Oh Damn....

[Twizzler09]

They're all pretty new.

Two of em are slightly older than the other two... but not by much. The oldest two only have around 8-9k miles. The newer two have about 3k on em. Real good tread all the way around.

Rangerbum, heated garage? whats that? haha jk

I live in a duplex style trailer, no garage. Just a parking lot. Makes it hard to work on stuff without pissing off the neighbors, haha

 

[baddis]

with your neighbor just buy him a beer. i have still to lock my truck in 4 high. just going around with my 31's and limited slip for now. to bad your truck is an 8.8 i have an extra l/s for a 7.5

 

[rangerbum]

Twizzler, I feel like I owe you an answer to your question about the heated garage. Some real rich hoity-toity cityfolk feel that they need to heat their garages. Odd for them to want em heated since they never work on their own vehicles. Oh well, these are the same folk that think pie is a number...

 

[Twizzler09]

Brian, haven't seen Steve around here since late July.... kinda went MIA or something. Either that or hes an insane ninja. But his bike hasn't been out front either, so who knows. Its not him that gets mad, though. Its the retarded kids a couple trailers down.

You still have that l/s from the parts truck you picked up last March? Figured you woulda been able to sell that thing by now...and I might have an 8.8 but its a friggin 3.08 ratio.... pile of crap if you ask me. Definitely re-gearing/locking that thing eventually.

Seems to me the 490lbs of sand I have this year is helping alot, probably as good as its going to get without really loading it like I had it last year (total of around a half ton, lol) Rear end still wants to get ahead of itself in certain corners, but correcting it is cake, getting decent go-forward traction now too. *shrug*

Rangerbum, I work in a "heated" garage....if you can call it that. We have a furnace type deal that hangs off the ceiling, runs off the old oil we drain out of people's cars all the time. Just never had something that fancy at home. Hell I've never actually had my own garage, always had to work in the parking lot/driveway or in one case on the side of the street.

Pie is awesome, btw. Especially Pumpkin Pie. But Pi is just terrible.

 

[baddis]

i really haven't tried to sell it. it needs brakes and drums and a left axle. i was going to regear my truck to 3.73 but i like the 4.10

 

[Twizzler09]

With the 31's I'd keep the 4.10s myself, too.

Hows your truck holding up to the snow and that? Your old auto easier to use in this stuff than the 5spd you swapped in?

 

[LittleBigFoot]

Trick the diff.

If your diff is open you'll get the one wheel peel. Apply the brakes as you throttle up (might be kind of hard with a stick) and you can usually get both tires movin. The poor man's locker. For those who can't even lincoln lock it.

 

[Ozwynn]

I actually had that not work for me the other night. one of the parking brakes was frozen and wouldn't unlock. I had to switch in the lockers to get the brakes to free up.

 

[northranger]

+1 for snow tire
Chains are a good thing to have, but they are a PIA to put on eveytime you spin out.

 

[Twizzler09]

Trying to convince my boss to let me borrow the siping machine for awhile.... seems like the best bet right now.

Chains wouldn't be worth the trouble, dont need em to get very far. So if I can do it another way, itd be for the better I think.

 

[Will]

That heated garage thing is retarted.

I grew up in northern Iowa where it was freezing ass cold all winter. No problem. Here in Indiana it melts during the day and freezes at night. There is always a layer of ice rink under any new snow that falls. You can not use chains (even though they are legal between November and April) because the road could be nasty here in my county where they don't plow, yet dry 4 miles toward town where they do plow and salt.

We arrived here 12 years ago in a Geo Prizm and a '64 Ford Galaxie and were stranded out first heavy snow. You slide off the road here you hit a tree. There are zero shoulders. It's generally creek on one side and trees that get white paint on them when they bother to paint an edge line on the other.

If you notice, the county trucks are not 4wd unless you live in northern Iowa where they use a road grader to plow, or in Alberta or some shit where they use Oshkosh 6x6s. In my county they fill an International 1600 with dirt and plow with it and it never gets stuck. In fact, I was getting ready to chain my B2 to a tree last year to winch on a 3500 diesel Ram that was in the ditch and that plow truck showed up. The driver got out and said "Looks like it's your lucky day" and pulled the Ram out before he even had the clutch all the way up. Weight is everything. You want to never get stuck fill the entire bed of your Ranger with dirt--1,000# ought to do it. I took the plates off my B2 this year and still have plowing responsibilities so I am going to put my Bobcat in the bed of my 2wd crewcab Chevy and drive where I need to go.

 

[Twizzler09]

Sounds about like how I had mine last year....that was due to a lack of a motor hoist though.

Had the combined weight of 480lbs of sand, couple floor jacks, some random stuff, a tire, and a completely assembled 302 (under a tarp, and it still had the accessories on it)

I *never* had problems getting where I needed to go, but the truck was a total dog, ate gas like nuts, and the bed was drooping lower than the front was, by about an inch.

 

[baddis]

the 5 speed swap was a bad idea as of now. it only has 4th gear. so for now until i can find a trans the truck is sidelined for a while and i am back to driving the daytona

 

[Ozwynn]

That heated garage thing is retarted.

I grew up in northern Iowa where it was freezing ass cold all winter. No problem. Here in Indiana it melts during the day and freezes at night. There is always a layer of ice rink under any new snow that falls. You can not use chains (even though they are legal between November and April) because the road could be nasty here in my county where they don't plow, yet dry 4 miles toward town where they do plow and salt.

We arrived here 12 years ago in a Geo Prizm and a '64 Ford Galaxie and were stranded out first heavy snow. You slide off the road here you hit a tree. There are zero shoulders. It's generally creek on one side and trees that get white paint on them when they bother to paint an edge line on the other.

If you notice, the county trucks are not 4wd unless you live in northern Iowa where they use a road grader to plow, or in Alberta or some shit where they use Oshkosh 6x6s. In my county they fill an International 1600 with dirt and plow with it and it never gets stuck. In fact, I was getting ready to chain my B2 to a tree last year to winch on a 3500 diesel Ram that was in the ditch and that plow truck showed up. The driver got out and said "Looks like it's your lucky day" and pulled the Ram out before he even had the clutch all the way up. Weight is everything. You want to never get stuck fill the entire bed of your Ranger with dirt--1,000# ought to do it. I took the plates off my B2 this year and still have plowing responsibilities so I am going to put my Bobcat in the bed of my 2wd crewcab Chevy and drive where I need to go.

if the surface temp is 10 degrees F or less then you have a fair amount of traction on ice. Heat from your tires melt the ice but as your tires roll the water refreezes and it causes your tires to be sticky to the ice. 10*F or less equals good trucking, 11*f - 35*f is bad traction on ice.

 

[Twizzler09]

the 5 speed swap was a bad idea as of now. it only has 4th gear. so for now until i can find a trans the truck is sidelined for a while and i am back to driving the daytona

Keller told me about that the other day.... that sucks if you ask me.

I remember hearing that thing squealing away as you drove off the last time I saw you out at Karmark. Thing had bearing issues

On to the original topic.... its not quite 10 degrees or under yet, thinkin Ice traction is gonna suck all winter this year. Looks like I'll just get good at drivin what I got