New England B.S. Thread

Thanks guys. Closed loop so it'd probably get Sucked into the compressor. Based on some fb reviews most of not all my woes should be corrected with a 120 dollar set of coil springs. We will see at the next trip

 

Fortunately, Landry`s had a Shimano chain in stocks, they had to go deep for it. They had a couple SRAM chains but it took them a bit to come up with a Shimano chain but came through! Got home, realized I don`t have a chain breaker... ended up stealing the missing link and throwing it on the old chain and we`re good to go. Bike is back in action, i`ll get an updated picture over the weekend.

 

As in a breaker or something les?

You should see my bench/parts wall. Not quite like a shop but...

I started working on my Schwinn when I was 12 before I even rode it, installing stuff. To be fair it was a cold Christmas day

Ahhh, always something isn't it..

 

No, I don`t have a breaker, which is what I need now to resize the new chain. I needed a special set of pliers to get the old chain apart and also reset the link.

 

A chain tool is something everyone should have

 

I`m used to motorcycles, just grind the link and use a center punch for the pin. The bike chain is much more delicate.

 

Yup and if you push a pin all the way out, good luck. Spend the extra dough for a Park Tools breaker, the cheapo ones suck badly..

 

lol back when I rode bmx mine too. I’ve gotten better because now I have 6 bikes??? So if I were to hoard it would take over my house.

amen. Ish. I have one but the best one I’ve ever had was a couple blocks, a c clamp and a standard roofing nail. It was overkill but it was solid steel and the nail was easily replaceable. I went through about 10 nails so like .04 cents? cost about as much if not less as an off the shelf tool and was a beast. Downside was it basically was just a modified bench vise and took up a ton of space. But that thing was great. I think I handed that off to a friend. I’ll have to ask around see if anyone still has it.

 

So I must kick butt since I have about 10-12 and a few frames kicking around..

 

My chains used to have links like this.

 

@tgerno , this is where peeps in the area come to BS and talk about Ford's. Nice to meet you sir

 

Is it bad in tempted by a Cummins ram.....I can't wait to see the next gen Tundra and sequoia. Hopefully one of them gets my itch scratched lol

 

Hell no. To each their own. I drive plenty big trucks for work and have access to them if I need. Wife banned the camper idea years ago so the taco is the perfect choice for me now. I like something as easy to park and get in and out of as I can get.

 

I have some ("Expedition" version, fits 2nd and 3rd gen) Mobtown bolt-on sliders w/ kickout that I'm considering flipping to partially fund some weld-ons. They're in pretty good shape, used but no damage other than a couple of scratches on the bottom from hi-lifting them.

Would anyone be interested? Am I even allowed to post this here?

 

I know a guy with a turd gen that might be interested. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/official-new-england-buy-sell-tacoma-marketplace.256079/

 

Thanks. Great meeting you as well, especially for coming by early so the wife didn’t catch the big part leaving the basement!

 

I may be interested, pm’d…thanks!

 

Um yes!!! No Ram! Anybody else but not Ram!!!!!

 

Not at all, the Cummins is an awesome power plant. The problem is, it's packaged in a Dodge wrapper...

 

It came in a Nissan wrapper for a short time too.