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And why the date matters. I want to say that IWOYTD has been successful going on 11 years. Something that is just fun, but really does have a positive effect to give motivation. It motivated me to get my wife caravan off the jack stands and put it in it's parking spot. She asked why? It Is IWOYTD this Saturday, I need to get ready ... she gave me the ? & walked away. ? More important, I have lately been visiting Allpar forum because of the wife caravan, is a good place to learn about the newer mopar vehicles. And I thought, I wonder if it would be cool for the P15-D24 forum & Allpar forum to have a IWOYTD together? Just imagine all the Dodge Trucks getting work done on the same day .... All the other non mopar trucks will be jealous. ? Lets be honest, I got several likes but nobody jumping in to contribute ... May go nowhere. May take some contribution the first year then grow the 2nd. Whats the official date? I advertised it as the first Saturday of May, then today am told it is the 2nd Saturday?

KK as usual am a bit confused here. I never really knew what day it was or how we knew when it was coming. I just kinda relied on forum threads to bring it up. So yesterday I looked back a few years to see if I could find what the official day for IWOYTD, Year 5 I found this So I have to ask, is it the first Saturday of May or the 2nd? A post from @Brent B3B hope it is OK, I would like to remind everyone (on behalf of our IWOYTD host (48dodger)) this coming Saturday .....MAY 7TH 2016 - IWOYTD #5 !!!!!!!!!!! to quote the past "rules" The official day is the first Saturday of May. "Its a day like no other day....a day in which pro-crash-tin-nation has decided to stay home!" Get your wrenches out ....the good weather is coming.....time to make it roll without the neighbors pushin it! Power to the toolbox! Its a day we all make all stand together as one, and show everyone, that: "We love our old Trucks!!" The 5 rules: 1. Work on your truck....looking at it counts, writing "wash me' on it counts, washing, dusting it, kicking the rubber ALL counts! 2. Report what you did....and be honest, cuz its all good. 3. Post a picture of what you did....again, fresh finger prints count. 4. Explain what inspires you the most about your truck, how you got it....it was your dad's, it was your uncle's, brother's, you found it...... 5. Try to share your days experience as soon as you can.....!!! Have a great week leading up to May 7th!!!! and if you can, do something for Mom involving the truck!

Well it is a good thing tomorrow is IWOYTD, @Terrence has a opportunity to correct this right away ???

I think what you are looking for in this photo Really is as simple as a horse shoe shaped piece of metal that bolts to the floor. I know my little doodle sucks. I have the part packed away at the moment cant take a photo of it. It seriously is just a square piece of metal with a U-shaped cut-out & bolted to the toe boards. Since I can not find mine to give you a photo, maybe others will give you a actual photo of the item. ... Mine was sitting under the seat & had no idea what it was for.

Really sorry for yours & our loss. I wonder if it would be fitting for a mod to move this and create it's own thread, I think it may be more appropriate and get the respect it deserves?

Windshield wiper parts .... GET YOU SOME OF THAT! It sucks but yea something we / me am looking at on my truck, I removed all for paint but re-installation will require some new or modified parts. If you have them it may make your life easier ... though lying on your back in a wreck that has no floor .... not ideal.

While I am a grumpy old man & totally against EV .... I can see something like this in our future. https://www.businessinsider.com/public-road-detroit-to-charge-electric-cars-as-they-drive-2022-2

I dunno, maybe I made a mistake advertising our clean air. Somehow I feel responsible & now I wish I never mentioned it.

Seriously this is all I have to drive right now, while replacing the rod bearings on my wife caravan. I do drive it daily for the past year. I did take a photo 1 hour ago with the drop light behind it and looked at it ... Does not show up well on a photo.

I just edited the last post, not realized the photo did not show .... so a edit. Lets be honest, A 5 year old air filter should not look this clean. You can see the dust around & on the air cleaner ... but a light behind it shows it as being perfect ... Is it just the Texas sand blows right through it?

Come on @sniper who are you kidding? ??? My wix filter on my DD, is 5 years old and looks brand new. Just good ol Texas clean air.

