New England B.S. Thread

I might have to take you up on that at some point. I need to at least pick up a little .22 to mess with. I don't have any toys at the moment

 

I have an old single shot 22 that I used for teaching my girls and a semi 22 for me. The semi is real fun real cheap to shoot

 

I think everyone should have a .22 to mess with, mod, etc. They're cheap to shoot and fun in my opinion. When I go with my dad, I prefer to shoot the Ruger MKIII over the .38 revolver. Eventually, I want a .22 pistol and rifle, shotgun, long range rifle and a larger caliber pistol (undecided which one) as a base. It'll take me a while to get them, but I'd like to get an arsenal built up.

 

I tried I didn't get it to work I guess

 

I'm going to argue with you here. Ive run the KM2 in stock form and never had a issue in the snow ever!! Ice is another issue

 

Are you talking about for snow wheeling or driving on the road with a little snow on it? Snow wheeling I can see it not making a huge difference but I would want the siping on the road. As far as ice, siping and tread pattern will help but in general, rubber just isn't good on ice

 

There is easy way to get it off. But you've probably already broken you e brake.
Pull the e-brake lever up as high as possible, put the truck in reverse and torque it it will let go. Unfortunately I've had to do this a few time at work.

ALEX smack it with a big phuking hammer it will fall off. Don't make me come over there Saturday and embarrass you

 

I've worked with disc brakes a few times, never drums. After watching someone else do it with the spring popping out it looks like a pain.

 

They are definitely more labor intensive to work on but you'll likely never have to mess with them. The new electronics that use the brakes to simulate LSD might wear them down quicker but for us with older trucks, we might never have to replace them.

 

Drums aren't bad just differant just take your time and do one side at a time . I always get the spring kits when I do drums but that is just me I am sure others will say you dont have to

 

The old thought process when I was a kid was you will go thru 2 front brake jobs before you need a rear brake job, unless you leave the e-brake on and drive

 

I should probably open up one of the drums and check them out... it's been almost 80k miles and I haven't even looked at the rear brakes. Fronts lasted to 70k.

 

The rear drums will also effect pad travel.

 

I'm on about 45K, haven't looked at either yet. Too cold for me to be messing with it now.

 

I did see some guy at Autozone with a Ranger and he couldn't get the rear drums apart. He was in the parking lot with an angler grinder with a cutoff wheel cutting the drum apart. It was pretty hilarious but I can see myself having to do the same thing when I finally try to open mine up.

 

Same here. I had a hard enough time just getting the stock rims off of the rear when I needed to pull them off.

 

Oh that would suck

 

I hope you put Anti-Sieze on the back or the wheel when you put them back on. I do that every time I rotate the tires and haven't had a problem getting a wheel off yet.

It was quite amusing just because it was the Autozone on Rt 9 so LOTS of traffic going by and watching this guy. Not a project I'd want to undertake in a parking lot...

 

Since I've had the aftermarket rims on, I haven't had a problem.

 

I do the ant sieze thing but I also give the surface a quick wire brushing or sanding to assure a flat mating surface