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they work fine with the stock wheels on my 97...

ooops, sorry, my bad...

yup, rear ones are easy, i had to do one of mine a few months back. fronts, I don't know...

I don't understand. How could u put in spacers for a lift and still have stock ride height?

I like the idea of welding the rock washers, or welding a plate with a large hole (like MY1PATH said). That should work well. Maybe I'll do that next time I remove my skids. I also want to strengthen the mounting points for the front skid as the little M6 (or whatever) bolts that hold the front of the front skid get stipped out really easy. There are some other larger threaded holes in that area that could be used...

Oh, OK. Kinda hard to tell from the picture. So that's weird, Marcel has some special hook-up for these things??? They look like something you could just buy... PS. I've already lost one of mine on the trail...

Maybe he's talking about the skid plate that Dean has installed. I have the same one on mine. Not very strong but better than nothing, and it would be a good template to build a stronger one from. Pics are at http://www.xplorx4.com/

Good find GG. Those look right. "Cup Washers with Flange" under the Finishing washer category. I guess Pezzy was on the right track...

haha, that's pretty funny.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petrole...ent/import.html Have a look where your crude is coming from...

That's crazy!!!!!!! I've seen some pretty dirty apartments but nothing like that... That person obviously has some SERIOUS issues.

welcome. this forum is full of help!

At least you guys don't live over here in BC. It was up to $1.57 a couple days ago, it's at $1.47 right now! Basically the Americans are only paying $1/litre, it's not fair!

Good stuff!!! Glad to hear you got up there in one piece. That's a good time for your first attempt. Was it clear so you had a good view from the top? Let us know what else you did and how you liked it.

Instead of taking the gondola up/down Grouse moutain you should walk up the "grouse grind" trail and then take the gondola back down again. If you work up a bit of a sweat it should take you 1 hr to get up to the top. 1.5hrs if you don't sweat at all, and some people can do it in under 30min! The trail starts from the parking lot where you would otherwise get on the gondola. They have a grizzly exhibit up top of Grouse right now, my coworker just went last weekend. People like to go to Capilano suspension bridge & park too. It's on the way to grouse mountain on Capilano road. It's a bit touristy but nice, cost like $10. If you prefer less tourists and no $ then head over to Lynn Canyon park, there is a suspension bridge and many walking/hiking trails, it's nice. Walking around downtown, gastown and stanley park is nice. The aquarium is within stanley park. Have fun!

Good stuff. I'm glad to see it's out now. I was following this on bc4x4 but haven't read since friday. Why were you up there? To help the recovery or the maintenance run or just because?

I had 30"x9.5" MTR's on my last truck (Chevy S10 Blazer) and put them on my Pathfinder when I first got it. They are GREAT tires! The handle well on-road and are not TOO loud and are incredible off-road. I liked them better than my current Pro-comp muds.

I think all the front struts you find for our trucks will have the same travel so this will be a problem with any struts you get. For the OME rear springs they will give you about 1.5"-1.75" lift. I know they say they are 0.5" lift but it is actually more lift than that. I think they will work well with the front springs you have.

I added mine on top of the whole strut assembly, between the strut mount and the truck itself. This way it pushes down the whole assembly and does cause the strut to top out.

Sometimes it's easier to break things free by just using a large breaker bar, and possibly a pipe on the end to give you even more torque. I have had trouble removing things with big impact guns and then finally gotten them off with breaker bar... Oh, and like others said, don't forget to use PB Blaster or Liquid Wrench or whatever your favourite penetrating oil is.

looks like only 12 for me... pathy - 6 kawi KLR - 1 yamaha YZF - 4 chainsaw - 1

welcome to npora !!!

I've been out of school for just over 4 years, but I've only been at this job for just under 2 years. I'm really enjoying though and plan to stay for a while, great job, great pay/benifits, really interesting. Last job was in manufacturing, it was boring...

How is it surplus energy? The alternator might have "excess capacity" but it will be producing the energy that is needed based on the load. Any extra load being put on the alternator puts extra load on the engine and thus burns more fuel.

That was just out of previous knowledge. I pulled the energy density of fuel off the net somewhere, same with approximate efficiencies. B, thanks for that explanation, it makes sense. I have read that the addition of hydrogen will help the thermal efficiency, but I believe the amount you need to add in order to get results is pretty significant? I thought they were adding pressurized hydrogen and large amounts. well, by large I mean much more than you can produce with an on-board electrolysis running off the alternator... I wonder how much u need and if that will offset the energy needed to produce it in the first place... I agree that the amount of energy that TC is taking via the alternator is small so if it doesn't help it won't hurt that much. TC, sorry for the abrupt wording of some of my previous posts, I could of stated my opinions more politely. Good luck