well semis already aren't allowed on single lane residential streets. they're not built to handle that kind of weight. and semis exist everywhere, not just the states. third world countries use the hell out of them. some places the load has to be transferred to smaller vehicles to be able to navigate the streets but that's no different than new york or san francisco.
building a vehicle to do a specific task and then not doing that specific task is pretty idiotic regardless of what that task is
[QUOTE=butre;51862955]well semis already aren't allowed on single lane residential streets. they're not built to handle that kind of weight. and semis exist everywhere, not just the states. third world countries use the hell out of them. some places the load has to be transferred to smaller vehicles to be able to navigate the streets but that's no different than new york or san francisco.
building a vehicle to do a specific task and then not doing that specific task is pretty idiotic regardless of what that task is[/QUOTE]
i honestly didn't know that they already weren't allowed on those streets. i guess i rescind that comment then. as for the other part, sure, i didn't really mean semis, more like there are some places where miniature vans or kei trucks or whatever are used instead of full sized mail trucks.
It crosses my mind every time I drive my truck. "If someone pisses me off I have a crosshair right for their asses!"
If the situation ever arose to the point I'm gonna hit someone I'm gonna try my very best on hitting you as soft as possible and not in the passenger compartment. Like if you were straight broadside to me I would overlap half my truck with whichever half your car allowing me to spin you out instead of crushing your passenger compartment making me get the worst of it.
The pipe situation... Well... A bumper is a bumper no matter how you look at it. I have done strategic tests of running into a telephone pole to determine that my bumper and possibly other stingers will fail in the event of a very heavy crash allowing the bumper to break free of the small section of frame and travel upwards allowing the frame to carry on with the impact which might have catastrophic results for me.
If your talking about the big ol "ranch hand front bumpers" I honestly believe on a stock truck hitting a large sedan it does the sedan a benefit to allow more area for the car's sponeyness to work and if you google "ranch hand bumper crash" you will notice both vehicles end up totaled because the truck's bumper delivered the impact straight to the frame as the car absorbed it.
All in all. No I don't think about it. It's a conversation starter and e-penis enhancer. You should have the same reaction with or without the bumper. Don't hit passenger compartments. If you watch any crash vids with 18 wheelers they will purposely ditch and flip over their rigs instead of hitting anyone else but sadly not many lifted truck people employ this tactic.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;51862974]It crosses my mind every time I drive my truck. "If someone pisses me off I have a crosshair right for their asses!"
If the situation ever arose to the point I'm gonna hit someone I'm gonna try my very best on hitting you as soft as possible and not in the passenger compartment. Like if you were straight broadside to me I would overlap half my truck with whichever half your car allowing me to spin you out instead of crushing your passenger compartment making me get the worst of it.
The pipe situation... Well... A bumper is a bumper no matter how you look at it. I have done strategic tests of running into a telephone pole to determine that my bumper and possibly other stingers will fail in the event of a very heavy crash allowing the bumper to break free of the small section of frame and travel upwards allowing the frame to carry on with the impact which might have catastrophic results for me.
If your talking about the big ol "ranch hand front bumpers" I honestly believe on a stock truck hitting a large sedan it does the sedan a benefit to allow more area for the car's sponeyness to work and if you google "ranch hand bumper crash" you will notice both vehicles end up totaled because the truck's bumper delivered the impact straight to the frame as the car absorbed it.
All in all. No I don't think about it. It's a conversation starter and e-penis enhancer. You should have the same reaction with or without the bumper. Don't hit passenger compartments. If you watch any crash vids with 18 wheelers they will purposely ditch and flip over their rigs instead of hitting anyone else but sadly not many lifted truck people employ this tactic.[/QUOTE]
'strategic tests'? those sound interesting :v:
as for "Don't hit passenger compartments", i agree. i think if i could choose to replace every 2 'normal' (distracted, shitty) drivers with 1 DIESEL BRO, i would do it in a heartbeat. at least if someone has a little bit of money invested in their car's mods they're more likely to care a little bit about their ride.
i think the real lesson here is 'fuck normie drivers'. shoutout to agentfazexx.
