Legalalien

My current job situation does not allow me much time to come see what is going on at the forums , so, can you please send another email out to let us all know how to send the money in?

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Bienvenido my hermano! Yo soy de Arecibo I have been away from the forum for a while due to work and family issues and it is a very pleasant surprise to finally come back and find another boricua here. I also left mi islita to join the Army but stayed in the US when I got out (tu sabes lo difisil que es conseguir un buen trabajo en Puerto Rico). I haven't been to PR for a while but my mom and sisters still live there.

Hi guys, Last sunday on the way to church I stopped at a red light and when I went to take off I heard a thump and the tranny went into neutral and hasn't worked since. the shifter still moves and I can feel it clicking into every gear but nothing happens it will also lock in park. I set the transfer case in 4H and rotated the rear drive shaft and the front one rotated so I don't think its the TC. Has anybody have this happen before? Am I looking an having to get a tranny or is this a simple fix? Could it be the torque converter gone bad? any help will be greatly apresiated.

Is this the nissan PN or is this an aftermarket number?

It looks like the previous owner drove the truck with the e brake on because the shoes are almost to the metal. Im sure that if I adjust them they will work but I dont whant to take the chance of messing up the rotors.

Thanks for the advice, I realy wish it was that simple and apologise if I didn't explain myself well enough; see my 91 came with disk brakes in the back from the factory,and some mechanical genius at Nissan desided that the brake and E-brake systems should be separate, so the rear rotors have two functions, the ouside calipers and pads only work with the brakes and there is a small drum in the center area of the rotor that looks like a 7 or 8 inch drum with small shoes wish only work with the E brake. those little shoes are the ones I was refering to. The local auto pts tell me they are a "dealer only" item hense the dealers $160.00+ tag (just for the shoes) and there is the reason Im looking for a cheaper alternative.

Hey everybody, Has anybody fownd a cheaper alternative to replace them little E-brake shoes on the rear disk brakes? None of the local AP stores have them and the dealer whants $167.50+tax for the set. I ask because the shoes look allot like trailer brake shoes and I'm hoping that somebody else has done this before and can save me allot of reasearch time

Hey guys, I found this variation; i think that it would work beter for our application. http://www.tsmmfg.com/Watts_Linkage.htm

Iiiiintresting, very very iiiiintresting; I think I'll keep an eye on this one.

This is one of my favorite quotes, I think it applyes to the current direction of this thread . Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. (Buddha)

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I say thanks two ways, thanks to those fellow soldiers that serve their country, past, present, and future; and thaks to you all that remenber to say thanks. Blessed be!

I didn't sayd I dont like buiness owners, I have a few friends who are buisness owners and most of them are strugling to keep their small buisness afloat. it is practicaly imposible to compete with the big bisness and those are the ones that I refer to as the uber rich hwo have multy millions but still choke the life out of the small buisness taking the money out of the home town and puting it in the pockets of a selected few. IE my home town main street used to be a great place to hag out, it was lined with a good varaety of small mom$pops shops and it was full of life untill the Wallmart supersenter moved in. Mom$pops could not compete with the prices and today main street is dead and what is realy sad is that those shop owners ended up working at wallmart because they don't have any other choise; wish brings me to the coment about not buying thyr crap, when they are the only plase left to buy crap you have vary little choise.

I had to think about this for a second, and I agree, but I think it would be easier for thoes of us in the middle if the rich SOB got out of the way after making less say 5 mil and let the rest of us have a chance at making our 5 mil. I don't think that anybody should get something for nothing but when most of the wealth is inside a few peoples pockets there is less for you and me not to mention to pay the salaries of those police officers that arest that guy for slapping his biches. last but not least, I agree that the the tax rate should be flat, that way the more you make the more you have to pay.(Wait a minute..... doesnt that sounds similar to Obama's tax proposal? :-)

I've been tring to put into words all the feelings this thread has stired in me but I can't type and my lunch hour is coming to a end I think it is great that a bunch of people can talk about such volatile subjecs and not loose the cool. I believe that if our nation is gonna change for the beter we need to be able to talk about this things without ending up on a fight. I personaly think This mess wer'e in is all about the money; those that have allot of it whating more, and not caring who they F__k over to get it.

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So, If I understand you corectly, A spring that has the coils wound close together will be softer than a spring with the coils spread further apart so long as the two spring are the same leinght and have the same wire diameter?

Duuuuude way cool! Thanks for the explanation, but I'm gonna need a little more explaning on the wire leinght afecting the spring rate. I can see this hapening when the spring is manufactured (to make a spring the same leinght with a shorter wire the coils will have to be further apart wich gives the wire a steeper angle making the spring stiffer) but I'm not geting how cuting a spring without changing the wire angle or the distance betwen coils afects the rate. I guess Ineed to get myself back to school too. Anyways, there will be a perfect oportuniti for experimenting when I install this springs.

Double checked the measurments and the OD is 5 1/4" but the diameter is still 5/8" I put my weight (285lbs) down on one of them and it yielded more than I thought it would; could this be made of a softer materiel than the OEM ones? Does spring rate depends on diameter or on the metal aloys the pring is made of. I wish manufacturers would stamp technical info on this things or at least the brand name so I can reseach it.

I agree 100% not everybody is fit to be a parent and aparently this kid is one of the unlucky ones. I have met several people that have no buisness been parents.I have allways thought that people should have to get licenced to have kids. I mean we have to get a licence to get maried wish in most cases involve some kind of premarital counseling but can have a child at any time with no knowlege of how to take care of it. I think that is very unfair to the child. It is true that some people have a knack for it but there are others that can use all the help they can get. I hope my coments didn't ruffle too many feathers

Hi, I just came back from the junk yard and I got a set of springs from a 2000 cherokee sport. the measurements are 4in ID, 5 5/8in OD and 22in long, the diameter is about 5/8in and I counted 12 coils. Sinse these seem to be thicker and taller than anything I have seen in this thread Im asuming they are lift springs for the Cherokee. Has anybody used this type of springs before? My pathy is my only mode of transprtation so I cant aford to have to disasemble the rear end a bunch of times to re cut this springs. any sugestions will be apresiated.