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AlDente67

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  1. Check out Scotty Kilmer on youtube. Funny stuff and he hates anything not Toyota, but since he has been fixing cars for 52 years, I like to hear his take on things. As I mentioned, I am on number 3 GC now with no engine issues, but then again, I don't keep them long enough to opine on durability. These are all the 3.6 Gets me in the surf real good! The 6l cummins diesels gets me out real good!
  2. The volume is staggering now with many ordering online. They are not staffed for it, which is not a shocker. I get emails from all of them begging for bodies to process the packages. The only problem is that they still want to pay nearly nothing in return for busting your hump at 2am. Warehousing is like prison labor with Cool Hand Luke. It is hot (especially now that summer is upon us), they don't aircon the place, they expect you to go full tilt every minute of your shift and be on call like a doctor (at 12 bucks an hour)...christmas day? F U, come in or you are terminated. Getting married tomorrow? F U termination. I compiled this from people who made the mistake of signing up with Amazon. Their turnover is legendary. Meanwhile Bezos is sipping wine on his boat.
  3. In the Wilmington DE Amtrack station, there is a big bronze plaque saluting Biden bolted to the wall near one of the entryways. I would have made some additions to it, but at the time, he was just one of 20 idiots in the race. Plus they have about 10 cops stationed there.
  4. There is a rumor going around that many of the prisoners who were let out so they didn't get covid were actually hired and trained to lead the riots recently. And they had no fear of burning and smashing because they were given that free pass. Just what I heard.
  5. The F150 is the best selling pickup in this country, although it doesn't excite me style-wise. The Commander looks really nice to me, especially the one inside my dealer's showroom that had the extra off-road bits added and some other trim, but I nearly fell over when I looked at the price sheet. Something like over $60k. Same thing with the Grand Cherokee Trackhawk at over 90k (base). It would be fun for a little while having 700hp, but for daily life...no, lol. I wouldn't even want to try it on a quarter mile run for fear of flipping over.
  6. I had 3 jeep kiddie buggies at one point. Kids outgrew them and I gave them away for free to a forum member for his kids to enjoy. One was a Peg Perego that my neighbor put out for trash. Damn, that thing cost about 400 new. My daughter had the pink barbie jeep with a working radio. Now she drives a 120 foot ship in Hawaii.
  7. My college roomie had something close to that with the V8. That thing would scale the side of a building. May I borrow it for a day?
  8. Thanks. I only ask because i used it in spray bottle form on some weeds in a pebble area, and then the grass 5 feet away all died within a week. Seemed as though it leached down the the very slight slope from one area to the the borders. It wasn't applied in hose blast format, just a few squirts on the weeds themselves several feet away.
  9. Sort of amusing story..not a Wrangler...my other GC. Parked in the supermarket lot like anyone does. Come back out to find somebody with a ball-hitch backed into my the spot in front and tapped my under-bumper where the big plastic eye resides for cruise control distancing. I didn't notice the plastic bits on the ground and just drove home. Next day I noticed some bits were pushed in way down below the main bumper. Oh crap. I will deal with it another day. Start driving and the thing locks into 2nd gear. I call the dealer and ask what to do and they say to bring it in right away. So I limp 20 miles over. Trans intercooler destroyed...trans destroyed...9 weeks later, a tech comes in to replace all of it. Insurance cost - close to $15000. Insurance company not happy. Oh well. Traded it in last year. New owner should be good to go for a few extra years.
  10. That made me laugh...thank you.
  11. Does anyone really know how long Roundup remains active? It certainly does the job, but many say it wears off after a day or two. I dont believe it. If I use it near the beds, I am afraid they will be barren for weeks.
  12. Oh yes, I meant a work laptop that gets turned on and off when I reached a destination, then jacked into usually a hotel wifi to work on documents, check mail, and so on. Spent a lot of time in Nigeria of all places, but I guess the locals were too busy sending out scam emails overseas to bother with trying to hack into local connections, lol. But if I wasn't at home or in the NJ office, all other networks could be considered strange. The office servers were handled by people who knew what they were doing, not me. But from a home user standpoint, I just can't stand 10. MS Office on the cloud has advantages in case of mishap, but no way am I storing my LLC records out in the ether. I guess I'm old fashioned.
