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SEE! I'm not crazy!

http://forum.mopar1973man.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4639&d=1352340870 This is from typing in the site in the URL bar. This is right at the main page of the site. Before I get redirected to the block notification, I notice what looks like a box at the top left. I dunno what is going on here...

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams

Yep, another 4 more years of screwery...

Alright, so I'm starting to get warnings, alerts, blocks to the site. I have had windows defender and AVG warn me that the site is unsafe and it could potentially reveal personal or financial information. AVG gave me a 1889 number.Mike, might be time to look into this...

...well, heres my poblem. Given that the healthcare mandate kicks in January 2014, I will have to buy insurance. There are many reasons as to why I do not agree with it and let alone the whole package. I had planned on just not filing returns anymore as if I do not provide proof of purchasing health insurance I will be "penalized or taxed". To keep them from doing that, I stop filing my returns as that is their method of collection. The govt. has prepared for such a rebellious person. They are in the midst of hiring on new agents to overcome this problem. But the real wye in the road is: When will SHTF? They predict only a small number of people will neglect to file their returns like I had in mind to circumvent this mandate. Question is, how much longer are we gonna bend over and take it from them? How much longer are people going to give in before enough is enough? There is gonne be a real big problem in our wake soon if we don't get this shi turned around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvOf6pCGpk0&feature=player_embedded http://www.humanevents.com/2012/06/28/obamacare-mandate-ruled-a-tax/ Hmmm....

http://www.monumentalmovie.com/ http://www.obamasrealfather.com/ Its WELL WORTH the time to spend watching these two movies. Make these a priority to watch these before going out and watching something else.

Unfortunately, I disagree with you and I would almost go as far as to say that is a naive statement... If you only knew what they have brewing, you would understand we are on the edge of entering a disaster. This is exactly the same thing they have done in europe and they also do this in other areas of the nation as well. This is not the first time they have done this and won't be the last.

Thank you. Unfortunately, IMO, I think it takes a 1st hand experience for people who are anti-gun for them to turn their thoughts around on guns. My sister is probably going to be one of them. Its definitely one of those things that I don't want to be able to have the ability to say, "I told you so." People do not think that history will repeat itself, but it does. The evils of human nature never change, just the faces. So when the blue hats get their way in the UN and our arms are no longer allowed because our constitution has been crushed by global policy, people will panic and get marched off right into a concentration camp like people did in the holocaust. They will have not a single way to defend themselves against the tyranny and they will have no one to blame but themselves. Now, that may have been an extreme statement, but its a good possibility it will happen... or maybe I'am crazy! When firearms were outlawed in europe, people had to turn in their arms. They did this willingly to the point that it did not take a door to door approach by the LEO's. When they try the same thing in the US, they will have person at the very least who will not go down without a fight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTyCD2n6HAQ BTW, on a friendly note, teach your kids the dangers of mis-use of a firearm. Help them gain a respect and deep understanding of it. But, personally, do not let yourself ever go without atleast one handgun totally unloaded. A home invasion will catch anyone off-guard and you would only be lucky if you were able to get one loaded cocked and locked before they took you as hostage. I don't necessarily think we are the biggest economically wise. I also hate to disagree with the idea that things will turn around in 3-4 years. I wish it were so, and even sooner! But, due to the nature of current things, I don't think we are even close to coming out of the foxhole yet. We have already gone past the point of no return. Thats a statement that is hard to swallow. We are only running on the fumes right now. Our debt has passed the GDP of this country and its only a matter of time when our lenders say, "NO MORE!" The moment we no longer are allowed to use that borrowed money, hold on TIGHT! Hyperinflation is going to hit a home run on us and our money will only serve us as toilet paper. Read this for a moment. Thanks for the suggestions Mike. I dunno if I will ever have enough time to be able to be a member of 3 forums. LOL! Back in Sandpoint, I would occassionally open carry. But after giving it some thought, I felt it would be more advantageous to conceal instead. Its nice to be able to make people do double takes on you, but in reality, I would rather have the element of surprise in conceal carry. Little do people know, that I've got a full-size 1911 .45 on my side ready to rock-n-roll. I'm shocked moparmom is not too hot on the idea of carrying! The wife will carry an older S&W .38 revolver that she got as a christmas present when we go camping and hunting. Were sold on the idea of getting her the Ruger LCR in .357 magnum when we get a chance to spend the money. I will definitely feel better having her carry a .357 that she can use when I'm not with her. A good comment I like to repeat to people is, "A gun weighs less than a cop." As well, give this a moment to stew in your mind. I caught myself thinking about the motto the officer has on their squad car. It says, "To protect and serve." Protect and serve, what? The people? Or, the law? When someone is murdered, does the family of the victim get to sue the city for lack of performance on the law enforcements service? No, because the motto, to protect and serve is not for the people. Its to protect the law, and to serve the law. Could be something seen as "way out there". But I don't put my trust in a cop to protect my life, its my own responsibility. I will literally put the big lug on the side just to go outside and take a "quick" run to the store. All it takes is that one time without it on and it turns in to the worst moment in your life. You just can't take a chance... I will vouche for you that it is nice to have it completely dark in the "middle of nowhere." The stars are nice too! Lol.. Being that I grew up in Spokane, once I moved to Sandpoint, people seemed crazy to me that they did not bother to lock their doors much. I always locked everything. On a side note, now that I have talked my head off, I always wonder if I can ever pull a trigger on a person. Not because I would necessarily be taking a human life, but because of the blood being misted into the air after shooting them. If you inhale their blood and they have a blood borne disease, your toast!

