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i made copies. one in a folder in each glovebox with my insurance and reg, original laminated in my wallet.

my 98 actually had fantastic brakes. one of the fleets i work on has a 12 and a 14........the 14 has had a new tranny and a new engine within the last 2 years....the driver ran the engine dry..........but brakes fine. the problem i've found on a lot of chrysler product brakes is the way that the pad ride on the slides. when you get some moron that does the brake job and doesn't believe in lubrication......the pads tend to wear a groove into the slide. this causes the pads to cock and then jam themselves in place which causes premature wear. back in the day when there were tons more of those on the road, we used to break out the mig welder, fill in those grooves, grind them flush then finish the brake job properly. with lube.

and you don't think ours is?

i would imagine that even with that in mind, if they're air dropping, they could modify to get more retardent on the fire...... then again though, i'm wondering if in the long run it's better to let it burn for now, considering that a lot of those fires possibly started due to poor forest management.........

couldn't really beat the town and country and caravan/grand caravans

i know they're mostly private companies up there doing that. i'd read an article years ago on a company that used tbm avengers, but i dunno how they filled them. i think there was a company using pby catalinas too. i think those guys just do a low approach over the lake, skimming the surfact to pull water in........ i only really asked because well.....like i said.......we never sent just one b17 to bomb that refinery. it was always 50 or 100. so.....why wouldn't that work to extinguish a fire? lead drops, rest of the box drops too.....rather than say....20k gallons, now we've got 80k gallons dropped. of course i'm just some schmuck mechanic, so there's probably something i'm overlooking there.......

i don;t want to pay the new fees....but i think my desire for that 1911 is outweighing thedetriment of the new fees......

in hindsight, i probably over-generalized with what i'd typed before.

yea. pretty nasty over there. they were probably watching how we handled blmtifa. now they don't have any control. pretty much every govt on the planet doesn't seem to realize that they govern at the consent of the governed.....

so this is probably a stupid question, but it's been bugging me....... so canada is still on fire. we all know they "water bomb" those fires using water, or whatever other fire suppressant that they have. but i always see them just doing it one aircraft at a time. wouldn't it make much more sense to attack these fires pretty much the same way that bombers used to attack targets? a whole formation.....even if it's just a box of 4........dropping on target at the same time? it would seem to me that it'd have a much better effect than dropping one payload now, then another in a few minutes, then another in another few minutes......

this particular belt has a smaller buckle. you can fit it through most belt loops. the prongs don't stick out far at all. i'll see if i can get a pic of it buckled. i don't tuck, so the belt's not really visible at all. if i tucked in, then the buckle would be visible, but i kinda feel like it's small enough to not be noticed by most people.

been wearing this belt now for about a week.......i really like it a lot so far. i also have their leather gunbelt too. that was much thicker than i expected it to be. https://www.vedderholsters.com/cobra-quick-release-gun-belt/

is a friggin ANGEL. her birthday was yesterday. i'd really like to do something for her or get her something for her birthday, but haven't got a clue what would/could be appropriate. as it stands, i'm leaning towards a gift certificate to a decent eatery like the lamp post diner or something similar. anyone got any suggestions? i'm mostly asking 'cause i'm generally not a fan of gift certificates........

i hadn't heard that about those. i thought they were gonna keep the v6 versions. that turbo4 pickup will show out to be a turd after about 4 to 6 years in service when the turbos all start sucking oil through the seals and costing engines. that's dumber than some of the stuff that ford's done..... they'll be lucky to make it TO 100k

oohh i give them a ton of credit for what they've accomplished, and hope they keep the train rolling.....

i'm hoping that doesn't happen. but i'm fearful that it will, considering that some of those organizations(nra for example) have historically bargained our rights away.

stellantis owns chrysler and quite a few others now. and skuttlebut is that they're discontinuing the hemi

i thought that was known, lol. i haven't been in the air since about 2010 though. i was about to get current then the stuff with mom happened.....so now i'm too poor for the time being.......but it'd be nice to know that i can carry from the time i leave home to the time i land, enjoy whatever i'm gonna do and then return........when i can afford it of course.

little side track on this........ what's the law if you're renting and flying yourself? say for instance i wanted to fly to ocean city, or down to cape may county airport?

kia ya gotta stay away from the turbo4. their v6 for the most part seems dependable. so far. i don't have a bunch of customers with mazda products.....

gm started somewhere around 2010 to 2012 with the active fuel management. chrysler started with it at least in 2010. the 3.5/3.7 v6 ford engines with the waterpump in the engine......it's expensive cause the engine's gotta come out to do the job. once the pump's leaked, it's not IF the engine's gonna fail....it's a matter of WHEN. and right now, there's a backlog of engines for those. i forgot about that. DI that is. virtually anything with DI will carbon-foul the intake valves. and the injectors are super expensive to replace. and the high-pressure fuel pump tends to fail.

just like many of their asian counterparts......get them equipped wrong.......like something bigger with a little engine....and they suck. oil. i've had 3 over the past few years that the owners let them run dry because of this. and that was within the scheduled maintenance too. what i generally tell anyone that's looking at euro-junk........they're generally VERY nice for the first couple of years. so lease it. if after that 3 year lease, you still like and want it, then turn it in(before it has chance to develop big problems) and lease another one. if i were gonna recommend any eurojunk, it'd be mercedes, even though i hate working on them.....they seem to be the most reliable. from my experience anyway

yea. that's hondas version of the variable displacement. chrysler uses it too on their hemi v8's. can't remember if it's on any of their other v8's or not. it's actually a very ingeniously simple system that's controlled in an over-complicated way....but works VERY well. till it doesn't as i mentioned above. i don't have a ton of experience with failures of this system on the hondas as yet.....but on gm's it's normally either #1 or #4 lifter failures. lifter replacement on their engines requires removal of the cylinder head. i had one that the lifter itself didn't fail, but rather the plastic(yea i know) tab that holds the lifter in proper alignment had broken. lifter rotated 90degrees and proceeded to peel the cam lobe like an orange. and fling metal shaving through the entire engine. i had a 10 charger that one of the control solenoids failed, so they wanted all of them replaced. boy was that a fun job. would've been relatively easy if every single one didn't stick in the bore so badly that they broke coming out. with the v6 those are great choices. with the 4banger? junk.

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i'd look into a ford expedition, or the chevy tahoe or whatever the gmc version of that is. the thing to be careful with on the gm's though is the variable displacement. all of their 5.3 and 6.0 engines have it. it works fantastic. so good that you don't know it's working. right up till it fooks ya. then it sucks. the newer expeditions, i don't have much experience with at all, but i haven't heard much bad about em either.