2016 BS and Chat Thread!

[dazedandconfused]

What up, gentlemen?

I'm still alive and I still have to notify my partner that I'm Ford positive so she doesn't catch anything

I'm about to graduate from Purdue and next week I start a real job. I rolled 250k miles in the 7.3L and I'm still trying to talk myself out of a 12v swap.

Glad to see most of the regulars are still here.

You need to wise up and put a Cummins in that Ford. Glad to see you post again.

[PToombs]

Wow, no new posts since last night. Where is everybody?

[DodgeFreak]

I've been busy trying to get the crew up into shape to make the trip from Iowa to Oklahoma. Little things that needed done.

[ellis93]

Hell,where have you been Pete?

I just went and got a 3210 Bushhog brand cutter. That's a 10' Bushhog......that's a little over a foot of metal hanging off both sides of my trailer I met several "concerned" drivers

[DMan1198]

I've been in the final throws of my schooling. Two exams down, two big ones left, then I'm done til August, and then once I'm done that I'll be a full journeyman heavy equipment technician, and will be able to put RSE as a suffix on my name.

I'll be doing my best to have The Roo Hunter in good working order, so I can put jaeger on parking insurance, and take The Roo Hunter for school which will save me some coin on insurance.

[fatty]

I'm putting an engine from a 93 into my 91.5. Anyone know of any differences that will cause me grief when I start hooking things up? The only thing I know of that is different is the 93 had a CPS and 91.5 does not.

[matthewh]

Anybody ever mess with a Gun Pole setup, or build one?
Need a way to lift heavy items around the house. Sold the skid steer I had, now I'm trying.to move logs, engines, welders/generators, etc off road and laying down plywood for my engine hoist has gotten old.

One idea I had was to weld a plate into the rear of the frame, similar to what you see on landscape trucks, weld up a pivot point, and hang my poles, and build a headache rack of some kind for my tie back cables.

The other idea I had was a steel plate that uses the bed mounting bolts, clevis points at the front, pivot points at the back for the poles, and mount a 12v winch up front.

I like the second idea, cause I could feasibly swap it between trucks, since the plow truck is a 92 W250 and the dually is a 93. I'm just worried that it wouldn't be heavy enough to pick up say 2000# off the hook. I understand that the pole angles greatly effect the lifting capacity, as well as the pole construction themselves.

So far my poles are 12' long, 2x2 square tubing, 3/16" thick wall

Any thoughts, I know some of you are pretty ingenious with stuff like this

[ellis93]

I'm putting an engine from a 93 into my 91.5. Anyone know of any differences that will cause me grief when I start hooking things up? The only thing I know of that is different is the 93 had a CPS and 91.5 does not.

Aren't the compressor brackets different? Only thing I can think of.....but that'll be changed anyhow

[fatty]

AC compressor? I don't know but I should be able to just swap brackets if that's the case right? Or is the comp different too?

[matthewh]

There were 2 different comps used. Earlier trucks used a C171 compressor, later model used the more common Sanden SD709.
Unsure of the change, I believe it was when they went to intercooler the compressors changed, but not 100%. I believe the fitting are different, as well as the elec plug, again, not 100%,

[PToombs]

I can put jaeger on parking insurance,

I saved about $100 on my '93 by putting it officially up for the winter. I was impressed!

[DMan1198]

I saved $100 in one month having parking insurance on my 93. Then another $65 a month when my policy renewed. I have to have full coverage on my 4th gen since I financed it, so being able to have that one on parking insurance will save a bunch.

On another note I am now done 3rd year. Wrote my interprovincial this morning, and watched a 1st year automotive apprentice really obviously cheat off the guy behind him, but that's his problem. Tomorrow I'm going to go home hauling a trailer my sister, and her boyfriend bought for $800. It's funny that it barely squats my suspension.

[PToombs]

C'mon! Where's the pic?

And Congrats on finishing your 3rd year!

[DMan1198]

Thanks Pete. I don't know what you mean about the picture though. It's showing up for me.

[RumbleFish]

He probably means pic of your sister...