Its a no-brainer in my book. A 12-valve...

I'll try and be short. I'll go out on a limb here and make this statement:Nowhere in the constitution to my knowledge does it provide that a police force is a constitutional thing. It personally does not bother me to an extent if the police force is shrunk. The fact that they are hired by the taxpayer to provide a protective service is honorable. My father and brother in law were/is an officer. I have the most respect in their duty.BUT, if a dept. has to be downsized, it only means I have to be that much more aware of my surroundings and do MY part in excercising my 2nd amendment right. In the founding of our country, they're was no police force. If crime increases from a dept. downsize, it only means that those who are doing evil were only being kept honest by a presence of good. If the American people would excercise their 2nd amendment more, the evildoers would not have a chance.A police force is only picking up the slack that the american people have not picked up. That does not mean there is an excuse to be a vigilante or make it into the wild west...In our area, the dept. was shrunk back not too long ago. Crime has increased, yes. But thats a given because those who have become the victim from the crime have not done their part as they were freely given the choice to do so. People think I'm paranoid or have no faith for carrying a gun, but little do they understand that I have faith and 'am NOT paranoid. I'm just being real about things and choose not stick my head in the sand.

The only time I ever consider using loctite is if its a critical component. Something such as the timing cover where if the bolts came loose, I could loose my crank oil and it could cause the engine to seize. If something puts pressure against a bolt as I tighten it, such as the valve cover, I would not loctite it. If an area sees alot of potential corrosion, I would anti seize the bolt instead of loctite it. As for any of the other questions, IMO, a bolt and its respective hole should always be clean. Whatever it takes to make it clean. Wire wheel and a tap works good to do the job. If you have an air compressor, use an air nozzle to blow the hole out. The only time I would never re-use an old bolt is if the threads were no good and could not be fixed with a die, or if it was used in an application where it was torqued so much that the bolt was stretched. Use of the proper grade bolt is also important. Majority of bolts used on a vehicle is grade 8. If you use a bolt that meets or exceeds this, then there should never be problem, so long as its never been overtorqued. As for torque, torquing of a bolt or nut is not assigned because of the application per se. Its the amount of torque that the said nut or bolt can take before it will stip or break. My advice is to ALWAYS torque a nut or bolt to its EXACT value. Never any looser or tighter. Any looser, you risk it backing off and not fulfilling its purpose. Any tighter and you risk it breaking or stripping. There is a whole world out there dedicated to the science of proper bolt/nut application. Google would work good in finding out...

Actually, IIRC, when I used that stuff they said it bonds to the rust. I advocate to use the bedliner material rather than the por-15. Would'nt the OEM tranny cooler be sufficient, or adding a 2nd cooler is appropriate? As well, what about the tranny? Is a stock tranny good enough to use for plowing or does it have to be built too?

This could go deep...

