Recent content by JohnR

Well, right as I got home last night, I smelled coolant. Right as I pulled into my driveway, there was a puddle forming under the driver's side. Looked up under there, saw it was dripping off the starter, opened the hood, and I have no idea what that thing is called. It's a + looking hose...

Car is a Mitsu Evolution 8, but it works for everything I've done it on.

Don't waste 60 dollars on an o2 sim. Go to Autozone and buy a set of Sparkplug defoulers. I don't remember the threadpitch for the Jeep, but most are 17mm. Drill the center out with a 1/2" bit. Make sure not to knick the threads on the inside. Just screw the o2 sensor into the defouler, then...

Well, I still don't have enough to buy the tires yet, but today I picked up some Pacer rims in 15x8 w/ 4.25"bs. OTD for 200 w/ caps. Anyhow, tire stores here SUCK. They want 175 for cooper stt's in 31x10.5, and 225 for 33x12.5. They had some no-name tires called MudTrac's at another retailer...

I've seen it happen before. Getting a ~5000lb trailer rolling and up to speed doesn't require that much pulling force. Haven't you seen the strong men competitions when a single man pulls a bus that weighs ~30klb? It's the yanking that breaks them.

I had looked into it, but I kind of lost interest of "tinkering" with it, since it was my carry peice. I REALLY like the g23. 14-rds of .45 +p goodness. I've put about 4,000rds through the Glock, without a problem. When I say that, I mean it probably had about 4 fte's at most, and that was when...

I loved that gun, but it seems no matter how much I worked on it, it would always have problems. It was a run-of-the-mill SA 1911 "GI". I polished the feedramps, stoned here and there, but as soon as she got dirty she'd jam up good. That's why I prefer Glock ;) Drop it in the lake, shake it...

Best picture of my 1911, a friend took. Real low exposure time, pretty nifty. http://www.laredoperformance.com/pistol.jpg Hopefully by the end of the year I can get me a nice socom2

Hmm, Cooper Discovery STT's... are we talking about the same tires? Forgot to mention traction is a big issue in my truck, something about 1,000+ ft/lb of torque to the rear wheels makes hard acceleration tricky.

I run 37x12.5's on the diesel. The rears lasted about 30 runs down the 1/4, about 5 4-gear burnouts, and 5000 miles.

Don't bother. Diesel's don't care. The less backpressure after the turbo, the better. I dropped 50degrees preturbo by removing my cat, and another 50degrees after removing the stock muffler. Either run a 32-36" magnaflow straightthrough muffler, or straight piped (as a cummins should be).

It looks like a tank with a vacume line going to it? Do I just cap off the line?

Yup. I know I should have been wearing them, but I wasn't operating the machine, and I had no idea how it worked / what it did. Still no excuse. I'm thinking of buying a set of those WileyX SG-1 glasses. They have pictures of them saving soldier's lives after IED's, face peppered, but eyes...

Everyone was shook up alot. Thankfully no one got hurt seriously. I don't doubt that I would have at least lost part of my vision had it been 1/4" further down. My gf told me when she saw it very little was sticking out, and I pulled most of it out, which means it was at least 1/8" sideways into...

Well, I almost lost an eye today, BIGTIME. I had bought a 13x37x1/2" peice of steel for my bumper mounts, plasma cut them out, and was ready to plasma-gouge the holes, when a friend said his brother worked at a trailer repair shop and to head over. I figured what the hell. They had a BIG ol'...