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Mercedesrover said:
I think I just saw pigs fly! Jim, did you actually call a coil sprung Landy what I think you did????:elkgrin:
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I think I just saw pigs fly! Jim, did you actually call a coil sprung Landy what I think you did????:elkgrin:
AlexJet
Explorer
Yes, I think it was me. He used to have yellow YJ. TJ was just finished on Friday night at Rock Spider and he didn't even had time to paint the roll cage.
I'd love to get somewhere out. Me and my friend on yellow FJ are more to adventure style off-roading then to spend full day on 2km rocky course. We like to explore things and have nice trail runs.
Where do you live? I'm in Vaughan (Dufferin and Hwy 407)
Mercedesrover
Explorer
If they're to have half a chance at all you can't submerge them up to the shift lever. No, they may not be my favorite vehicle but jeeze, give 'em a chance.
R_Lefebvre
Expedition Leader
I know it's not overlanding. That is "wheeling". I do it occasionally for the fun of it, and to gain practice and learn what the truck is capable of. You're right, I wouldn't do that if I was far from home and/or alone. But, 2 hours from home with 10 other guys...
As for the technical aspects. Did you read about what happened, and how it was dealt with? Yes, a computer got wet, and guess what, it actually wasn't a big deal. Why? Because I know how to deal with that, instead of just being afraid of computers and throwing up my hands in despair. I'll be potting my computers this winter to make sure I have no trouble in the future.
Lastly, as I've said several times before, you pretty much can't go anywhere around here without getting wet. Just a fact of life of up here in the Canadian Shield country. You have to deal with it.
Now this guy... this was kinda ridiculous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d7wTgtz2p0
Mercedesrover
Explorer
That guy should get locked up. You wonder why the sport of "wheeling" gets a bad wrap. Messing around in a wetland like that? Unbelievable.
dont kid yourself...you look just as ridiculous as that guy.
You got lucky so far but in the end that little water crossing will come back and haunt your 04 Disco.
Roverhound
Adventurer
He can deal with the electronics but he can't rebuild a driveshaft?
You're pretty funny Rob.
R_Lefebvre
Expedition Leader
That guy should get locked up. You wonder why the sport of "wheeling" gets a bad wrap. Messing around in a wetland like that? Unbelievable.
Actually, that is the actual road. That is the official hydro access corridor for a major line. I've never seen it actually dry... but the water level was particularly high at that time.
Same spot:
More of the same:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdRuYkM3zyI
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R_Lefebvre
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Have you ever learned anything in your life? Or you just came out of the womb omniscient? No need to answer, it's a rhetorical question.
So, other than rebuilding driveshafts... what have you ever done?
Design and build a suspension system?
Ever weld up an all-aluminum Water-to-Air intercooler system, including a swirl pot?
How about a turbo exhaust manifold, from scratch?
Ever install a stand alone engine management system, and tune a 130hp economy car engine to make 240hp, reliably on track, without touching the internals?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ0R1JgGKyA
Yeah, I'm new to trucks. But I bring knowlege from other experiences. So I've never rebuilt a driveshaft before, bit ************* deal. I learn fast once I set about to do something. All of these things were my first attempt, and very successful.
What have you ever done, other than wag your barbed tongue?
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R_Lefebvre
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This is from 18 months ago:
So when can I expect the ghosts of Christmas past to come knocking?
As I've said Thom. Countless.
michaels
Explorer
stop being a bunch of crybaby ninnies and just get outside. who cares if you wheel through 10 feet deep water, or drive down a dirt road. it's all just semantics. do what makes you feel good at the end of the day, and get over the rest. sheesh.
sounds to me like musky and rob have a little crush on eachother. it's cute, really.
sounds to me like musky and rob have a little crush on eachother. it's cute, really.
Roverhound
Adventurer
You see Rob, you say all this stuff but I simply don't believe you. No need to respond, this is a rhetorical answer.
R_Lefebvre
Expedition Leader
Oh, you don't believe me. I just fabricated the whole thing. Your position is easy to state, not so easy to hold. I challenge you then, because I want to prove to anyone who might have any doubts about your character.
What documentary evidence do you want to prove my assertions? Put up, or shut up. Come up with something reasonable that can be proven, or you will demonstrate your character flaw.
Would taking a picture of the engine bay with a placard stating "Walter Dent is narcisistic" suffice? How much on-track video evidence do you want? I have lots more, of what is clearly a Focus, hustling around a track.
What documentary evidence do you want to prove my assertions? Put up, or shut up. Come up with something reasonable that can be proven, or you will demonstrate your character flaw.
Would taking a picture of the engine bay with a placard stating "Walter Dent is narcisistic" suffice? How much on-track video evidence do you want? I have lots more, of what is clearly a Focus, hustling around a track.
Rob
See the problem is all the stuff you say and claim dont really add up.
You have posted about all the different companies you have worked for as a engineer yet there have been so many that it seems like you would have to have been with each a very short time. Then you claim huge amounts of developement and deep involvment with very different forms of complex engineering fields.
Then you take your personal stuff and you display your works yet ask questions that make it sounds like you cant figure simple things out by just looking at them. Even if you have never done something like a u-joint with all your other claimed experience Iwould think you could sort it out in short order.
This is why Walter is calling you out I think, you have to be able to see this in some way I would guess?
This is in no way a personal attack, just a observation from reading your posts the last few years here and on Dweb.
Thom
See the problem is all the stuff you say and claim dont really add up.
You have posted about all the different companies you have worked for as a engineer yet there have been so many that it seems like you would have to have been with each a very short time. Then you claim huge amounts of developement and deep involvment with very different forms of complex engineering fields.
Then you take your personal stuff and you display your works yet ask questions that make it sounds like you cant figure simple things out by just looking at them. Even if you have never done something like a u-joint with all your other claimed experience Iwould think you could sort it out in short order.
This is why Walter is calling you out I think, you have to be able to see this in some way I would guess?
This is in no way a personal attack, just a observation from reading your posts the last few years here and on Dweb.
Thom