'90 W250--'89/91/92 Ramcharger

[PToombs]

I bet the old man laughed his ass off all morning watching you do that. I'm sure he's BTDT with a hangover too, and I can see the humor in it myself!

Why'd you pull the ROPS? I figure you're shipping it, but it's not too tall with it on.

[Tacoclaw]

Weight more than anything. We know it's not heavy enough to get us in trouble once the blade's off, but they don't take any chances.

DOT sucks balls.

[Mark Nixon]

DOT sucks balls.

No they don't, they just hand out high-dollar tickets.
NEVER have I heard of ANYONE getting a testicle cleaning from DOT, but you ALWAYS hear about people getting an ASSREAMING.

Just drive a livestock set-up, all but the most insistent "government revenuers" steer clear from inspecting those.

Mark.

[Tacoclaw]

HA!

I honestly don't deal with them much, but seeing some of the trucks that haul out of our place I really think they're not tough enough. That '9 is only like 40 tons or something, and I figure once we've got the ROPS and blade of it'll be around 30. We barely need an overweight permit to haul 30 tons, so I don't know how we're gonna play it out yet.

We may just wait for an innocent Sunday morning.

[Mark Nixon]

HA!

We may just wait for an innocent Sunday morning.

Leave around midnight on Saturday night/Sunday Morning.
The cops are more interested in would be drunk drivers, than someone moving an old POS on a trailer.
If you're early to the drop point, stop at a truck stop and goof off, or bring a blankie and tickie and catch some Zs.

When I moved cars and trucks for hire, I had the LEAST troubles in the wee hours of the morning.
Even Chicago, Illinois is dead, dead, dead by 3AM, on the interstate.

I once had a DOT Officer (teasingly) comment that I was "avoiding scale stops by running at night".
I usually do it because most of the time I run 400 miles or more and to get to people at a decent time during business hours, I have to run at night. It's also better on tires, bearings and engines to run after dark.
Leave Lincoln at midnight (CST), plenty of time to dawdle around a bit, and arrive in Denver, 8+ hours later, by 10AM (CST).

Mark.

[TheTowingCowboy]

Are you trying to seduce me?




Just give me a call, but I'd make it around noon on Sunday. I've got a long night planned tomorrow night.

Hey what? remember I am the one whos weekend is Monday and Tuesday? lol So tuesday evening what you doin??? Hittin up that gay bar again???

[Tacoclaw]

Now you know why they knew my name.

I hate to take this any farther off course, but since Jesse won't leave me alone while I'm trying to work:


Time for some steam genny decimation.

[PToombs]

but since Jesse won't leave me alone while I'm trying to work:

Maybe he "likes" you. After all, you're the one out chasing transvestites and the one getting the gay jokes.

[ahale2772]

you need to hit up Jungle jim and start throwing some sweet suspension goodies at that RC

[Tacoclaw]

The transvestites chase me, just look at Hineman.

I would throw some goodies at it, but I think getting the AC functional is going to be a pretty big priority. Considering some idiot threw out my entire system to make an aftercooler setup work, I'm gonna have a pretty penny in parts and pieces for that stuff. Besides, I'm gonna try to keep the 1/2 ton leaves in the back. If they don't get twisted to pieces, I'm hoping they smooth out the ride enough.

[dazedandconfused]

I'm running my half ton rear springs still.

[AHineman]

Screw you Levi.

[Mark Nixon]

Thread went Queer again.

Mark.

[Tacoclaw]

Sweet! No wrapping problems or anything? I'm going to try to move the swaybar from the front to the rear, since it won't fit with the Cummins and it flops around like a walrus as it sits.

I can't wait to get into the chassis stuff, besides making nw intake piping it's my favorite thing to do.

[AHineman]

Hopefully you're better at the chassis stuff than the intake piping.