I'm right there with you. I too wonder about what to look for when adding a plow to the truck. My father keeps telling e not to do it as he thinks it will wear the front of the frame out... I wanna know if the front is gonna need any reinforcing or any upgrades to the steering or suspension to handle it.

The first link you provided seems like a broken link? I'm not sure...Looked on the bismanonline, and they had quit a bit of job listings. My question is I noted some did not pay very high. Like around 10-12 an hour. I was watching media and they were saying $15/hr min to work fast food.I'm not hugely concerned on the pay, but if cost of living is higher there and the job pays just as much as it does here, then whats all the hype for?I definitely know I need to expand my experience in a different field than glazing. Around here it does not take you very far. Which is ironic as I recntly checked a couple job sites and their stats say glazing is 1 of the 5 fastest growing occupations in the US.As far as a business goes, I need money to make money, . Something I'm lackin in at the moment.

Yea, where I have been working, the fires from central WA have been coming down our way and smokin' us out. We are just now getting a break from it all. Wife had to do back to back nebulizer treatments for her asthma. Was lucky to not have to rush her to the hospital...Mike, do you have your red card? If so, did you have to go back to guard school to do it? I really wanna jump on the wildland bandwagon but it appears guard school is the only way to get your foot in the door and thats once a year...

I will add a couple bits of info to this.1. When I re-installed my dash, the plastic clips for the bolts across top would break if I tightened the bolts any more than finger tight it seemed. So do not wrench on them to get them tight, just snug. Maybe even see if the FSM has torque specs? Either that or loctite them and finger tighten them up.2. The gear selector indicator. On the steering column, when you remove it and go to lay it down, this thin little wire can break somewhere along its assembly if you are not careful. If you break it, the orange tick on the gauges for the gear selector will not move and you wont know what gear your in.May be more of a nuisance than anything if you break it, but its a small thing to watch out for.

Having the batteries be drained points to an alternator being unable to recharge the batteries. Having antifreeze IMO points to coolant leaking somewhere near the fan, especially since the belt was squeaking. A blown headgasket would yield white smoke in the exhaust and I don't think a blown gasket creates a mess in the engine bay like you experienced. If you want to eliminate the possibility of a headgasket, check the antifreeze for an oil look to it. Blowby will enter the coolant if the gasket is shot. But I doubt you blew the gasket. As far alternator goes, check the gauge and see if your battery is at 14volts. If so, the alternator is charging the batteries. If its 12volts on the gauge the alternator is probably not charging and I would take it to a parts store that will check the alternator for free like an O'Reilly's. You need to find the source of the leak, and I'm confident that it will be very easy to find the source of the leak after you wash the bay out of from the coolant. Its hard to say if its the water pump or not because the radiator and hoses, etc. all there in the front. If you want to check the water pump, take a mirror and put it under the water pump. There is a little hole under it that will weep coolant if the water pump has gone out. Its easy to change it out as well. Drain the coolant out to below the water pump level, remove the serptentine belt and just unbolt it and put the new one in reverse order.

