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#46
Tech Talk / Re: I can't get my doors off.
June 19, 2008, 01:33:27 AM
Yea, I had to coat mine in penetrating oil several times, let it soak in.. then I grabbed a 2x4, put it across the bottom of my door and used a jack to edge it up.. It mostly just lifted my jeep up.. but I was able to kinda jerk on the door while the jack had pressure on it and it finally just let loose.


-Brandon
#47
The Lounge / Re: Bye, Bye Baby
June 18, 2008, 05:12:27 PM
Quote from: "94_xj_country"nice fury, but im still crying  :cry:


I agree. That Jeep was the sweetest Jeep I've ever seen...


-Brandon
#48
Jeep Talk / Re: tj's
June 16, 2008, 10:23:52 PM
Hmm.. The ones I can note, at least with my Jeep:

1) Front sway bar ends where they link to the axle are plastic and if you go over a curb thats too high they will break off (sarcasm).

2) Front steering gear (right under the front bumper) leaks.. Mine has gotten so bad theres a large puddle under my Jeep everyday and I have to refill it everyday..

3) Rear trackbar bushings blow out and then they rattle (Don't know if this is common or not but mine blew out relatively quickly after I started wheeling).


-Brandon
#49
The Lounge / Re: First project
June 16, 2008, 12:43:40 PM
I tried to explain how to post pictures, but no matter what I wrote it was confusing, so my post turned into "Nice Job!" hahaha...

Lets try this again..

Basically, the links you posted are links to the webpage with the pictures on them, not the links to the pictures themselves. So, go to one of your picture pages, right click on the picture itself, and click view image.

Now your on the page that is a direct link to the picture only. Copy that link, paste it here, highlight the entire link, and click the "Img" button above the text box on this forum (right underneath to the right of the subject line).

Heres a pic of the IMG Button:



Once you do that there should be Img tags around your link, and there ya go.. now you've posted a picture.

So, let me try to walk you through this another way incase my text is confusing:

Link to page with picture on it:
http://s208213989.onlinehome.us/WLBgall ... temId=1885

Right click, view image.

Copy that link:
http://s208213989.onlinehome.us/WLBgall ... alNumber=2

Highlight link and click the "Img" button:


And Voila!



-Brandon
#50
The Lounge / Re: First project
June 16, 2008, 03:21:18 AM
Nice job!


-Brandon
#51
Wanted / Re: Looking for a used lawnmower
May 23, 2008, 04:35:45 PM
Quote from: "NayPalm"Rent-a-mower service.

Goto wally world, buy one, take it back after a month and say it sucks and get ur money back. repeat monthly. :lol:


It works! I have a friend that buys used stuff on ebay for cheap, then goes to the store and buys the item new, and returns the used one in the box..

So he gets a new product for the cheap ebay price. :D


-Brandon
#52
Wanted / Re: Looking for a used lawnmower
May 23, 2008, 03:05:36 PM
Take a ride any weekend (if its warm there) and look for a few garage sales.. probably find what your looking for there...


-Brandon
#53
The Lounge / Re: need help with a smell!!
May 21, 2008, 09:09:49 PM
If you've ever had a bad coolant leak.. that smell lasts forever. I know when I blew the heads on my intrepid a long time ago.. I could never get rid of that smell...


-Brandon
#54
Events / Re: Mounds sat aftermath.
May 17, 2008, 10:32:42 PM
IDK how.. but I've seen a pretty much stock Ford Ranger (one of the guys from MichiganJeepers.org), with mud tires and a small lift go through the near mud pit in this picture several times back and forth:



And yet.. I've seen some of the bigger trucks (with 400+ horse and 40 inch tires) gets stuck in there..

Anyways, good pictures man.. I can't wait till I get back to MI (Less than 3 more weeks).. I'm gonna hit up the Mounds and Vassar a lot this summer..



-Brandon
#55
Events / Re: Mounds sat aftermath.
May 17, 2008, 04:40:33 PM
(1) Go to http://www.photobucket.com
(2) Create an account, follow instructions on sending pictures
(3) Copy link underneath each picture
(4) Come to this website, type (dont type the *'s) [img*] your link to your photo goes here [*/img]



-Brandon
#56
The Lounge / Interesting Rant
May 17, 2008, 04:35:30 PM
I read this rant recently in a copy of American Handgunner (an old copy, my coworker gave me a bunch). Thought it was an interesting topic to talk about...


QuoteVirginia Tech:
Rage, Reflection and Rejection

                  
      Guest Editorial by Handgunner's own John Connor
Editor's Note: I discussed the Virginia Tech incident with Connor during one of his rare "phone into the office" moments. After talking, I realized John could say it better than I ever could, so I asked him to send us his thoughts. Reading this, you might think he was calm, thoughtful and methodical while he was writing it. Nope. If we had strapped some cans of old paint to him, the contents would have been whipped to a froth from the rage-induced vibration. Best not to mention it to him for a while, perhaps — until his Heat Index drops below "volcanic."
               
      How could this have happened? Is that a serious question? In a place where possession of a gun — and indeed, any effective means of self-defense — is prohibited; a place packed with young people who have been taught that surrender and submission is not only the correct, but the morally superior response to lethal confrontation; a slaughter-chute where the prey were lulled by a moronic mantra of "this is a gun-free zone; a safe and nurturing place; there is nothing to fear," 32 are killed at leisure by a lone, armed psychotic. Through a red film of rage, I ask, I cry, How could it NOT have happened? Did thinking people not know, from both ancient and modern history, and from simple common sense, that it had to happen?

