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

It was a few years back and by the way that it was worded sure sounded like it was stolen and never recovered and the insurance paid out.

 

Uh-Oh... They banned the OP??

 

I didn't do anything since I had no idea where the car was, according to what the Carfax said was after I sold it then it ended up in North Carolina and got stolen sometime after that.

 

No telling. Not so sure about Charlie

 

Well I’ll be the first to welcome him back lol

 

I will stay with my way and wish you good luck.

 

to each their own.

 

Get an Ultragauge and change it every 5000 miles/6 months or 200 hours whichever is first.


If you wanted to get real technical about it, you could use fuel consumption based on epa ratings. Say your truck is rated at 20/26 mpg city/highway and calls for an oil change every 5k miles...

5k miles at 20 mpg = 250 gallons of fuel.
5k miles at 26 mpg = ~ 192 gallons of fuel. Fuel consumption in some ways is a better oil life indicator (in my opinion) than miles or hours, it takes into account how much work the engine is actually doing. If you’re loaded heavy towing and getting 10 mpg, you’re gonna hit that 200-250 gallons of fuel mark faster than if you’re putting around getting 20-26 mpg in your regular everyday driving.

I’ve been using the “Mileage Keeper” app on my iPhone to track fuel consumption on my Diesel Chevy.

You can certainly go longer with good synthetics if you choose, it really depends on what kind of usage your truck sees.
Don’t forget about front/rear differential fluids and the transfer case (if 4x4). Power steering fluid and the automatic transmission fluid are also commonly neglected. Brake fluid is another thing that’s overlooked. There is no need to obsess over the engine if you don’t take care of the rest of the truck accordingly.

 

Yeah, i like the dude myself.

 

Warren produces both Amazon Basics and Walmart SuperTech...as well as other private label brands. Amazon Basics and SuperTech synthetic are basically the same oil

 

Wonder how he got put in timeout?

 

Nudity.

Stupid move.

 

That'll do it !

 

No-Body wants to see that boy naked!

 

I'M BAYYYACK!!!

Oh, and by the way I'll still be updating this thread, adding photos of cars and trucks to my other various threads, and coming to this site for advice about my truck (it's original purpose, DUH). However, after the first twelve hours of the ban, I realized just how addicted to this site I'd become. I will be trying to limit my time on this site so I can spend more time at the gym because I really need to lose weight.

 

@LocoLocal

I think that Hank Hill might actually be on the spectrum; Read on...

I was only eight years old when King of the Hill debuted, and I'd say I watched it for the first time when I was in middle school, in about 2001 or 2002. My mom did not like me watching it very much, but she eventually got over it. In 2004, my parents bought a brand new Honda Odyssey with a DVD entertainment system, and I started buying complete season sets of King of the Hill and The Simpsons on DVD to watch on long trips. I unfortunately have not seen any of my KotH DVD box sets since 2007-2008, but they recently started streaming reruns on Hulu and I've been binge-watching it there.

There are two reasons I started a thread about King of the Hill...

• I've been a huge fan for going on twenty years now!
• It recently occurred to me that the show's main character, Hank Hill, may be on the spectrum. I believe he shares a lot of traits with me.

My cousin, who is NT and became a school psychologist as a result of growing up with me and also enjoyed King of the Hill, agrees that Hank shares a lot of my traits and behavioral quirks, and may very well be on the spectrum. I talked with my mom (also NT) just minutes ago, and she also agrees with me.

The series has a semi-floating timeline. The series first aired in 1997 and season finale aired in 2010, so the earliest episodes take place in the late 1990s while later episodes obviously take place in the 2000s. Hank's birthdate has been shown as anywhere from 1953 to the late 1950s, and his age has been anywhere from his later thirties to his early 40s, making him a baby boomer. This means he was probably never diagnosed if he is on the spectrum.

Things I have in common with Hank Hill that are typical traits of people on the spectrum:

• Hank is very rigid and set in his ways about many things.
• Hank has very strict morals and is very big on following the rules, even ones that he may not necessarily like.
• Hank is very uncomfortable about being touched (hugging, kissing, etc) by anyone except his wife and certain family members.
• Hank is very sexually conservative, but does have a wild/kinky side in that respect (most notably when he and his wife Peggy had sex in the bathroom on a train in one episode).
• Hank is not the least bit promiscuous and as far as I know his wife Peggy is the only woman he's slept with.
• He is very OCD about taking care of his house and vehicles.
• Hank seems to be naive about a lot of things that most people take for granted.

