No rear end Expo.

[bobbywalter]

Had a safety guy a few years ago write me up for using a crescent Hammer-nator thing like pictured from TSC...I have 3 different styles like that....line up tool is great...

So..out on a sight inspection...

Called me down from the prick perch...and had myriad of write-ups for everybody like x-mas presents..

...and went through this whole spiel of how disappointed he was in me about it....as I was the senior member...with experience..bla bla bla....

and at the Pusher/operator meeting just that week ....topic was for cost loss on tools....anybody caught using things as hammers.... especially crescent wrenches, would be wrote up... and those on the call fired. Zero tolerance.

He said to me with a straight 24 year old face...we was going to do what he could to save my job and that I needed to sign a paper that I accepted and understood the write-up.

As calmly as I could.... I informed him I bring my own personal tools .. and that one was indeed mine. And was made to be a hammer as well as other things.

I explained to him that as carefully as possible.... he needed to eat that piece of paper.

because


We were too far away from anyone that would be able to save him.

Yeah.....I didn't like working there anyway.

I would love to hear how that clown tells it.

I don't know how anyone could cost effectively move that explorer answering to idiots like that.


50 bux for the door is a good deal for both parties.... hopefully you come out ahead.

 

[97RangerXLT]

@bobbywalter , wow.... jjust wow. I have had several instances where it was much more cost effective for me to possibly (and in one case actually) destroy a tool to get the job done than to go out and buy a specialty tool that using a tool incorrectly does just fine. and I am no more than 40 minutes round trip to pretty much all of the places that sell tools... And I do not do near the work that you do with them. I can't imagine being in the field and getting chewed for improvising with your own tools out in the boonies.

For this reason I actually keep some of the cheapo chinesium tools that I can sacrifice for a repair if need be.

AJ

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

@bobbywalter , wow.... jjust wow. I have had several instances where it was much more cost effective for me to possibly (and in one case actually) destroy a tool to get the job done than to go out and buy a specialty tool that using a tool incorrectly does just fine. and I am no more than 40 minutes round trip to pretty much all of the places that sell tools... And I do not do near the work that you do with them. I can't imagine being in the field and getting chewed for improvising with your own tools out in the boonies.

For this reason I actually keep some of the cheapo chinesium tools that I can sacrifice for a repair if need be.

AJ

I do same. Why I only buy a few high end pieces like impact and adjustable wrenches.

The rest is kobalt, Pittsburgh pro, icon, and tractor supply clearence.

Pretty hard to take your roll cab to the junkyard.

Not hard math when half off day, and you're staring at a row of pontiac gtps, and you forgot your pry bar to break the fuel rail and pry the cover off bolt #14.

Bobby probably knows which bolt that is.

**** that bolt.

Thank your 1/2 Pittsburgh socket extensions for their service, link them together to make a prybar, and harvest truck money.

 

[bobbywalter]

i know exactly what your talking about....then theres the have to pull a bolt just to change the drive belt deal....



yeah...to 97....shit is like that sometimes.

 

[Ranger850]

I found a rear end from a lincoln town car, probably early '00"s, would this be a decent rear axle? Or are there too many differences to make it work?

 

[Uncle Gump]

That town car probably rode on air bags. It may work... but it won't be bolt in.

 

[Ranger850]

That town car probably rode on air bags. It may work... but it won't be bolt in.

Didn't think about the air bags.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Also wider I think.

 

[Ranger850]

Also wider I think.

I did think about this.

 

[Ranger850]

So I am pulling the wiring harness from under the hood this weekend and have noticed some minor differences with where things are located. Is this the only harness I need to change out? Are there any interior wires I need from behind the dash (from Expo to Ranger) or anything like that.