4x4 IFS Swap in Heavy truck

[javajoe79]

Did you ever consider that people like you are why LEOs are so jaded?

What have I done to cause a LEO to be jaded? Aside from speeding, I'm not a law breaker and I am courteous when I encounter an officer. I continue to be so unless the officer in question isn't. If MTVR is at all like he acts on here when dealing with the public, he is unprofessional at best. Maybe I am wrong. Perhaps he uses this place as an outlet to spew his garbage and he is otherwise a shining example of professionalism in the workplace, I don't know. All I am doing is making an observation based on a pattern of offhanded comments that I have observed.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

What have I done to cause a LEO to be jaded? Aside from speeding, I'm not a law breaker and I am courteous when I encounter an officer. I continue to be so unless the officer in question isn't. If MTVR is at all like he acts on here when dealing with the public, he is unprofessional at best. Maybe I am wrong. Perhaps he uses this place as an outlet to spew his garbage and he is otherwise a shining example of professionalism in the workplace, I don't know. All I am doing is making an observation based on a pattern of offhanded comments that I have observed.

In the previous two post you have passed judgement on a complete stranger based on nothing more than his career (even though he's retired). I can tell you, based on years of first hand experience, that LEOs are 100% sick of people like you passing judgement on them over trivial crap.

Did he ever pull you over?
Did he ever respond to something happening at your house?
Did you ever cross paths with him at the mall?
Have you ever seen him in uniform?


If the answer is no to any of the above questions...then you have zero clue how he acts at work.

 

[MTVR]

Kahlo didn't kill herself.

From Wikipedia:

Her continuously fragile health had increasingly declined since her divorce and was exacerbated by her heavy consumption of alcohol.[226]

She became severely depressed and anxious, and her dependency on painkillers escalated.[80] When Rivera began yet another affair, she attempted suicide by overdose.[80] She wrote in her diary in February 1954, "I keep on wanting to kill myself."

She seemed to anticipate her death, as she spoke about it to visitors and drew skeletons and angels in her diary.[244] The last drawing was a black angel, which biographer Hayden Herrera interprets as the Angel of Death.[244] It was accompanied by the last words she wrote, "I joyfully await the exit – and I hope never to return – Frida" ("Espero Alegre la Salida – y Espero no Volver jamás").[244]

At approximately 6 a.m. on 13 July 1954, her nurse found her dead in her bed.[245] Kahlo was 47 years old. The official cause of death was pulmonary embolism, although no autopsy was performed.[244] Herrera has argued that Kahlo, in fact, committed suicide.[84][244] The nurse, who counted Kahlo's painkillers to monitor her drug use, stated that Kahlo had taken an overdose the night she died. She had been prescribed a maximum dose of seven pills but had taken eleven.[246] She had also given Rivera a wedding anniversary present that evening, over a month in advance.[246]

 

[javajoe79]

In the previous two post you have passed judgement on a complete stranger based on nothing more than his career (even though he's retired). I can tell you, based on years of first hand experience, that LEOs are 100% sick of people like you passing judgement on them over trivial crap.

Did he ever pull you over?
Did he ever respond to something happening at your house?
Did you ever cross paths with him at the mall?
Have you ever seen him in uniform?


If the answer is no to any of the above questions...then you have zero clue how he acts at work.

Incorrect. It's based entirely on the words he has chosen to type here, not his career. I would give him the same criticism if he was a janitor and was on here running his mouth about random people. I'm just calling him out on his bs and it's certainly not trivial. I don't need to have firsthand experience with him, he describes his own actions all the time.

Maybe if he provided anything worth reading rather than ******** talking people he deals with or interjecting irrelevant points about his truck, I wouldn't bother but that's personally about all I have seen him post.

So I'll ask you again... What have I done to cause any cop to be jaded? If you're jaded over being called out for being a ********, that's your own problem.

 

[javajoe79]

From Wikipedia:

Cool.. wiki. Conjecture from 65 years ago. Even if she did kill herself, it seems like she dealt with some horrible pain and discomfort for a long damn time. I would hardly blame her or call her a junkie. Again, your lack of empathy shows strong.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

So I'll ask you again... What have I done to cause any cop to be jaded? If you're jaded over being called out for being a ********, that's your own problem.

I already explained it to you. If you want to keep arguing, that's your problem, not mine. I have zero tollerance for rudeness or hyprocacy...welcome to the ignore list.

 

[broncobowsher]

Just get a HMMWV chassis and adapt the body to it.

 

[quickfarms]

Just get a HMMWV chassis and adapt the body to it.

That chassis has a GVW of about 8,500 lbs

An F250 has a GVW of about 10,000 lbs

It is simply to light duty

The Bud cab on the C700 is not a light weight

 

[quickfarms]

Our truck has the TAK-4 front and rear, and it works great. It would be kind of overkill for a medium duty truck with a 26,000 pound GVWR- our truck weighs about 30,000 pounds empty, with a GVWR of 62,200 pounds, and has a payload capacity of 30,000 pounds...

