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What did you do with your GMT400 today...or yesterday....

Took the 93 today and renewed the license plates. registered it as a classic truck! today was the first day Texas did away with safety inspections, didn't have to get an inspection! Just walk into the tax office with the renewal letter and insurance card and I was off to the races!
 
dbrannon79 said:
Took the 93 today and renewed the license plates. registered it as a classic truck! today was the first day Texas did away with safety inspections, didn't have to get an inspection! Just walk into the tax office with the renewal letter and insurance card and I was off to the races!
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Personal accountability rather than gubmint forced action? Careful now. That is a baby step closer to freedom
 
all the major areas will start requiring emission testing including Bexar county which is my county's neighbor! I don't know how strict that will be but I doubt ether one of my trucks would pass that!
 
jrsavoie said:
I might have to punch another hole in my belt too.

Other end.

Maybe the low potassium diet will help.
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Ok, I'll bite. I have tightened the belt from the third hole to the fifth hole. Lost 26 pounds since October 8th. Even drug out my 36 waist pants from storage. 38s are baggy, wife says it looked like a family moved out of the arse end of them.
 
BIGR said:
Ok, I'll bite. I have tightened the belt from the third hole to the fifth hole. Lost 26 pounds since October 8th. Even drug out my 36 waist pants from storage. 38s are baggy, wife says it looked like a family moved out of the arse end of them.
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My 38s are falling off. Now you have me thinking about trying the 36s.
 
Big T said:
My 38s are falling off. Now you have me thinking about trying the 36s.
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I was about in the 36s a couple months ago. They were a little snug. Now the 38s are getting too snsug for my liking. Might have to go pantsless. I'm too stubborn to buy more.

Potassium was high on this week's bloodwork. Between the low potassium and high. Cholesterol/ triglycerides diets, there's not much left on the diet plan.
 
jrsavoie said:
I was about in the 36s a couple months ago. They were a little snug. Now the 38s are getting too snsug for my liking. Might have to go pantsless. I'm too stubborn to buy more.

Potassium was high on this week's bloodwork. Between the low potassium and high. Cholesterol/ triglycerides diets, there's not much left on the diet plan.
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Go on a carnivore diet.
My numbers was all in pretty bad shape, not life threatening, just high enough that the doc mentioned meds for the cholesterol and triglycerides, I told Her, I’ll see You in six months.
My next doc appt, she was praising Me for how the critical numbers had dropped. She wanted to know, told Her a pretty strict carnivore diet.
I have not totally dropped breads and potatoes from the diet, I just dont eat so many as I used to, and, increased the protein intake.
To help replace some of the carbs, fat, yup, eating aminal fat.
Oh yeah too, I can now nicely fit into my waist size 34 Levi 501s once again
 
MrMarty51 said:
Go on a carnivore diet.
My numbers was all in pretty bad shape, not life threatening, just high enough that the doc mentioned meds for the cholesterol and triglycerides, I told Her, I’ll see You in six months.
My next doc appt, she was praising Me for how the critical numbers had dropped. She wanted to know, told Her a pretty strict carnivore diet.
I have not totally dropped breads and potatoes from the diet, I just dont eat so many as I used to, and, increased the protein intake.
To help replace some of the carbs, fat, yup, eating aminal fat.
Oh yeah too, I can now nicely fit into my waist size 34 Levi 501s once again
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34 waist is impressive
 
MrMarty51 said:
Go on a carnivore diet.
My numbers was all in pretty bad shape, not life threatening, just high enough that the doc mentioned meds for the cholesterol and triglycerides, I told Her, I’ll see You in six months.
My next doc appt, she was praising Me for how the critical numbers had dropped. She wanted to know, told Her a pretty strict carnivore diet.
I have not totally dropped breads and potatoes from the diet, I just dont eat so many as I used to, and, increased the protein intake.
To help replace some of the carbs, fat, yup, eating aminal fat.
Oh yeah too, I can now nicely fit into my waist size 34 Levi 501s once again
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I'm working on the carnivore diet.

There's not a lot left after I cut out everything for the other diets.

Lean meat doesn't bother me at all. Even fatty meat is OK by me.
 
Poor guy probably pumped that floor jack about 15 times after it reached it's fully extended before the first jack stand went under LOL

I think this is how we all get after having to pull something off and on several time before we finally get it right on our rigs HAHA.
 