@Eneto-55 I'm thinking you may be missing the point. Last winter I did a motor swap on the wife car .... Sorry Honey, we going to need a few tools like a engine crane, engine stand ... etc. This year her engine will need a new crank & bearings .... Not a problem Baby I got this! I will need a new torque wrench, I need some micrometers to measure .... OH look Honey, we have a lot of money invested in tools, I simply do not have enough storage to protect them .... going to need a new tool box. Just depends on how you look on life, is this a real show stopper issue? Or is it a opportunity to buy new tools .... Trust me my wife does not complain when I am buying tools to fix her car

That might have been Joe. At that time we were using what we called "Hot Caps" Was a large machine where it was fed with raw rubber off of a large reel. Depending on the tire & if it was going to be a snow tire or a car tire, how much raw rubber was applied to the tire. The machine operator really needed to pay attention here. This was in the 1980's .... not really computer controlled, more manual interaction and punch cards. They could produce a tire cheaply that would get 15k miles on them and add walnut shells to make more attractive snow tires. At this era, I just never met a "Hot Capper" that was never drunk on the Job. Ol Joe was a Teamster union member for over 30 years. He took care of the Hot cap side and I swear he was Drunk every day for the 5 years I worked there. I also worked at other shops, exact same thing ... Just a real suck arse job and needed a drunk to take it on.

That is 100% correct. I remember a customer ran Michelin LP 24.5 tires on all their trucks/trailers. Great tire, run the virgin tire & then 2 retreads. We would see them come back for a 3rd retread ... We put them straight into the junk pile. We know the casing already has close to 1/2 a million miles on them. They will fail from fatigue before they run out a 3rd retread. Then everybody is pissed off. The driver is broke down on the side of the road and worried about his schedule. When the tire blew, wiped out the trailer fender or tail lights, cost the company money to replace them. The retread shop looks bad because they are the ones that ......Just bad business all the way around. A passenger tire is basically the same thing. Yes we did have the ability & equipment to retread a car tire .... But they already have ran out their usefulness, We were not going to put our reputation on them to last. Would be minimal if any savings in cost for us to retread them or just buy new tires.

I think Tony did a fair job explaining it here. I think it is pretty accurate and explains what & why we do what we do. Just explaining why we are trying to get the perfect burn on the plugs. Seriously, if just going out for Hot dogs. coffee, Ice cream .... Nobody cares how clean your plugs are running. @Bryan This older video gives a pretty good explanation about it ... He later in 2022 did a video specifically on this engine & why he was changing what he did. You can find it if interested. @48 New Yorkeryou are not asking something foreign, kinda a thing all car guys go through and deal with different options.

Oh boy, here I go spouting Uncle Tony again ??? He was explaining how he was tuning his slant 6 race engine he was building. By reading the spark plugs. As others have said above previously, because of the length of the intake runners to reach the furthest cylinders, he was changing the heat range on those spark plugs. How he tested them was at the track. He would install a brand new set of plugs in the pits, send it down the 1/4 mile track wide open. Then back in the pits and pull the plugs to read them. ..... First thing he found was he needed to change the jets in the carb. Take it home make adjustments then next race day when the 4 middle plugs were reading correct. He then started to adjust the heat range on the further plugs to get them to burn correctly ... each time he used fresh new plugs for the 1/4 mile test to get a proper reading. Hard to imagine how many passes he made and how many new plugs he used .... He has plenty of future spares Just saying to adjust your procedure as needed. I personally would just clean mine & re-use them for the next test. I think it depends on the individual and how involved you want to get.

Too bad about your trees, the shade is nice and also a huge savings on your AC every year. When the wife & I were searching for a home to buy using the internet, we saw several in East TX that we liked. Knowing it was on the edge of "Tornado alley" & it seemed almost every home had some sort of tornado shelter installed .... We steered clear & settled for West Texas. Weather is a trade off. East TX has some beautiful country, trees & grass, wild vegetation .... West TX, if I lived any further West I feel I would be in the desert, I have crab grass and some trees, sage brush etc ... we have wind & heat but no Tornadoes.

While I think some up and down play is acceptable, side play will affect the points gap, dwell etc while driving. Causing drive-ability issues. I feel bad about the upcoming date for you car club ... getting close and maybe just leave things alone til after the show? I would probably find a used distributor, maybe off of ebay or some other source, then rebuild it. Then maybe do the same with the distributor you are currently using, keep it as a spare in the trunk if it is ever needed. Just probably not enough time before the show to get it done. I personally will probably go with the slant 6 conversion in the future. I have had really bad experiences with Chinese made points & condensers. That does not include everyone, just talking for myself. I have found a replacement for the condensers, is a brass unit and mounts outside the distributor ... not stock, but American made by a guy in his garage and well built. The points are pretty much impossible for our old mopars. The cheap Chinese garbage, the nylon rubbing block is poor quality. We always need to grease them when installing. The lower quality that is available, the nylon wears away and closes the point gap with every mile you drive. Would really suck if you drive the car often and once a month needed to set the points and grease the rubbing block. Or pull over on the side of the road and replace the points .... At that point be nice to have a spare distributor in the trunk, pull the old one & drop a new one ready to go in it's place ... time it by ear to get you home. If we had quality parts available, we would not have to think like this. Besides that reason alone, I need to replace all 10 wires in my trucks wiring harness, the existing generator has a narrow pulley not the wide pulley it should have, I want a CB radio & some other modern additions .... That's my decision to go 12 volt ... you need to make your own decision.

