MARYLAND TACOMAS

i always just warmed up (warm to the touch, not boiling) water on the stove top while I make coffee in the morning and that melts the ice decently quick, don't want it to happen to fast.

 

Saturday i put 4 new Cooper AT3'S on my dad's ram for his Bday. 10:30 last night while he was driving on 695 on his way to work the r/f tire blew out, brand new tire! My dad has a pacemaker and no cell phone so he had to walk and luckily a state trooper stopped and lent him his cell phone to call me. I'm getting him a phone this weekend. Luckily he's ok, coulda been worse. Just a tire , no big deal.

 

Oh shit. That's scary.

 

Wow that sucks .glad he's ok could've been bad

 

I agree. I just texted the tire salesman and asked for the production date of these tires. He replied 8/15. Now I'm gonna contact Cooper with the DOT #'s so they can confirm the date. We just found out tuesday that my mom's cancer is back, she already beat it twice. My mom isn't sure if she wants to put herself thru the chemo & radiation again. My parents are only 62. Sucks.

 

I'm not exactly a fan of coopers....but any tire can fail.

Glad he was able to get over safely and get some help. He definitely needs a phone!

 

Glad I don't have to do the paperwork on this...


Driver took out the roof of the scale this morning with a container

 

I agree any tire can fail. I read a lot of good reviews on these AT3's. He will have a phone tomorrow, I'm adding another line to my T-Mobile account.

 

And damn Dave that sucks... =(

 

Finally got new tires, big improvement in the ride. Also put on the TRD center caps.

 

wow Dave, just wow!! glad Pop is ok, but Mom, wtf??? 62, damn, im 59 9/10ths

 

I liked the Coopers, until now. Reminds me of the Firestone 500 and ATX.

 

A Stiller action in a chassis like the XLR would be a badazz setup,..
If I were building another rifle, it would use a chassis system and the Mausingfield action but,...
Now your lookin' at $2-$4k without optics for a custom rig.


The current Build: Started as Savage mod10, Rifle Basik trigger (3.5 lb), B&C Medalist stock, dumped the barrelnut with the first rebarrel, Tubb over size recoil lug, Badger 20moa scope mount and med rings, 708 current cal, my cnc'd trigger guard, PWS flash/break, LRA bipod, USO 3-17 Glass

 

I'm sorry to hear your parents, glad that your dad was okay and I hope your Mom beats the cancer again.

 

Thanks. She has sinus cancer. I never heard of that until she was first diagnosed. She's a smoker, she's been smoking since she was 17. I never smoked (cant stand it) and I'm not the type of person that preaches but to all the members here that smoke quit while you still have your health.

 

Here is a picture of what happend when the ceramic broke.



The spark plug installed is from a time after that had happened.

 

What are we looking at? Burnt valves?

 

The pits. From the electrode's ceramic breaking off of the spark plug and bouncing around the combustion chamber.

Goes with a discussion we were having earlier.

 

Anybody here every use a Sonoran Steel lift ?I found a good price on lift on one of the other sites I'm on just waiting to see if it's still available and what shipping would cost from Utah also waiting on Wheelers Offroad and Toytec can do for me on pricing the Sonoran kit is normally 1400.00 guy is selling it for 800.00 brand new never installed