THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

[asp]

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Did you need the tires, or just the rims on those? (3/4 don't hold air for more than a day or two).

i'd like to get all 4 rims and tires if possible. i don't even care if they don't hold air. i just need to be able to move it around my driveway.

 

[foxwar71]

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It's not a cost issue, it just makes no sense to keep it on the road.

1. I have a trailer at my disposal 99% of the time (my dad only uses it for Carlisle).

2. We never wheel at class 6 roads anymore, so no reason to have insurance.

3. I'd rather not risk getting pulled over by a cop for my jeep and writing me up for everything in the book.

Worst. Reasons. Ever.



those will never stop me, plus its all about looking cool on the streets yo

Not a trail if you're not using 4L.

OH SNAP!!!

 

[MoparManiac]

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So just got off the phone with the insurance company.

Going to look into OHV registration and just liability insurance (might need that).

 

[foxwar71]

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Soo...............Red Jeep might now want/need a new clutch. Also, a new rear d-shaft & joints again like already planned. And while Im at it, might as well do new tranny/t-case fuild.


:gee:

 

[kastein]

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just put the pedal to the floor and let it make noise, it's what I've been doing. Of course, I don't really care about my existing transmission at this point...

 

[asp]

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Going to look into OHV registration and just liability insurance (might need that).

i think that's how i'll be reregistering mine... but we'll see. i'm taking mine off because i need to fix/rebuild it.

Soo...............Red Jeep might now want/need a new clutch. Also, a new rear d-shaft & joints again like already planned. And while Im at it, might as well do new tranny/t-case fuild.

if you didn't replace them with brute force u-joints, you might have better luck.

brute force means that's what it takes to break them, not that they withstand brute force :roll:

 

[MoparManiac]

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i think that's how i'll be reregistering mine... but we'll see. i'm taking mine off because i need to fix/rebuild it.

You getting a tow vehicle?

 

[asp]

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hah, i'd like to... but OHV means you can go on back streets, right? :gee:

 

[MoparManiac]

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hah, i'd like to... but OHV means you can go on back streets, right? :gee:

No clue...I'll let you know what I find out.

You going to register it in MA or RI?

 

[asp]

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i figure it'll be getting registered around the fall-ish... jenn will probably have moved in with me by that time too. i don't even know what state we'll be living in yet. but i figure if her and i move to the other side of the bay, i'll move all my paperwork to RI... but there's a pretty decent chance i'll end up in or very close to MA. if she doesn't get into grad school, she has a better chance of getting a job in MA because RI doesn't even have the position she's looking to get...

 

[Begster]

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No clue...I'll let you know what I find out.

You going to register it in MA or RI?

Yes, that means it can't go back to the street.

 

[asp]

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oh. lame. whatever. i'll just register it like normal with minimal insurance.

 

[kastein]

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Lesson learned: people look at you really funny if you are changing your tires in the parking lot at work during your lunch break.

 

[asp]

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haha... or if you're doing it in front of your dorm. especially when your girlfriend wheels 2 of your 34's around at once.

i got some other good looks when i changed a TRE and a heim too. where else do ya work on it at school? :dunno:

 

[kastein]

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hahaha yeah that would confuse people a bit too... no one knew what to think when we did an oil change in the dorm parking lot using a pair of old 8-slot 3U rackmount SCSI disk arrays as ramps, either. Wish they had been 5U units, I would have had a much easier time.

EDIT: I was bored and just checked... add "snorkel", "sliders", and "stock tires" to the list of searches that bring up this thread as the top result :roll:

 

[asp]

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hahahaha i've never seen that done.

but, the umass club has painted cars in the parking lot, done turbo swaps in the parking lot, welded in the basement of the umass parking garage... i know i'm forgetting a few good ones...

 

[themangeraaad]

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Lesson learned: people look at you really funny if you are changing your tires in the parking lot at work during your lunch break.

I went out with a hack saw and started trimming my fenders a few years back at lockheed martin on my lunch break. I drew a crowd of people who were actually very amused and interested.

I also had one of the managers staring out the big window at the parking lot where my Jeep was and I walked over and looked out. He then proceeded to ask "Are those tires bigger than before?"... me: yes... "did you have to cut the fenders"... me: yes... "did it used to have doors?",,, me: yes

Edit: That was the week after I got my 33's

Then I realized it wasn't trimmed quite enough so i went out with the saw and a rubber mallet and got to work.

FWIW: The building I worked in was a small one story building and the parking lot was out in the woods, like it wasn't even a big lot, maybe 50 cars. For "workplace environment" that job site took the cake, bunch of 1 story buildings in the woods. If I had to go to a meeting it usually involved a walk to another building which involved walking through a wooded trail. It was great I still want to go back there just because it was so much more peaceful and quiet than it is here. Then again walking to meetings in the winter would suck... I only worked there for the summer.

 

[kastein]

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I might be squatting in a parking garage about three blocks down Park Ave from my apartment to do my transmission (more convenient than going to a garage a few towns away, and it's right across the street from autozone), haven't really figured out if they'll tow me / get me in trouble etc. Won't be warm, but it will be empty, well lit, and out of the weather...


I guess that's what would count as a mallcrawler trail repair?

 

[asp]

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you can get into the bottom of the umass parking garage from the bottom... we call it the batcave.

 

[themangeraaad]

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I just had some guy try and sell me his house with a 1300 square foot 2 story garage (with walk in top floor). Already fully wired 110/220V, plumbed for compressed air, tons of other stuff, heat, telephone, cable, etc... NICE house, 1 acre plus land

I wish he was selling it in my price range... but he wants like 400k for the house. Sigh. I dont blame him, it's probably very much worth it.


And one of my favorite conversations regarding the Jeep was with a local cop's wife. Mind you this cop won't give me any sh*t and would actually work to get tickets thrown out for me, I know his family and I am on VERY good terms with them. Anyway, I met his wife in a parking lot and I was running no doors... She asked if it was legal. I asked her to find a reason why it isn't legal. She went home and asked her husband...

I saw her a week later and she told me her husband couldn't find any reason that it was illegal (other than if you didn't run a side mirror, which is the one reason that I informed her of )