Brotherly Love...
Well, it seems that most people here are willing to help somebody else out with a question or tech issue they have. I remember when Steve first started this, hell, I remember when OR.C & Offroadlist.com were the only places to get information. I learned more off Offroadlist.com then any where you can imagine. There are people there that have mixtures of everything on their vehicle. Seems that most of the people that post on there are engineers and tech individuals. When I first got into fourwheeling, I was a wee tot. My mom's X had a K5 Blazer, my brother and I pretended it was a tank. We would fold the seat up in the back, and use the lever to blow up cars in front of us. Then seeing him take it out "fourwheeling" as he called it. That was nothing more then an excuse to put it in 4x4. Getting older, my mom bought a 86 Chevy S-10 Blazer. I LOVED that truck. It was the first 4x4 I was ever able to drive. If my mom knew what I had did with that truck, I'm sure she would beat my hinie. You sole K5 & Full size junkies would be amazed at what a s-10 w/ 2.8 5sp manual can do! Granted, I'm amazed that I didn't blow a half shaft, rear drive shaft or some other drive train part still to this day. My first 4x4 was a 84 Chevy extended cab S-10. 2.8 & 4sp. I always felt that the truck would could do better, but I never dared to try. I knew enough about fourwheeling to know that I didn't have the money to get the truck fixed, and I needed a winch. .......
Um, what the heck am I ranting about ... Some things I can point out, and I know they have been pointed out before, do a search. You should be searching before you are posting a question. This forum has been around for quite some time. It may help if we (as posters) would put a good subject line in. A lot of times there may be a listing as "These are big and round" when a better line may be 35" tires, or 35" Boggers on my 4" lifted truck. That would work better as far as the search goes. All too often, I know the information is here, but the subject line was soo screwed up that the information wouldn't come up.
Also, as far as the Terms, I had a whole thing on my site, but I may have deleted it. It wasn't a commonly visited portion of the site.
One thing steve has to put up with is all the questions. I've gotten to the point that I no longer reply to stupid posts. If somebody has a valid question, or concern, I'll put what informationI have, location of the information, and or my opnion. When people ask 5 million times if 35" will fit under a 4" lift, they are getting stupid. Thats a search item. By the way, my answer is still NO, they won't fit. but thats my opnion. My 33's hit on 4" lift.
I've seen where people are helping others out by telling them to visit somebody elses site. It always makes me feel good to see somebody reference my site. I made a huge effort when Steve and I started our sites. This is steves baby. I'm not into computers like most other people are. I do and have done all my HTML the good old fashion way. I script it. I hate HTML editors. Seems that things don't turn out the way they want it. The down fall to that is it takes me 1 day to do what steve and others can do in 1 hr. With that in mind, I dropped it. Steve has a great thing going here. There are so many things that work here, and every body is a great family. Well now that Buttman is gone
. you older guys will love that one. As far as tech articles. i'm bad for that. I used to write for O-R.C. Due to a falling out on my Winch issue in which a sponsor didn't like the fact that a hydraulic winch is nowhere near as good as a electric winch and I took the time to describe why and examples they woudn't post what the truth was. I had to completely redo my review. Thats BS! If a person has an opnion and facts to back it up so be it. If it makes an item designed to do the same thing, but does it better, people should know about it! (DOWN WITH MILE MARKER!) Also, I have a lot of information that I just haven't taken the time to offer. Wny haven't I? I guess I'm just too lazy. As a matter of fact, I posted information aobut my disc swap and rear axle install. There is a lot of information about the S/F 14 that woudl be great for any site. I just never took the time to OFFER it. Does that make me a bad person? Does it make Steve or Shawn a bad person for not asking if they can have it? NO, NO & NO. Its just politics. One of the best things about having your own site is you can post waht you want. You won't have the president of Mile Marker getting pissed at you because warns HS95i will pull the S#IT out of thier P.O.S! You don't have to worry about some body coming by and saying that they don't like the way you have something written and you have to redo it to continue to keep it on their site. You are your own man. The down fall to being your own man is man hours. The time it takes to keep the site up and maintained is huge. I dropped my sites daily maint. in favor of riding motorcycles & playing at the beach. Gratned its about time to start applying my self back to my truck, and the fact that I just sunk over $500 in back logged routine maint. and still quite a few things to go shows that. The internet/autos are like most things in life, if you don't use it and maintain it, it will fall apart on its own. I'm about to make a valid attempt to redo my site. There is more information in my computer and documented lying aroundthe house then I can use. I may as well let others use it also. I'm also sure that I offerd long ago to others that they can use information off my site, just put a link or my e-mail address at the bottom for those that further questions. Like most of you, I started small. I have learned 99.7% of what I know by doing hands on. A lot of the other time, I've asked a few questions and it gave me the knowledge to do it on my own. I usually just ask what problems they had, and any spcial tools. Its hard to get more parts when your truck is above you in pieces. Another thing I would suggest is keep a camera with you. When you start doing some work on your truck, snap a pic. take something else off, snap, next snap, snap, snap, snap. Before you know it, you have a full blown article. It doesn't have to be a $700 Cannon like mine, it can even be a disposable 35mm. Hell, thats probably better. You can take your own pic's. I usually have to wash my hands, or have a friend there to take the pic's. Either way, all you do is document the tool sizes, problems and what you are doing. Before you know it things get done, and everybody loves you for it!.
Well, you guys are paying me rigtht now. I guess I better get back to work. Sorta...
Corey
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