Mr. Pickles

Please post how it goes, I'm gonna try this too soon. :idea:

I had a really good time a while back visiting family in Longview, WA (just over the border from Oregon). A middle-aged woman was standing there all confused, and then asked if I could give her a hand. I asked what the problem was, and she said she didn't know what to do. She had never pumped gas... ever. She was from Oregon, and when she travelled, her husband always did it. It just struck me as funny, something so basic being so foreign.

Oregon is a joke with the whole deal about how you can't pump your own gas. They end up rolling the cost of wages for the pump jockey into the gas price. I was driving through last year, and waited for a several minutes for someone to pump. I finally just said screw it and did it myself, and was almost finished when someone showed up. The guy then proceeded to flip out at me. I gave him the $ and told him he should have got off his lazy a$$ and helped me. He was not amused.

I just put in Bosch Platinum 2 over the weekend, and I'm liking them too. They seems to help in response and power, but the old ones were pretty fried.

Yup, I was thinking of doing that with some nice wires rather than pay an arm and a leg for new stock ones.

I feel your pain. I changed plugs over the weekend, and the @#$*&!!! extension popped off, leaving the plug socket down there. Took like 15 min. with a long screwdriver and channel lock pliers to finally get the bastard out. Couldn't you just pull off the long plastic "boot" thing on the stock wires, then put it on your new ones. It just slides over your wire. This I know cause the wire slid down inside it as I pulled the plug. Thought I broke it, but I just slid it back in place and it works fine.

I try Costco & such, but usually I'm in no mood to deal with the Southcenter area traffic. And I only work about 2 miles away! The better half kept saying she wanted a Pathy to replace her Camry. Then she actually looked at the gas pump yesterday. Now she's changed her mind. She drives about 50-75 miles per day commuting and such. Her Camry actually gets pretty bad mileage, not much better than the Pathy, in the low-mid 20's. But its the psychological impact of only needing to fill her 14 gallon tank vs. mine.

The west coast is getting the shaft. I just paid $2.01 a gallon yesterday for cheap Citgo at 7-11 in Kent, WA. I was in LA a month or so ago, and it was like $2.15 for the cheap stuff.

I think that post applies only to the older pre-96 Pathy's.

:o Wow, 26%?! Did you get a kiss afterward?

Right on. I stopped into yet another local junkyard today. They gave me the same blank stare when I asked if they had any Pathy's (or Hardbody's). Something akin to if I asked them for a NASA rocket booster or something. Silly RedNecks.

My Pathy is pretty much worthless in the snow in 2wd, but that would be due to mudders and a lead foot. :X Practice, practice, practice. Its really just fine if you use common sense. Just about any car will get around in the snow, short of a Mustang.

Um, yeah. A power antenna would be the extra work, not a non-power one. A regular one only uses 1 wire, that's it. Basic install on the deck, 1 wire to the antenna, drink a beer. Nothing confusing or complicate about it, the stealer probably just wants to charge you $400gazillion dollars for it.

88, if you can get them local, cheap, I'm down. They want something close to $100 local at Shucks for them here. A freakin joke, but nobody seems to have Pahty's to pick from. Let me know!!!

That's what I figured, although not sure why one would rejoice over an entire houseing on ebay because of a blown bulb.

It sounds correct, I believe. Rheostat would be the term in residential electrical work, i.e. a dimmer switch for alight or a thermostat for your heater.

That's what I was thinking. Grandpa through it was great on his Dakota. Not I. That's what they made keys for. I'd prefer the approach of the Mercedes & Audi with laser cut keys that are hard as hell to duplicate. Why make things increasingly difficult when a simple solution is available?

Potentiometer? Similar concept as a rheostat? As in, variable switch.

"Removable kill-key"??? Is this something I'm missing on my 94, or something "red-neck" installed afterward? If its the later, can you simply *un-install* it?

Yup, $4200 would be a moderate steal of a price around here (Western WA) with 122K miles. I've seen the local lots want a LOT more than that. I paid $7500 for my 94 2 years ago at 101K miles, and the guy at the bank flipped. He said they would have expected closer to $10K (doubt it!). That's with wheels, tint, loaded, etc. Still, the reputation on our older Pathy's is getting around now that the domestics are dying and the 4Runners are a dime-a-dozen.

If any of you have driven an old skool Niss P/U, could you imagine driving it with another couple hundred pounds of body?! That would be about like driving it while pulling a 25' cabin cruiser... with a 454. And a full tank of gas. :oops: I loved my old truck to death, but she was a gutless wonder for sure. Would go anywhere you wanted her, just set an alarm clock and I'll meet you... later.

Yeah, rear "lift supports" for the rear hatch (not the small ones for the actual glass). You've opened a serious can here. In swoop the vultures.

Bummer! Maybe you can squeeze in some tweaked heads or something into this whole mess. That sucks.

Blew up enough to waste the entire casing of the headlight?! What were you doing?!

Then don't dunk them. After my fun in the avtar pic, I got to take apart the whole front end, headlights and all, to get out the mud and water.