You can’t legally get 62,200 lbs on a three axle highway truck, without permits

The bridge law limits a single axle to 20,000 lbs, tandems to 34,000 lbs and the steering axle to 12,000 (corrected to 12,000)

The front suspension of the MTVR is only rated for 16,000 lbs, nothing really special

A standard class 8 truck has a 12,000 lb front axle

The front axle on my Ford FT900 is rated at 17,000 lbs

Most dump trucks have a 16,000 lb front axle

A heavy haul front axle is typically 20,000 lbs

The military use of the TAK-4 suspension would be considered very low mileage. Most military trucks are driven less than 1,000 miles per year and rebuilt periodically.

If you want to get a real world account of the reliability of the TAK-4 you should look into the fire departments. There accounts about reliability vary. The first complaint is that the trucks wander a lot more than the solid axle trucks. The second issue is parts availability, often trucks will be in the shop for months waiting for parts. This is part of the reason for a local policy of keeping a spare engine at the fire station.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

That chassis has a GVW of about 8,500 lbs

An F250 has a GVW of about 10,000 lbs

It is simply to light duty

The Bud cab on the C700 is not a light weight

The uparmored variant is rated for more.

 

[javajoe79]

You can’t legally get 62,200 lbs on a three axle highway truck, without permits

The bridge law limits a single axle to 20,000 lbs, tandems to 34,000 lbs and the steering axle to 12,500

The front suspension of the MTVR is only rated for 16,000 lbs, nothing really special

A standard class 8 truck has a 12,000 lb front axle

The front axle on my Ford FT900 is rated at 17,000 lbs

Most dump trucks have a 16,000 lb front axle

A heavy haul front axle is typically 20,000 lbs

The military use of the TAK-4 suspension would be considered very low mileage. Most military trucks are driven less than 1,000 miles per year and rebuilt periodically.

If you want to get a real world account of the reliability of the TAK-4 you should look into the fire departments. There accounts about reliability vary. The first complaint is that the trucks wander a lot more than the solid axle trucks. The second issue is parts availability, often trucks will be in the shop for months waiting for parts. This is part of the reason for a local policy of keeping a spare engine at the fire station.

Good info. Great point about the military use. Most units see little to no action much like the above mentioned MTVR.

 

[quickfarms]

The uparmored variant is rated for more.

You are correct

11,500 lbs for the M1165

Still to light duty for this application

 

[MTVR]

You can’t legally get 62,200 lbs on a three axle highway truck, without permits

The bridge law limits a single axle to 20,000 lbs, tandems to 34,000 lbs and the steering axle to 12,500

Please cite the laws you are referring to.

There are a few hundred of these vehicles in private hands, and many of them are registered for road use.

 

[MTVR]

I already explained it to you. If you want to keep arguing, that's your problem, not mine. I have zero tolerance for rudeness or hypocrisy...welcome to the ignore list.

No worries- I've been called far worse, by far better people than him. We don't do this for the "atta-boys"- it is a calling.

His estrogen-fueled cop hate temper-tantrum, is probably from him getting caught parking in a disabled spot, or getting arrested for weed, or has authority issues with his cop step-father, or from him posting videos on YouTube of the noisy modified exhaust of his decrepit Toyota MR2.

I am thankful to have been able to pay off my custom-ordered Porsche convertible, purchase a ranch in Texas, and retire with a good pension and free medical for life, at age 55.

All I had to do, was to write a blank check every single night, for thousands of nights, for an amount up to and including my life. Sometimes 7 days a week, regularly 17 hours a day, sometimes 20 or more hours a day.

I over-simplify it by explaining to lay people that I run towards gunfire for a living.

I have been shot, stabbed, attacked by pitbulls, and was retired by an injury in the line of duty, chasing a violent felon who had savagely attacked a 9-month pregnant woman, her three small daughters, and her elderly father.

As far as my "empathy" goes, he probably doesn't know anything about the blue-colored infants that I've had to do CPR on, the people who have died in my arms, or the countless family members that I have hugged long and hard and cried with afterwards.

He probably knows nothing about me serving as the CEO of a non-profit corporation providing youth services to disadvantaged minorities. Or the volunteer work that I have done in the public schools...or the Christmas toy programs that I have volunteered with...or the children that I fed every Wednesday morning at our church...or my wife and I serving as the youth leaders at our church...or us feeding the youths every Thursday night...or us running a program to help the kids with their homework after school four days a week...or the skateboard functions that I volunteered at.

He probably knows nothing about my wife and I spending a fair chunk of change to purchase, wrap, and deliver packages labeled "from Daddy" to the children of a drug dealer doing time during Christmas for drug charges that I had arrested him for. He probably knows nothing of my wife and I donating a bed, purchasing bedding, and taking it over to said drug dealer's Section-8 rental house to set it up for his children, who had been sleeping on broken-down cardboard boxes up to that point.

In short, he probably knows nothing...

 

[Deleted member 9101]

There are shades of "jaded". Having an all-meat pizza delivered to the scene of a suicide involving a drug dealer fugitive who used a 12-gauge to embed his teeth in the ceiling, may or may not constitute "jaded", depending on your perspective.

Sounds like an economical dinner to me.