Recent content by kastein

I am hoping to make it but not sure. I will certainly not have the M54A2 with me because it is still down for the count and unregistered... will probably have the rusty beat up white Jeep MJ.

Barrowcanyon I hope you have a cab heater in that thing and some warm clothes! Sounds like a **** of an adventure. Carry spare parts...

If it is nice out me and one of my buddies from another auto forum are probably going to be bringing stuff, I'll be in a mud covered Comanche and he'll probably be in an autocross tuned BMW e30 or a mud covered early 90s toyota hilux depending on whether we finish welding new rockers onto it in...

I might go if I find time. I showed up yesterday and actually met foxtrk2, I'm the one that mentioned SteelSoldiers :beer: Kalashnikov not sure if you made it or not, but I forgot to get your number before heading out, did you see that Mack rat rod? I couldn't figure out how the supercharger...

I'd replace the whole axle since getting the third member up and out of the diff housing without removing it from the truck is going to be a bear of a job anyways. Then once your old axle is out, break it down to find out what's wrong with it and maybe start shopping for a locker if it is just...

If I make it at all I will be there for the weekend of the 26th/27th because NAXJA is down there that weekend. I may or may not make it though, I'm rather low on funds at the moment. edit: welp, guess I won't see you guys. Oh well, you'll have to do without my ugly mug :-P

awake, dead thread! A lot of the problem with getting to lugs in a deep dish wheel with a breaker bar and applying lots of torque can be solved with a jackstand. The problem really is that instead of applying straight-on torque to the fastener, some of the torque ends up trying to push the...

If I win the lottery I am going to show up and throw money at you till you sell me that truck.

Seems I simply wasn't applying enough violence to the problem. The piece of angle iron that slides into the two friction clips at the back of the support rails was rusted in place. Silly me, I thought I was going to break something. Discovered this when I crawled under it and got another look...

Can't find any threads detailing this, maybe I just suck at searching. My battery box really doesn't want to come out, the two screw retainers at the bottom front edge won't turn at all and I can't slide it out. I'd just put a cheater pipe on the screw retainer handles and go to town but I...

Mine isn't running (well) or driveable/registered right now, but it makes a good storage location for truck parts when the city gets on my case about too many truck parts visible from the street... I need to build a garage... and maybe use some of these parts in projects, instead of letting them...

is this the spring 2012 thread now? :razz: Might make it but probably not. My budget is tight these days.

395s are what everyone calls the 395/85r20 size tires that various surplus dealers sell. They're HEMMT takeoffs as far as I know. I have a set of the Michelin XML ones in my yard waiting for me to find a set of 20" tubeless 10 hole Budd rims, I hate two piece rims...

You'd be surprised. Driving my 5 ton I get a smile and a wave from almost every trucker that passes me. A lot of the guys driving those rigs love to see old iron still rolling down the road.

another thing - I was happy to see the "we have been hacked, we are cleaning it up and will be back as soon as possible" message replace the previous one. I value truthfulness and transparency over a well crafted politically safe message. Too many sites I am on would simply give some kind of...