  13. Here is the landing of the launch stage:
  14. For a business machine, NT served me well for almost 10 years of use on every continent on the planet (except Antartica). Never a glitch, never a virus, and I was in the dodgiest places you can imagine. I guess your mileage may vary.
  15. That one was disturbing. Q: Why does the new Polish Navy has glass-bottomed boats? A: So they can look for the old Polish Navy. <rimshot>
  16. Strange to schedule a launch late afternoon in central Florida. Most people know the afternoon rain cells come pretty much every day.
  17. I was just in Trenton to check on my wife while she was doing a job aat one of the fine retail establishments there...call it logistical support. ahem. Nothing going on except couples pushing strollers in the sunshine. Then again, the freaks don't like moving around before nightfall.
  18. A horse walks into a bar and sits down. The bartender asks "hey, why the long face?"
  19. I just hit any key to bring up the password prompt on my personal laptop running 10. But about 2 months ago, the password stopped being recognized. The restore option didn't work correctly. I ended up having to pay the tech guys at Staples $125 to wipe it and reinstall the OS. Luckily I had backups of my important docs on an external drive I had laying around, but all the apps were wiped. I miss using NT for so many years. That thing ws blletproof and I could easily get into the BIOS settings to manage the admin side. Windows 10 sucks. Plus the Gates cabal gets more revenue for bloatware.
  20. To add, here is a good Wrangler parts source: https://www.quadratec.com/ You are in SC, so may or may not be worth the shipping, but maybe something closer is available. Lift kits are pretty heavy to ship.
  21. I am on my third Grand Cherokee in a row, lol. I try to limit the customization since these are leases and mostly used for mall crawl (to coin Fishnut's phrase), but I just returned from driving the sand at island beach park this morning. I air down and hit the buggy access path about halfway down the park road (its flat) and then steam down to the inlet where you can see the Barneget lighthouse. The sand is littered with a hundred years of busted shells, so it is very firm at th inlet. With stock all season tires, I can power on through deep sand as long as I don't stop midway. The real offroaders use real mudbog rubber. They never get stuck. I just can't justify a real setup like that on a vehicle I may not have in 2 years. But I do carry a tow cable, shovels, wheel jack and traction mats for bad situations. I would never attempt rock crawl in this unless I owned it as a second vehicle. Imagine the lease return damage fee on a truck with a broken axle and half the paint scraped away. Not pretty. But I do see a number of older wranglers for sale every day that might do the trick...right on the highway. Already done up and easy to work on. Might be some good finds out there. The Gas Monkey dude's buddy owns a parts warehouse for that sort of thing (part upgrades). Can't recall the name though. I do tend to browse the lot when in for an oil change. But a tricked out Wrangler, brandy new for 50 grand? Not in my budget. But by the way, the higher trim models have air ride adjustments. I can turn a knob on the center consol and lift 3 inches. Pretty cool until it eventually breaks I guess. But thats the next owner's problem.
  22. And of course find a way to pay for your booth rental without giving the cashier some form of payment. lol.
  23. Thank you. I am not an instructor or currently even affiliated with any private clubs. I doubt 14 gives out info to anyone since it is technically on a military base, but I am only guessing. We are just looking to shoot in a private backyard where the neighbors don't care since some of them do the same. It reminds me of another friend in the Pocono foorhills who does the same, although he has 12 acres surrounded on 3 sides by a steep ridgeline. The neighbors there pretty much do anything they please - shoot full-auto machine guns...4th of July fireworks shows that rival Grucci events....you name it, lol. Here in our central jersey suburbs, the cops creep around in the dark looking for anyone shooting a bottle rocket. But at any rate, I guess we will stick to what he has instead of riding around with mine in the trunk. I've only been pulled over once in 30 years, and that was dark tint and a license plate bracket that covered up the state slogan. But it isn't worth taking the chance really.
  24. I am against picketing, but I don't know how to express it. -Mitch Hedberg
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