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    Happy Birthday Tail_Gunner

    Thanks for the happy birthday wishes. I do look in on occasion to see what folks are up to. Mrs TG and my dad took me out to Red Lobster for a big lunch before I had to go to work. Once at work, I sure wanted to turn around and go home for a nap. It was rough the first couple of hours LOL.
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    Anything exciting going on?

    I gave away my baby girl about 2 weeks ago. (Sorry about the pic laying on its side. It happened during the file upload and I haven't yet figured out how to fix it.) And had a deer run in front of me the very next day.:rant Body shop bill was about $2000. p.s. and my new son-in-law...
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    Air force oops

    We landed a B-52 at Billings, Montana in 1990. My pilot's parents live in Laurel near Billings. So it was sort of a 'hometown lad does good' thing. Landing there was on purpose for an airshow they were having. It was a tight squeeze. We had to transfer fuel to get the tip gear wheels up off...
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    broken leaf springs

    The left rear spring leafs were breaking on my old 99 F-250. I towed a lot and had an exhaust brake. The riser blocks were the factory ones. I went to a local spring shop and they gave me the option of factory style IIRC 5 leaf springs or a heavier duty 7 leaf type. Since I towed about 80% of...
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    Tail_Gunner's howz it goin'.

    We're under a winter storm warning for the next 3 nights straight. They're saying maybe a foot of the real wet heavy stuff which I really hate. Did I mention that I think Al Gore is a moron?
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    Tail_Gunner's howz it goin'.

    Thanks everyone. There are more drawers obviously in the toolbox. But I didn't have pics of the others. I suppose I should get some if not for any other reason, the insurance company. I imagine at some time in the future, a certain young man is going to think I am the coolest grandpa on...
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    Tail_Gunner's howz it goin'.

    I don't post as much as I used to here, even though I still check in from time to time. Things have been going alright for me and Mrs TG lately. Job's going good, just got a raise on my 2nd anniversary. Last November, my dad's fiance passed. They were together for about 20 years. That let a...
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    Ball joint replacement question

    I'll start a TG update thread in the general stuff/lounge. Don't want to look like I'm hi-jacking the thread.
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    Ball joint replacement question

    Back when I had to replace the ball joints on my 99, I too got estimates from local shops. The labor was in the low to mid hundreds of $$$$ range. Labor alone was more than parts. After thinking about it, I said screw that and bought a simple 12 ton press from Harbor Freight and did the job...
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    Big Drop in Fuel Mileage

    Did you check your brake caliper slide pins? Back in the day when I still had my F-250, I had a dragging rear brake and pulled both the rear brakes off for inspection. It turned out that on the dragging brake, the slide pins on the calipers were seized. I tried to get them loose, but no luck...
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    Stancor GPR

    About 3 years ago when I still had my early 99, I replaced the failing OEM GPR with the Stancor relay. It made a HUGE difference in how well the truck started on a cold morning. I'm sure you'll be very glad you made that move too.
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    hey Tail_gunner

    After a little more looking, it resmbles a tail gun turret on the later production B-17's:
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    hey Tail_gunner

    I've seen that pic before, still haven't quite figured out what post WWII bomber had that tail gun turret that got photo-shopped to the beer truck. B-29 maybe??:dunno
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    We survived the end of the wrold

    By union contract at work, I'm still entitled to two more vacation days for the the year. I told the Mayans they couldn't end the world before I burned those last two vacation days. :) BTW: Merry Christmas everybody!!
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    Question 7.3 sounds like somebody hitting it with a hammer is this injector knock

    Hook a scanner or something capable of doing an injector contribution test. Run the test, it'll turn off each injector one at a time. If the noise goes away momentarily, you've confirmed a bad injector as well as which one it is.
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