Cotton eyed Joe

yeah why cant you take the springs off the stockers and chrome them I've done my fronts and its kind of a bitch. You have to compress the spring enough to get at the jam nut behind the pivot. You have to loosen both of them, the jam nut and the pivot on the shaft, then take them off, then let the spring relax with out it hitting you and killing you dead right there.

CWSPEEDDEMON

LOL That part about coming in Gods eye was bad......

That is a horrific visual. I dont think anyone should come in gods eyes. Its rude.

I liked the part about getting a hair cut. Anyhoo.... What type of job are you looking for? If there is a WalMart in your area, I would assume your are far overqualified to work there. To be a door greeter you either need to be a geriatric or at/near retardation. At least thats the requirements here. And I don't think you want to be a stocker for the big W either. I had friends that used to do it. Think of hard work, low pay, 4 asshole managers all telling you what to do, and they all conflict with one another. What kind of mad skillz do you have?

I hate those fuckin ball tipped allen wrenches for that very reason. We've snapped 1/2 inch before. Its nice to have to reach in a tight area, but I don't use them for torquing anything down anymore. I have no solution to your problem, just a prevention. Throw those ball tipped allen wrenches out the window on your way to work tomorrow.

The post office kicks ass on shipping. I had to ship a very small item across the US one fine day. UPS needed $11.00. USPS needed $1.85. The box was 4" x 4" x 4" and weighed almost nothing. My shop has needed to ship some bigger items to places like Hawaii and Chicago, and we have to use UPS or FedEx, and its well over $100 to ship after we package it at the shop. Mostly because they are in the 90lb-size catagory. The parts only weigh about 20 lbs though.

Wow. You guys know a lot of shit about these computers. Glad someone does, because I sure as hell don't. This is what I used to fix the last computer at the shop. A 46oz dead blow hammer. Then we took the monitor to a shooting range by my parents cabin and blasted it with the DE. The next one is going in the 50 ton press.

Shit, try rebuilding classic cars! I have to ream and sand jsut about every freakin bearing journal and hole on the rolling chassis. And this guy has done near 12 complete cars for me. Just cant seem to get it through his head that spindles dont need to be completely covered! check Shit....isn't that a bitch?? At the shop whenever we get something powdercoated we mask it ourselves now with masking tape. Its not high temp, but its a hell of a lot more than what we do get.

I have some. They aren't solid mount, but spring mounted to allow for misalignment and to reduce vibration. Let me know and I'll e-mail some pics.

Who you dealing with now Jim? lol

What about finger prints? Would you have some big dumb thumb print in your side case that would just piss you off and make you want to kill your powder coater everytime you saw it? Serious...Most of the people in the powder coating places I've dealt with here need to be whipped in the face with a riding crop. Its like my parts are the first ones they've ever seen that have bearing journals or seal areas that need to be taped over.

WAAAAAAAAAA??? You mean you were gulping air on only about 3/8 of your total lung capacity for a while there? Wow.... well good luck on the healing.

AMEN Brotha!!!!! I'm all for capitalism. If that makes me selfish then fine, but I have to feel good about my quality of life too right? I'm sure there are ways to drill for oil that don't require levelling hundreds of acres of forest. Out in Eastern Utah, my parents have a cabin, and there are oil rigs out there that you don't even know exist until night time, and you see 1 or 2 lights out in the forest, and maybe you hear a low thump thump thump of a generator. Thats it. I've ridden to one of them before and the total size of the facillity is probably less than 5 acres. Its all groomed, the trees all around the place are still there, and the rig just keeps on pumping. The tree huggers make it sound like they have to set off nuclear charges to get to the oil and kill everything in a 50 mile radius. It just isn't true. I would bet you could have a rig in the middle of anywhere, and if its done right you wouldn't even know it was there until someone said something. I'm all for respecting the environment n shit like packing out what I pack in, but.................... Tree huggers =

The place I use for my chrome plating will do pipes, and like NYUK said....yeah they are expensive once they've been run. Its almost worth it to just get new pipes either already chromed, or go get them chromed.

I have a +6 ready to either powder or chrome. I can fab up to any length you want. They come with carriers, brake mounts, gussets, etc.

You know how much 3/4" gravel $7500 would buy??? You'd never have to mow ever again once you lay down a nice layer of that. Well, that and Round Up.

And you know seeing that paint in real life makes the pictures look like crap. Even with a layer of sand dust on it, it still looked fantastic. Hell it even looked better when (was it Walt?? Can't remember) someone wiped the sand off of the nose with their bare hands to show the paint better. LOL. Such a killer paint job.......

Did you total it out at St. Anthonys last time? I did. lol... My thumb still hurts every now and again almost 2 years later.

You could probably come up with something like that in Excel, but I can't. Excel hates me. Everytime I open it up to do the books my wife ends up doing it while I play GTA. You would need a bunch of shit though. Terrain, such as sand, dirt, asphalt and their coefficients of friction, tire pressure, gear ratios, shift rpm, center of gravity, top rpm, hp curve, torque curve, but such a thing would only be correct under perfect conditions. There is no way to calculate human error. There was a game for PC that I used to have called NHRA Burnout. You could tweak EVERYTHING in a drag car, rail, what ever, from cam durations and lift, to # of cylinders, etc... Very cool game. Getting the tires just right was a bitch. You have swell, stickyness, curve of the surface of the tire....its almost endless. I messed with it for about 8 hours one day and got a 275 mile an hour Trans Am.

This is one of Yamaha's greatest money making schemes. You also can't get the ball joint boots, or ball joint boot retaining clips from what I've heard. But they do come free (Like Holyman said) with every set of NEW a-arms purchased.

I have an observation. Everyone talks about the price of GAS, and then bashes Bush/Cheney etc......We buy OIL from the other countries and refine it here into gas, but oil is used make textiles like carpet, nylon, polyester, plastics, and on and on. The price of shirts, motor oil, the plastic that I machine in the shop, and carpet haven't skyrocketed have they? Not that I've really noticed. They all use oil to be produced. I think its just price fixing on the part of US Refineries.

Thats EXACTLY what happened to me, except my dune was only about 15'. AND My banshee started on the first kick too, except you could sort of tell that it had been in a wreck since it sat to the left by about 20 degrees, the left front rim was touching the brake caliper, and none of the suspension would collapse. Good to hear you are alive, that is fo' sho'! I don't know about you, but I couldn't sleep for about a week. Everytime I closed my eyes I replayed it in my head. Hope you don't get that shit going on. I think that was just as bad as wrecking.

HAHA Thats cool!!! Wait until he's 10. You'll have tire marks on the back of your helmet.

LMAO The way things are looking I'm going to need gas on Monday to get to work. I doubt it will last me until thursday.