San Diego BS Thread.

Sounds like my life.

I rent a room rn, on a west facing wall. by about 1-2PM, the sun is blasting my wall and heats up the whole room an easy 10 degrees over the rest of the house. House was built in the 60's so insulation is probably either absolute trash or has been taken out piece by piece by rats. Central A/C is disappointingly weak in the room as well.

I do my best to not be home between the hours of 3 and 6PM during the summers if I can.

 

A whole house fan is best used in the evenings and mornings when outside temps have cooled down. Or if you lit up some fireworks in the backyard and all the smoke went inside the house through open windows. Or if your bathroom doesn't have an exhaust and you need all that steam from the shower gone.

 

that looks suspiciously like experience talking right there

 

Haha it's a true story. Happened at my bro's place. He also told me how after a hot shower the whole house fan will suck the steam out of the bathroom.

 

Haha, yep! I got a pretty big one for my square footage. It will evacuate the entire hours within a few minutes or so.
But yeah in the evening I open one downstairs window and I can have penguins wearing jackets after I turn the fan on high due to the windchill, I got the wireless RF controller for it so I just have a remote with speed and timer and can be used from anywhere in the house so I dont need to have any wall switches (as long as I don't lose the remote).
My main issue right now is I don't have enough square footage of vents in the attic for the CFM of the fan, pretty sure my attic gets pressurized with about 75 psi when the fan is on full blast, lol! I can feel lots of airflow right when I turn it on and then I can feel the air stall and almost go backwards for a few seconds and then it levels out with about half the flow it had when I initially turned it on so the fan is outrunning the ability to exhaust, you can feel the point at where the attic begins to build pressure.
1st world problems I tell ya!!

 

Anyone have a coil spring compressor in n.county? Looking to swap some springs onto new shocks. @Speed Freek sent you a pm.

 

You can always do the ghetto way, jacking that corner, then remove the nut.

 

I'd recommend texting him, as his visits to TW are not frequent. His number is in his profile

 

i have one in East County.

 

Yeah, I will send him a text as well. He has posted here twice in the last three days so he has been in the mix

 

C'mon I've been on like white on rice the past few days!!
But I am guilty of being offline for stints on occasion..I tend to keep myself busy enough for a team of 5 people for reasons I still cannot understand.

 

What could possibly go wrong? But I'm even guilty of doing it a few times when in a pinch, but the big trucks have a LOT of spring-rate! Can be very exciting...

 

I've done two Taco's as shown in the video. what can go wrong?
fall off jack stands (could happen anyway)
Jack fails (could happen anyway)

I'm out of ideas, what could go wrong?

 

Friday UPS dropped off half of my Icon RXT set

Toady the other side came, missing the extra leaf

 

Finally got around to doing a "real" trail this weekend in my 3rd gen. The Sidewinder @ Corral Canyon is pretty challenging. I'm not on the best suspension and don't have the best clearance (especially with sag) so the Slide part of the trail was cringe for me (lots of scraping.) Lots of slider saving my ass too.

@Speed Freek installed and setup my suspension on the truck since I bought this thing stock in March. So thank you, Jason!

 

You are braver than most, that's a tough trail.

 

Hows is that trail in comparison to Sedona trails?

 

It definitely is. Videos of the trail definitely don't do its obstacles justice. It's REALLY easy to do some damage to the rigs. It is cool to see how capable the truck is without high clearance bumpers and simple suspension ​

 

You went off that big rock towards the end of the trail a way I wouldn't. I've seen people with more built rigs with than you give excuses as to why they couldn't.

More people should be willing to explore the limits of their vehicle like you are.

 

Much shorter, much less traffic, a few spots that are very intimidating. But on a dry day, I'd be willing to bring a truck with sliders and a mild lift.