'strategic tests'
I might have rammed a telephone pole multiple times in a attempt to figure out what would break first. My welds or my truck...
What I found is with a bumper bolted the middle of a frame as most aftermarket bumpers are the bolts will wallow out a hole and possibly cause separation. This is why backer plates to make a frame sandwich are very very important. Same with trailer hitches on the gmt400 platform. The trailer hitch only mounts to the bottom C of the c frame. You want to make a sandwich plate to go on both sides of the frame to give it extra strength for when you need to do something a little sketch.
This issue wont happen if you put (im not a engineer please don't get mad) Level? Leverage? pressure on to the bolted area which stinger bumpers will because the point of contact is nipple high wile the bolts are at your knees. Ya fell me?
I've always been more concerned about myself first and foremost than other drivers, I've never gotten in a collision and outside of some highway pulls generally drive like an old man. My truck is 8-12" of lift on either 38" tires or 42's depending on what I go with, easily a monstertruck that can barrel over even other trucks. While its not the most practical thing, even with the ballpark of 800-1000hp, its just something that is fun to drive and build, its really something you have to be in to understand.
Should there be a collision, outside of a rollover, I'm coming out on top 9/10. My front bunper will be a pre-runner style so I'd drive over someone, my rear bumper is a roll pan so they'd just fold my trailer hitch over, and the side has 2" .250 wall control arms and thick traction bars.
I feel safe, and I feel I'm a safe enough driver around others.
if someone plowed into your front wheels at any speed above 20, youd have problems.
[QUOTE=Serj22;51862346]If you put stock bearings and your sure the crank wasnt polished and the rods and caps arent undersized due to machining i dont know what up then. Your sure the little notches on rhe bearings are on opposite sides when assembled?
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What ground is the radio physically using? One in the harness? Have you tried removing the grounding lead and running a jumped ground direct from the radio to the battery terminal?[/QUOTE]
The car is a 1999 Subaru Legacy Outback SUS Limited, radio is Dual XDM16BT.
Attempting to use the factory radio ground in the harness. I am not sure where that grounds to.
I plan to start with removing the ground kit i added, make sure that is not interfering with it whatsoever, then go from there.
The radio is a PITA to remove/install in this car, so i plan to do what I can to verify it is actually somewhere right at the unit
[QUOTE=Birdman101;51863670]if someone plowed into your front wheels at any speed above 20, youd have problems.[/QUOTE]
Mounts are 3/8 steel with 3/4 grade 8 bolts, the frame would probably tear before my control arms or brackets bent. Axle is trussed with 1/4 inch plate, 3/4 shank hardened tie rod ends, it all overbuilt
[editline]23rd February 2017[/editline]
2 5/8 control arm ends
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Not your average lifted truck
Lifted trucks are dumb and are ticket writing machines. Fenders, bumper height, plate location, too many headlights, those stupid LED lightbars, and whatever else you could find.
I like lifted trucks, if it's for the purpose of utility and within reason. Hard to have a serious off-roader without a little bit of clearance and specialty bumpers added on. Lightbars are helpful. I think they look fuck-ugly if they're not done right or if it's just lifted for the sake of "HEY MUH TRUGHS HIGH UP!"
Chances are if an officer pulls you over for just those, well, you were probably going to get pulled over for some silly reason any way.
I like trucks with some bigger tyres and a slight lift. The guy that owns the barn the KTM is at has an Isuzu truck with some nice meaty tyres and it looks much better than any Isuzu has a right to. There's also two other Isuzus that look real nice, like this one:
[t]http://www.nyttombil.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Isuzu-3-736x552.jpg[/t]
I want a Isuzu truck.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;51864178]Lifted trucks are dumb and are ticket writing machines. Fenders, bumper height, plate location, too many headlights, those stupid LED lightbars, and whatever else you could find.[/QUOTE]
Some, if not most states, have a min/max height range bumpers have to fall in to. So a good portion of lifted trucks might fall in to an illegal range for being too tall, for reasons already mentioned. Same goes for slammed cars, too low and they fuck up peoples shins/knees if they get in to a pedestrian collision. I'm pretty sure the idea is to have pedestrians get hit in the thighs to have a lot of body mass take the blow, as well as avoid joints being torn and bent the wrong way. Of course, getting hit by a car is almost never in ideal conditions, but regulations can still make a difference.
