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I bought a Jeep, so I find myself making a lot of things in order to use my Jeep. I am in the middle of building a set of rock sliders for it right now. Lots of aftermarket offerings for those, but none that met my criteria for strength and removability. I had to fabricate several components...

This sounds like the same crowd that makes up the bulk of the annual Over The Line tournament in San Diego. I think these things give more of a black eye to alcohol than to anything else. And if that message isn't coming through then that is the fault of the media and that is who you really...

Even better, a puppy. I swear there is a business model just waiting for someone. Rent-A-Puppy. We got Varmint #4 as a puppy, and The Bride wanted to make sure we got him well socialized. We took him with us to a local event known as "Vikingfest" (Comparable to Society for Creative...

As if there were ever any doubt about the superiority of Jeeps: Study: Jeeps get more dates Take that, Toyota. :wink:

I have to disagree there. It is not "game over". I bought this truck with the synchros shot. Courtesy no doubt to someone using the wrong gear oil. It is getting challenging to find anything other than GL5 on the shelf anymore. At any rate, that was 50K miles ago. The lack of synchros...

No argument from me there. I spent over a year watching and waiting for a Cummins with a manual behind it. Dodge couldn't build an automatic to save their lives.

I have 320,000 on the clock on my '95 Cummins. I see Ram is pretty low on that list for reliability. If the dash cracking is part of their study I suppose I can see why. That doesn't stop the truck though.

It greatly varies what any given individual is capable of, but the schools do not want to even consider such potential. It would require effort on their part and would result in a product which they do not want. Among other things, my bored Varmint spent his class time reading Leviathan by...

You got that right. Varmint #1 got his first year in a public school system this year, after 8 years of homeschooling. His US History class frustrated the daylights out of him as they skimmed over (and sometimes not even that much) major events/causes of events. We have him taking an online...

As another poster said, find a Maverick station and odds are they will have ethanol free. Philips 66 is another one.

It looks like this is mostly a midwest thing, and they generally run 15% alcohol in the winter and 10% in the summer, but are waiving the volatility rules and allowing 15% in the summer as well for the benefit of the corn farmers. I don't like the extra alcohol in fuel. If your fuel system is...

Someone already said Shafer Trail. Let me second that, and suggest that you go as far as Lathrop Canyon. If you start at Canyonlands (top of the mesa) and go all the way down Lathrop you will have gone from the upper rim all the way to the banks of the Colorado river. And going down it is...

There is a whole thread lamenting the lack of options/support for GM trucks. To a large extent, size is an issue. It will be interesting to see if the diesel Colorado and the new Ranger make any inroads.

Actually, I have found the LED lanterns do not draw nearly as many bugs. Life is more pleasant because no swarm comes to the LED like comes to a lantern. I am still sticking to my white gas stoves, but I have relegated my beloved lanterns to decorative status.

Yes you would.

I am content with silence, but I have three Varmints. Silence is not in their repertoire. Accordingly we have some games we play. The best is "the initials game". It is kind of like 20 questions, but it can go on for as long as needed before someone figures it out. It starts with one person...

I have a lot of hardware in coffee cans, but what I am finding I like even better is clear plastic containers such as peanut butter or mayo comes in. They have the immediate advantage of being transparent so you don't necessarily have to label them. Their lids are much less likely to come off...

Well said.

I have to say that a few inches makes a big difference on the trails I run. Many of the places I have taken my XJ are simply impossible to even consider for my Suburban. One of the groups I wheel with used to be mostly XJs, now they have moved on to JKUs. One of the couples has gone for more...