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What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)


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I’ve put under 10 miles on my “daily driver” in the past 2 weeks… do you really think I’m going to use my back up Ranger??

I think having this county truck is going to save me quite a bit of money.
Eh. You pay for it with your taxes lol.
 


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Forgot to mention, dad’s Ranger went for inspection and came back needing a cat back exhaust and core support. So I guess that’s now on my list of things I have to do…

Not sure how exactly I’m going to make it happen, but I NEED to get a garage up on my property this coming year. This working outside on the ground just takes too much time and effort.
 

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Forgot to mention, dad’s Ranger went for inspection and came back needing a cat back exhaust and core support. So I guess that’s now on my list of things I have to do…

Not sure how exactly I’m going to make it happen, but I NEED to get a garage up on my property this coming year. This working outside on the ground just takes too much time and effort.
Working on the ground is bullplop. I'm with you. I NEED to have my own garage next year. NEEEEEEEEEEED.
 

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Eh. You pay for it with your taxes lol.
You for it with your taxes. He works for the road department. Feds give out road works money like it’s candy.
 

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I think fog lights are a waste of money. The only thing they do is light up the fog.
They do help to under cut the fog some but not my much they help better in rain to reduce road glare or to under cut the snow. They are a low speed light though, so not much help on any driving faster than 35-40 mph since they tend to draw your eyes in closer that you should be looking down the road.

The do work like a nice flood light to illuminate more of the road when driving on trails. I’m sure higher mounted off road lights work better. Since I don’t have any yet, I have nothing to compare them to.
 

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I was so happy to have a garage. I still work on my shit in the gravel outside since my mustang is in the garage on jack stands.
 

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You for it with your taxes. He works for the road department. Feds give out road works money like it’s candy.
God dammit -__-

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They do help to under cut the fog some but not my much they help better in rain to reduce road glare or to under cut the snow. They are a low speed light though, so not much help on any driving faster than 35-40 mph since they tend to draw your eyes in closer that you should be looking down the road.

The do work like a nice flood light to illuminate more of the road when driving on trails. I’m sure higher mounted off road lights work better. Since I don’t have any yet, I have nothing to compare them to.
The 'spread' with the stock fogs on the 19+ trucks is pretty impressive. They're almost ditch lights.. not really obviously but they definitely hit the ditches on my road.
 
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It’s getting to be the time of year that if something needs worked on, it will be in the garage. At least there is a chance it will be somewhat warm as opposed to out in the driveway. With the carport now being up, restrictions along the sides of the vehicle are going to be about the same. Might as well work inside and out of the elements.
 

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The 'spread' with the stock fogs on the 19+ trucks is pretty impressive. They're almost ditch lights.. not really obviously but they definitely hit the ditches on my road.
The 2011 is about the same. I’ve considered switching to yellow bulbs or coating the lenses yellow but that might compromise their off road use and this why they are clear instead of yellow to begin with.
 

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Working on the ground is bullplop. I'm with you. I NEED to have my own garage next year. NEEEEEEEEEEED.
I’ve been working on the ground for over 20 years now. Mostly on gravel, sometimes mud. Rarely I get to work on something on a paved surface. Mostly open air, sometimes a pop up canopy or tarps. My construction work lights sometimes get used. It’s all a huuuuge waste of time. Trying to work around weather and daylight and you have to pull out all of your parts and tools to start and put them all back when you’re done and cover stuff with tarps that tear or blow off in the wind and I’m just over it. It was bad enough to deal with before my concussions and now that I’m limited to only being able to work a few hours at a time, it’s really hard to make progress. I’m done. I have a metal garage building now. I just need to get some things sorted out and some of my property leveled up and a slab poured to put the building up on. And as soon as I can get my grubby mitts on a lift after that happens, it’s going in. Then all of my tools that are scattered over the 6 acres my parents own, the two acres I own, and my buddy’s garage in town can all live in my garage, where they belong and I can stop with the constant treasure hunt to find where I last stashed whatever I now need.
 

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You for it with your taxes. He works for the road department. Feds give out road works money like it’s candy.
Not really. Federal road funding accounts for about a quarter of the money spent on roads and highways.
 

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Not really. Federal road funding accounts for about a quarter of the money spent on roads and highways.
According to the state of NJs budgetary publications there was over a Billion dollars of federal funding for NJ state and local highway departments.

The state of NJ has a multi billion dollar budget for their highway department.
They spend the most money per mile of state highway of any state, over a million dollar per mile of state highway.
 

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