Jump to content

Amc's The Walking Dead

Mckenzie

By Mckenzie
in The Off-Topic Bar

Recommended Posts

txab Senior Enthusiast

txab

Posted
Posted

I'm going to take a look at it. AMC has been producing some pretty good shows lately.

jro909 Senior Enthusiast

jro909

Posted
Posted

watched it, was it just me or did the main character seem like a complete retard? like for one, he wakes up in a hospital torn to hell, then into a military outpost, hello would you not think to maybe grab some shoes atleast? then instead of keeping a vehicle he takes a horse wtf, you can't seek shelter in a horse let alone zombies can't eat a car...then he tells the other guy to "conserve ammo" so he lets loose on the zombies wandering the streets, ok yeah i got it, he wanted to kill his wife ok but really you coulden't wait until she showed up again? overall i think its a good show so far, i haven't sat down to read the actual comics yet so i'm unsure of how accurate it is to the real story...also was anybody else hoping he would of started the abrhams and just drove the hell out of town?

badams30 Enthusiast

badams30

Posted
Posted
watched it, was it just me or did the main character seem like a complete retard? like for one, he wakes up in a hospital torn to hell, then into a military outpost, hello would you not think to maybe grab some shoes atleast? then instead of keeping a vehicle he takes a horse wtf, you can't seek shelter in a horse let alone zombies can't eat a car...then he tells the other guy to "conserve ammo" so he lets loose on the zombies wandering the streets, ok yeah i got it, he wanted to kill his wife ok but really you coulden't wait until she showed up again? overall i think its a good show so far, i haven't sat down to read the actual comics yet so i'm unsure of how accurate it is to the real story...also was anybody else hoping he would of started the abrhams and just drove the hell out of town?

 

I DVR'd it, curious to see how much it follows the comic. The comic is really graphic and pretty depressing (okay, I get it - in a world overrun with zombies, how happy can it be?) but some of the stuff that happens in the comic, don't know if they'd even put it on cable. At least in the comic, no character is sacred, body count grows quick...

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

Wingnut

Posted
Posted
watched it, was it just me or did the main character seem like a complete retard? like for one, he wakes up in a hospital torn to hell, then into a military outpost, hello would you not think to maybe grab some shoes atleast? then instead of keeping a vehicle he takes a horse wtf, you can't seek shelter in a horse let alone zombies can't eat a car...then he tells the other guy to "conserve ammo" so he lets loose on the zombies wandering the streets, ok yeah i got it, he wanted to kill his wife ok but really you coulden't wait until she showed up again? overall i think its a good show so far, i haven't sat down to read the actual comics yet so i'm unsure of how accurate it is to the real story...also was anybody else hoping he would of started the abrhams and just drove the hell out of town?

 

I don't look for realism in my zombie stuff...So I can give all that a pass.

 

/exits this thread before he sees spoilers 'cause he hasn't watched it yet

Mckenzie Senior Enthusiast

Mckenzie

Posted
  • Author
Posted
watched it, was it just me or did the main character seem like a complete retard? like for one, he wakes up in a hospital torn to hell, then into a military outpost, hello would you not think to maybe grab some shoes atleast? then instead of keeping a vehicle he takes a horse wtf, you can't seek shelter in a horse let alone zombies can't eat a car...then he tells the other guy to "conserve ammo" so he lets loose on the zombies wandering the streets, ok yeah i got it, he wanted to kill his wife ok but really you coulden't wait until she showed up again? overall i think its a good show so far, i haven't sat down to read the actual comics yet so i'm unsure of how accurate it is to the real story...also was anybody else hoping he would of started the abrhams and just drove the hell out of town?

he'll probably drive the Abraham's out in episode 2, im curious to know if the show isn't set in South Carolina?

