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the only problem with power stroke engines was normally the operator. it was one of the best non-commercial diesel engines ever built. it had the torque to do what was necessary, and drove almost like you were driving a gas engine. what normally happened with the power strokes, is that the operator would be running hard, and everything was hot. including the turbo. when they park, they don't give it cool down time, thus cooking the bearings in the turbo. there's a reason that most emt services used them. and most tow companies used them. over dodge. i drove for a towing company for about 10 years. we had them, and a ud. the ud was a rollback. i did my damndest to stay in one of the fords, although i had to use the ud for heavier stuff. the ONLY problems we ever had with any of the super duties was transmissions(1 was a ford transmission, the others were allisons), and a broken axle on one. now the 6.0's that ford's using now? you couldn't pay me to take one of those. 'cept as a boat anchor maybe.

this might be a good time to remind everyone. BRAKE LINES. i see common failures of steel brake lines on ALL makes of suv and pickups. normally above the fuel tank. some of the fords rust through d/s front fender area. ever since they've started using brine in the winter, the frequency of brake line repair has gone through the roof.

coyote power. those fords have ball joint issues 'cause ford didn't change much when they went away from kingpins in the 80's. so you've got he ball joints very close together, with a very tall tire. leverage does its deed, and you get ball joints failing way too early.

between those 2, ford. i'm not sure what to think oif the v6 in the f150 though. i'd stick with a v8. dodges are shit though. never knew anyone that was happy with theirs. i've got a 97 dakota.....only thing it's good for is a little bit of sorta hotrodding fun.

i'll give it a try for next year. seeing as i know i'm not gonna make the range before next week, i just wanted it better than it was last month. during the winter, i'll re-zero it, and i'll shoot at diff. distances to figure out where i need to put the dot in order to hit. i did notice that with it zero'd at 25 that as i walked it in, at about 8'ish yards, the bores laser was showint about an inch below the red dot. i couldn't legitmatley walk out into the street or my neighbors yards across the street to see what happened when i took it out farther......

ANYONE remember 8 legged freaks? was a friggin hilarious movie

she heard a pop? what was he using? a cross bow? or did he just have the nosiest bow in nj?

i honestly though 25 would have me on paper at that and 100. i wasn't able to get to the range, so i distanced myself 25 yards from my firewood. and hung a target there, then used the laser bore sighter. sucked 'cause even though it's perfectly legal, i put the rifle down outta sight every time a car came by. i had to be right up at my front property line to have the distance. i didn't want my local pd coming out 'cause some $%^ called them due to a guy with a rifle in the yard.

haven't made it to the range yet. got family stuff to do this weekend, so not gonna make it this weekend. next weekend i think is the next match? so what i did, was put a laser bore sighter in my rifle(with the chamber flag in obviously). used a rangefinder to spot 25 yards, and set a "Q" target up. shouldered the rifle, and boy was the eotech off. it was higher than the bore laser, and slightly left. took about 14 clicks verticle and 6 or 7 horizontal to bring them together. that's gonna hafta be my starting point for next week. guess that explains how poorly i did with the rifle. i'm not really sure how it got so far off though, as i've shot that rifle accurately before.....

most fighters of the time that had wing mounted guns generally had convergence set at 250 yards. while they could hit a lot farther, 250 was what they felt was optimal. their sights were calibrated for the distance too.....wings fill the sight, you're about that distance...shoot tha bastard.

looks like at least one is going after mandaly bay too...... https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/11/a-21-year-old-who-was-shot-in-the-chest-during-the-las-vegas-shooting-is-suing-the-mandalay-bay-hotel/23240269/

i've had a few of the manifold leaks. i farm them out. too much of a pain in the butt to deal with here. i haven't had any issues with the fords or chevys eating oil yet. i've got a small fleet that uses mostly toyota corollas....and 3 or 4 of theirs are burning about a quart every 1k miles. haven't had any tranny issues yet with any of these. my buddys has a bad a/c compressor though. my biggest issue with the fords is how the engine comes out.....you either lift the cab off the frame or tear the entire nose apart and pull it out through the front........i'd like to do mean things to the moron that came up with that.

wow. that's amazing. i was trying to work out a way to take the time off to see glacier girl fly her maiden flight....but couldn't pull it off. that was an amazing restoration. i was looking for videos of white lightning too. beautiful aircraft.

my expedition's got 154k. working on a buddys f150 that's in the 160's. just shipped an 05 f150 to the engine shop. that one's got 290k. mine and my buddys are pretty rusted underneath. mechanicals holding up well. the 05 you'd never guess it was in the 290's. buddys is a 99, mine's an 01

also...why's this in general firearms? you mountin' guns behind the grille or something?

the early/mid 2000's fords are great. 'cept for that $$% spark plug issue in some of the 5.4's. chevy's are nice too. they seem to hold up well. i don't see many problems with them. dodge,,,,,,stay away, toyota seems to be the winner here. those friggin things just run. their v8's seem reliable and strong. their v6's you can't beat. their interiors and bodies seem to hold up better than any of the "big three" too. as much as it pains me, i'd say go with the toyota,. there was a day when i'd have slapped the crap outta someone for saying anything japanese was better than our stuff. then i learned better....and their products got better.

sadly, i think that there are only 6 or 7 of these beauties in the world that can still fly. yet they were the only allied fighter that served in every TO and from the beginning to the end of the war.......they didn't get the glory that the mustang got though.

missing man always gets me.......

that is the sound of victory and freedom. courtesy of Americas ace maker the p-38 lightning.

i switch between howard leight active muffs, and walker razr electronic plugs..... https://www.amazon.com/Walkers-Razor-Behind-Electronic-Retractable/dp/B01GUB2SMU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1507773018&sr=8-1&keywords=walker+razor+xv+with+bluetooth

didn't nj change the wording to be "expanding" which would kill critical defense?

i know you're not. i only mentioned the cylinder heads, 'cause i had no clue the first time i put a set on. i knew better when i had to take them back off, and redo the whole job though.

not a bad idea at all. side note......THAT'S what they call a weight lifting belt now? when i used to lift 4 or 5 nights a week, we all had these thick leather buckle belts to support our backs.......

http://www.ruggedgear.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=219/category_id=179/mode=prod/prd219.htm 319. probably plus shipping.

I moved em from photobucket to flikr, since photobucket wants money to allow 3rd party sharing like here. it could. you'd be walking the safest baby in town at that point.