I will toss in my 2 cents. Life really is shorter then we think it is, & every year it passes, gets shorter. ..... Seems the older we get the faster the years past? Health is a big issue. While working. If you are getting a lot of stress from work, this will effect your life span. Is it really worth a few years on your life? You do not say what your job is. Does not matter, what does matter is are you happy? I personally love to work. I quit school when I was 15 years old and went to work as a plumbers helper. When I was 16 & legal to work I got into the tire business. By the time I was 25 years old I was a manager of a Bandag truck tire retread shop.By the time I was 30 I wanted out because of several reasons & stress coming from all directions. The company sold out, my #1 employee was after my position ... later ended up in jail for his actions. The previous owners who built the company sold out and made a fortune. I quit a $50k per year job. I decided I would want to go into construction at this time. I started out as a laborer digging trenches. Very poor money, about 6 months later a finish carpenter took me under his wing. I worked for him for several years and made decent money. .... Boy he use to get pissed at me. Took him 35 years to learn the trade and I was picking his brain and learning it in 5 years. .... Grinding in cats ass'es on curved maple handrails .... building custom stairs is not something a 2 year apprentice does. Even that I got tired of. For some reason I preferred doing old remodels. I just love being a detective and figuring out issues on old houses. I could always make a living. I loved my work. I worked my way up to owning my own home, was a piece of crap and needed remodeled, my wife accepted this. Cobbler kids never has shoes. I'm only saying with my experience, jobs & money come & go. My wife & I are both in this 2nd grade photo. We are both 60 years old today ... we have known each other all our life. Married 38 years. This time my wife & I have been through a tough ride because I am not the smartest light bulb in the bunch. My wife will stand behind me as I will stand behind her. Money & jobs come & go ...

Today it does not matter what it looks like, as long as it identifies as a trophy ?

I seem to be posting UTG videos a lot lately. I say do your own research, do not believe everything you hear on the internet. I also never cared about deck height of pistons. I felt this was a honest explanation of why someone would care. Probably some good tips here.

Hard to pass that up ... I paid too much for mine, just could not leave it sitting though. Too be fair I believe the tailgate will sell for more then I paid for it.

I bought my carb from rockauto a couple years ago ... thinking it was between $150-$200. o'reilly auto parts had pretty the same deal. It is a Autoline out of Winnipeg Canada. I think it is a rebuilt Carter. Could be a repop I am not sure either way. I am very happy with it. The price also included a core charge, $75-$100 I do not remember. Included in the $200 price above. So I could have got that money back by sending in my core . I kept my core and cleaned it up. Really was just dirty from sitting & had a sticky float, the accelerator pump was dry and needed oil. I soaked it in Berrymans carb cleaner for a couple days, cleaned all the passages. I had a new carb rebuild kit, think I used 1 gasket from it. Then I soaked everything in PBlaster oil, put it back in the same packaging from Autoline and put it on the shelf for future use, along with the rebuild kit. I looked awhile back and saw rockauto was out of that particular carb & no date on when they may get more. People like me not sending the cores back in.

I got this! .... Was watching Halfass custom video the other day. He was installing the mirrors on his 1937 Ford truck he is building. He actually had the original mirror stands that attach to the door hinges, but no mirror head to attach to the stands. He ordered from Amazon some motorcycle mirrors for $2 apiece, cut them down and welded them to the OEM stands. I am only suggesting to possibly use a high quality mirror, maybe oem Harley Davidson replacement mirror, then figure out how to attach them to the swan neck? I know you are a very creative person I only have 1 swan style mirror in my treasure chest ... no idea what it came off of, you would need to be creative to attach a new head to it.

I also hope your timing plug is not blocked by carbon. Mine was ... I used a nail and gave it a tap and cleared the carbon plug right out of the hole. When the engine started you could hear the little carbon plug bouncing around on top of the piston, then it got sucked into a exhaust valve and prevented the valve from closing for about 30 seconds, then it was sucked out and the engine ran smooth after that. Just saying, if the timing hole is plugged with carbon ... pushing it through may not be the best choice. While I feel I got lucky, I wonder if using a drill bit to break it up and drill through it may have been a better choice. While I pulled a truck out of a field that had been sitting for 20 years ... I was not thinking about a small piece of carbon .... since my wife was standing there and listening to the carbon dance going through the valve ... she did wrinkle up her nose.