What did YOU do today?

[racsan]

Went to national trails raceway for the mopar nationals, caught a jump of a general lee! couldn’t upload video so got a screenshot & cropped it, jump length was 216 ft. How do you create colored tire smoke? last guy in the burnout competition managed to have purplish tire smoke.

 

[Rick W]

Went to national trails raceway for the mopar nationals, caught a jump of a general lee! couldn’t upload video so got a screenshot & cropped it, jump length was 216 ft. How do you create colored tire smoke? last guy in the burnout competition managed to have purplish tire smoke.
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If it wasn’t for the flying car, I would think it was a Trump rally

 

[racsan]

If it wasn’t for the flying car, I would think it was a Trump rally

oh trump was there, making america want mopars again….

 

[Snoranger]

If it wasn’t for the flying car, I would think it was a Trump rally

Why? Trump doesnt have flying cars at his rallies??? He needs to step up his game!!!

 

[Curious Hound]

Went to national trails raceway for the mopar nationals, caught a jump of a general lee! couldn’t upload video so got a screenshot & cropped it, jump length was 216 ft. How do you create colored tire smoke? last guy in the burnout competition managed to have purplish tire smoke.
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There are tires made with compounds in them to make colored smoke. I had a co-worker who bought a blue smoke motorcycle tire for a gender-reveal burnout before his first child was born.

 

[Rick W]

Why? Trump doesnt have flying cars at his rallies??? He needs to step up his game!!!

I think he’s had enough stuff flying around his head for the time being

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Come on... Bats need a empty place to live too.

 

[JoshT]

Come on... Bats need a empty place to live too.

the border czar and the puppet provide plenty of room for that. So much that they get lost in there.



Today, I might have gotten mom addicted to TV. I was over the other day and they were discussing with my niece how her school was decorated with a Wizard of Oz theme for the beginning of the school year. Turns out that at 5, my nieve has never seen anything Wizard of Oz, didn't know what it was (or atleast didn't remember it). Mom proceeded to go rent it on Amazon and sit with her in an uncomfortable chair if front of a 17" computer monitor to watch the movie.

Yeah, that ain't going to work.

Been meaning to look into those streaming TV boxes for a while, so I finally did it. Got them set up with one of the $20 Onn 4k TV box deals from Wal-Mart. No Wizard of Oz for free, but atleast when they rent stuff like that they can watch it on the bigger screen. Also a lot of good free content available on there, including childrens programming for the niece.

 

[Blmpkn]

Got the o2 sensors installed, truck now runs better than it ever has.

Plugging in the rear one was a slight PITA.. one of the pins from the old sensor plug was snapped off flush in the plug on the harness side.. that took a little friggery to get out.. but it went a lot quicker and easier than I was expecting.

Pretty sure I wasted 12$ on that tube of ultra-grey though. After closer inspection it seems like my continued drip of coolant isn't from the hard pipe>pump connection... but from the rubber hoses that slip onto the hard pipe. The hoses are driven right home.. but they'll wanna seep a bit until you put the clamps back on them dummy


Didn't end up taking it for a drive, but I did get to enjoy the sounds of the new exhaust at idle while standing behind the truck. That damn China header and my "n1" style exhaust sounds incredible sitting there idling.

Put your foot in it though.. and she sounds like the four cylinder'n-est four cylinder to ever have four cylinders. It almost sounds exactly like an f1 car... just 200mph slower. I'm just staggered at its level of volume.. I figured sticking to 2.25" would keep the noise to a reasonable level... nope

The first 5 minutes of my test drive are gonna be super amusing.. then I'm gonna find a spot to pull over and hop right on Amazon for more muffler

 

[mikkelstuff]

Finally got in the rebuilt A/C hoses from ColdHose.com for my '75 Ranchero. I removed the radiator and A/C condenser yesterday - a cooler 85F day. All had to come out to replace the dryer.

Today, back in the 90's, I reassembled all with new o-rings. Got all finished. Hooked up my A/C vacuum pump and vacuum gauge AND sheeez! Such a big vacuum leak I didn't think the gauge needle would even move!

Oh well. I'll wait for another cooler Colorado day while thinking this over. Could I have lost an o-ring? Leak in the new hoses? Break in a condenser line mount which has happened before?

Better to let this wait for a cooler day.

 

[2drxploder]

New injectors and motor/trans mount on Brothers stang. Figured out wiring problem/ installed new train blaster horn on ranger. Then cut grass. Cold snacks started while doing horn. Ended the night with a cruise through the neighborhood on the new to me wheel horse 520-h

 

[97RangerXLT]

Removed a section of fence in anticipation of a new shed arriving on Tuesday. Used the Ranger with a logging chain and an old rim to uproot a post to assist me.

AJ

 

[Bgunner]

Watched Beer Fetcher get rained on and thought to myself "boy I'm glad I did the starter yesterday and not today".

 

[MaicoDoug]

Blmpkn is right-

Not the truck, my dirt bike or any vehicle (in California) where the state forced me to buy a tag for off-road use. Just like on road use, you can have both actually and become penalized because the owner (me) failed to buy a "non-operational" permit. They get you both ways. State extortion. Arizona, Texas, New Mexico & Colorado and many others do not require you to install specialized equipment and / or purchase special registration. Or you get thrown the rabbit hole of endless time & monies spent fighting for your rights, or better said defending your sanity. You're headed out to enjoy yourself most likely because you deserved it. Not because you stood in line at the DMV for a half a day waiting for Hermie to inspect your (his) nemesis, your off-road vehicle. Ah Sir, there seems to be an oil leak here somewhere. If you look around this chain guard I see some oil residue....so he proceeds to then say "we can't have oil polluting out parks and wildlife", so another half day wasted standing in line. Can I just wipe it off and come back I asked?

I remember watching a 1968 chevy malibu in stock trim and class racing in the ADRA with 70 series street tires. Amongst all the other jeeps, buggies, trucks & dirt bikes. He was doing very well in the "street stock" class. Talk about a beater.

Just give me an old mine to poke around in with my rock pick, just don't read the disclaimer sticker on the handle.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Saturday I went salmon fishing, the guy wanted to be on the water around 5:30AM which was fun since it was over 3 hours from my house so I took the camper to the boss's house (he was going too) and took a nap there friday night... got back to his house around 7PM... then drove home after that (another 30 minutes or so since I stopped for fuel). I didn't catch a fish but there were 3 on the boat and I got to take some home so that's good enough for me... two 9lb and one 18lb Chinook...

Sunday I started on the boat trailer as I jack knifed it a couple weeks ago and bent the coupler a bit so I straightened it out now I just need the little shock that goes to the master cylinder so only a $60 oopsie instead of a $350 oopsie like it almost was... then switched to adding leaf springs to the Explorer, then switched to the tractor to flatten out some dirt for the neighbor quick then put the tiller on and did a little work on the pond berm... oh and I think about the last thing I did yesterday was put the new stereo in the wife's Camry...