 

The reason he took the horse is cuz there was no car around with gas and because a horse doesn't need gasoline

 

 

overall the show was pretty awesome!

badams30 Enthusiast

badams30

Posted
Posted
watched it, was it just me or did the main character seem like a complete retard? like for one, he wakes up in a hospital torn to hell, then into a military outpost, hello would you not think to maybe grab some shoes atleast? then instead of keeping a vehicle he takes a horse wtf, you can't seek shelter in a horse let alone zombies can't eat a car...then he tells the other guy to "conserve ammo" so he lets loose on the zombies wandering the streets, ok yeah i got it, he wanted to kill his wife ok but really you coulden't wait until she showed up again? overall i think its a good show so far, i haven't sat down to read the actual comics yet so i'm unsure of how accurate it is to the real story...also was anybody else hoping he would of started the abrhams and just drove the hell out of town?

he'll probably drive the Abraham's out in episode 2, im curious to know if the show isn't set in South Carolina?

 

The reason he took the horse is cuz there was no car around with gas and because a horse doesn't need gasoline

 

 

overall the show was pretty awesome!

 

 

Haven't watched it yet, but in the comic it's set near Atlanta.

truckofwinandawesome Senior Enthusiast

truckofwinandawesome

Posted
Posted
hah zombieland was pretty funny.. the GM sponsorship was cool... the escalade, hummer, denali...

 

if you notice in Zombieland, the Escalade and Hummer are GMT-800, and the YD is GMT-900!

Zed-Seventy-One Enthusiast

Zed-Seventy-One

Posted
Posted
watched it, was it just me or did the main character seem like a complete retard? like for one, he wakes up in a hospital torn to hell, then into a military outpost, hello would you not think to maybe grab some shoes atleast? then instead of keeping a vehicle he takes a horse wtf, you can't seek shelter in a horse let alone zombies can't eat a car...then he tells the other guy to "conserve ammo" so he lets loose on the zombies wandering the streets, ok yeah i got it, he wanted to kill his wife ok but really you coulden't wait until she showed up again? overall i think its a good show so far, i haven't sat down to read the actual comics yet so i'm unsure of how accurate it is to the real story...also was anybody else hoping he would of started the abrhams and just drove the hell out of town?

 

1. He was in shock

 

2. No vehicle, no keys, nothing wrong with a horse, feed it,water it, wont run out of gas. Not very good in a city as we have seen.

 

3. Conserve ammo....you are forgetting the human element in this, just because he says one thing, doesn't mean the guy will do it.

Mckenzie Senior Enthusiast

Mckenzie

Posted
  • Author
Posted

what was the significance of the zombie crawling on the ground that he went back to kill? Did he know her from before the zombipocalypse?

jro909 Senior Enthusiast

jro909

Posted
Posted
watched it, was it just me or did the main character seem like a complete retard? like for one, he wakes up in a hospital torn to hell, then into a military outpost, hello would you not think to maybe grab some shoes atleast? then instead of keeping a vehicle he takes a horse wtf, you can't seek shelter in a horse let alone zombies can't eat a car...then he tells the other guy to "conserve ammo" so he lets loose on the zombies wandering the streets, ok yeah i got it, he wanted to kill his wife ok but really you coulden't wait until she showed up again? overall i think its a good show so far, i haven't sat down to read the actual comics yet so i'm unsure of how accurate it is to the real story...also was anybody else hoping he would of started the abrhams and just drove the hell out of town?

 

1. He was in shock

 

2. No vehicle, no keys, nothing wrong with a horse, feed it,water it, wont run out of gas. Not very good in a city as we have seen.

 

3. Conserve ammo....you are forgetting the human element in this, just because he says one thing, doesn't mean the guy will do it.

 

 

 

ok that silverado he could of hot wired it or even drained the fuel out of it(i might add he went up to an old farm house asking to borrow gas?! really i'm sure they got a pump right in the front yard)...let alone he planned ahead to get plenty of guns but not extra fuel? and for the record horses are terrible on pavement they need shoes otherwise they essentially wear their feet away and what would you feed a horse in the city? asphalt? trees? horses need more then just lawn grass to keep weight on...like i said overall a good show

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Forum Statistics

    250.5k
    Total Topics
    2.7m
    Total Posts

  • Member Statistics

    342,973
    Total Members
    8,960
    Most Online
    Gilkey96
    Newest Member
    Gilkey96
    Joined