[QUOTE=FordLord;51863819]The car is a 1999 Subaru Legacy Outback SUS Limited, radio is Dual XDM16BT.
Attempting to use the factory radio ground in the harness. I am not sure where that grounds to.
I plan to start with removing the ground kit i added, make sure that is not interfering with it whatsoever, then go from there.
The radio is a PITA to remove/install in this car, so i plan to do what I can to verify it is actually somewhere right at the unit[/QUOTE]
I removed my ground kit, no change.
I was able to take out my ash tray and check connections at the radio. Wiggling did nothing, everything is tight.
So this leaves either the unit itself, or the ground.
My question at this point is, is this something a 5W RMS radio would not pick up, while a 15WRMS radio would?
The OEM radio did not do this, though was only around 5-7W RMS total. The new radio is 15W RMS and does it.
I have an older radio from Dual with the same connector i can test with, but it is only 5W RMS.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;51864178]Lifted trucks are dumb and are ticket writing machines. Fenders, bumper height, plate location, too many headlights, those stupid LED lightbars, and whatever else you could find.[/QUOTE]
I hate lightbars, they look out of place, but the stock headlights are garbage so it helps on the back roads. If I were to put one on my truck it'd be hidden and tinted so you cant notice it.
Theres a lot of ugly redneck truck builds
[QUOTE=Gulen;51864316]I like trucks with some bigger tyres and a slight lift. The guy that owns the barn the KTM is at has an Isuzu truck with some nice meaty tyres and it looks much better than any Isuzu has a right to. There's also two other Isuzus that look real nice, like this one:
[t]http://www.nyttombil.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Isuzu-3-736x552.jpg[/t]
I want a Isuzu truck.[/QUOTE]
There's a Vehicross that's for sale around me for like 4k that has "undiagnosed mechanical issues" that has been sitting around for 8 months.
[url]https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/668631517/overview/[/url]
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It is a mistake I am more than willing to dive into.
[QUOTE=FordLord;51864472]I removed my ground kit, no change.
I was able to take out my ash tray and check connections at the radio. Wiggling did nothing, everything is tight.
So this leaves either the unit itself, or the ground.
My question at this point is, is this something a 5W RMS radio would not pick up, while a 15WRMS radio would?
The OEM radio did not do this, though was only around 5-7W RMS total. The new radio is 15W RMS and does it.
I have an older radio from Dual with the same connector i can test with, but it is only 5W RMS.[/QUOTE]
DUAL tends to have very bad circuits for dealing with EMS noise, they almost all pick up anything thats going on in your car or truck that generates some kind of magnetic field.
Really the best things you can do are either put a massive capacitor with a good ESR rating purpose made on your alternator to take up the RMS current, or run a ground directly from the radio's body to the negative battery terminal and put a noise filter on both yellow and red + radio lines.
If there is anything else like amps, if they produce the noise the alternator capacitor will have to be it, because as far as I know no one makes a noise filter for amplifiers. At least not any that can handle the juice.
[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;51862925]How about one of these?
[IMG]http://sandyblogs.com/techlink/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/techlink_marchB_F04.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] I've heard that using those on head gasket surfaces can be a bad idea. Their abrasiveness comes from aluminum oxide particles, and if you don't do a really good job of cleaning up they can fuck up your engine
Fixing a Cheby Bruize (cruize) basically right now and the fucking electric thermostat, [i]not even installed yet[/i] just shit itself...