Shined up the weeeelz for the K3500. Popped off all the weights before shining, then, My son not working took them out to Tire Rama and had them balanced.
Going to scrounge out a bubble balancer so I can do My own. I used to balance tires with one of those and, IIRC, never had a problem with a shaky tire.
Plan for today, replace that faulty right side brake flex hose, install the wheelz/tires then boot that beast out of the shed.
I tried knocking the LS inner tie rod end loose but could not get a good swing at the drag link to pop loose the tie rod.
Made an appt at the shop that will let me furnish my own parts and they will install them and then do an alignment.
I will be adamant about them to not mess with caster/camber. Toe in only.
With these too tall of tires on there, last alignment was told that it can be aligned so the tires wear off, or, it can pull slightly to the right. I chose slightly to the right pull.
If they mess with any adjustments other than toe in, it could throw off that setting and the tires start scuffing off.
I thought $360.00 a bit high but being I could not get them inners to pop loose and not enough room to get a puller onto them, i basically have no choice, other than torch the drag link until the TRE pops free. Too much grease involved there and dont want to chance a fire in that compartment with the new enjun. 🤷🫣😹1735996007447.png
 
IMG_2646.jpegIMG_2647.jpegYou might look into balancing beads.
You buy these little beads that go inside the tire. The centrifugal force keeps them on the outside of the tire like my fat belly in the tilt a whirl at the carnival. But the centripetal force once you get up to 25-30 mph and above will make the beads “puddle” into the lightweight area of the tire.

In the old days we used to put water inside the huge tires like 44” tires on 15” rims which were biased ply so them suckers really could shake your teeth loose. But a quart of water made them run nice & smooth. And as the tread wears down the tires normally would need rebalancing every 10,000 miles or so- but the water is obviously self fixing.
This trick created havoc when going into the mountains and dealing with freezing temperatures so it was only used places like here. The 3 or 4 days that would get cold enough to make internal ice cubes - that would shake your truck apart! Haha.
We tried a lot of things- copper BBs worked well but made a serious racket at every stop sign.

We tried antifreeze instead of water but turns out that when you do that you doom that tire to never accepting a patch or plug properly again.

There are devices called Centrimatic and Balance Master. This is a ring that goes on the wheel studs before sliding on a tire. Works on same principle. Steel shot or something similar is inside the metal tube. As the centripetal force increases the steel shot goes to the lighter area and balances the ride.

Hummer/hmmwv stock tires are 37x12.50x 16.5 or 17 depending on year. Semi common is to bump up to 40” x 13.5 or 14” wide. So tire balance becomes a significant impact.
My Hummer like many still use the bead lock & runflat device inside the tire. So my wheel & tire combo weight is 165 lbs per wheel.
660 lbs of spinny parts over 3’ in diameter can really create havoc.
So it doesn’t take long before everyone on the hummer forum is learning of the magical devices called centrimatic or balance masters.

the difference is amazing, and you are purposely not supposed to add the lead weight because as tired wears that lead weight could go from helping to hurting.

I have a cousin who built his own wheels for his Jeep. 20” rims for big tires but he learned of these things and took his to a different level. He welded a 1/2” diameter tube around the inside of the rims down below where the bead seats are and made them work as a bead lock backer plate so when he tightens the outside ring up it smashes the tire bead against the inner tubing. The tube on each side has the steel shot in it.
In testing it he actually wire tied on a 1.5 lbs weight to the rim and test drove at 65mph. Barely felt anything. He did it with a 1 lbs weight and it couldn’t be felt at all.

Here is a pic of mine for my hummer next to my 165 lbs “12 bolt” two piece wheel. The tires are serviced like a quad tire- unbolt rim and take tire out of the middle. It’s made of aluminum - I am guessing on steel shot inside- never seen one opened up- just feels like it- more like steel sand actually.
 
First up, oil change and lube drive shafts on the 2014 4Runner. Truck is just shy of 370K miles and runs great. 5K mile oil change on Valvoline Restore & Protect 0w20 synthetic.

Lots of hype on the internet over this oil, which is supposed to clean all deposits off the pistons and rings. So much hyped that guys are worrying about clogging their oil filters with the removed debris. Well either the hype is off, or our engine is minty clean. Oil was no darker than any other I’ve used and the filter clearly was not clogged. I put in more of the Restore & Protects as they say it takes sustained use.

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Cant get fluid through the hose to the right side brake caliper.
Tried pulling vacuum on the bleeder screw and could not get fluid through with that process.
Got the Autel Maxi AP200 fired up and took the ABS through the bleed process.
First it told Me there was a code. Said Right Side wheel speed sensor inoperative, or some such.
Brand new hubs so cleared the code, then it allowed Me to go through the ABS bleed procedure.
Have not yet pulled the hose to see if fluid will drip on through.
The son is coming over to push the pedal.
More to come inna while. 😹
 
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