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in a way, it doesn't matter if you need one or not. if you're shooting outside, and using your hd firearms, and the usage of those hd firearms would entail the usage of armor in home defense....then you should be wearing it as you would in defense of your home.

i'd even go to the point of wanting my money back, so i can go get another car somewhere else. if they hadda do something that was so serious that they're afraid to tell me what it was, then i don't think i'd really wanna keep the car.....

had a customer brought me his subaru and all the parts i needed to repace his clutch. including a new dual mass flywheel. he'd bought all the stuff online from a ct subaru dealer. the stuff was all in subaru packaging, and had subaru part numbers on it. i did the job, he had the car back for 3 or 4 days, when he came back, saying sometimes it wouldn't come outta gear. he'd have to shut the engine off then restart once it was in neutral. sometimes he wasn't able to shift. i test drove it, and duplicated both problems. he left it with me. i started re-checking everything i did, thinking i managed to screw up somewhere. turns out the flywheel was defective. he went to the local subaru dealer, they pretty close to told him to pound sand. i sent him up to miller(they've helped me in the past). he took video of the flywheel, along with the flywheel. the service manager there said he thought it was defective too, but he couldn't get it approved for warranty. my customer had to go right up the tree to subaru corporate. he just bought an entire new clutch set, so i could put his car back together, and kept hammering them. it took about 3 months, but they finally reimbursed him for the new stuff. THAT was the second time i'd heard anything bad about subaru. the first time was a wrx sti that'd broken the tranny at about 30k miles.....they denied him warranty. got another customer i'd sent to cherry hill imports. i'd diagnosed her car as having a bad ecm. i had a little doubt though, and being an 04 c series, that was expensive. i told her take it there, let them diagnose, and see what they say to be sure. they whacked her for just over 600 bucks, and didn't fix anything. well.....they replaced a couple things in the evap system, but didn't fix her problem. i got a local pd that brings me cars. one of their 2013 chargers had a bad inner control arm bushing. the officer video'd it, then took it to a local dodge dealer. they looked at it and told him nothing was wrong. with a friggin control arm flapping int he breeze. no.....no i don't much care for dealers, when ever dealing i or my customers have with them is pretty much not goo. the ONE dealer i will give cudos to, id performance dodge in woodbury. one of their service managers helped me a LOT with a customers viper truck. and he didn't have to.....but he did. he spent much more time working with me than i expected, which i seriously appreciated.....

i used to love those old 4 bangers. was getting pretty good at water pumps and thermostats on em.

they're giving local pd's this stuff "hoping" that it'll buy them cooperation if that time ever comes. i honestly think that more police will stand with us than with the feds if that ever happened......after all, they ARE us.

when checking vin, check door decal, and on the dashboard right under the inspection sticker.

no, they mostly won't. it's their personality. they cannot/will not admit being wrong, therefore they cannot/will not risk being proven such.

holy crap!! i just took on 181 gallons dec 28 2014 at 3.85/gallon. from vaughn. guess i gotta make a phone call.

SHOULD barrage them with the above.

that's the one. those evil nra'ers helped a country stand against pretty heavy odds.

i seem to recall reading somewhere that the nra actually helped great britain during ww2, as since they didn't have many civilian owned firearms, they'd taken a collection, and sent somehwhere in the ballpark of 7k guns to them for civilians to use in defense should hitler have crossed the channel?

and yet if you had that urgent need as demonstratable, you would in theory not have time to wait for them to grant permission.

if you're referring to the debacle that happened after katrina.....i think there were laws passed to (hopefully) assure that that never happened again.......

i should also add that i made it a point to repeatedly mention to her that part of why i've held off so long in joining, is because they seem to have forgotten that nj exists.

pick virtually any topic, and read articles by "reporters" on it. they're ALL biased in some way. actual, true reporting is dead. shit....they're trying to spin the drop of oil prices as bad for us, when in fact, it will help the entire rest of the economy as people spend more.......

yea, she told me on the phone that i could opt out of the calls and mailings. if i get barraged with calls, i'll just blacklist the number. at home, it's irrelevent, as that phone exists solely for having a landline "just in case". i did a 2 year membership for now. the lady was extremely nice on the phone, and was honestly a pleasure to chat with.

so i finally joined the nra. now, i'll wait for the boatloads of junk mail, and i'll burn it to heat the shop. all sarcasm aside........i've been in the nj2as before, let that expire.....for reasons......then joined anjrcp.......now, finally in nra. did a 2 year membership. woohoo!! go me. yea baby!!

check out black bag resources. owners name is sean. good guy. very smart, and pretty cool.

not accidental. negligent. he didn't clear his clothing properly as he reholstered.

looking up waterpump, it also calls for 3.1. it's not driven by the timing belt, but there's parts of it blocked by the timing belt. i also remember though, that the old 2.2 and 2.5 chryslers usd to call for removal of the timing belt. those i loved, 'cause i did em in less than half the book time, and never removed a timing belt for them. ever. unfortunately, the only advantage i got by being that quick on em was to be onto the next job faster, as i always worked hourly..........

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this....even the price difference is no excuse anymore.

i'm assuming 2.0L? 'cause the 1.6L looks to be a chained engine..... MOTOR Labor Skill Level (Factory Time) MOTOR Time TIMING BELT, R&R Soul B 3.1 Additional labor times: To R&R Camshaft Gears,One Or Both 0.1 To R&R Crankshaft Gear,Add 0.2 To R&R Idler Pulley,Add 0.1 To R&R Tensioner, Add 0.1 MOTOR Parts

i understand, and don't mean anything bad by the way i phrased things. my time comparison was because that 3-5 hours that you spent doing something that could've been done in an hour was because that's 3-5 hours that you could've been doing something fun...shooting, spending time with your wife/kids, shooting, shooting, or shooting. also.....as i mentioned i don't begrudge anyone for doing it if they can, and don't wanna pay someone to do something they can do themselves. hell....i don't know HOW much time i've spent helping others to do jobs themselves that i could conceivably have made money on if they'd brought it in to me.

i ain't doing the gym thing. still hitting my treadmill, and cleaning out part of my garage to make room for my workouts........figuring to try the same stuff they used to make us do in highschool.

you guys that do your own work are only factoring in the part price. don't forget....your time is money too. something that might cost you (for instance) 100 bucks, and be done in less than an hour at the shop, may well take you 2-5 hours, the part might cost ya say for instance 40 bucks......so now, did you really truly save by doing it yourself? if that's the only reason, it's kinda stupid really. if it's like someone mentioned....not wanting to pay for something they can do themselves, or if it's cause ya wanna learn, then it's worth it. just my 2 cents, which about now if they keep printing money, is probably worth about .000002.