Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

Rotated the tires today after work and got a better look at a problem I noticed on day 4 of KenTWucky25. Yep, still have those recall replacement UCAs from Ironman 4x4 in the garage, and they will need to be installed soon.

 

Thanks to @pearing and @OldSchlPunk , my chicken scratches turned into reality....

It's solid.
That tire isn't going anywhere.

 

Did ya slap it?

 

A couple of times.

(for educational purposes)​

 

I was thinking yesterday that with all of the rocking in KY, if Dean's tire didn't move, it's not going to.

 

Add me to the list of waterlogged starters.
Truck stalled a few seconds before it actually started, this morning.

Don't ask me why it took 5 days to show symptoms.

 

There's a homeless man sleeping in the lawn at work.
I asked if he was alright?
"I'm ok"
I told him he's going to have to find another place to sleep.
"No I'm fine"
Uhmmm, you're kind of on private property so you're going to have to move....gave him $5 and told him to go get a sammich.
Pretty sure he's still there.

 

Turns out that homeless man is from Des Moines, IA and got dropped off here a week ago.

Further addressing the problem Eau Claire is having with other cities. (Milwaukee, Chicago, Madison, MPLS/St.Paul.) Loading up their homeless and dropping them off in Eau Claire by the van loads.

Great solution.
Make it someone elses problem.

 

That is real? Literally someone in Chicago rounded up homeless and drove them else where? WTF have we become?

 

Yes. It's a thing.
MPLS/St. Paul has been doing it to us for years.
The police dept. are the ones shipping them out.

 

They do it in the capitol district too because it's illegal to be homeless there

 

illegal to be homeless. lol

 

Link/source on claim of other cities' kidnapping the homeless by the van load? I would like to know more about this.

 

You wouldn't believe anything I said even if citing sources.

https://www.wqow.com/eye-on-eau-cla...cle_1d1ad2e8-d2df-11ef-9187-c79a2781108a.html

 

That's a disappointing response but thanks for sharing the link.

 

You're welcome.
I was being a smart ass, but ya, it's been going on for awhile, locally.

Can't imagine what more is going on from other cities.

 

Back to truck stuff...

My takeaway from my rigs performance in Kentucky is,
33's and some new uca's would've made it a better ride. Especially the control arms. (probably the next upgrade).
Otherwise, I am happy with how it handles.
My surging over rocks, like at Tigerton, was from the Pedal Commander. Turned it completely off and was able to crawl over.

Effectively used Crawl Control a couple times. It's kind of sweet. It's also kind of like cheating, really.

 

Sounds like you need 35s and a new bumper

 

Sounds like it but the bumper is alright.
I need to push the fender out a bit, to meet the bumper, but it's good.


You'd never know I hit a wall.

 

Probably an Adam question, but does anyone here know if the trailer brake part of the truck harness is fused?