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Welcome and if you need me to ship you some brisket just let me know. I've done my duty in Georgia and longed for the taste of mesquite smoked brisket after 7 years of pork barbeque. You know what I mean.
Rayzer--I kind of studied your pics and first off, that's some nice work. Have some questions, and before I ask, I assume all risk of blowing myself up. Now, having said that, and in a PURELY hypothetical vein, can't you just undo the strap bolt, lift it up, put down a welding blanket that's...
I gotta float this...what would Texas members think of a rally at Big Bend; or some other proximity? Big Bend is so beautiful. Hot during day; cool at night. And the stars....only being at sea rivals the stars.
Looks like I'm pretty close. Howdy and welcome! I actually have some land south of you down near Dryden, and the Deuce comes in mighty handy when it rains and turns the desert into peanut butter alley. It's a 4 hour drive from El Paso over to Dryden (not in a Deuce--it's more like 6 hours...
Again, I chime in in the interest of our site and deuce security. My points:
1. You can cut most any chain with a pair of bolt cutters.
2. You cannot cut a lock off if you cannot get to the shackle.
3. The illegal 'visitors', to be politically correct, are now coming across with said...
I had **** with mine, too. You DO have to remove the plug (as I remember, the plug facing the starboard, or passenger side of the truck, rearward on the master cylinder) to remove this thing. It was extremely tight, and I said alot of bad words during the process. And you have to put your...
The problem with an exposed lock shackle is that you can 'nip' it with bolt cutters. I'm not throwing any darts here, but if you look at all of the above, which would you put a pair of compound bolt cutters on? And by the way, I live in El Paso, and our biggest industry is auto theft, behind...
Don't rely on the video of your alternator turning over slowly, if you filmed it with a modern cell phone. I filmed a helicopter last weekend with a new blackberry and noticed the rotors looked like they were turning over v e r y s l o w l y in comparison with the actual rate, when viewed from...
Here in El Paso, with Hurricane force Desert winds, I use an old plastic vacuum cleaner body turned upside down on the stack. It's blown off twice in the last year. It's only the wind.
This is the answer I needed. Thanks so much. I think the green color was probably from o.d. paint somehow. Not much oil came out, so no worries here. Out to Kilburne crater I go, hi ho hi ho.
Prepping the Deuce for an 'outing' here, and I go out and fire up, let warm up, shut down, then open the drain on the inboard air tank and it pukes out what smells like oil. I'm talking air tool smelling oil here. Tanks really don't accumulate moisture here in the desert, but what was really...
Well, as a finality to this post, I showed up, checked my weapons as discussed above. No hassles, just alot of oohs and aahs. You have to check fix blade knives, too. So off I go and meet Ms. Neely and it all went smooth as silk. Red River Army Depot GL people were very polite, but I could...
I've monitored this post from the get go and after reading all of this have alot of trepidation about my appointment for pickup of my trailer this coming Friday......Anybody need something hauled west at least as far as El Paso out of there I can strap on the trailer to make it not fishtail...
I purchased the 5/16 chain, grade 70 from Harbor Freight. I've been happy with it. I've dogged down 20 foot containers on my gooseneck; have dogged down my 743B Bobcat on the trailer; lately I actually LIFTED a 20 foot container for positioning with a well service truck. Now bear in mind that...
Is this to say you can check your weapons at the front entrance or secondary entrance? Reason I ask is that I don't EVER travel without weapons. And I'm making extravagant arrangements to store them before my pickup of the trailer. If the base will hold them, that would be nice....???
Way to go JW! You made the easy leg. I depart next week on Wednesday for a retrieval on a trailer in Texarkana. Feel free to use the house as usual, if need be.