He competes in the heavy weights. They don't go as high as the fit pole vaulters, but it's just as impressive, if not more impressive.
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He competes in the heavy weights. They don't go as high as the fit pole vaulters, but it's just as impressive, if not more impressive.
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It’s funny sometimes people make me think I’m going crazy with all this tire balancing nonsense. I swear I have to revisit discount tire all the time to get it done right and I’m hardly ever happy with Jt. Half the time they try to convince me it must be my steering causing wobbles and yada yada. My good balancing guy moved out of state and have been struggling with it ever since. Well finally went into discount yesterday after just dealing with a shitty balance for a while. The guy came out and immediately noticed my oversized brakes and ET lug nuts and knew what to do without me even having to say anything. He said “these are really difficult to balance tires. It’s going to take a little longer because I’m going to get my best guy out here to balance them and make sure they take their time to get it right. Is that okay?” I said hell yeah! I picked up my rig an hour later and it’s probably the best balance I’ve gotten. ZERO wobbles at all in the steering wheel now. Makes me glad I’m not going insane and that a good balance can be done.
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It could be the BFH Garage if everyone would split the cost
We gotta lower the cost of entry and buy into the antique market!
It could be the BFH Garage if everyone would split the cost
He needs to sell that lip balm and you guys would be set!
You think I haven't been marketing that shit? Been on eBay forever.... Thinking about a price drop....
I saw that exact thing for sale on marketplace last night, taking a casual glance for something like @jjvw posted. You think it would work with our wheels and tires?
I don’t see why not, but it was a little scary to use. The big balancer attaches to the wheel then you spin it to high speed and use the knob to adjust the weigh position. Just hope that adapter doesn’t come off the wheel.
It could be the BFH Garage if everyone would split the cost
I have seen a few machines at auction this year. I'll keep my eyes peeled. The last one I saw I think was a Hunter brand, the brief research I did it said it was able to balance up to a 43" tire. IIRC it went for a very affordable price, like sub $500
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Some life updates:
My wife Alex grew to hate her sales job. She’s been doing it for the last year and it was making great money but she hated every second of it. It got to a point where I told her she should just quit and start pursuing her passion. She’s an artist at heart and a great leader and is now working towards starting her own interior design business. The moral of the story is we have to cut all unnecessary spending while she gets the business up and going, which means no Jeep parts for a while
My shitty wiring has been bothering me lately. Most of it was done in layers and quickly with whatever I had on hand. I really would love to just redo it all from scratch with either a switch pro or auxilliary fuse boxes both inside the cab and under the hood. But that will have to wait since because money is tight and I told Alex we can’t spend on unnecessaries and I don’t want to be a hypocrite, even if it’s just $100 on wiring stuff. So I’m going to direct my energy towards mostly free projects for now. Today I washed my engine bay and also was able to clean up some of the wiring that was really bothering me.
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I eliminated my CB radio that is not getting used anymore and routed some of the wires differently so that they all approach the battery from the front. I also consolidated some of the wires into less looming. In the future I would like to add a blue sea fuse box next to the factory PDC, and mount all of my relays nicely in front of that. I would also like to add an interior fuse box somewhere as well to make adding interior accessories easy and clean. Or if Alex starts making some good money maybe I’ll pony up for a switch pro.
The other reason I cleaned the engine bay is I’ve got some motor oil leaking and I wanted to be able to better see where it’s coming from. My gut tells me RMS though.
My wife Alex grew to hate her sales job. She’s been doing it for the last year and it was making great money but she hated every second of it. It got to a point where I told her she should just quit and start pursuing her passion. She’s an artist at heart and a great leader and is now working towards starting her own interior design business. The moral of the story is we have to cut all unnecessary spending while she gets the business up and going, which means no Jeep parts for a while
My shitty wiring has been bothering me lately. Most of it was done in layers and quickly with whatever I had on hand. I really would love to just redo it all from scratch with either a switch pro or auxilliary fuse boxes both inside the cab and under the hood. But that will have to wait since because money is tight and I told Alex we can’t spend on unnecessaries and I don’t want to be a hypocrite, even if it’s just $100 on wiring stuff. So I’m going to direct my energy towards mostly free projects for now. Today I washed my engine bay and also was able to clean up some of the wiring that was really bothering me.