Thanks for all the comments, guys. Alot I can agree with and some not so much. I can't reply to everything said. Definitely did not expect such a response!I hear everyone out and know where everyone is coming from when what is said is what is said. I hope that the impression is not that I'am a young buck who thinks everything is owed to me and that I should not have to work for what I want. I'm willing to work for what I want and know its fair that I should be doing my part and pulling my weight for my things in life.It came to the point that I was told that I should take advantage of state aid and receive welfare or stamps, etc. I refused to receive that aid and become dependent on any form of govt. aid. We had a couple that was about me and the wifes age. A little younger. The girl had a job and the boyfriend did not. She was paying the bills for everything and he was along for the ride. He did not contribute anything and in fact sucked even more life out of the girl. So they decided to apply for state aid. They qualified and he got the aid. They will provide support in 6 month increments. He got stamps for food such as milk, cheese, bread, etc. After, he got a job with his mothers business.We know of a woman who is a single mother of 2 and she did not qualify for this stat aid like they did. Only because she made $8 more on her check at one point in time. That totally floors me to see such a thing. So when it comes down to it, I'm not in the group looking for a handout. I have been raised in a family of "workaholics". My mother owns her own business and I feel I get alot of my work ethic from her. I have always lived with the addage that I cannot quit my job until I have another one lined up.So, with that said, I have been sticking out this nightmare and looking for better opportunities. If I can improve my situation, I will do so. But, I have a wife to think about and I have to respect her thoughts about things. Yes, sometimes that can mean agreeing on something that does not improve our situation financially but brings in a different aspect of security.Living with the parents was not an idea I was very excited about. Its an emberassing feeling of having to live with the parents again, being married and being of my age. At this point, I should have already been well off with life and had that family of my own established. I can tell you that I have always been the one everyone knew as the one that was always smart with his money.But moving 80 miles with limited funds would not allow me to do much. We would have barely been able to afford a place. If we took the risk, we may have been able to pay to move into a place and have 2 months rent paid and the deposits, but we would not of had enough money for groceries and fuel. Which is needed to be able to work.So we decided to take the invitation, live with the parents until we got some money saved up, get on our feet a little better and then make a move. Now, with the constant uncertainty looming over my head, its been difficult to be comfortable to say yes, we will enter a lease agreement for a place.Call it being scared to move on through life, but its a reality that I have to consider. The fact of the matter is, its not that I would not be willing to work 2 or 3 jobs in fast food, scrubbing toilets or wiping rear-ends. Its the reality that around here, the jobs to be able to even work a minimum wage just is not available.My father has a friend who is a consultant for 3 oil locations and as perfect as it got, he stopped by to see if my father was home to chat a little bit. He just came back from one of the places and was heading home. Instead, me and him talked for a half hour on my situation and I tossed around the idea of going to ND. He told me to look into working for haliburton.For the moment, I will be working this job to earn more money to set back. Because if it goes south, I will have a chunk of changed saved up to maybe make it possible to travel to something as extreme as ND for work.On a sidenote, how has the whole housing situation been going for the areas in ND where there is work? Has it gotten any better? I have been hearing of the man-camps and such but I dunno how much of that applies...

