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  1. DaveB

    HP D44 Caster/camber angle questions

    I found that the following things helped make better angle measurements: clean off the rust and any imperfections from the surfaces and make sure the digital angle finder is not at a compound angle. I did end up getting the rod through the knuckles to match the lower flat measurement and set the...
  2. DaveB

    HP D44 Caster/camber angle questions

    My son and I are getting ready to weld on the inner C's on his narrowed HP D44 front axle and have some alignment angle questions. I have the Cs set up now with the stock 7-8 degrees of caster but after doing a bunch of searching I have found that some suggest 5-6 degrees for bigger tires. My...
  3. DaveB

    Artichokes rock

    I grew them in my garden for years until the plants died this year. Fresh from the garden and done right they are quite good in my opinion.
  4. DaveB

    I'm getting tired of working on cars...

    I have three jeeps, a chevy truck, and a toyota. My extended family has 13 Jeeps among them and my garage is the favorite place to hang out for fixes and upgrades so I know how busy it can be keeping up with all the repairs. Add to those fixes the boat, mowers, motorcycle, tillers, snowblowers...
  5. DaveB

    Wagoneer front axle width?

    I measured it this morning and came up with the following measurements on my narrowed axle. I only had time to take off one wheel so I might be off a bit: between the upper balljoints 44" (should be about 47.5 on one that wasn't shortened) upper ball joint to WMS 6 5/8" So the total should be...
  6. DaveB

    Wagoneer front axle width?

    My 78 narrow track waggy front dana 44 was narrowed by 3.5" and is now right around 56-56.5 inches wide which would put the stock width at 59.5-60" I could go home and measure it for sure if you want.
  7. DaveB

    Hope everyone is voting today

    First in line this morning.
  8. DaveB

    Divorcing a dana 300

    I had a friend who did it for an s10 that he converted from 2 wd. I can try to find his contact info but I haven't seen him for quite a while.
  9. DaveB

    Odd Fuel starvation problem

    My son's 87 MJ had this same problem unfortunately after fixing the in tank hose the "rot virus" moved up the fuel lines and took out the hose by the manifold. I fixed that hose and replaced the bad fuel filter and it ran fine for a while. Then a month later I started to smell fuel again and...
  10. DaveB

    A newbie from Belgium

    Welkom, Jij moeten naar Moab komen !
  11. DaveB

    Sept '08; The Kokopelli Trail- Rabbit Valley to Rose Garden Hill

    We did the Rose Garden Hill, Koko, and Top of the world in August but in the opposite direction. We have almost the same set of pictures with my jeep going the other direction. Fun area and after the rain storms Rose Garden is quite rocky. I left some BFG AT chuncks on Rose Garden but luckily I...
  12. DaveB

    Here's one for you HEEP guys

    Just think if we did that to our rigs we could be our own spotters. I wouldn't mind being able to tip my jeep to compensate for steep sidehills and such.
  13. DaveB

    Pulling doubles good or bad?.

    One of the most expensive wrecks I have seen was a guy in Parleys Canyon pulling a double rig. He had a nice new Dodge Ram pulling a new fifth wheel with a medium sized boat on the back of the fifth wheel. He came off the back side of Parleys and the whole rig got going too fast. When he tried...
  14. DaveB

    Name that location!

    I did Rose garden in August but didn't notice the big rock at the top, I was too busy watching the rocks on the trail.
  15. DaveB

    5 Mile NPLD

    The pictures that show the efforts of others to roll the Jeep back over make me look like a government worker.... sitting there watching others do the work.
  16. DaveB

    5 Mile NPLD

    We got the trailer that we found in the dumpster but we will have to get the one you found on another trip. We only got the one we found in the dumpster because we put it in before anything else was in the dumpster. By the time my son and I had to head back for his work the dumpster was above...
  17. DaveB

    Dads New Ride

    A few years back we stopped at the gas station in Wanship and there was a Cobra gassing up there. It was a gorgeous 427 Cobra and the owner was very proud of it. I asked if it was one of the replicas and he made sure to tell me it was a restored original. I asked him if it was hard to control...
  18. DaveB

    NPLD 2008! Saturday, Sept 27th

    I was thinking of bringing my Bantam 3C jeep trailer to haul stuff. Last year we used my son's comanche and filled it three times. If you go out into the sagebrush west of the main area there are lots of spots where people have dumped stuff.
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