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What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?
- Thread starter iamout
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Advocate III
What are you wanting to do with it? The 4.3 conversion is by far the best way to wake it up
Second to an SBC swap...
Member III
Very happy you found s good deal. It's hell not having a place to work on your rig isn't it !
Advocate III
Yes it is... I’ve been trying to secure a shop for a few months now for my transmission swap, so... I guess do both at once.
Member III
In small towns you may be able to rent a large storage that will let you do your personal repairs as long as you dont disturb other renters and you keep your stuff inside at night and keep a neat house. I would love to build a car ramp from some scrap 10" + channel iron and angle iron from a scrap iron dealer. Something with an axle under the high end so it could be moved from place to place like a trailer.
Advocate III
I’ve been looking into this option as well... there is a private shop where I store my boat... I need to go pay the rent tomorrow on it so I will ask if I can barrow the shop. If not i will bite the bullet and have the shop do it. I would almost rather pay some one to do it at this point to keep me sane for 1. And for 2 my body isn’t handling this motor work very well. I retired from this exact line of work 6 years ago for this very reason.
Member III
I was wondering about that aspect. Ambition only goes so far and then runs into walls. In both our cases, health.
Advocate I
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Explorer I
Took a drive along a mountain road.
Advocate I
Camped at Dog Lake last night. Smokey, decided to head home unless we find clean air somewhere. Lunch outside of Susanville now. Huge fire next to town. Have not seen the sun for 300 miles. We will see what Reno looks like. Oh yeah, new radiator now leaking at the tank seem. Still fighting bad parts.
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Enthusiast III
Attempted to pop a quarter panel out. Dang gas tank is in the way and full.
Advocate I
Home safe after 12 hour drive from Oregon. Smoke 11 hours of that. Radiator tank drip sealed when fully heat soaked, didn't have to add any water.
WJ smells like forest fire. Avoid Hwy 395 between Reno and Oregon if you can. Had to use fog lights on California interstate 5 pretty much from below Lodi to Pacheco pass due to heavy smoke. Thankfully can see stars at home right now, first time in days.
Stay safe out there!
WJ smells like forest fire. Avoid Hwy 395 between Reno and Oregon if you can. Had to use fog lights on California interstate 5 pretty much from below Lodi to Pacheco pass due to heavy smoke. Thankfully can see stars at home right now, first time in days.
Stay safe out there!
Member III
That not Texas huh ?
Member III
Enthusiast III
Bounced off a invisible rock in to a very visible tree.
Member III
What year is your Discovery ? Have you posted a picture anywhere in the forums ?
Enthusiast III
96 D1. Love the thing. Wanting to install medium or heavy coils on it really soon.
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Member III
Someone told me recently that the quarter panels were a bolt on, on Discoveries. I was dumbfounded because he was disassembling
his for resale. I bought all his A & B exterior window pillar trim pieces since mine were either missing or cracked. What is that thing on top of your roof rack that appears to be an air deflector ?
Enthusiast III
I installed some angle iron on top that holds my traction mats to help deflect the air flow when I have gear on top.
