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Timmy Cruise posted:Doof doof doof doof The system is down. The system is down.
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We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw lightswitch raves!  Now let's go break open that glowstick and pour it into HR's Mountain Dew. I heard they have to pump your stomach when you drink that stuff...(I hate you guys, I'm going to have that poo poo stuck in my head all night now...)
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May 18, 2016 06:21
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some texas redneck posted:We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw lightswitch raves! Hard to believe the techno email came out nearly 14 years ago. Here's some not-cheap-truck content. A lincoln "resto" has been occupying my garage as of late. Bought as a non-runner. So far: Had the transmission replaced. removed tint from headlights and tail lights, buffed the headlights. removed paint from badges(monsters!) bought the only undamaged used grille within 2000 miles and swapped it for the lovely painted aluminum one Drove to saskatoon and back to pick up a bumper, putting 1400kms on a rental car overnight. Painted bumpers front and rear. The front had massive roadrash, the rear replacement was white. Put running boards on Polished 8 years of neglect off of the wheels polished out pretty much every scratch on the body. Before:    During:    After: (i have that hubcap in the garage. forgot to put it back on)    
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May 18, 2016 06:46
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Nice job man, good work.
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May 18, 2016 06:50
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kastein posted:I was going to jam new firmware and a different SIM card on the iMetrik iLocate+ I got out of a wrecked BHPH Avalanche I found at a local picknpull, but if I had to go a different route, here's one of the things I'd do: This is amazing, I never even thought all of this was possible.
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May 18, 2016 22:02
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When i first got the truck back, i pulled the fuse for the fuel pump. I went to move it and forgot about that, and smoked out half of the neighborhood before it shut off. Luckily it's a 7.3 powerstroke and it doesn't give a poo poo, I would have been bleeding injector lines on a 5.9 cummins or replacing injectors on a 6.0 powerstroke.
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May 18, 2016 22:14
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I've run my w126 diesel out of fuel like 3 times (because the fuel gauge is vague at best and the reserve light doesn't come on) and I didn't even have to prime it the last two times to get it started again, old diesels don't give a gently caress
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May 19, 2016 01:47
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May 19, 2016 01:49
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I've been taking the shifter out of the truck as another layer of security, and loving lost it. I had to make a temporary one to move the truck around.  I'll have to get a big chunk of round stock and make a real replacement at some point.
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May 19, 2016 02:14
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Powershift posted:When i first got the truck back, i pulled the fuse for the fuel pump. I went to move it and forgot about that, and smoked out half of the neighborhood before it shut off. I ran my 6.0 out of fuel twice last summer. I finally realized the fuel gauge is completely unreliable. And now it runs like poo poo. Injectors are in my future. My 7.3 could probably run dry on old sludgy crude oil and would fire up and run.
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May 19, 2016 02:52
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One of my coworkers has a killswitch in his in his race truck (boxy 80s s10 with 6.0 lq9 and 200 shot of nitrous) for this reason. He had it at a shop being painted when one of the shop employees decided that taking the truck on a weekend joyride was a good idea. Dumbass drove it back to the shop on monday with the interior filled with trash and beer cans. Said coworker is currently trying to figure out the best way to wire a high output ignition coil to the ignition lock cylinder which would be tied into said killswitch. That boy gives no fucks.
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May 26, 2016 02:01
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Elmnt80 posted:One of my coworkers has a killswitch in his in his race truck (boxy 80s s10 with 6.0 lq9 and 200 shot of nitrous) for this reason. He had it at a shop being painted when one of the shop employees decided that taking the truck on a weekend joyride was a good idea. Dumbass drove it back to the shop on monday with the interior filled with trash and beer cans. Said coworker is currently trying to figure out the best way to wire a high output ignition coil to the ignition lock cylinder which would be tied into said killswitch. That boy gives no fucks. I was thinking about that with a stereo capacitor, but decided on a super loud alarm inside the cab. I don't want a junkie to poo poo himself inside my truck.
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May 26, 2016 02:38
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Stereo caps are low voltage anyways, no worse than sticking a finger in a cig lighter outlet. what you want is a piezo or transformer based asszappitator setup. Would be better off with something like a .25 cement nailer blank firing gun mounted under the bed, electronically triggered by a whisker switch when someone pushes the lock cylinder in way too hard. If it doesn't wake you up it will sure scare them off. Fake edit: probably illegal as fuuuuuuck
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May 26, 2016 04:48
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kastein posted:Stereo caps are low voltage anyways, no worse than sticking a finger in a cig lighter outlet. Wire up some camera flash caps on a relay connected to wire woven in the seat.