Man, just when I thought things would start turning around for the better... Been on this new job for 8 weeks now and the wife has already found grey hairs! Literally... I turn 24 this Saturday too, mind you. I took this job because I have prior experience in it thinking it would be a good avenue to take considering my prior situation before it. I was on the verge of being out of a house. Would have been on the street, pretty much. So I take a leap, move all my belongings to a storage unit and living on an air mattress in the parents house close to the job. Saving as much as possible and sticking it out without any creature comforts. Doing all that I can do to make sure I can keep this job. I was told by the owner many promising things about my future employment with him. Lo' and behold, they are empty as homer simpsons head. The job has no doubt been stressful. The moment the owner shows up on the jobsite my anxiety shoots through the roof. The first day on the job he laid out the ground rules. No biggie. Things such as showing up on time ready to work, no slacking, no cell phones or going to the bathroom and spending a good amount of time in there. Take breaks on time and not making them into lunch breaks, etc. He wants guys who will work, stay on task, be drug free and get something done. All things I would agree with and are fair to ask for out of a person. But from there it gets more complicated. My trade is glazing. For those who dunno what that is, it is installing glass and window systems. We are working on a 4-story building that has alot of curtain wall. The owner confided in us that he bid the job 200k lower than the 2nd bidder. He said the job was super tight and there is no room for someone that cannot live up to his standards. He said that if saw us without our tool belts on we couldn't stick around, or if we did not go fast enough. There are other comments he has made to us about things he felt we should be doing in order to keep our jobs. It started out with just 3 of us for the first few weeks of the job. He is also on a time constraint and the building has to be closed in by Dec. 1st or he will be fined everyday thereafter. He mentioned how he was going to get a crew of 6-8 men on the job and do 2 shifts if needed. None of that happened. Up until last week we were a 4 man crew. The foreman has been in the trade for 30years and the 3 of us have had no more than 6 years cumulative experience. He is pretty much working with some gringos. It has also been 3 years since I have done anything in the trade and on top of that, the system I'm working on I have never done before. To compound things even more, the building is not a typical building. The floors have switchbacks on them and each floor staggers outwards as you go up. There is alot of weird stuff to it and alot of thought needed to understand on how to tie all of it in. The owner has been there almost everyday barking orders and rushing us. Its made for ALOT of confusion, because the foreman will tell us to do something one way and then the owner tells us to do it another way. Alot of mis-communication going on. There have been a few times where things have gotten reaaalll sketchy and made me wonder how many times I came close to dying. In fact, I had almost been killed by the owner one day. We were up in a boom lift and he swung us right into the curtain wall. I was facing the wall and it hit me right in the chest and bent me backwards against the basket. The owner got it in the back and was squished into the controls. That should have been my red flag. The time where you know you oughtta just leave now while you can. After that incident, I have been on the controls if he ever gets in the lift with me. He has been pretty wreckless at times. Swinging into the wall more than once. So much to the point that it bent the metal. I used to work union and he is the first non-union in the trade. We only get paid a straight hourly wage with no benefits. I mean NONE. Not even a paid holiday or anything. I can let that kind of stuff slide considering what kind of desperation I'm in. But, ever since we started this job, we have only had 1 break a day, plus our lunch. Now, I'm willing to let that slide as well. But if you think about it, 4 guys on the job, 8 weeks worth of work, those 10 minutes breaks add up. He has been banking this time, when in fact he thinks we have been taking them. I think this is something the foreman has been doing and not the owner. But I think the owner knew abotu it as well. Well, to cut to the chase, laying out the framework for my reason for whining, it has been overwhelming. Its as if the whole dynamics to the workforce have changed since I last held a steady job. I do the best I can and work the best I can. I do not screw off at all, show up to work on time, and sober too. I take my breaks on time and work at a good steady pace. I even drink less water than I should so I do not have to go up and down with the lift to take a ____. Now, there have been numerous upon numerous occassions where the owner has come by and lectured each and every one of us about working faster and harder and knowing what your doing and this and that. So much to the point that I feel like I'm being micro-managed to DEATH!! It even came to the point that he had even threatened me and another guys job because he did not think we were working fast enough. Mind you, I'm inexperienced and so was the other. So today, he really decided he would tip things over the edge. He pulls me to the side and confides in me about how he is going to talk to everyone individually and tell us how we need to work faster and we need to make it like we work at les schwab. I for one, will NEVER literally RUN for anyone. I have had that engrained in my head to never run, even on a jobsite. Its a safety hazard. So during this conversaion, he tell me that he is tired of telling us that we need to do this or do that, so he said that next time he is just going to tell us, "See ya later." Well, I for one personally know that if he fires me, I can safey say with a clear conscience that I never screwed him over and that I worked hard for his money. It CERTAINLY gets me fired up though, when I see one of the new guys. He's only been in the trade for one year, and the owner treats him like he is his son. Hes always on his phone, standing around and talking. He works slow and does nothing productive. But its just an illusion! He never gets yelled at by the owner and it seems like he can do no wrong. We have all noticed this with him. Come to find out, he may very well be chosen to be the foreman for this job coming up. This is all going downhill faster than a mudslide. I had so many aspirations. I had hoped this was going to be a turning point for things in my life, but it has become a letdown. It really saddens me. I cannot even be the provider I'm suppose to be for my wife. Now, we cannot even afford a place to rent of our own and having kids is out of the question. I just don't get people anymore... I hope this was not viewed as a poor ol' me story, but I needed to vent and just get it off my chest. I'm tired of this situation and want out of it. Maybe it will happen sooner than later.. But, this really puts me in a bind now. If I lose this job, I lose my income. Its a crazy feeling knowing everything you pretty much own is in a storage unit and all you really have is this air mattress and your clothes in a duffel... I'm to the point now though, where I'm getting depserate for work. I'm considering North Dakota for work, or military, etc. I guess we will see what happens...

IIRC, I was going off of what the FSM said. It said to check or service at that mileage. I still need to revise it more and give it a little more work.Looks like I'm on the right track...As for the auto program, it looks like a good deal but not in the financial cards, lol.

I read a little bit of your post and skimming through other replies, I hear no mention of the DTT mechanical lift pump. IMO I think its hands down the way to go. It does not have a FASS setup to it, but if you get a filter block you can achieve this.Look it up, I can't remember the URL to it but a quick google turn results. Its also in the same ballpark price as the AD and FASS.EDIT: I hear a mention of the DTT and fuel boss... Sorry.

Oh, its jus a way to contrast the columns.