The Ranch on the 25th
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MAX I need you to send that video to me please. daniel.altman@mnd-b.army.mil if you would sir.
Matt dont blow this one up!
Matt dont blow this one up!
Matt building the motor up before it goes in??
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So my parking brake light has been coming on lately even when the brake is off. Usually you can pull up on the pedal a bit and it would go out, but today it finally just wouldn't go off. So I got under there and pulled the switch out.
Here is what it looks like
The copper arm is cracked almost all the way across right at the 90* bend. Apparently, it's not strong enough to last through 200K miles of the brake arm slamming against it each time the brake is released.
Of course, no one stocks the part so I guess I'll be ordering.
At least it was simple, I was anticipating a chaffed wire somewhere that I was going to have to track down.
Here is what it looks like
The copper arm is cracked almost all the way across right at the 90* bend. Apparently, it's not strong enough to last through 200K miles of the brake arm slamming against it each time the brake is released.
Of course, no one stocks the part so I guess I'll be ordering.
At least it was simple, I was anticipating a chaffed wire somewhere that I was going to have to track down.
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A really bad design. After playing with it a little bit, I realized how much pressure it takes to push the arm back to open the switch. Combine that with the hard it it takes when the brake is released, that's just asking for something on that switch to break.
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Looks like this weekend is gonna be a total washout. 
We need the rain.....so im not complaining. Would have been nice to get some yard work done today...and watch it rain all evening. But I guess we have had around 1-1.5 inches here in McKinney so far today.
100 percent chance of heavy rain tonight too.
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We need the rain.....so im not complaining. Would have been nice to get some yard work done today...and watch it rain all evening. But I guess we have had around 1-1.5 inches here in McKinney so far today.
100 percent chance of heavy rain tonight too.
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I watch wind blow...
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rain, rain, come today. . .
Looks like this weekend is gonna be a total washout.
We need the rain.....so im not complaining. Would have been nice to get some yard work done today...and watch it rain all evening. But I guess we have had around 1-1.5 inches here in McKinney so far today.
100 percent chance of heavy rain tonight too.
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We need the rain.....so im not complaining. Would have been nice to get some yard work done today...and watch it rain all evening. But I guess we have had around 1-1.5 inches here in McKinney so far today.
100 percent chance of heavy rain tonight too.
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We just had a storm blow through for about 15 min, maybe caught 2/10 of an inch. . . BUTTTT it was beautiful, had not seen rain in a LONG time.
I watch wind blow...
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Ill ask you fellars this, I am looking for a 5/8 x 5/8 x 5/8 barb brass T , for my AC mod, bypassing the heater core.
but I can't even find it on the "webbernet
" I have been able to find plastic/ nylon T's will they hold up to the heat and pressure??
ps. The dyno event at bully dog last year was fun for the brief time I was there. Heck my backside even made a magazine.
but I can't even find it on the "webbernet
" I have been able to find plastic/ nylon T's will they hold up to the heat and pressure??ps. The dyno event at bully dog last year was fun for the brief time I was there. Heck my backside even made a magazine.
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Good luck with that...couldn't find any barb fittings, much less T's. I ended up using regular brass threaded valves and screwed the barb fittings into the ends. So the valves ended up much longer than I'd like.
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YIKES
, not the answer I was hoping for reality stinksthis is what I have so far, and the group of fittings on the bottom of the pic is what the piece should look like that i need. .
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Yeah I figured we would probably do something for that event as a GTG. I am going to try to plan my trip to Grand Canyon so it doesn't interfere.
Should be a really fun event! Last year was great.
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That event was awsome!! We all went to that and was a good turnout, so who all is goin to TS this weekend because Mike and I was going to see about getting ahold of a tranny jack and maybe a cherry picker for the swapping we will be doing on the truck