  • Who's Online   5 Members, 0 Anonymous, 865 Guests (See full list)

  • Latest Articles

  • Posts

    • garagerog
      Low fuel pressure after installing new fuel pump

      By garagerog · Posted

      Replace the fuel pump with an OEM AC-Delco.
    • Gilkey96
      Low fuel pressure after installing new fuel pump

      By Gilkey96 · Posted

      Hello, first time posting here. I have an 03 Chevy 1500HD with the 6 liter gas engine. The truck ran fine until the fuel pump died on me and had to get it towed. Replaced the fuel pump with a precision pump from O’rileys and changed the fuel filter while I was there. The truck will run and drive now but it wants to idle around 500 rpm when in drive and it tries to stall if you touch the gas. It drives fine though, just doesn’t want to idle. Put a fuel pressure gauge on the rail and only have 50 psi. I guess these trucks should have 55-62 psi to run right. I thought the regulator might be the issue because when I would unplug the vacuum hose it jumped to 56 psi. Replaced the regulator and no change. The only thing I can think of is that I was sold a faulty fuel pump. Any help would be appreciated because I’d rather not have to take the bed off again if I don’t have too. Thank you!
    • diyer2
      AFM Experience

      By diyer2 · Posted

      I've been wrenching on GM trucks for 17 years. And I need to get something off my chest because it's been weighing on me for a long time. After all that time, all those motors, all those people standing in my bay, I've figured out there are really only two kinds of owners. The ones who already know about this. And the ones who are about to find out the hard way. A guy came into my shop a few weeks back in a 2018 Silverado 5.3. Sharp guy, maybe 35. Knew his truck cold. He'd been on the forums, read the threads, done his homework. He only rolled in so I could double-check a little module he'd already plugged in himself. Wanted a second set of eyes on it. Ten minutes, in and out, drove off happy. Two days later, a completely different story walked through the same door. Older fella this time, in a 2016 Sierra. Gorgeous truck, clearly babied, not a scratch on it. Wedding ring. Looked like a guy who took care of his stuff. He was in because his engine had started knocking on the way to work. And by the time I got the valve cover off, I already knew it was too late. Lifter collapsed. Cylinder 5. Camshaft chewed up. The whole top end shot. Same kind of truck. Same motor. Same roads, probably the same dealer. The only thing separating those two men was information. I've been at this since 2008, and I've worked on everything GM puts out. Silverados. Sierras. Tahoes. Yukons. Suburbans. Escalades. The 5.3 and the 6.2. Doesn't matter which badge is on the tailgate. They all carry the same problem. So here's the information one of those guys had and the other one didn't. It's called Active Fuel Management. AFM. GM started building it into their V6s and V8s back in 2007 to squeeze out a little better mileage on the highway. Maybe a mile or two a gallon. All to hit government fuel economy numbers. The way it works, the motor quietly shuts down half its cylinders when you're just cruising along. And the little lifters that pull that off have a tiny pin inside them that's constantly clicking in and out. Lock, unlock, lock, unlock. Hundreds of times a drive. Thousands of times a week. Eventually one of those pins wears through. The lifter drops. And it starts grinding the camshaft down like a chisel on butter. And what nobody tells you is that the shudder you feel around 40 or 50 mph? That's the system cycling. Every single time. Here's what really gets me. The pre-2007 trucks, the ones without AFM, they're bulletproof. I've got customers still daily driving them with 260,000 miles on the odometer. Not a problem in the world. GM took a perfectly good motor that would have lasted a lifetime and bolted this system onto it. And it is wrecking engines that should have run forever. The guys who hang around the forums already know all of this. So do the techs. They handled this years ago. They didn't sit around waiting for the dealership to mail them a warning letter, because that letter is never coming. It's the guys who figured somebody would've told them who end up on my lift. And I want to be clear, because this part matters. Maintenance has nothing to do with it. I've torn down motors with barely 30,000 miles on the clock. I pulled apart a Tahoe last summer with 24,000 on it. Practically a brand new truck. Owner had it less than a year. Spotless oil. Best synthetic money can buy, changed early every time. Made no difference. I've seen guys with full dealer records, every interval stamped. Made no difference. The oil changes were never the problem. The pin was. And no amount of babying that truck stops that pin from cycling every single time you drive. That's the part that eats at me. These are good motors. Take the AFM out of the equation and a 5.3 or a 6.2 will run 300,000 miles and never blink. So a few years ago I started telling every single owner who comes through my doors the exact same thing the smart guys already knew. Get yourself a FullForce disabler. It plugs right into the port under your dash. Couple of seconds and you're done. It just tells the computer to leave every cylinder running, full time. No more cycling. No more beating those lifters back and forth every time you turn the key. It doesn't reprogram anything. Doesn't touch your tune. And unplug it before a dealer visit and there's absolutely zero trace it was ever installed. I've had customers come back at 40,000, 60,000, 80,000 miles after I put one in. Zero issues. The trucks run smoother. And the lifters aren't getting beaten to death every single drive. I won't sit here and tell you it's magic. A lifter that's already damaged is a lifter that's already damaged, and this won't un-ring that bell. But it takes away the one thing causing all that wear in the first place. That's the whole game. You don't need a five-thousand-dollar delete. You don't need an expensive tune. You don't need to tear anything apart. You just need to stop the cycling. I'm not writing this for any company. I'm writing it because I'm tired of watching the guys who didn't know pay four and five figures for it. I'm tired of being the guy who has to break the news. I'm tired of knowing that the guys who did know fixed the whole thing for the price of a tank of gas, and the only difference was that somebody told them first. If you drive a Silverado, Sierra, Tahoe, Yukon, Suburban, or Escalade from 2007 or newer with a V6 or V8, you've got AFM. You've got those lifters, and they're cycling every single time you drive. So be the guy who already knew. Not the one I'm scraping metal out of next month. EDIT: A bunch of folks asked, so here it is. The one I put my faith in is FullForce. This is where to find it: https://www.tryfullforce.com/products/fullforce™-afm-dfm-disabler They back it with a 60-day guarantee too. I've handed out more than I can count and not one's ever come back to me. Not one. See less
    • Atlas
      Wow I'm in a pickle. (Broke down truck) and a story.

