New England B.S. Thread

This is my thoughts. I have scraped the loss out of my sliders and it's easy to power wash the truck and grab some cardboard amd start painting once dry

 

I agree with @Fishinbum802 .
It sounds to me like you pulled the arms off when they were up & mounted the new ones 'down'.
Pull the arms off, activate the wipers to cycle up & down, key off & remount the arms in the 'parked' position (down). Then try it. Let us know.

 

Bolt missing???

 

Morning all.
Couple flurries and dry roads on the way in.
Supposed to get the brunt of it down here later.
It may be a sporty ride home.

 

Morning everyone. Happy hump day. Same here as @bucktales

This ought to be interesting.

 

Didn’t even chance the drive down for work since We won’t end up going out anyways with the weather. Southern Ct looks like they’re going to get hit good. Stay safe on those roads heading home

 

Morning all...

Same here as both of you.

Daughter's high school is getting out at 10:25am. Why not just drive by, yell the name of the school and then come home....

 

Stay safe out there you southern folk! Boy am I happy we are only supposed to get an inch here, and not until tonight.

 

Yup. You can just loosen it so it swings down. Don't have to take it off. Though it's a good time to grease the LCA books if you haven't before

 

Morning all .. ..... Can't Wait ... Not ... Plow is in the standby position ..

 

The the FJ's LCA bolts/bushings the same as the Tacoma? If so, hopefully you can still get them out. Mine kept turning into a solid ball of rust.

 

I'm sure you're right, but that surprises me. Like I said above, brand new carbides on a 650lb sled, they are like knife edges, hardened carbide steel, and they don't even touch the Line-X. New carbides will cut into concrete like butter. But I guess it's not a 3500 lb truck sliding over rocks. Not to mention, they are called sliders for a reason? The Line-X would grip more than regular paint. Stuff is incredibly thick, 3/8" by my estimation.

 

I think it's because most of the people buying these trucks are people who will never put anything other than a cooler in the bed.

I wish more manufacturers would go composite. My Tacoma bed has held up great...I've thrown 70+ lb rocks into it to build stone walls with and you can't even tell. GM had a composite option a while back but discontinued it because it wasn't selling--probably the old man "if it isn't steel, it's garbage" mentality.

 

The new Sierra has a carbon fiber box option. Sounds dumb to me but what do I know.

 

Going to suck driving home from work tonight, but at least not too many cars still on the road at 22;30.
Getting in the driveway when I get home - going to have to awaken the neighbors on that one!

 

Yeah, that was my thought too. It's got to be more expensive and I doubt there's an advantage to Toyota and Honda's composite beds.

 

Doesn't the Toyota composite front mounts wear out & the bed front drops/droops/rattles.
There's value in a better composite bed that doesn't do that crap.
...especially at trade in / resale time.

 

The front one is optional on sos sliders

 

This morning has been hectic as hell. Son woke up at 5 crying and felt really hot, like he had a fever. Fell back asleep, woke him up at 6:15 and still hot. Checked his temp but was fine. Weird. So we're keeping him out of daycare today and at my in-laws because of that, and because daycare is closing early and so are the schools, that way the Mrs only has to make one stop to get the kids.

Then we had to rush the dog to the vet because he's been smelling lately, come to find out it was his ear, with an ear infection. So I got to work about 10 minutes late because I took him since the vet is close to my job. So my father in law met me at work so he could take the dog back.

 

Smell like gym socks? My girl's ears get dirty quickly, have to clean hers twice as often as my male