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If gas prices stay way up I'll have to start thinking in terms of a Prius, insight or other hybrid again. After all, my 28 month old Tacoma is going to roll over 100,000 miles next week (it is at 99,500 today), so gas is a major part of my monthly budget!
Your point is well taken though.
Steve, Host
:-)
They were so slick and well tuned I skied to the quad lift, lost it, and kept right on going and had to get back in line to get back on the lift. But not until after another chair came along from the other direction and knocked me down <g>. Been safer to have Tom winch me up to the top.
Then an hour later I fell down while just standing around and broke a pole.
LOL, it was a great day on the mountain :-)
Oh yeah, had to buy gas coming home and it jumped up to $1.65 here for regular. Was $1.59 just last week.
Steve, Host
Soggy in Seattle,
Stephen
Wish you could send some our way, I have forgotten what a good snow looked like. A few years ago, 2-3 feet were common up here, but no loner.
By the way, a Wrangler will get stuck in snow around 30" - mine did 2 years ago when we had that much in one night. While I managed to get it out of the driveway, it got high centered in the street out in front of our house (build up of packed snow under the frame) and the front was trying to push through a snow bank almost to the top of the hood. We were finally able to get out that afternoon (which was fortunate - my other half had run out of cigarettes and was going slightly nuts). Remember, this snowfall was in SoCal!
Still a happy camper.
tidester, host
And that the ECLs will also cite record cold winters as proof of global warming?
I guess it's the junk science equivalent of "Heads I win, Tails you lose"...
Tom is having problems with his computer is unable to post messages. He wanted all of you to know.
We hope the problem gets resolved and hope to see him hear ASAP. He and Ross Allen say "Hi!"
tidester, host
Yes, I have noticed that! Funny how that works isn't it.
tidester, host
Jeep Buddies, the old Tomster has a puter problem at home, and I cannot log in to any web sites. I can read the posts here, and I do keep up with them, but I cannot post, since I cannot log in.
I get a message from the web sites that I visit and try to log into that my browser will not accept cookies, even though my security setting shows that I DO allow cookies.
I have tried a BUNCH of stuff to correct this problem, and I even stayed up late last night to download and install IE 6.0 (had 5.5). I thought this would surely be the end of my problems, but no luck. I STILL get those messages about my browser not accepting cookies.
I have some more reading to do in the Microsoft Help section. Maybe I can find out how to fix this.
Any ideas out there? I DON'T want to have to reload Windows! Oh, BTW, I have Windows 98 and, now, IE 6.0. I have AOL for my Internet Service Provider and use version 7.0.
Oh, it doesn't matter if I am in the AOL browser or in the IE browser... same results either way.
Thanks, Peeps.
Tom
Someone in Ask the Town Hall Hosts had a similar sounding problem so I'm cc'ing a copy of your message to our web guy.
Steve, Host
Maybe your web guy will be able to put me onto the solution to this. Thanks for passing it along to him!
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
Steve, Host
Come on, did you play in the snow???????? If so, how did the Wrangler do?
Still a happy camper
Tom, might it be time for a new computer? I hope you get it worked out soon.
It may be a sign to buy a new computer also.
Try downloading Netscape 7.1. It's a fast browser that has never crashed on me in the (Year?) that I have used it. Never had performance issues either. I love Netscape. It's about a 15MB file, and it goes pretty quick.
Have you downloaded anything? This could be a virus. Even if you didn't download anything, it could still be a virus. I remember I got attacked by one of IE's many security holes, and someone miraculousy transmitted a Trojan Horse virus, which slowly wiped my Hard Drive, and stole all of my passwords. Bummer, but I recovered from it.
This could be a number of things. Have you said anything NEGATIVE of Bill Gates? I think he uses the microphone to listen to your conversations, and transmits the data over the Internet to his personal supercomputer. HE may have sent the virus to STOP your web browsing as punishment.
Or, maybe your computer just doesn't like you anymore.
When I set it to the proper date and time, I tried logging in here again. Yep, I was able to log in! Yeeeeeehawwwww!!!!!
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
I suppose you were accepting the cookie but then instantly expiring it.
-j (TH Developer)
Welcome back, mayor!
Steve, Host
I know mine is... my computer thinks it's 9:25PM.
It crashed Friday night, and I could only come up in safe mode the first couple times after that.
At some point, it asked me to set the time and date. Well, old Dummy thought the two digits to the right of the month field were for the day of the month, but they were for the year.
So, my puter thought it was 2014, I guess, cause Friday was the 14th, and that's what I put in that field for the year the night it crashed.
Tom
Thanks to the others who contributed suggestions also.
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
thebigkahuna - I know all about digging out snow from below the frame. Our snow does that, though I think snow in our area is once again over with for the year. There is snow about a 1000 feet above us making some great scenery for my horseback riding. Because of the soggy stuff some of the easy roads are more interesting - the washouts provide some excitement.
To everyone else out there - I hope that everyone is safe and enjoying whatever 4x4 time they might be getting.
It swings out with the door instead of seperatly.
This car is eating all of my money! (better than spending it on my wife!) LOL
$100 deductible (less than they were going to charge for welding)!!
I guess if I keep having problems I will go with a header!
I really like it! Sounds great and I figured out I can replace the speaker easy enough if need be and I still have a useable locking trunk area.
Alan (eARS) and Larry (Larry18) are people who post here, or at least USED to post here. I am working on them to get them posting again!
Should be a blast this weekend. There's a place called Superlift ORV Park, and that's where we will wheel.
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
I have also heard that the computer chip in the Jeep is a hindrance to getting the most out of performance mods (I have a K&N FIPK and a Borla Cat Back).
Anybody have a performance chip in their 4.0?
Gary
If you ever sell your Jeep, that log book might be a good thing to show a prospective buyer. But, WHY would you ever sell your Jeep???
Good luck.
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
I drive my little S-10 pickup to work most of the time, and I know what you mean: I still find myself looking for Jeeps as I drive that truck.
It's hard to remember not to wave at Jeeps when I am in the truck.
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
There may be more commaraderie(sp) where Jeeps are more exclusive.
I have noticed that "older" drivers do seem to wave more often.
I went with 31 x 10.50 BFG All Terrains with no lift of any kind. I had the Canyon wheels at that time, and they have 5.5" backspacing. If you are not familiar with backspacing, it is the distance from the mounting surface of the wheel (back surface of center plate that has the holes for the lug studs to go through) to the edge of the rim on the inside of the wheel (where the inside tire bead is). The less the backspacing, the more the tires stick out and the more the backspacing, the less the tires stick out. More backspacing pulls the tires in closer to the frame and can mean that you will rub a wide tire on the spring perch or something.
Like I said, no problem on mine with the Canyons and the 5.5" backspacing.
You other worry would be rubbing the flares with the larger diameter tires. I did not have that problem either, but I did NOT disconnect my sway bar when wheelin' while I was in that configuration, so I don't know if it would have been a problem or not. All I can say is that it was NOT a problem with the sway bar connected.
With the 3.07 gears, you will notice some loss of acceleration and power. You might find yourself downshifting to fourth gear on long hills out on the highway ( I assume you have a five speed?).
Of course, you speedometer will be off by the same percentage that your tire diameter increased.
Hope this helps ya.
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?