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May 26, 2016 13:38
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Powershift posted:My old box was busted as gently caress, and everybody wanted $1000 for a take-off. seemed kinda dumb paying $1000 for a box when a whole truck is $750, so i held firm with the statement that i would pay $200 for a box. My dad found one for $300 on kijiji, and by the time i got off my rear end to get ahold of the guy he dropped it to $200. He had it listed as "damaged', but all the damage is cosmetic in an area you can't see. it was in a front end collision with a toolbox in the back, so the front is bowed, and there were a couple broken spotwelds underneath, but nothing essential. the rest of the box is fuckin mint. Haha, look at you and your fancy star head bolts. My chosen year group uses carriage bolts on the top, and rust on the bottom. That said, I managed 6 of 8 once, but one of the slots for a bolt rounded out  It's somewhat easier for me to buy a whole non-running/wrecked truck just for the bed and then junkyard the rest.
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Jun 1, 2016 17:44
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IIRC I got four out, broke one, and the sixth was holding down a piece of bed floor that was no longer connected at all to the rest of the bed on my dad's Ranger, so we just left it there and removed the bed. It's been a few years now though so I might be misremembering this.
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Jun 1, 2016 17:47
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I slathered bedliner all over the roof today. The mediocre result is a direct reflection of my half-assed approach. It was all going ok until my spray can ran out of propellant. i made a huge mess cutting it open and then just gooped it all on with a paintbrush.   I really wanted to paint it up nice and glossy, but we already saw our first hailstorm a few days ago. I figured bedliner would absorb the impact a little bit. Hopefully it'll look a little better once i get the rear window tinted, and clean it all up.
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Jun 2, 2016 03:02
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You're supposed to black out the hood, dude. I guess when you're a million feet tall the condition of the truck's roof is also noticeable.
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Jun 2, 2016 03:57
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The hood is in pretty drat good shape. The roof had a pile of holes and rust. I'm not sure it would make a good tofu delivery vehicle, anyways.
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Jun 2, 2016 04:12
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Cut the roof for one of those Subaru roof vents.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Cut the roof for one of those Subaru roof vents. Water intake for a post-work shower?
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Jun 2, 2016 04:21
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Are you going to paint the roof, or leave it black? I guess it heating up the cab isn't a big concern where you're at,and you have decent insulation anyway?
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Jun 2, 2016 17:59
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Atmus posted:Are you going to paint the roof, or leave it black? I guess it heating up the cab isn't a big concern where you're at,and you have decent insulation anyway? For every day where we get four hours of sundimness in the winter, we get just as many days with twenty hours of directly over your head lighting the forest on fire days of searing sunfure in the summer.
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I hated how the bedliner roof looked, so i spent like 2 hours stripping it. back to square one, but the truck got kicked out of the garage for a different project, again. This time a father/son type deal Big green bus.    Ok, maybe grabber blue. It's a monster bus. It's the heavierspec, but yet only 16 passenger. That means it has a 7.6 liter DT466 engine(pre-emissions), Allison 2500 transmission, giant disk brakes all around, heavy duty suspension and driveline. and 43" traction tires on 22.5" wheels. all to carry 1 more passenger than a ford van. The bus itself is only 25 feet long and 8 feet wide, with a 158" wheelbase a little larger than a CCLB 1 ton with the wheelbase of a CCSB. That means i can park anywhere a pickup would normally park and piss off a few neighbors.  It was a coal mine truck, so step 1 was stripping it the gently caress down and hosing it the gently caress off. Going at the undercarriage with a fire hose, the coal was flowing out as thick as oil.     The living space is about 7.5 feet x 16 feet.  What's left -interior, it's all entirely up in the air at this point. -Fuel tank. The tank in it only seems to be about 80 liters, which is only enough for ~400kms. -removing all the god drat reflective tape that's all disintegrating. -Regear. It's got a 5.67 rear end which means redline in top gear is only about 90kph, which also means 6th gear is programmed out -do something to make it look less schoolbussey, i guess. -replace 1 exterior panel and a couple feet of rub bar.
