oh where oh where has vinnie been?
PoweredByDodge
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well my piece of **** computer took a dump on me.
it actually shot a spark out of the com port and then fizzled up a little stream of smoke, then it shut off.
long story -- laplink with a bad laptop computer.... yada yada... and so it fried one of the ram sticks, the EIDE primary controller and the hard drive.
a new hard drive later, an Ultra ATA PC card, and whatever and it'll run basic ****.... so its in my room as "backup"... however i had to build myself a new computer to replace its dead self.
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton @ 1.83 GHz, 333mhz FSB, 512k Cache.
1 GB Crucial PC3200 DDR400 ram (two 512 sticks).
Western Digital Raptor 37.6 GB Seriel ATA 10,000 rpm hard drive
Teac DVD+/-R writer and Pioneer DVD drives
**** with the old hard drive till i got it going... i use it as "storeage" -- i fear too much to boot from it.
NVidia Gefore 4 64 mb graphics card
Soundblaster Live audio
Asus TV/FM tuner card
500 w P4/AMD approved power supply and 3 case fans (one in, two out)
Soyo Dragon 6000KT motherboard -- two onboard SATA controllers, 2 IDE controllers, support for the AMD processors up to 400 mhz FSB, three ram slots, 4 onboard USB, 4 front USB, onboard ethernet and Firewire. I dig it. for 47 bucks i really dig it.
it's ok for now... i suppose.
anyway the other toy i got was a 1988 dodge ram w100 power wagon.
leaf springs in front to boot! -- 4x4. its jacked up 10 inches with 38" swamper tires. its a **** and a half.
but its in great shape - 60k miles - not a spot of rust on it --- only one baseball sized dent, but the dent isn't rusty -- and hte body is the same color as my old truck... its a clone, only beefier as hell. so i'm gonna drop her down to a 3" lift and put NORMAL tires on it... and spend a few years making it "just right" - have a phat premium paint job slapped on it and terrorize the town.
it actually shot a spark out of the com port and then fizzled up a little stream of smoke, then it shut off.
long story -- laplink with a bad laptop computer.... yada yada... and so it fried one of the ram sticks, the EIDE primary controller and the hard drive.
a new hard drive later, an Ultra ATA PC card, and whatever and it'll run basic ****.... so its in my room as "backup"... however i had to build myself a new computer to replace its dead self.
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton @ 1.83 GHz, 333mhz FSB, 512k Cache.
1 GB Crucial PC3200 DDR400 ram (two 512 sticks).
Western Digital Raptor 37.6 GB Seriel ATA 10,000 rpm hard drive
Teac DVD+/-R writer and Pioneer DVD drives
**** with the old hard drive till i got it going... i use it as "storeage" -- i fear too much to boot from it.
NVidia Gefore 4 64 mb graphics card
Soundblaster Live audio
Asus TV/FM tuner card
500 w P4/AMD approved power supply and 3 case fans (one in, two out)
Soyo Dragon 6000KT motherboard -- two onboard SATA controllers, 2 IDE controllers, support for the AMD processors up to 400 mhz FSB, three ram slots, 4 onboard USB, 4 front USB, onboard ethernet and Firewire. I dig it. for 47 bucks i really dig it.
it's ok for now... i suppose.
anyway the other toy i got was a 1988 dodge ram w100 power wagon.
leaf springs in front to boot! -- 4x4. its jacked up 10 inches with 38" swamper tires. its a **** and a half.
but its in great shape - 60k miles - not a spot of rust on it --- only one baseball sized dent, but the dent isn't rusty -- and hte body is the same color as my old truck... its a clone, only beefier as hell. so i'm gonna drop her down to a 3" lift and put NORMAL tires on it... and spend a few years making it "just right" - have a phat premium paint job slapped on it and terrorize the town.
The Artist formerly known as PoweredByDodge
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u need 35s
and
umm...
lockers
thatll do you good
only thing bad about that is...if you get stuck with 35s and lockers...nothing short of a nice big 4x4 tractor is going to get you out...
-Cody -
it has locking hubs
) if that's what 'lockers' are.
what i NEED is to DROP it to NORMAL height... lol.The Artist formerly known as PoweredByDodge -
to tell you the truth, im not sure if the locking hubs is TRULY 4wheel drive
i know what youre talking about though
lockers lock the gears
thus if one wheel is moving, the other wheel is moving
no matter what
im not sure if locking hubs do quite the same thing
ill have to ask
positract is where if one wheel slips one it stops turning and the other wheel turns instead
lockers make both wheels turn
pros:
all wheels turn all the time
cons:
**** with your ability to steer
think about it
when you turn, no matter what, the wheel furthest from the corner is going to turn more than the wheel closest to the corner
and it can actually be worse for traction on wet roads
cuz if you peel out, with positract the wheel peeling out slows down, so you dont peel out as long
with lockers, you peel out until both wheels grab or let off the gas
you can get air lockers, which can be turned on and off, which ill be getting when i get my new truck...but you guessed it..theyre more expensive
a way to test if you have full time lockers:
peel out in mud...have someone watch
if all wheels are moving at the same speed then you have lockers
the more that i think about it, you probably do have lockers in the front...but not in back
-Cody -
i had 3 lockers in highschool - then football season ended and i only had 2, then i stopped lifting and only had 1, then i graduated and had none... i made a rhyme.The Artist formerly known as PoweredByDodge
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I never really went to my locker in high school,except for the first and last day...to load all my books up in it and then the last day to return them all...only carried one notebook my whole senior year...lol
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heh -- that's what i do now -- i ahve a pile of yellow half ripped sheets of paper everywhere -- that's my notebook... sorta.The Artist formerly known as PoweredByDodge
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Hey, as long as you know were everything is...