 

Things I have in common with Hank Hill that have absolutely nothing to do with being on the spectrum:

• Hank drives a pickup truck and prefers pickup trucks to just about all other vehicles.
• Hank is just as obsessed with his pickup truck as I am with mine (perhaps even more as he prefers to do all routine maintenance himself and scoffs at the idea of a mechanic so much as touching his truck).
• Hank shows more affection towards his dog than he does towards certain people
• Hank is a registered republican and has political views that would be considered conservative, but he has respect for certain old school democrats.
• Hank knows how to drive a stick shift.
• Hank's father was in the military.
• Hanks tolerates all sorts of nonsense from family/friends and strangers alike, and somehow manages to keep his sanity.
• By his own admission, Hank does not have an anger problem, but rather an idiot problem.
• When someone messes with Hank's loved ones (wife, son, niece, friends, dog), he can go from the nicest guy in the world to the Incredible Hulk in a matter of seconds.
• Hank's friends and family members find his rigidity and high moral standards annoying until he ends up having to bail them out of certain situations.

 

Things that Hank Hill has done or said that have not, and more than likely would not, happen to me:

• Hank's father is a terrible person in many ways, and I find it amazing at times that Hank did not turn out like him.
• Hank generally stays on the right side of the law, but has been arrested a few times throughout the series for minor violations or even as the result of a misunderstanding (I've been stopped by the police for taking pictures, and I've been pulled over a few times, but I've never been arrested and have no criminal record).
• One of the more notable such incidents with the police occurred in a 2009 episode when Hank got arrested for DWI, on his riding mower! Hank's rich and well-connected boss used his personal attorney to ensure that Hank did not lose his driver's license over the fiasco; As punishment, Hank was banned from using his riding mower for six months and had to speak to high school students about the dangers of drunk driving (I don't drive drunk).
• I have been using a computer since the early 1990s, but Hank did not use a computer or even get the internet in his house until 2000, when he was probably 40 (By comparison, my family probably got the internet for the first time in the late 1980s or early 1990s and I was using the internet by the time I was 5, though only in a limited and closely monitored capacity).
• Hank played football in middle school and high school, and loves watching it to this day (I never really got into sports).
• Hank is a very "buy American" type of person, even preferring to keep his old American-made TV running with secondhand parts from yard sales instead of buying a "Japanese one" (Actually, my TV was made by an American company, Vizio, in California; My Toyota truck was also built in California; However, I buy items based on their quality and not where they're made).

 

Since it's four days to Halloween, I figured I'd post this...

I do not remember when my dad first took me trick-or-treating (I'm guessing 1991 or 1992, when I would have been 2 or 3, respectively). The last time I went trick-or-treating was in 2002, and I was 13 years old and in 8th grade. My parents talked me out of it in 2003, saying I was too old. However, I ended up pissed at them because a bunch of guys from middle school showed up at my front door and were showing off all the candy they'd gotten. One house was even handing out money (this was Fairfax County, Virginia so people were pretty rich)! My parents still wouldn't let me go, and like I said, I haven't been trick-or-treating since 2002. I take a lot of pride in decorating the house though!

 

Oh, and by the way...

On the recommendation of another TW member on the spectrum, I have joined AutismForums.com! My username is "ThatGuyWithTheTacoma"! My avatar is a picture of my truck!

And note to the mods, the rules on this forum are actually stricter than here to an extent. On TW and it's subsidiaries, we can get away with profanity and (to an extent) talking about sex. On the autism forums, talking about sex is allowed, but no cussing beyond "hell" seems to be allowed. One of my first posts got edited multiple times due to "obscene language" (by obscene language, I said, and I quote, "My 'Oh Shit' senses were tingling”). They claim to want to keep things "PG-13", which I find rather amusing because:

• The MPAA allows the use of all the standard profanities in PG-13 movies.
• Swearing, to an extent, is even allowed in PG rated movies!
  
• If I remember correctly, the MPAA even allows the use of one F-bomb in PG-13 movies.