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I also carry a Kershaw Ken Onion " assisted" which is kept shaving sharp for obvious reasons.
I can see it now! Come 3am your door is going to be kicked in, 2 flash bangs tossed inside then the swat team will cuff ya over 2 lousy sparkplugs
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Not the rear end. It's a carrier bearing where the driveshaft is jointed about 3 feet behind the transfer case.OldWin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:49 pmHey Griff, sorry about your rear end!![]()
A carrier at 80k? Yeah, something was amiss from the factory more than likely. If you have to go in there anyway, replace all the bearings, double check engagement, and anything else you can think of.
I have done a 180 on u-joints (as far as off road use).
First, I ONLY use Spicer. All else is garbage, or at the very least, not as good. I've also gone to non-greasable. There is a small strength advantage. But the biggest reason is they are much better at keeping water and crud out. On road use probably isn't as big a deal, but you have to be religious about maintenance.
I have a Tom Woods driveshaft on the rear of my Jeep I got from a friend. He was a "grease fitting guy". It runs a crazy angle, as I have 21 degrees on my rear pinion. I have to grease it ALL the time due to the high angle.
Ok, gotcha bud. We call that a center bearing up here. Yup, those things suck. I think it's one of those "lesser of two evils" parts. They figure a one piece shaft that long is to easy to bend or deform under load or contact. Many times, a 2wd longbody will use one, but a 4wd won't due to the transfer case shortening the shaft length.Griff wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:44 pmNot the rear end. It's a carrier bearing where the driveshaft is jointed about 3 feet behind the transfer case.OldWin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:49 pmHey Griff, sorry about your rear end!![]()
A carrier at 80k? Yeah, something was amiss from the factory more than likely. If you have to go in there anyway, replace all the bearings, double check engagement, and anything else you can think of.
I have done a 180 on u-joints (as far as off road use).
First, I ONLY use Spicer. All else is garbage, or at the very least, not as good. I've also gone to non-greasable. There is a small strength advantage. But the biggest reason is they are much better at keeping water and crud out. On road use probably isn't as big a deal, but you have to be religious about maintenance.
I have a Tom Woods driveshaft on the rear of my Jeep I got from a friend. He was a "grease fitting guy". It runs a crazy angle, as I have 21 degrees on my rear pinion. I have to grease it ALL the time due to the high angle.
Sixgun wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 5:24 pm Like I said...."sissified". Along with a couple of revolvers and sometimes a Commando AR-15, this is what is with me in the Jeep. ..........."Mini Swiss knife"...."scissors".....what happened to the term "man". You think antifa or BLM carry "mini Swiss knives"?![]()
90 some degrees again......after hitting the hardware store, me, mom, and Miss Apple cruised on out to the Dairy Queen for ice cream........I walked in and some male?.....I think it was a male......told me I needed a mask.....I told him Republicans dont get sick nor give out diseases. He said I still needed a mask so I dutifully put on my mask and told him/her to keep the change from a Hamilton and buy himself/herself a rainbow face mask.
Mom's Jeep passed inspection with flying colors this morning (noon)
Gots my new soul pole saw.....electric..15 feet....The price was $120 and I told them their website said $110 and they told me it's the last one and $120 was the price. I said,"OK", paid them that and some more for other things, then put the saw in the Jeep, walked back in and stole two spark plugs.--6
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Now ya just have to worry about being eaten by a Great White!COSteve wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:08 amI remember going to Monterey as a kid and scuba diving. After our tanks would empty we'd use our snorkels and go free diving for some Abalone. Then we'd have a fire on the beach in the evening and cook them. But that was in the early 60's and Abalone diving now doesn't yield the harvest it did back then. Also, you could camp in Big Sur pretty easily without reservations or anything. Great times before Commifornia got so crowded.Old Savage wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:40 am Here in Monterey, dinner at Fisherman's Wharf last night.
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Piller......I've heard of swamp cooler but know very little about them.......it puts moisture in the air? Ok....my little mind is thinking......say it's 80 degrees and 10% humidity.........you turn on the swamp cooler........humidity rises to 50%.....temperature is the same but with more moisture in the air, theoretically you feel cooler? Must be a dividing line in the temperature where it has the opposite effect.......humidity is nasty here.piller wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:28 pm High humidity isn't fun. I remember growing up out in the West and my parents having a swamp cooler. It used a huge fan to such air through these wet pads. It was dry enough out there to where those things worked really well. That area used to average 15 inches of rain per year. We thought it was funny when the idiots on TV started lumping us in with the MidWest for weather forecasts. I was 10 years old before I ever saw corn growing. Not nearly enough water for it unless you irrigated it out in those desert conditions.
I was 6. Getting all 7. My spare is showing signs of dry-rot. This is the first time it's hit the pavement. This'll be my 3 set, including the factory tires.Sixgun wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:57 pm 1956? I was 2 and you were 8? That's a young age to get thrown in the water......you don't think that maybe he was trying to cut down on his dependents?![]()
You getting all 6 tires? That ain't cheap.....but a LOT cheaper than puttin' on 10 tires on the Rose.
Yea...my spare on the Rubicon is 15 years old too...never hit the pavement.
Grass is growing like crazy.....two months with no rain and the last two weeks with nothing but. We had another storm today and supposedly again tomorrow.
Well....1 am.....another exciting day doing nothing tomorrow......
Secret Agent 006
No! Old Win says he is getting a side car for his Harley and he will put it in that. He also said he just might drag it the 3,000 miles down I-70. Most likely he will drop it off by the 17 th hole, behind that bush that's all wilted.---006