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Project Polar Bear: '89 V2500 Suburban

:D:D Ok more specific. We are used to being more self sufficient on the trail. no amenities and the less the people the better. I have read your reports you have been further away from asphalt then us. Berry M Goldwater range was fun and no where for two days. no signal, no rescue and possibility of being bombed!:waytogo: only thing that worked was SPOT. Since we have rebuilt the new site we are still uploading the adventures. We did a lot prior to getting into the Suburban.
 
82355 said:
I really don't understand this.

Martin
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Yeah, you would if you ever went into the Maze District of Canyonlands. It’s no big deal to pack your waste out. That’s what Trasheroos are for….. The Maze District of Canyonlands is pristine with almost untraceable evidence of human touch outside of the trail itself. You see no trash, and no fire rings (I forgot to mention no open fires are allowed either) and best of all no evidence of motorcycles, ATVs, rock crawlers, etc. that have torn the place up as they are not allowed in. All vehicles must be licensed.

The idea is to leave the place as natural as possible and to not disturb the ecosystem of any plants and animals. It would really spoil the natural feeling of it to see a piece of moon floss poking out of chit hole someone dug and poorly covered up like you see everywhere else in the Colorado mountains and deserts of California. Plus the fact there would be no place to bury your turds doesn’t help. It is practically all rock where the dirt itself is only an inch or so deep in the deepest of spots. It would be difficult to even dig a hole.

Ah, so quiet you could hear a lizard fart. Can't wait to go back!
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Trasharoo! It's basically a trashpack for your spare tire to haul your trash off the trail. A must have :waytogo:
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That looks like a place we have to get to. Definitely support pack it in pack more out practice.

We have two Trasharoos and love 'em
 
I see what you're saying but I just don't know what the difference between human waste and the waste the animals leave behind is. Especially if there really isn't that much traffic through there.

Martin
 
Came out the other day and one of the bald Kumho all terrains on the black wheels was very low which was all the excuse I needed to toss the steelies and Swampers on it for a while. Hope to do a snow run in a few weeks anyway. I like the look of stock wheels and caps :waytogo:

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Very nice Burb, Larry!

What is it with tire shop techs?

The balance weights go ON THE INSIDE OF THE RIM!!!

(sorry, pet peve of mine)....:thinking:
 
sickser66 said:
Very nice Burb, Larry!

What is it with tire shop techs?

The balance weights go ON THE INSIDE OF THE RIM!!!

(sorry, pet peve of mine)....:thinking:
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I always make sure to ask the tire shop guys to put the weights on the backside only, because a silver weight on a black wheel looks terrible.

Larry the wheel/tire combo on your burb looks great, me likey.
 
How are you suppose to balance a tire if you don't put weights on the outside if that is where they are needed????

Martin
 
I feel like there are two schools of thought on wheel weights. One says, the tires itself is out of balance. So as long as you put the weights on where the tire is out of balance, your good to go. The other says that the tire can be asymmetrically out of balance. Where the inside of the tire is more out of balance than the outside. In that case you would need to place the weights on either the inside, outside, or both.
 
y5mgisi said:
I feel like there are two schools of thought on wheel weights. One says, the tires itself is out of balance. So as long as you put the weights on where the tire is out of balance, your good to go. The other says that the tire can be asymmetrically out of balance. Where the inside of the tire is more out of balance than the outside. In that case you would need to place the weights on either the inside, outside, or both.
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The machine tells you which side of the wheel to put the weights on......

Martin
 
I know. I changed tires for a living at one point in time. Some people just think that it doesn't matter. They think that because the tire is out of balance, as long as you put weight where it's out of balance, it doesn't matter which side it goes on. I don't know which way I believe, but I bet you could come awfully close doing it the "wrong way".
 
Larry said:
Hehe, the type of job where you get your ass handed to you all day because of product, parts and service issues? Nobody ever calls me to say, “Hey, we love your stuff!” :haha:

I haven’t always been fortunate enough to work from home though. After graduating college in 1997 I spent 5 years in biggest armpit of the Northern Hemisphere……Detroit, MI when I worked at Chevrolet Motor Division. GM offices are much like the movie "Office Space" :haha:. The last year I was in Detroit I worked right smack dab downtown at the Renaissance Center. That was an ugly commute every day through an even uglier city.

I moved to a spun of division of GM as it was being spun off back in 1999 (Workhorse) in order to be able to move back West. The move back to CO didn't happen for me though until 2 years after moving to Workhorse. In 2005 Workhorse was purchased by Navistar and I now support the largest package delivery company in the US with service support on over 30,000 Internationals with diesel engines and 17,000 Workhorses with GM Vortec engines. Their trucks are brown in color. This is my busy time of year where I get 50-70 calls a day and over a hundred of emails each day as my customer is gearing up for their Christmas rush season. They need their trucks on the road to deliver everybody's Christmas presents. At least I don't have to be in an office anymore! :waytogo:
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I know this post is over a year old but I must weigh in on this...(I'm doing a lot of catch-up reading since I am a newbie to this forum):

I appreciate your take on Detroit. I too have served time on the corporate road through Detroit. I will say that in all my travels (as a US contractor for the Department of Defense) all over the world, I have not seen a place that has suffered the level of Urban Decay that has become the inextricable cancer that has fully involved Detroit; I do not think anywhere in the world has witnessed the level of a change from good to bad, due to similar socio-economic causes, that Detroit has seen over the last 50 years. Many places in the world, experience war, calamity, or natural disasters that transform a city immediately (Sarajevo, Chernobyl, Bagdad, Juarez), but Detroit was totally destroyed by altogether different forces; the end-state reality is not much different.

Detroit USED to be a glorious shining city on a hill. My father told me stories of the glory days of Detroit from when he was a kid and went there frequently back in the 1940s and 50s.

Oh, how far down has the once mighty giant fallen. Detroit is a shameful national disgrace.
 
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