It has this spring in it that is held in place by a metal bracket, which all holds the moving bits in place and the 2 shitty thin plastic tab bits failed.
Went to light a cigarette and all I hear is "TWANG" from the damn thing.
You guys are right, these things are total pieces of shit, it's already had about 6 grand worth of work done to it in the last 3 months having not to recently a replaced engine. And it's basically had something break at least once a month over the last year.
He said he wished the dealer would just total the damn thing. If he just says fuck it or it breaks again and he scraps it I want the turbo off it, it's about the only worth while part.
[QUOTE=Scientwist;51864920]DUAL tends to have very bad circuits for dealing with EMS noise, they almost all pick up anything thats going on in your car or truck that generates some kind of magnetic field.
Really the best things you can do are either put a massive capacitor with a good ESR rating purpose made on your alternator to take up the RMS current, or run a ground directly from the radio's body to the negative battery terminal and put a noise filter on both yellow and red + radio lines.
If there is anything else like amps, if they produce the noise the alternator capacitor will have to be it, because as far as I know no one makes a noise filter for amplifiers. At least not any that can handle the juice.[/QUOTE]
Noise filters + direct ground sounds like the safest bet. I suppose i should do it anyways for 'clean' sound.
Appreciate the help guys
[QUOTE=butre;51862940]also other than DIESEL BRO lifted truck drivers tend to go pretty slow. our ackerman is all fucked up and if we go too fast around a corner we'll 3 wheel and getting a proper alignment is pretty much impossible. especially people in older lifted trucks like mine where on top of that it needs ball joints and the brakes suck[/QUOTE]
Can't we all just get along and agree that mall crawlers are a waste of perfectly good daddy's money? :v:
But, coming from a rust-belt region of good-ol' bible-thump-town Appalachia, I honestly don't understand why people spend so much money making their trucks worse than they already are for things they claim they can do now which they never do to begin with.
A good 80% of our lifted truck kids around us are diesels lifted so high they can't safely pull a trailer. They roll coal because 'muh powuh, hngggg'. And then they git pissy when a small little ricer Honda beats them to a red light by coasting.
So, yeah, I kinda fit into the whole mindset that lifted trucks are stupid block. I get their purpose, but not a single one of the kids around here even knows how to drive in snow, let alone in a little bit of flat ground mud. I don't even want to think about any of them trying to drive up a mountainside with a light breeze.
My summer road trip just got detoured :(
[url]http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/See-the-Big-Sur-bridge-that-s-cracked-and-10951909.php[/url]
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just cross your fingers and drive over it really fast
I like how they look. I had to rewire the plugs for the hi-lo to work, though, for some reason. I'm gonna redo the rest of the car with LEDs now.
Can't find the cornering light replacements, though
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leds are lame unless they're in a light bar
I rain hate on most LED installations but I think it's just because I can't find tasteful OEM installations, they always have to be flashy halo projector navy blue bulb bullshit
If they offered a more incan yellow on these bulbs I would have gone for it
I feel like a giddy schoolgirl. We got at least 8 inches of snow, and once again, aside from the visibility, the 9000lb 4wd diesel felt like it was just on a casual summer evening drive, plowing though drifts on the highway. Simply wonderful.
I tore out the radio finally. Installed the noise filters. I gave the connector between the adapter and oem plug a firm squeeze and it clicked together, not sure when it came unplugged or if it ever fully plugged in.
Tested it, no whining now.
Adjusted parking brake lever while my console was apart.
I'm in Sevierville TN and saw a 73 Valiant go by today.
Must beautiful thing I've seen since arriving.
[QUOTE=Ridge;51866693]My summer road trip just got detoured :(
[url]http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/See-the-Big-Sur-bridge-that-s-cracked-and-10951909.php[/url]
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[IMG]https://photos.smugmug.com/Storm-Damage-in-Big-Sur-022217/i-xcgDD4m/0/XL/MCH-L-BigSur-0223-8-XL.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]Apparently something like 65k bridges in the US are in need of repair lol
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