New Year’s Resolutions

[SenorNoob]

^Hell yeah. I actually just played that mission on stream the other day.

Looks like there is still a video of it up. So you can tell me how bad I am at it.

Edit: I just realized that my stream captured my aunt's side of the call I was in at the time.

 

[JohnnyO]

I'm pretty much perfect so there isn't much to improve on.
My one resolution is to watch my diet better since I'm diabetic. I've been a naughty boy since Thanksgiving and eating too much of things I shouldn't and my blood sugar has been higher than I like.

 

[sgtsandman]

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

^Hell yeah. I actually just played that mission on stream the other day.

Looks like there is still a video of it up. So you can tell me how bad I am at it.

Edit: I just realized that my stream captured my aunt's side of the call I was in at the time.

Aside from whatever it is called when you just fight waves and waves of covenant with my son on the 360 I haven't played Halo in ages.

In Halo Reach, possibly one of the best games of all time you get that message, fight a good fight and then no matter how you do you end with this cutscene:

 

[Rick W]

This, my 71st year (after the better part of 10 years in limbo with my health and injuries), I’m going to….

Road Ranger & Step Trailer:

• Upgrade the fuel system
• Total tuneup, maybe a couple tweaks for a little more power
• New pads & shoes all around
• Repair and/or install electric brakes on the third axle and the trailer
• Upgrade trailer storage boxes
• New headlights
• Upgrade cab over lights
• Reverse/work lights on the trailer step up panel
• New valance with running lights
• Get strobe lights working on trailer
• Repair/upgrade Cobra 129LTD
• Step rails
• Graphics all around

Missing Linc & Towncart:

• Repair/Upgrade Cobra 148
• Repair/upgrade sound system
• Air horns
• Enhanced reverse lights
• Tune up
• Rewire side strobes
• High mount brake lights
• Paint/coat inside bed
• Modify spare tire hanger for 235/75/15 matching spare
• Graphics all around

Road ‘Raith

• Complete the frame fabrication
• Divide the casket/cooler with drains
• Redo the front legs/jacks
• Install propane tanks and repair gas grill
• Install flame stacks
• Design and install a gooseneck hitch that will bolt on over the existing trailer tongue, so I can use it with the Road Ranger
• Install stereo and PA system
• Install running, strobe, marker, and stop/tail/turn and brake lights
• Install purple funeral lights
• Mount spare tire like the Road Ranger
• Mud flaps and rear bumper
• Graphics all around

Aluminum Car Trailer:

• Fabricate with two remaining aluminum 4” x 6” double channel beams
• Large enough to carry Towncar
• Duck tail rear with fold over leveling ramps (fold over on trailer to extend flat deck)
• Three “all the time” brake axles with bullet hole wheels
• Fourth auxiliary/drop axle with travel trailer wheels
• In addition to regular trailer tongue, fabricate bolt on goose neck to use with the Road Ranger
• Define/select materials, design and install decking
• Side marker, stop/tail/turn, reverse, strobe and work lights.
• Battery and power system
• Electric winch mount on front
• Graphics all around

F250:

• Install cab over lights
• Rebuild my second cobra 148 and install
• Fabricate and install new code 3 lights and strobe rack on roof and install all lights and air horns.
• Enhanced reverse lights
• Touchup buff and wax all around
• New and upgraded graphics all around

Clean up the Mark V and piss away 1,000,000 gallons of gas for a while and then sell it

Clean up the 87 Towncar and sell either the 87 or 88.

Clean up and sell folding trailer (anyone want?)

Clean out the shed of miracles and throw away all of the projects that will never happen materials and get three vehicles inside.

Sell or give anway all the toolboxes and materials for projects that will never happen and clean up the yard.

Clean and paint the trim on the house and clean up the landscaping

Drive and show the trucks and cars as often as I can, including TRS events within striking distance

Thank the Man upstairs every day for all His blessings, my recovering health, my family and good friends, and the cute little brunette.

Two down!

87 reverse lights & spare tire hanger. I’ll be crossing them off.

