Charlotte, NC area: hate on OP, houses, boats & hoes

Yo for those don’t know Winter Classic on tonight. A little pond hockey on Lake Tahoe. Starting up here soon.

 

Always looking out.

 

Real talk tho you still are assuming, and that is all your post deserves for attention.

 

See, you always think people are attacking you, that's on you. I am talking to you as a fellow off roader.

You break literally every trip you take. You have sunk a lot of money into that truck and still breaking because you act like you have a point to prove every trip.

You should be thankful that someone can step up and say enjoy your build by understanding it's limitations. If you want to take that personally then fine..... But I was always grateful to the people that actually took the time to make me see things differently.

People hate to plan trips, then barely get started and parked because skip broke something else. If you don't respect your own truck and trail time, at least be respectful of others that invested the same.

 

There you are assuming still. Let me brake this down for you. YOU only see the breakage because that's the interesting parts. A lot of the guys I wheel with we don't stop and take pictures every 5 min. I've got nothing to prove but to myself and pushing the limits of my own comfort and the truck. If you don't push the limits you sit at home and upgrade brakes and don't ever get off the pavement. I'm sinking a lot more into the truck too. I actually have been planning a rear upgrade for a few months, there are a few hinting posts about such in this thread. Were you on the last 2 trips in which I broke, do you know who was there and their skill level at the trails we were at, do you know the conversations I and they had? Since you know none of that you are still making assumptions as to what goes on. BTW the last 2 trips you saw pics of a breakage there were 4 in between those 2 with absolutely none. and 6 before that, shall I go on. It's like the saying goes sex sells, so does carnage. Oh guess who planned this trip I did! it was my trip I made it known that. I said here is the deal guys, those that went knew I was up front. Some still wheeled while I fixed and a couple helpers fixed then those that wanted wheeled into the night. The last trip I broke I sat back at camp and fixed my truck while they wheeled. You see when you have the whole picture and you don't assume or maybe if you were there then you might have some insight into this but since you weren't. IIRC Eddy was broken almost every trip or someone else did that was part of it. Sometimes Brian there is more to it than wheeling and the trails. Sometimes if you weren't there and don't know the whole situation you should stop assuming and implying things which are honestly not true.

 

It was to replace all the framing I cut out with a chainsaw.

They framed this really low so when Duke raises the lake level my boat would be in danger of hitting it. So I cut it out and put that beam in to reinforce it. It’s stronger now than it was before and much higher, so I can raise the boat up out of flood danger.

 

Anyone know a shop in Charlotte that can press in lower control arm bushings and ball joints? Baker Auto said they can’t do it. Sucks cause they are right across the road from work.

 

You keep saying we are assuming, fuck there is video of full retard, no one is assuming anything.

Funny you don't say that I had to upgrade brakes because I burnt mine up in 2 miles because I tried to tow your truck home on a fucking dolly from PA, where you killed it in the first ten minutes. Did I even get a "I will help you put them on since basically I fucked them up". Nope, not even that level of respect.

How many other people have ruined their trips by having to drag your broke ass out or try and be helpful to get you fixed just because you had to "test your limits". I am just the one that says what everyone else is thinking.

I tried to talk to you like an adult but apparently that will never happen. I just feel bad for the people that get sucked into these trips.

Everyone breaks to find the limit, then they are smart enough to recognize the limit. It's not the same person breaking every time. But hey, you got this, you do you. No more advice from me, I will just sit back and laugh like everyone else.

 

You have the old ones off or are they new ones??

 

got a spare (used) pair on the way. Makes swapping them easier.

 

I can call Jeff tomorrow and see if he can do it this week, then you can run them by and leave on the bed of the truck if he can. (sidepipes)

 

I won’t have them for at least a week. The dude is dropping them off at FedEx for me tomorrow. It’s out in Cali. No rush but I’ll give them a call tomorrow anyway to see if it’s something they can handle.

If not @Sandman614 probably still has the tooling needed for whiteline LCA bushings.

 

It all makes sense now.

 

I’ve had great luck with the rental ball joint press from auto zone, a torch and a powerful impact. New one, toss it in the freezer for an hour, heat up the lca with a torch and it goes in very easily with the BJ press.

https://youtu.be/x_JhoRVU1-w

 

how did the whiteline bushing install go for you?

 

About as well as driving up a wet rock

 

Oh I just saw you needed bushings too, not just the ball joint. Never mind then.

 

Get that hf 20 ton press, something gotta give.

 

I’ll press in those bushings for you buddy. May end up looking like this though.