and coil overs. Another thought for this route is to find a wrecked 2015 and steal the rear suspension from it.
  9. Thex emblem on your dash switch will light up. If you don't have the switch, timer, and wiring for that switch your mirrors won't run.
  10. I doubt the switch is broken... I suspect the relay is failed. At least, I think there's a relay for the running lights.
  11. They didn't have that class when I was there. Too bad. I would have loved to take it.
  12. ha! Sorry. I thought your phone was in your pocket pasting and posting on its own.
  13. Most of the forums I started on are still around. Mostly gun/outdoor forums though.
  14. Yea finals are done!
  15. So... Are you going to go all anti 100% immunization on us?
  16. There should be a drain tube from the heater core / evap area somewhere in there. I would check if it is plugged. As you say with paint, it could just be condensation, mold, and paint mixed to make a nice green stain that should be draining onto the roadway.
  17. I've always been told that you are taller after sleeping and shorter if you're very dehydrated due to disc compression and shrinkage
  18. Huh? What else does your pocket want to tell us?
  19. IMO, I don't think that is significant movement. However, I have never looked at mine. I will do my best to take a pic with my tst dialed up sometime this week.
  20. Ant hill or not. Civilian or Military. If you are a good man or good woman, God Bless ya! We are all in this together, and no matter what happens. A darn lot of us take that oath of office pretty seriously! ;)
  21. It is a time and honestly cost issue and always has been. It is also tradition, which I respect. We can't afford to train thousands of new trainees/cadets/recruits/officer candidates a month with the real life stressors that you've felt in your life. It isn't possible to make it real without really making it risky to hurt some kids, which nobody wants. The training definitely isn't all classroom. I've been in tents many times. I've been in the woods many times. I've done training that took me to my physical and mental breaking point that isn't going to be discussed here. Basic training example: Doing military drill isn't about marching and looking pretty. It is about the basics of attention to detail and whatnot, but it is also about introducing something that very few people have done to a group and stressfully making them learn it. Then, they have to use their newfound "skills" to go forth and make their way about their twisted little 12 week world until they graduate. If they fail, they get lit up. If they do good, they don't get lit up as much. The kids need to learn how to deal with screw ups and fix it. There is a saying, "if you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough!" A lot of it was sucky "tradition" and part of "the training environment." I didn't understand it while I was in it, but after having been out of it and led enlisted folks who also went through similar suck, I value it and am proud of it. It is taken to extreme at times,but it does have value. It is also just basic training. It is a course to see if a kid can hack it enough to make it through his hitch. The real training and the real character of the kids become evident and grow in their follow on training with their real jobs.
  22. You guys are making me sad I didn't buy Tylers twin kit out from under him.
  23. I bought one from Mechman and it is running great. Expensive, but it runs good. I would also look around and find a local alternator / starter / electric motor shop that will rebuild it for you with all new parts. Usually they are staffed by a really freakin old Marine or Navy guy and can set you up.
  24. I like seeing motivated guys. Unfortunately, the military of Ike Eisenhower's day isn't the military we have today. We can't treat it as such. I could get into present day politics and realities, but it wouldn't do much good. Having met you, Bill, I actually think you would have done well in the military. Don't sell yourself short. You would have likely learned discretion/tolerance for BS quickly and then would have done quite well once you got to your end tech school / job. You would also have dealt with it with your current dry and great sense of humor. No great loss to you though, as you have done great professionally and personally and have had a lot of fun in your life. Your problem, would be the same as many... the bureaucracy would drive you nuts. I've worked with former military that sucked at a lot of things and depended on the bureaucracy and constant direction to get through life. However, those guys are the minority, and I will say some of the US Navy electronics guys are some of the absolute best technicians that I've ever seen. Something about great fundamental training and then giving them 1950s-1980s equipment and maintaining it helps I suppose. The big take aways that most guys who do one hitch of enlisted life is an ability to follow directions, ability to understand and meet set standards, attention to detail, a sense of self confidence, and last but definitely not least an understanding of sacrifice and overcoming hardship. I learned a lot more about myself than the military taught me during basic training. It sucked, but I made it through. I am not the same person who signed up, I am better, even if a little more cynical. I went through similar things when I started working professionally in a very crazy industry that sent me to North Dakota, however it was different. A lot of the skills that you learned very young have not been learned by men much older than you. Most military guys are forced to learn, or at least accept, some of the lessons that you learned on your own on a Farm in ND. These skills you learned, (and M73M would be similar) would make life SUCK at basic training as you alreadly learned them on a self study course! However, it is necessary. You guys learned to deal with weather, reality, broken knuckles, dead and sick animals, etc in REAL LIFE. The military, unfortunately, can't simulate real life in a controlled environment. So they use the traditional methods to teach lessons and weed out those who very clearly just can't deal with stress or follow simple directions like don't salute indoors (true story). I really did know a guy who got kicked out of training for being unable to remember not to salute indoors... He was rather weird and totally scared to death by the things the rest of us sucked up and then laughed about privately.