 

["Risky Bizness"]

(1) Get the concrete approaches poured in front of the 2 additional stalls I added on.
(2) Slow down some from going to get cars for the dealership
(3) Take a trip to Michigan and go through the FORD plant where our 2 King Ranch trucks were built
(4) Get my detail shop up and going

 

[pjtoledo]

success!! three and a half days without ice cream or fudge brownies

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I'm the exact opposite...
I've been splurging on chocolates and carbs. Will need to stop soon....

 

[sgtsandman]

Yesterday was a family day for a late Christmas get together in Ohio. It was a good time but it was also a crash course refresher on how taxing younger children can be.

Today is a recovery day. I will venture out to get a tube of synthetic wheel bearing grease, a box of shop towels, and maybe a few other small things but that will be it.

Tomorrow, I'll be pulling the trailer hubs and cleaning the spindles so I can mark the spindle location on the frame for the new suspension. Me leaving the support brackets for the fenders in place will help with that since I will be using a plum bob. They arch over the wheels to hold the fender in place. So make a great place to hang the plum bob over the spindle.

I also need to put the new bearing races in the freezer so they are still cold for installation and because the humidity had been so high for about a week or so before the current cold snap, dress up the interior surfaces of the new hubs a little. Some suface rust developed but nothing that is a show stopper.

Because I use kerosene and electric heaters to heat the garage, it's too expensive to have them running all then time. Insulating the garage would help as would installing natural gas heat, but that is easier said than done and requires money that other projects demand. The garage was not built with either of those things in mind.

 

[Curious Hound]

success!! three and a half days without ice cream or fudge brownies

That’s good enough. Back to “business as usual” and celebrate your victory

 

[Rick W]

Yesterday was a family day for a late Christmas get together in Ohio. It was a good time but it was also a crash course refresher on how taxing younger children can be.

Today is a recovery day. I will venture out to get a tube of synthetic wheel bearing grease, a box of shop towels, and maybe a few other small things but that will be it.

Tomorrow, I'll be pulling the trailer hubs and cleaning the spindles so I can mark the spindle location on the frame for the new suspension. Me leaving the support brackets for the fenders in place will help with that since I will be using a plum bob. They arch over the wheels to hold the fender in place. So make a great place to hang the plum bob over the spindle.

I also need to put the new bearing races in the freezer so they are still cold for installation and because the humidity had been so high for about a week or so before the current cold snap, dress up the interior surfaces of the new hubs a little. Some suface rust developed but nothing that is a show stopper.

Because I use kerosene and electric heaters to heat the garage, it's too expensive to have them running all then time. Insulating the garage would help as would installing natural gas heat, but that is easier said than done and requires money that other projects demand. The garage was not built with either of those things in mind.

For lining up the axles, I have used a small framing square in the past. You put one leg flush against the bottom of the frame, and then slide it over to where it touches the axle, and then mark it there.

Just a thought

 

[pjtoledo]

That’s good enough. Back to “business as usual” and celebrate your victory

well it just so happens today is Sunday. that means our usual dinner at Bob Evans and we always finish with Reeses Peanut butter cup pie.
it is noteworthy, that is neither ice cream nor a brownie.

 

[sgtsandman]

For lining up the axles, I have used a small framing square in the past. You put one leg flush against the bottom of the frame, and then slide it over to where it touches the axle, and then mark it there.

Just a thought

I think you may be forgetting the style of axle system I'm installing. It is not the standard cross beam axle setup but two independent trailing arms that can use a square tube for lateral support. Each arm must be located using the spindle it comes with and must use the factory spindle location in order to properly locate the new ones.

1 Tonne HD Axle-Less Trailer Suspension

The Timbren ASR1THDS01 SES is a rear suspension enhancement system for the MODEL_NAME made between YEAR1 and Year2. Shop now.

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Once the arms are located using the spindles as a reference point, the mounting flanges can be clamped to the frame for drilling. Then, because of the style of frame the trailer has, the 2" X 2" X 1/4" square tube can be slid in and drilled for bolts to lock the arms and tube in place. From there, the instructions tell you how to set the suspension alignment for toe and camber, using the coupler as a reference point.