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

Your dad also does not have Aspergers Syndrome...

What happened to "Just stay in the car and keep your hands where I can see them"?

 

So.....What have we learned boys and girls?

1. If you don't want a ticket, don't speed? If you do get a ticket, cowboy up and own it. If the cop is gracious and cites you for "Failure to obey traffic device" look at it as a gift.

2. If you don't want to lose your vehicle, don't pick up hookers. That one is suspect, however as solicitation is typically a misdemeanor with a citation to appear before a judge.

3. If you don't want to lose your license, pay a shit ton of fines and fees, don't drink and drive.

4. If you underage drink, see #3. Along with stay where ever your at.

5. Give a cop shit, take his commands as a suggestion, do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to jail with a possible attitude adjustment to get you to comply.

Again, it's really not that hard, unless one has a chip on their shoulder towards LE.

 

1. I've gotten one speeding ticket in almost eight years of having my license (who doesn't get at least one speeding ticket in their lifetime?). I didn't feel like having point points on my license or paying higher insurance premiums, so I fought it and got it knocked down from 18 MPH to 5 MPH over.

2. I don't have any desire to pick up hookers. I just think it's unfair when police seize people's property for ANYTHING other the fact that the item was purchased using illegally-earned money. You and me both know that they only care about selling the vehicle to generate revenue for the department.

3. I'm way past old enough to drink and always use Uber when I've been drinking. I have been hit by a drunk driver in my Tacoma before and the way the situation was handled still burns me up to this day, three and a half years later.

4. To quote you, see #3.

5. That first time I was pulled over for speeding back in 2017, I was just really frazzled, didn't think I was speeding, and assumed the cop was pulling me over for "suspicion of drunk driving" (It was after 11pm). First words out of my mouth, before the cop even made it to my window, were "I don't know why the hell I got pulled over!" You don't need to explain to me why this was a mistake, because I know. I have Aspergers, I don't deal well with changes tommy routine (like enjoying a drive home), and I hadn't been pulled over in over a decade so I'd become rather blasé about how to handle a traffic stop.

The cop not only wrote me the ticket but also started looking over my truck for anything else he could write me up for (inspection sticker, etc). I take care of my truck and keep everything legal, so there was nothing else he could do.

The bar where I was working at the time is owned by a prominent local attorney, and I called him the next day.

Due to things coming up in my lawyer's personal life, the court date was delayed twice. I was stopped in May 2017, and the court date was in late September.

I apologized to the cop for my behavior and we shook hands. Before that, he was still willing to drop the charge to 5 MPH over.

A few months later (before the court date from the first traffic stop), I was stopped maybe three miles from home for making a left turn on a red light at a confusing intersection. It was after midnight on Labor Day weekend and I had just driven 40 miles from my grandma's (no drinking), so I was tired. I was very polite, and got let off with a warning.

 

I do have a bit of a chip on my shoulder, though one of my friends said I'm "jaded"...

I have Aspergers, which often makes it quite hard to let things go when I feel I've been wronged. I don't care if the antagonist is a middle school bully or an adult who carries a badge and gun.

 

@rtkbowhunter

My first encounter with police was at the age of 17 when I was on my learner's permit and my dad was teaching me how to drive in a hospital parking lot. My dad was still in the Navy at the time, and we'd been back in Pennsylvania for less than a year. This was in May 2006. My dad had a Pennsylvania driver's license, but two of our three vehicles were registered in Virginia, where we'd moved from in July 2005. My dad was teaching me to drive in his 1996 Nissan Pathfinder, which was originally supposed to become
mine when I got my license.

I understand that it was less than five years after 9/11, but the ineptitude of hospital security is so laughable it's impossible to get mad.

So, you've got a couple of white guys circling the hospital parking lot for over an hour, in an older but well-maintained SUV with out-of-state plates. What do you do? Common sense would say you approach the vehicle and inquire as to what the occupants are up to. Just months earlier, we'd been kicked off a nearby college campus by some dickweed security guard in the middle of a driving lesson because he claimed it was private property (even though it was a public campus).