      By Atlas · Posted

      Thanks for following along. I'm not author material, my tenses are all over the place and an editor would have a heck of a time cleaning up after me. Reading and writing is still a fun pastime though.   My new scanner came in yesterday, wow, where the heck has this thing been?! It connects right up to the Blazer, there's all kinds of bidirectional tests like EGR activation and percentage, toggle the fuel pump relay, EVAP purge valve, IAC control, AC relay, reset the transmission's adaptive learning, toggle shift solenoids and TCC lockup, and I can reset fuel trims with the click of a button...all things I could have used over the last 60 days!   It's also telling me there is a stored code in the ABS module for front left wheel sensor open and something about the brake switch. The ABS dash light works. It illuminates normally during the self-test at key on/ start and that's it. I cleared the codes and will see if they set when I take it out later. That, and I'm going to get (hopefully) real data on timing and cam ******. The PID's are there.   I connected the tool to my truck...holy smokes. Newer vehicles make early OBDII vehicles look like 8-bit, pixelated, early Nintendo stuff. This? This is like wearing 3D virtual reality goggles playing one of those elaborate, cinematic video games with seasons and plots in comparison. There are SO MANY modules and SO MANY tests and SO MUCH data. There's a scanner sequence for filling the coolant...   End of the day, it's a tool with way more power than I need, but the versatility to do old and new is there (and I need an adapter to connect it to my OBDI Camaro). It will allow me to do the first pass of diagnosis when out-of-warranty vehicles need help, and it will enable more DIY maintenance like brake system bleeding, ABS bleed, etc. I probably over-bought here, but, mission is accomplished.   Enjoy your Sunday...I need to shut this machine down and go get ready for the week ahead.
    • MORSNO
      Which 2027 engine will you choose?

      By MORSNO · Posted

      Not that I've read, after all the issues they've had in the past I'm pretty sure they learned their lesson. 

  • GM-Trucks.com Clubs

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...