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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:17 pm
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PS I hate ALL push button 4WD systems. They should all be manual boxes on the floor.


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I enjoy auto-locking hubs but I draw the line there.

I'll stir my gears and my transfer case manually, thankyewvurrymuch!

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PS I hate ALL push button 4WD systems. They should all be manual boxes on the floor. Thus wanting the good ole diesel. My dads truck still has the selector on the floor. No issues there!
I got the 305HP V8 with heavy duty tow package, Eaton locker rear end (not limited slip), 8FT. Long bed, stabilitrak traction control, anti lock brakes, nice 17" wheels. I already put new bed rug in and weatherguard box, bed rail protectors and I am picking up the hood protector tomorrow. I like 8Ft beds where I can still put a motorcycle in the back with my weather guard box installed. Now days it's harder to find long boxes, seems most are 5.5 or 6.5 bed trucks. I also like Chevys locker read end that puts equal power to the back wheels over the limited slips others offer.

Interesting demostration about it here from youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-rQTHMVAuw

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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:22 pm
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I did put tie downs in the stake pockets also. You can get good ones for 30.00 a pair and they do come in handy. The new Chevy's tires are General Grabber's they seem like they are nice. On the Dodge truck I found that I liked the Firestone Destination AT's it come with Michlens that I could not stand.

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This is what I use now.

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BFG All Terrain T/A KO

Mine are wearing really nice, but my dad has the same tires and they really look like $@!! He does mostly gravel road driving though. I am about 75 pavement 25 gravel. They throw stones a bit too much though.... Gotta watch out for that. Not much protection on these trucks.

My next tires will be more of a mud tire though. Just for fun.


try the BFG Radial Mud Terrain, they are super, i used to have them on my Jeep CJ

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Oh come on now CV, you heard Plugs O'Biden, "Nobody" argues that we are headed in the right direction!
Reading the market dispatch and they are saying we are in a contained depression with jobless rates staying as now for up to ten years. Very disturbing stuff being talked by economist yet our elected official seem quiet on it. All they have done is throw money after bad ideas when less is coming in to the public.
Mortgage loans are still low but the Credit Card Act that was past limiting card companies on things they can charge for has caused them to start raising rates to make up the difference thus causing people that pay there bill to have to pay more. Instead of targeting defaulters with various charges it is a cost across us all. Just as those apposed said it would do.


ah man you know I agree with you. I just could help but laugh at/go insane over Plugs saying that "nobody" doubts we are headed in the right direction or that the Stimulus created 3 million jobs. It's hard to decide whether Obama or O'Biden is the biggest liar.

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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:18 am
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...I am a tax cut person and reduced government ...

Well, I agree with you there. I just do not think that "the rich paying more" (as people love to say) is the answer. Let's agree to disagree ...

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We're going up to far north tropical queensland in about 2 weeks. my family, uncle, aunty and cousin are coming. we've been saving u for god knows how long

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cvilleira wrote:
...I am a tax cut person and reduced government ...

Well, I agree with you there. I just do not think that "the rich paying more" (as people love to say) is the answer. Let's agree to disagree ...

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I am with you there, it's people with money that create jobs and not the government. It not good chasing money out of State or country.
Here is a case of chasing money away.
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Gov. Martin O’Malley signs a new tax bracket for millionaires into law. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller (left) and House Speaker Michael E. Busch joined the governor for yesterday’s signing ceremony. (Sun photo by Doug Kapustin / April 8, 2008)

A year ago, Maryland became one of the first states in the nation to create a higher tax bracket for millionaires as part of a broader package of maneuvers intended to help balance the state's finances and make the tax code more progressive.

But as the state comptroller's office sifts through this year's returns, it is finding that the number of Marylanders with more than $1 million in taxable income who filed by the end of April has fallen by one-third, to about 2,000. Taxes collected from those returns as of last month have declined by roughly $100 million.

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Seems they found the Millionaires are moving to neighboring states and they are collecting less. They run one third out of state the idiots did. Maryland was in the top five per capita of Millionaires until this tax.

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last yr was my first paid vacation since 1992.
suck it up guys. :wink:

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How did a 40k truck break? Did it blow a gasket and run out of oil? I guess you were out of warrantee but even yet the engine could have been rebuilt. It was a brand new truck. Wasn't it?

Either way I'm glad you solved the problem just please be careful with this one. Keep the oil clean and maintain it as much as possible.

I have a piece of junk Ranger and it has lasted me 20 years.
Bought it new 2002 Dodge Ram It is a known problem with the Dodge 4.7 V8's it was found that the cylinder walls were cut to thin causing the engine to over heat internally. It in turn causes sludge in the motor even when changing oil at 3000 mile intervals. Eventually the heat causes either the cylinder heads, the wall or gasket to crack. On many of the 4.7s all you have to do is look in the oil filler tube and you will see what looks like yogurt slim in the filler and the insert that is inside it. This is because that is the coolest section in which there is oil so moisture condensates there. It has nothing to do with the PCV either, and when you start having to add anti freeze and find that it is slowing mixing with the oil you know it's done. All over the internet it is a known defect but most seem to last to 70,000 miles before junk. No recall because it does not create a unsafe driving condition like a sudden failure.

Here I was making the last payment on my one car so that all three were going to be paid for and I start another. It would have been the first time in 32+ years with out a car payment or two a month. I need to get away somewhere!!!!

Here is and article about it.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5571443_dodge ... blems.html


I'm sorry about your vacation but I think you should definately take the truck out for some serious traveling anywhere that is cheap and you've never been. It's more about getting out of the routine than actually doing anything special. Sometimes the simplest things can be the most fun.

Thanks for telling us about Dodge. I definately will not be buying anything they sell.


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How did a 40k truck break? Did it blow a gasket and run out of oil? I guess you were out of warrantee but even yet the engine could have been rebuilt. It was a brand new truck. Wasn't it?

Either way I'm glad you solved the problem just please be careful with this one. Keep the oil clean and maintain it as much as possible.

I have a piece of junk Ranger and it has lasted me 20 years.
Bought it new 2002 Dodge Ram It is a known problem with the Dodge 4.7 V8's it was found that the cylinder walls were cut to thin causing the engine to over heat internally. It in turn causes sludge in the motor even when changing oil at 3000 mile intervals. Eventually the heat causes either the cylinder heads, the wall or gasket to crack. On many of the 4.7s all you have to do is look in the oil filler tube and you will see what looks like yogurt slim in the filler and the insert that is inside it. This is because that is the coolest section in which there is oil so moisture condensates there. It has nothing to do with the PCV either, and when you start having to add anti freeze and find that it is slowing mixing with the oil you know it's done. All over the internet it is a known defect but most seem to last to 70,000 miles before junk. No recall because it does not create a unsafe driving condition like a sudden failure.

Here I was making the last payment on my one car so that all three were going to be paid for and I start another. It would have been the first time in 32+ years with out a car payment or two a month. I need to get away somewhere!!!!

Here is and article about it.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5571443_dodge ... blems.html


I'm sorry about your vacation but I think you should definately take the truck out for some serious traveling anywhere that is cheap and you've never been. It's more about getting out of the routine than actually doing anything special. Sometimes the simplest things can be the most fun.

Thanks for telling us about Dodge. I definately will not be buying anything they sell.
True, tomorrow we are going to a car show and I am thinking Antietam Battlefield on Sunday

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