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build a bachelors den outta it.  Rules, second bus in ai. E: you fucker, you got led indicators.
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Total newbie question, but why would they program it not to use 6th if the rear gearing is too short? Seems like that'd be when you want to be able to use 6th.
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some texas redneck posted:Total newbie question, but why would they program it not to use 6th if the rear gearing is too short? Seems like that'd be when you want to be able to use 6th. From what i understand, the ratios are so close together at that point, it only drops ~300 RPM at the designated operating speed of the bus. You would lose too much time shifting back and forth between 5-6 at 90kph, which is what a lot of schoolbusses are limited to. The high rear gear makes full use of the engine's power band without concern for fuel economy. Factory school bus tune is only 210hp/520ft/lbs, which is where they get their fuel savings. You can't put any more fuel through the injectors than it takes to make 210hp. I got 10mpg at redline doing 90kph. If we can get 6th programmed in and a 3.55 rear end, it could do 12-15mpg. I should also mention despite not weighing a whole lot, and not being designed for a trailer, the thing has an exhaust brake. Let off the throttle and it lets out a little sigh, and then starts dragging you down pretty quick. I could see never having to use the real brakes in the mountains and stuff. cursedshitbox posted:build a bachelors den outta it. I think that means we have to race. Powershift fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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Powershift posted:I think that means we have to race. Drag race or canyons?
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You bought a monster truck bus. I'm fairly sure my kid would die of excitement if I bought that home.
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NEAI Power tour?!??!
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Do your neighbors run some sort of betting pool on what you're going to have in the driveway any given week?
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Jun 8, 2016 14:22
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You are a golden god and that bus is your chariot
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If that thing isn't painted with a flame job and named "Cool Bus" your AI membership is being revoked.
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Huge_Midget posted:If that thing isn't painted with a flame job and named "Cool Bus" your AI membership is being revoked. Or a P40 style shark mouth: http://www.ihatedecals.ca/collections/side-graphics/products/shark-decal?variant=6539287489
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Holy poo poo that bus is the stuff of dreams right there. This thread just got 100 times better.
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McTinkerson posted:Or a P40 style shark mouth: http://www.ihatedecals.ca/collections/side-graphics/products/shark-decal?variant=6539287489 This, i like. KozmoNaut posted:Drag race or canyons? offroad? slidebite posted:Do your neighbors run some sort of betting pool on what you're going to have in the driveway any given week? No, but one came and asked if i owned anything that wasn't obnoxiously loud. So far with this one, it's 2 very for, 1 very against.
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Can someone photoshop mashup that bus and fury roads gigahorse please?
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 Figured out at the car wash that the bus has the same turning circle as my pickup. It's wheelbase is only 20 inches longer than my pickup. It's identical to an extended cab/long box. All the space inside is gained from a short nose, an a very vertical stature. Anywhere a 1 ton pickup will go, this thing will go. You can street park it downtown or take off up a logging road. It does all the things a normal motorhome can't do. 3rd washing, there's still a pile of coal on top of the transmission and fuel tank. The inside is really fuckin clean though. There are guys who take the coal mine pick-ups, clean them, up, and sell them on, i can't imagine how hosed those things are. This bus wasn't hard to remove the entire dash, all the defroster vents and that were fed off of 1 easily removable box. both big heaters were easily opened up to clean inside. The trucks you can't clean that hard stuff without total dissasembly. At some point the new owner is going to have to pull the door pannel off to fix a window regulator or something, and have to shovel 5 pounds of coal out of the inside of the door. those engines being choked by a single 1 square foot air filter covered in coal. This thing has a pre-filter, and then inner and outer cone filters totaling probably 10 square feet. After cleaning all the coal dust out of this thing, i wouldn't even for a second consider buying a pick-up that came out of a coal mine.
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Powershift posted:No, but one came and asked if i owned anything that wasn't obnoxiously loud. So far with this one, it's 2 very for, 1 very against. I hope every time he asked the question you revved the motor and shouted "WHAT?"
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Shampoo posted:I hope every time he asked the question you revved the motor and shouted "WHAT?" Does Powershift even own anything obnoxiously loud? Does the Lincoln have glass packs or open headers or something and I missed it?
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