On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 11:01 PM, andy levy wrote:
>
> * I've heard baby oil in a spray bottle, sprayed onto the rims &
> frame, can make mud removal much easier.
I bet if you spray diluted Elmer's on there right before you start,
it'll stick around longer. make a statement! no more clean trucks! =)
one of these days, I'm going to show up at a car show with a nice clean
and tasteful engine bay and interior inside a cake of mud and road
salt. ;-)
> * Recovery point. If you don't at least have a ClassIII hitch on the
> back of your truck, you need one in case you get stuck. Front tow
> hooks are bonus.
>
I might be putting some hooks on thursday. jon, you said there's
hardware close-ish? yeah, you did. depends on whether I have time to
do it right on wednesday or not. I just read about an interesting
mounting method that I'm going to investigate. I think the front ends
of the frame are boxed, but if it's too long a bridge to easily find
grade 8s long enough, I'm going to forget about it.
http://performanceunlimited.com/documents/tpwhookguide.html
> * Please, make sure your air intake is reasonably protected from
> splashing water - or just don't go into the pit very fast. Too many
> people have inhaled water.
what intakes have caused the trouble? I've got a FIPK on my truck and
I'm wondering if I should add some splash-proofing along the fender
well.
I think I've had an unhappily wet engine on one occasion in pouring
rain while trail running at decent speeds through 3-6" puddles for
miles on end (refused to idle - seemed Very Rich, so it could have been
a wet ignition system missing or a plain wet and restricted filter),
but I've never played in a pond - only crawled through streams that
ought to have qualified as too deep. when the truck starts feeling
lighter, I get nervous. =)
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