Nope, hospital security calls the cops, and they show up right around the time I tell my dad I'm ready to leave the parking lot and practice on the open road. A marked Crown Vic pulls up behind me as I make a left out of the hospital parking lot, and turns on its lights seconds later. My dad and I were both utterly confused, because my dad didn't think I'd done anything wrong.

Cop walks up, goes through the usual song and dance, then tells us that security called about "a suspicious green SUV with Virginia plates circling the parking lot for more than an hour."

He ran my dad's license as a matter of course, and after continually telling me to keep calm and not make any sudden movements, my dad is the one who nearly flipped his lid. Why...?

Like I said, the Pathfinder was registered in Virginia. My dad had a Pennsylvania driver's license, but being active duty military he was not required to register his vehicle in Pennsylvania. My dad's Pathfinder had a Department of Defense sticker on the windshield, as well as numerous Navy stickers and a "Naval Aviation" license plate frame on the back. The clues were right there, but the cop attempted to quote the law to my dad, pulling the whole "I'll let you off with a warning this time, but the law states that you must register your vehicle in Pennsylvania within 30 days."

I thought my dad's veins were going to explode, but he remained calm. You could tell he was pissed as he took his military ID out of his wallet and told the cop that he was in the Navy. The cop apologized and we left.

Unfortunately, my dad was so pissed that he wanted to go home and made me switch seats with him.

That, however, is not the reason I have "a chip on my shoulder"...

In fact, I fully understand I was stopped that time and have no problems with the way it went down.

 

@rtkbowhunter

The real reason I have chip on my shoulder is because some woman called the cops on me for taking pictures in a public area of Doylestown Borough, in March 2013. I was just minding my own business, and the next thing I know I've got four fucking cops questioning me. I even had to show them the pictures on my camera.

 

I'm pretty sure you know my story about my Vermont tagged Tacoma in Suburban California.

The California Highway Patrol is cracking down big time on "registration cheats", they see it as tax evasion. That's why I'm getting rid of it, not worth the hassle.

 

Only 1 county in New Mexico requires emissions testing. When my FJ80 wouldn’t pass emissions I used a buddies address in the next county over to bypass emissions.

 

I generally get left alone by the police. I've heard stories about Carlisle police not being very nice to out-of-towners showing their vehicles.

 

@Taco critter

I don't blame the police. I blame the government officials who write the laws the police have to enforce.

I also can't stand the "shooting fish in a barrel" technique (DUI checkpoints, for example).

 

The thing is, the two times I've gotten tickets, I wasn't blatantly breaking the law. I fought both because I didn't think I deserved points my license.

 

Nice pup!

 

Man that is beautiful right there! I got a pic of my old dog somewhere sleeping with my stepson in the car on way home from camping. Great pic

 

This cracks me up all the time

 

Even my dad believes the officers who stopped me in January acted rather inappropriately, especially the cop who wrote the ticket ( but DID NOT witness the violation). He told me that if I took the ticket to court, both he and the deputy would be there. They were trying to intimidate me into just paying the ticket.

 

Right now, I am trying to add photos to my Instagram, but that's not going so good. Anybody else who follows this thread have Instagram?

 

@HomerTaco told me that my truck had a 4.10 rear from the factory, but I also remember someone on TW saying that his truck had a 3.55 or 3.58 final drive ratio? My truck displays numerous traits of having a 4.10 ratio...

• Strong acceleration
• "Bottoming out" at high speeds
  
• So-so gas mileage

What does my truck have?!?!

 

Would it be possible to put the 5-lug drums/rotors onto a locking rear differential from a 6-lug, and install a 4x4 locking diff on a 5-lug?

 

Has anybody managed to put power windows and power door locks in a 2nd Gen RC? If so, how hard is it?

 

Nah. One has 5 holes the other has 6