Raleigh North Carolina and surrounding areas

I see @SearArtist made it in his stock Taco.made it look easier than when I was with you all...

 

Had to give you a show

 

You want to come take care of this robin that keeps sitting on my mirror and seeing it's reflection in my window and smashing into it

 

I haven’t been able to get back out when you all go for my education! I’ll get out again when the schedule lines up..this one weekend per month sucks!

 

Weak sauce I'll post a pic of my truck once I hook up the trailer for camping this weekend. Wait there is already one on the first page on my build thread.

 

Nah I'm not gonna get in trouble with your apt complex

 

I made it look easier this time too. Actually got it done in one pass no loosing traction to the point of having to make another go. You see the video on the URE thread that I posted? Matt (@SearArtist ) nailed the line perfectly plus e-locker doesn't hurt. That's like his 2nd or 3rd time up it. When I was telling him to go he was hanging his rt front tire in the air. The dash cam footage makes the run look so much smoother than it did from the outside and feels like riding. This was my 3rd time up Dutch as well and I think I finally figured out the route I need to take. I think my next run I'm going to try it backwards.

 

You can hide in the bushes

 

Bush Wookie!

 

LoL..yeah the dash cam looked smooth..just feeling puny at the moment!

 

60 retaining wall blocks, 10 bags of manure, and 15 bags of top soil. Wasn't on the bump stops yet either, I was proud of that one!

 

Damn son.. Hope you got some reimbursement for this shit, provided its for work.

 

Not bad young padawan. One day I'll teach you the Jedi art of hauling stuff in the truck! If you had a diesel dually I know how to get 10k lbs in the bed of one of those

 

I'd be asking for extra money per mile. There is a reason why owner operator tractor trailer drivers make at least a dollar a mile more than just operators. Wear and tear expense, plus ins, etc.

 

#finesse as @Sandman614 would put it.

It was actually a smooth ride up too, all things considering.

What you can't hear is the engine hanging at 5k RPM and the rear wheels digging for traction since half the front was in the air.

 

Damn that engine is so quiet I barely heard it over the squeaks, thuds, rattles, tires spinning. #offroadlifenoises!

 

Had one of these moments today.

On step 4 for tomorrow... rust makes David a sad panda...

Oh and why the hell do no hex key sets contain a number 7? Is that along the same lines as why hotels and skyscrapers don’t have a 13th floor??

 

I have worked with some techs from the N. they called the oxy/acetylene torch a rust wrench. If they saw even the slightest bit of surface rust they would head straight for the torch because they were so use to everything being seized.

Have no clue about the 7mm allen key (#7 hex key ) Going to go check my set now lol

 

7mm/#7 same difference lol.

Had I had a torch or a cut off wheel I would have used it but I was at one of our clients houses (I include a couple of them when I do work on the Jeep just to give them some basics and experience) and didn’t have most of my tools.

Going there tomorrow with a cut off wheel and just gonna call it done. Tie rod was rusted all to hell. Last tech that tried to do my alignment called me 30 mins in to tell me there was no way in hell he could adjust anything. If I had the time and money I’d tear the whole front end apart and paint it all.

I looked at 6 different sets of Allen keys. 2 were mine, 2 were other clients that had tools, and two different brand sets at Advanced Auto.. none of them had a 7mm. It was crazy. 1/4 was too small and 5/16 was too big. 6mm was too small and 8mm was too big. So maybe 7 was what we were looking for? I even tried to file down a 5/16 Allen to no avail haha

 

It may be an 8mm there is just so much rust and crap that it doesn't fit anymore. I have run into that before where I've had to clean them out well to get the right size in.