General vehicle thread

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Originally Posted by ray1970

Nice. Good to see a woman that can handle a stick.

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My wife taught me to drive a stick. I'd had never to, but my car was totaled in a parking lot by a drunk driver and the only vehicle we had was her 95 Accord manual trans. Learned in about 20 minutes on country roads. I think having ridden motorcycles all my life helped with the concept.

When I was learning to drive my dad insisted that I learned on a stick shift. I guess he figured if I could drive a stick then an automatic should be pretty easy. I learned on a 1977 Datsun B210. I think five of my first seven vehicles were manual transmissions. I could easily and happily drive a stick shift every day but honestly I am glad automatics exist because I guess I?m just lazy that way.

I would gladly give up the automatic transmission in my company truck if they would get me power windows and door locks instead. Manual windows and locks are a pain in my butt but I could deal with shifting my own gears.

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Originally Posted by Erni

What happened with the alignment?

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I drove up to Longmont twice and both times they told me they couldn't do it, and kept pointing to more and more parts that could have been replaced. I replaced the wheel bearing, but they weren't tight enough the second time. I ended up buying a gland nut wrench with a 1/2" socket drive fitting, then borrowed a very expensive digital torque wrench to set everything up properly. I just took it to a place in Aurora (Stan's Alignment) and got the work done there.

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Originally Posted by Irving

The Trooper has more flex than the Amigo did without sway bars, which is just one of the few reasons I decided to switch to the Trooper.

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It'll tuck the 32's without rubbing, and I'm going to put 33's on. Plan is a 1" body lift (sitting in the garage in the box) that would fit 35's without cutting, but I'm not going to go that big with IFS and without upgrading axles all around (zero gear options currently).
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Things got western once the neighbor got involved.
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Finally got the alignment done. Only took me three tries. Pretty tired of taking the front end apart at this point. Next is body lift, which I'm considering cutting in half. I only want it to make room for the sliders so I don't have to cut the body seam. I won't complain about the extra room in the wheel wells though. Then clutch and low gears in the transfer case. All that stuff (including steel for sliders) is sitting in my garage just waiting. That's the immediate future anyway.

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My old Bronco II would flex like crazy. Too bad it smelled like fish on a warm Colorado summer day.

Took my drivers test with a stick.

Prefer not to drive them anymore due to bad knees.

(no on your knees jokes!)

That Bronco II was a solid axle front though, right? IFS can't really compete with that.

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Originally Posted by Irving

That Bronco II was a solid axle front though, right? IFS can't really compete with that.

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No, it had the Ford twin beam.

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Originally Posted by brutal

Too bad it smelled like fish on a warm Colorado summer day.

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That might be the weirdest thing I?ve heard someone say about a vehicle in a while.

Ahh yes, I was reading up on those the other day. Ford used that for a long time in a lot of different vehicles. Rangers and first gen Explorers as well. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they used that in the Cobra II's.