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PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Builds (2005-2015)' started by PennSilverTaco, Jul 15, 2014.

  1. Apr 23, 2019 at 9:58 AM
    PennSilverTaco

    PennSilverTaco [OP] Encyclopedia of useless information...

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    Underage drinking laws are a crock of shit. Everybody in the world (except maybe Iranians born in the laat forty years, because the ayatollah is a bunch of shitheads who banned mere alcohol consumption) has drank underage before, including myself!

    I do not condon underage drinking at all. One of my former friends (who was 23 at the time) hung around with kids as young 14. A guy and a girl, both aged 14, were hanging out at his house. They found out I was 21, and immediately askend if could buy them beer. My response was "Are you fucking serious?!?!"

    My idiot former friend wanted them to hang out, but they correctly assumed that I did not want them around and showed themselves out. The 14-year old girl was also hitting on my other friend, who was 19 at the time.

    My friend whose house it was had the balls to get mad at me for telling his underage friends my age. This cute girl, who I assumed was at least 20, asked me how old I was and I saw it as a harmless question and told her I was 21. Either she or he friend then asked me if I could buy them booze.
     
  2. Apr 23, 2019 at 10:02 AM
    PennSilverTaco

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    Anyway, as a libertarian, two of the things I want are smaller government and less rules.

    So many of my friends have lost their licenses for underage drinking when they weren't even driving. I think the law comes down too hard on offenses relating to underage drinking.

    Back in 2012, one of my friends got pulled over simply for being a young girl driving a shitty '92 Saturn late at night. She got a DUI for a BAC of .02, less than a month before her 21st birthday. She lost her license for six months and had to pay about $10,000 in various fines and fees.

    A few weeks later and the officer would have sent her on her way...
     
  3. Apr 23, 2019 at 10:04 AM
    PennSilverTaco

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    My personal trainer told me how she got arrested at age 20 for riding a wave runner after drinking. If she'd been 21, she would have gotten a few tickets relating to reckless boating, but she wouldn't have been arrested.
     
  4. Apr 23, 2019 at 10:04 AM
    PennSilverTaco

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    Exactly.

    Law enforcement should be called by its real name...

    Revenue generation!
     
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  5. Apr 24, 2019 at 10:28 AM
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    The Bucks County Courthouse falls under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff's Department.

    I regularly walk my boss's dog on the vast expanse of grass in front of the courthouse , and sometimes I don't pick up after her when she poops.

    :brianr:

    That deputy shouldn't have embellished the truth in order to get that cop to write me a ticket!

    :luvya: :luvya:
     
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  6. Apr 24, 2019 at 10:49 AM
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    C'mon man
     
  7. Apr 24, 2019 at 11:01 AM
    PennSilverTaco

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    I don't do it all the time, just when I forget a poop bag...
     
  8. Apr 24, 2019 at 11:10 AM
    PennSilverTaco

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    I also purposely blast my stereo when I'm near a sheriff's department vehicle...
     
  9. Apr 24, 2019 at 2:38 PM
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    ABA180 It burns when I pee....

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    Almost 40 years a fan of them..saw them last year in NJ
     
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  10. Apr 24, 2019 at 2:39 PM
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    ABA180 It burns when I pee....

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    No she didn't. Under the age of 21 is zero tolerance while driving.
     
  11. Apr 24, 2019 at 2:40 PM
    ABA180

    ABA180 It burns when I pee....

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    Nope. My head unit is a single DIN unit
     
  12. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:10 PM
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    I can't stand that "zero tolerance" bullshit...

    It turns otherwise innocent people into criminals!
     
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  13. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:35 PM
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    My A/C issues first started in 2017. In about June of that year, I noticed the A/C was blowing ice cold on the far left vent, cold enough on the middle left vent, kinda cold on the middle right vent, and hot, humid outside air on the far right vent. The truck was almost eight years old (2010 manufactured in August of '09 and purchased in September '09; I go by the year of manufacture).

    I brought my truck to my dad's mechanic, and he couldn't find a leak but charged it. The A/C worked fine for the rest of the summer.

    In April 2018, I REALLY used the A/C for the first time in months while driving to a car show in New Jersey. It was unseasonably warm and the far right vent was blowing warm again.

    I brought it to the same mechanic and once again he couldn't find a leak but he claims he charged it (I don't think he did).

    By the time summer rolled around, the problem was obvious, but I thought there was something wrong with the airflow rather than the A/C.

    I replaced the blend air door upon my return from Carlisle in August, and found that my A/C was working worse than ever.

    I brought my truck to the local dealer and showed them the problem. I told basically them I didn't want the truck back until it was blowing cold across all four vents.

    The next day, the dealer called me and told me my truck was a pound low on R134a. They charged it, added dye (which my mechanic claimed he'd done in 2017) and had it back to me that afternoon.

    The A/C worked flawlessly as far as I was concerned, but I had to wait a couple of weeks for the leak to show up.

    In September, I brought the truck back to the dealer where it ended up being a worst case scenario. The evaporator core was leaking! They took me into the shop, shined a UV light under the hood of my truck, and showed me what I can only describe as a heavy dye deposit near the condensate drain.

    I was quoted almost $1,600 and my dad helped me out (I know now that we got ripped off and will NEVER use the dealer for such a big repair again). Another week or so later, when the parts were in, I brought my truck back...
     
  14. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:40 PM
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    So that brings us to now...

    My truck has been repaired for about 7 months now, and seems to be holding a charge. The A/C is blowing cold across all four vents.

    However, I might be crazy, but the A/C doesn't seem to be as hard or as powerful as it has been in the past.

    When I first got the truck back after the evap core was replaced, something hadn't been hooked up correctly and I was getting almost no air out of the vents. A tech came out, finagled up under the dash, and had it working fine in no time.

    Now, the A/C doesn't seem as powerful. It also seems noisier when on the highest setting, as if something is blocked, and closing the two right vents doesn't make the two left vents blow significantly harder like it used to.
     
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  15. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:42 PM
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    NYCTaco52 Half man, half goat

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    1,600?!?! Whoa
     
  16. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:42 PM
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    Have you checked the cabin air filter?
     
  17. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:46 PM
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    Just replaced it...
     
  18. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:46 PM
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    Like I said, never again...

    Fuck the stealership!
     
  19. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:55 PM
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    I was using a K&N reusable air filter for a bit, but I switched back to disposable. I get them cheap with my employee discount at the dealership where I work detailing cars.
     
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  20. Apr 24, 2019 at 3:59 PM
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    See if it blows different if you turn the temp to hot vs. cold. I would suspect that the air goes around the evaporator and through the heater core on hot. That might tell you something.
     

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