Ontario BS Thread

been thinking about snatch blocks lately...





@Norilsk which donut did you end up getting/ we used to pull me out? i see a few here and there for the +$200 mark,

$30 Recovery Ring 4.00" 41000 lb. Gray With Storage Bag

but this guy is around the $40 mark. edit: found a video

 

I'm looking over at the corner of my room and i'm just waiting for the weekend...
if it wasn't for this site - i'd not have half the stuff ready to be bolted on...

 

Surprisingly they don't use these in the Panama Canal, just straight pull with steel cables by small locomotives.

 

Don't they just use tugboats for that?

 

But you aren't doing "paintless dent repair" before the truck even clicked over 24,000 km

 

No. The so-called "Panamax-class" ships are designed to pass thru the canal with only a foot to spare on each side. So they run train tracks on each side of the canal to tug from land.

The newest ships built no longer fit, so there's ongoing construction to widen the canal.

 

How about this thing I saw today on my way back from the Bruce Peninsula today, redefines trail limo

 

Last I heard was they were waitin’ for high tide Sunday/Monday.

 

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. That Brookie picture is just beautiful!

 

Thanks man! The brookies up there are something else, by far my favourite fish to go after in Ontario, always a huge reward for the long trek up there from southern Ontario. Plus they taste amazing

 

As our resident technical expert I did listen to you @3JOH22A .....thanks.

Fits flush with my bumper.

 

Mechanically German cars easier to work with than anything Toyota I've dealt with so far... Computer and software wise, you just have to have the right tools there. Toyota software wise is as old as the first computer was made.

Mine got one more year, but based on what I see it'll run to 400K on original engine without troubles if serviced with the correct intervals and not the manufacturer intervals (Looking at you toyota and your 15K kms oil changes!) . By then I hope to move up to Taycan

got two of those, any block nowadays will work, market is flooded with those

Soft Shackle Recovery (red-winches.com)

 

Can’t really see shoe hornin’ this Rascal up under the dash but it can be a spare I suppose.

 

perfectly fits in the third gen glovebox has the same edgy style too

 

Hey guys, do you know how far off my speedo, and odometer will be with my 255\80R17 tires? Will there be any issues with ABS or anything else because of the bigger tires? How do I tell the ECU the new tire size?

Thanks.

 

Well, the speedo difference will change depending how fast you're going. 85.5km/h is 90, 48 is about 50. So for regular city driving, you'll be 2-3 km/h off. On the highway, probably 5-10

 

There are these options if you're OCD about speed and mileage,

https://www.carid.com/hypertech/in-...-730123.html?singleid=1386299312&url=96023739

https://www.carid.com/rough-country...n-90043.html?singleid=2032873895&url=96023739

you can use this site to calculate what the effect on the speedo would be... So your speedo may reed 100 but you will be going 108...

 

Just saw this on Kijiji...

Wondered how long before we'd see it up here...

OVtune for Toyota Tacoma

Description
Offer tuning of 2016-2021 Tacomas with the 3.5l engine.

Tune is based on OVtune 2.0.
Initial tune $250. Further tunes thereafter $60.

Please contact to get a time slot for tuning within the GTA. Tunes are provided once a month on Saturdays in Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge, Burlington and Vaughan.
IG: @yotatune

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-other-auto-...rk-region/ovtune-for-toyota-tacoma/1551603579

 

I use the Hypertech module that @daks just mentioned, but unfortunately the price is now more than double what I paid. After programming it the speedometer is extremely accurate.

 

Thanks guys. I'm not overly concerned with the speedo reading correctly as long as I know how much it's off by. The odometer will be going up faster than it should too, which is more of a concern. Still not the end of the world. As long as there are no other issues.