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mr.mindless

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Re: Used Up
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2012, 11:31:13 AM »
tires hardly matter when they're not what's puttin the power to the ground.
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« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2012, 05:51:42 PM »
Craziest dudes there are the 2wd rear engine buggies. Went to the coal bucket and had a blast just spectating. You can  race in pretty much anything even dakotas.

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« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2012, 05:54:02 PM »
Stock dak would be better there than mine. Eagle probably would too.
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« Reply #18 on: August 20, 2012, 06:56:11 AM »
This pile trail ran like a boss Friday and Sunday. Only time I was denied was the black/red climb off O trail where Shane rolled and finished off the Jizz (his white s10/ blazer truggy). Couldn't find enough traction for the last truck length up and out, had to pull cable.

Frame is reportedly flexing like a mofo, no re-cracks I can see though.

Electrical weirdness. Wires look good but need to be checked. Reads 9-10v at the dash on initial key-on and cranks like it (clicks, then slow) before speeding up and starting. Idles like it has a dead battery. Couldn't jump the Ram off of it even after sitting for a while hooked up at 2100rpm. I bet winching at idle would kill the truck engine, it needed throttle.

Wondering if I have an invisible cabling issue, or if the battery has a dead cell.

Steering still leaks like a sieve. Hiems in front links are all loosey goosey. Ba rear shaft hasn't broken yet. Still need to adjust things in the rear end before I put in the new one so I don't over angle it and bend its cv pin too.
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Re: Re: Used Up
« Reply #19 on: August 21, 2012, 08:00:49 AM »
Eagle probably would too.

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« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2012, 07:48:07 PM »
Battery's got a dead cell. 10.5v 24 hours after trickle charging for 24 hours. I'm kind of amazed it starts.
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Re: Used Up
« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2012, 07:58:02 PM »
that was some loooooong cranks. i was waiting for it to give up.

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Re: Used Up
« Reply #22 on: August 22, 2012, 08:52:40 PM »
Stop dumping money in this thing.

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« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2012, 09:21:07 AM »
Yup, should let it sit and rot after a trouble free weekend bc of a bad battery. Good call :-/
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Re: Used Up
« Reply #24 on: August 23, 2012, 09:26:28 AM »
I say you put an inzo, seats, and hydro in this thing and continue to wheel the piss out of it!

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Re: Used Up
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2012, 09:39:57 AM »
I say you bring it to the scrap yard and scrap it!!!!!! They wont even need to crush it so I bet they will give you better $/lb

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Re: Used Up
« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2012, 09:41:15 AM »
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Thinking about Smike's/Pete's air shocks...

should get full hydro steering too.

if it sprouted some tube, lost the fenders & bed, grew a cage, got linked in the back, it might give me another few years of service.  It's been mine for 13 years now, wheeled for 10, and SAS for 8 next month.  Crazy.

tcase mounting needs attention too - there are cracks in the frame at the edges of where the mounts are welded.

Suddenly seeming like lots of work again  :?  Which is why it really hasn't been touched in 3 years.

Yup sounds just like replacing a battery to me.  :(

Sounds more like $2500-$3000 and a lot of time.


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Re: Used Up
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2012, 09:51:21 AM »
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if it sprouted some tube, lost the fenders & bed, grew a cage, got linked in the back

yeah this sentence is crazy talk! :P

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Re: Used Up
« Reply #28 on: August 23, 2012, 11:33:04 AM »
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Re: Used Up
« Reply #29 on: August 23, 2012, 11:41:52 AM »

Sounds more like $2500-$3000 and a lot of time.


sounds like what this last race cost me