First, disarm as many citizens as possible. Restrict their God-given right to self-defense, and make those who successfully deter predators the subjects of aggressive prosecution and endless life-destroying lawsuits on behalf of their would-be murderers. Create "killing boxes," and fill them with infantilized, mind-massaged victims, and give them rules against resisting killers. Forbid trained, experienced, armed citizens and even off-duty peace officers from bearing arms in those zones, and ridicule those who protest as "paranoids."

Coddle the obviously crazed and dangerous. Brush aside and ignore their prolonged, repeated, graphic threats of grisly mass murder. Minimize their malignant malice; indulge it as "diversity" and celebrate its "otherness." If the most obvious threat is brought before a court, then fumble and fail, without follow-up, and hold no one accountable for it, because the guilty are "gentle, compassionate, socially-sensitive souls." Do not blink at the ticking time bomb's return to the classroom, where his freshly embittered brain spews out even more and greater warnings of the coming explosion.

Finally, claim this inevitable event, and the actions of its architect "could never have been foreseen," even if, absurdly, you "knew it had to be Cho" when you heard of the slaughter. Only a "respected professor" or other half-wit could utter such words without seeing their irony.

Above all, totally abdicate decision-making power on the issues of arms and self-defense to those who are completely unqualified to even address the subjects.


A Better Bloodbath


In America, many of our oldest and most onerous gun laws were crafted by criminals and passed by their puppet politicians. Frequently their purpose, as in New York City, was to prohibit arms to rival gangs. In other places, like Chicago and San Francisco, their aim was to criminalize ethnic minorities and "subversive elements," including blue-collar workers with coal on their clothes and grease under their fingernails; those who might organize and object to dangerous slave labor conditions and perennial poverty.

Following on that foundation came more restrictive weapons laws propounded by "progressive thinkers" and "social engineers," many of whom also embraced the "science" of "eugenics," which called for the euthanasia of "congenital misfits, morons and degenerates." Jews were, as a race, defined as degenerates. The "progressive" philosophy also envisioned a more "manageable, unarmed populace" of those who were not quite bound for the gas chambers, but well below the sophistication level of "gifted society" — those "born to lead." They only abandoned euthanasia, by the way, when the Third Reich co-opted the theme.

Tyrants and gangsters still exert their influence, because corrupt politicians prefer unarmed peasants; a simple fact. Their motives ethically disqualify them from such decision-making. Then, increasingly, our laws, policies and public perceptions have been and are promoted and enforced by psychological cripples, the emotionally unbalanced, and moral cowards.

Am I being rash and unreasonable?

Please consider this: Those who fear inanimate objects — tools like guns and knives — and believe them to be intrinsically evil or capable of inspiring evil, are clearly psychologically crippled. They cannot think rationally about arms and their lawful use. Those who cannot differentiate between armed, trained, dedicated guardians of their fellow man, and twisted, predatory, psychotic killers, based on shared use of firearms, are clearly emotionally unbalanced. Those who so morbidly fear physical confrontation they preach submission and surrender, even unto death, in preference to fighting for life — and seek to enforce that condition upon others — are moral cowards.

None are possessed of the courage, wisdom and appreciation of the dynamics of violence and counter-violence requisite to engage in decision-making on those critical issues — yet they do. They persist, and the killing zones widen, deepen and darken with the blood of innocents.

Our rights and freedoms were fought for and affirmed by brave and brilliant men, now derided and ridiculed by academia and the effete as "Irrelevant Dead White Males." Our rights have been stolen by the unworthy. To them we must say, "Your way has not, does not, will not work. Sit down and SHUT UP!"

What do you think? I pretty much agree with what he's saying.. If you take away the guns from people, how can you not expect something like this to happen?


-Brandon
#57
Quote from: "4x4x4JK"
Quote from: "94_xj_country"
Quote from: "4x4x4JK"I may not get to the Mounds until about 3:00.  Anyone going to be there that late?

i probably will be, call me when you get there (248) 840-5872 or hit me up, probably on channell 11.

I am new on here, so I am not sure who you are.  What is you name?  I will call you since I dont have a CB yet.  My cell is (810)845-2732.

Michael


In case he doesn't get a chance to respond, his name is Brian.


-Brandon
#58
The Lounge / Re: Wheelers For The Wounded
May 14, 2008, 09:58:04 AM
Quote from: "Harley"
Quote from: "astrogiblet"Most of them seem to be pretty nice guys.. but they have a few bad apples for sure.


-Brandon

You hit the nail on the head Brandon.  As much as I may not agree with what some of them do, there are still some good apples in that crew.  I personally avoid the "bad apples", and have had alot of fun with the "good apples".  You would really need to form your own opinion diablo.  One mans opinion may not be yours.

Yea.. I can personally attest to the Got Mud crew having saved my ass several times when I've been stuck.


-Brandon
#59
The Lounge / Re: Wheelers For The Wounded
May 13, 2008, 08:20:43 PM
Quote from: "diablosjeep"Why? Is there a problem with the "We Got Mud" crew? I honestly don't know anything at all about them. I just saw the event on a different site. I guess I will steer clear of them. I really don't need any problems.


Well.. there has been allegations of them drinking and smoking pot well wheeling. They have even posted videos on their site where they've dumped over coolers full of beer into mud pits on accident and gone in after them..

Most of them seem to be pretty nice guys.. but they have a few bad apples for sure.


-Brandon
#60
Tech Talk / Re: Clutch...
May 13, 2008, 06:02:37 PM
Hahaha. Only thing is I think Neil is the one who benchpressed my tranny into place... For a little guy he's pretty strong. :P :P :P :P Kidding Neil!


-Brandon