Before
After:
I eliminated my CB radio that is not getting used anymore and routed some of the wires differently so that they all approach the battery from the front. I also consolidated some of the wires into less looming. In the future I would like to add a blue sea fuse box next to the factory PDC, and mount all of my relays nicely in front of that. I would also like to add an interior fuse box somewhere as well to make adding interior accessories easy and clean. Or if Alex starts making some good money maybe I’ll pony up for a switch pro.
The other reason I cleaned the engine bay is I’ve got some motor oil leaking and I wanted to be able to better see where it’s coming from. My gut tells me RMS though.
Some life updates:
My wife Alex grew to hate her sales job. She’s been doing it for the last year and it was making great money but she hated every second of it. It got to a point where I told her she should just quit and start pursuing her passion. She’s an artist at heart and a great leader and is now working towards starting her own interior design business. The moral of the story is we have to cut all unnecessary spending while she gets the business up and going, which means no Jeep parts for a while
My shitty wiring has been bothering me lately. Most of it was done in layers and quickly with whatever I had on hand. I really would love to just redo it all from scratch with either a switch pro or auxilliary fuse boxes both inside the cab and under the hood. But that will have to wait since because money is tight and I told Alex we can’t spend on unnecessaries and I don’t want to be a hypocrite, even if it’s just $100 on wiring stuff. So I’m going to direct my energy towards mostly free projects for now. Today I washed my engine bay and also was able to clean up some of the wiring that was really bothering me.
Before
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If you want to add fuses and relays why not use the empty holes in the PDC ? If you have a pick your part pick up some factory terminals and install relays and fuses for the accessories. Take a picture of the inside of the box. The fuses are the give away on which box to get terminals from. The manufacturer of that box sold them to multiple manufacturers. I pulled he stuff from a ford to do mine.
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I eliminated my CB radio that is not getting used anymore and routed some of the wires differently so that they all approach the battery from the front. I also consolidated some of the wires into less looming. In the future I would like to add a blue sea fuse box next to the factory PDC, and mount all of my relays nicely in front of that. I would also like to add an interior fuse box somewhere as well to make adding interior accessories easy and clean. Or if Alex starts making some good money maybe I’ll pony up for a switch pro.
The other reason I cleaned the engine bay is I’ve got some motor oil leaking and I wanted to be able to better see where it’s coming from. My gut tells me RMS though.
Some life updates:
My wife Alex grew to hate her sales job. She’s been doing it for the last year and it was making great money but she hated every second of it. It got to a point where I told her she should just quit and start pursuing her passion. She’s an artist at heart and a great leader and is now working towards starting her own interior design business. The moral of the story is we have to cut all unnecessary spending while she gets the business up and going, which means no Jeep parts for a while
My shitty wiring has been bothering me lately. Most of it was done in layers and quickly with whatever I had on hand. I really would love to just redo it all from scratch with either a switch pro or auxilliary fuse boxes both inside the cab and under the hood. But that will have to wait since because money is tight and I told Alex we can’t spend on unnecessaries and I don’t want to be a hypocrite, even if it’s just $100 on wiring stuff. So I’m going to direct my energy towards mostly free projects for now. Today I washed my engine bay and also was able to clean up some of the wiring that was really bothering me.
Before
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After:
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I eliminated my CB radio that is not getting used anymore and routed some of the wires differently so that they all approach the battery from the front. I also consolidated some of the wires into less looming. In the future I would like to add a blue sea fuse box next to the factory PDC, and mount all of my relays nicely in front of that. I would also like to add an interior fuse box somewhere as well to make adding interior accessories easy and clean. Or if Alex starts making some good money maybe I’ll pony up for a switch pro.
The other reason I cleaned the engine bay is I’ve got some motor oil leaking and I wanted to be able to better see where it’s coming from. My gut tells me RMS though.
I hope my leather glove finger is still in there.