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This is dying out. I leave the site for a day and come back to maybe 4-5 new posts in this 2019-2025 section. 

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29 minutes ago, Jus Cruisin said:

This is dying out. I leave the site for a day and come back to maybe 4-5 new posts in this 2019-2025 section. 

When I was coming up my whole family was into modifying vehicles. We all changed our own oil and rotated our tires. Yes we used to race each other. Vehicles have gotten more complicated and people use them as appliances. In the early 90s I swapped the engine out of my Impala into a nova. Drove it home the same day. Every time someone got a different ride they would spend the day driving to each other’s homes to show them off. In my younger days they would show up at our house to race my dad. He was the one to beat. Everyone is driving a SUV. Besides my wife and my son no one I know drives a car. You have to be very brave to modify any vehicle these days. Most subdivisions have rules about working on your vehicles within site of your neighbors. If you want to see performance vehicles you have to go to a car show. When I was younger you came to a family picnic. I think the most popular threads here are about oil and jokes. So what mods have you done lately?

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3 hours ago, Jus Cruisin said:

This is dying out. I leave the site for a day and come back to maybe 4-5 new posts in this 2019-2025 section. 

Head over here, this is a open forum related to science that you can use in your truck. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, KARNUT said:

When I was coming up my whole family was into modifying vehicles. We all changed our own oil and rotated our tires. Yes we used to race each other. Vehicles have gotten more complicated and people use them as appliances. In the early 90s I swapped the engine out of my Impala into a nova. Drove it home the same day. Every time someone got a different ride they would spend the day driving to each other’s homes to show them off. In my younger days they would show up at our house to race my dad. He was the one to beat. Everyone is driving a SUV. Besides my wife and my son no one I know drives a car. You have to be very brave to modify any vehicle these days. Most subdivisions have rules about working on your vehicles within site of your neighbors. If you want to see performance vehicles you have to go to a car show. When I was younger you came to a family picnic. I think the most popular threads here are about oil and jokes. So what mods have you done lately?

I mess more with my Chevelle but you don't need to be a modder to participate in forums. 5th gen Ram and 14th gen F150 forums are packed with posts daily. I just looked at 14th gen F150. I hadn't logged in for 2 days and there were 15 pages of new posts that's pages not posts. Silverado Sierra has a lot of action but it has no generation breakouts. I hadn't looked at 5th gen Ram for a week. 10 pages of new posts. 

 

Just bellyaching... 

 

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1 minute ago, Jus Cruisin said:

I mess more with my Chevelle but you don't need to be a modder to participate in forums. 5th gen Ram and 14th gen F150 forums are packed with posts daily. I just looked at 14th gen F150. I hadn't logged in for 2 days and there were 15 pages of new posts that's pages not posts. Silverado Sierra has a lot of action but it has no generation breakouts. I hadn't looked at 5th gen Ram for a week. 10 pages of new posts. 

 

Just bellyaching... 

 

Well you answered your own observation. At my old shop my brother has a F-150 super snake. His son drives a Raptor R. The shop Forman drives a new F-150 reg cab work truck 5.0 with the super charger package. A salesman has a TRX. If I wasn’t retired I’d be in the mix. Enthusiasm breeds enthusiasm. I see nothing like that with GM anymore. So it limits conversation.

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11 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

Well you answered your own observation. At my old shop my brother has a F-150 super snake. His son drives a Raptor R. The shop Forman drives a new F-150 reg cab work truck 5.0 with the super charger package. A salesman has a TRX. If I wasn’t retired I’d be in the mix. Enthusiasm breeds enthusiasm. I see nothing like that with GM anymore. So it limits conversation.

You build crap that screws the consumer they leave! 

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Things will pickup when we have more info around the next gen Trucks, and we can have endless discussions and excitement (and 2nd guessing and GM bashing)like we had back in 2018/2019.  

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On 3/16/2025 at 6:42 AM, Jus Cruisin said:

This is dying out. I leave the site for a day and come back to maybe 4-5 new posts in this 2019-2025 section. 

Sorry.  I was working on not dying from Wednesday to Saturday (Wednesday to Thursday was the worst).  I'm not 100% right now, but improving daily.  Since getting home from the hospital I've been working on catching things up.  The forum was a low priority.  Fortunately, the ER I walked into Wednesday morning is located in a good area and nobody messed with my truck while it sat there until I was able to drive it away on Saturday. 

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On 3/16/2025 at 7:42 AM, Jus Cruisin said:

This is dying out. I leave the site for a day and come back to maybe 4-5 new posts in this 2019-2025 section. 

 

 

Facebook.  Facebook groups.  Its overload in there though.  Its lots of asking the same questions over and over again.  MPG, will this 37" tire fit on my non-leveled truck, lots of "I know I'm right!  You are wrong!" and then they get egg on their face when you link them facts.  And the scammers...OH BOY...the scammers!!!!!

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Facebook.  Facebook groups.  Its overload in there though.  Its lots of asking the same questions over and over again.  MPG, will this 37" tire fit on my non-leveled truck, lots of "I know I'm right!  You are wrong!" and then they get egg on their face when you link them facts.  And the scammers...OH BOY...the scammers!!!!!

Thanks for reminding me of why I'm not on Facebook.  Too much garbage.  Well, that and Facebook's constant violations of biometric internet security state laws.  Because of how frequently I move to a new state (every 2-3 years) I've received class action settlement checks from Facebook that now add up to over $1,000 combined.  Add in my wife and that's another $1,000+.  And, ironically, those lawsuits originated out of blue states (I don't get to pick if/when I live in a red or blue state).  It just happened to be that way.  I got off Facebook over 5 years ago, and asked them to delete my info.  They said that takes up to 90 days, but every indication is they did on fact wipe me off their servers.  My wife can't find any trace of me on Facebook.  She's still on it, though.  I think she likes the drama.

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On 3/19/2025 at 12:24 AM, Transient said:

Sorry.  I was working on not dying from Wednesday to Saturday (Wednesday to Thursday was the worst).  I'm not 100% right now, but improving daily.  Since getting home from the hospital I've been working on catching things up.  The forum was a low priority.  Fortunately, the ER I walked into Wednesday morning is located in a good area and nobody messed with my truck while it sat there until I was able to drive it away on Saturday. 

Hey Transient I hope you are feeling better. I am also just getting out of the hospital after 3 weeks.

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On 3/24/2025 at 5:21 PM, Bikerjon said:

Hey Transient I hope you are feeling better. I am also just getting out of the hospital after 3 weeks.

I'm finally walking without a cane.  I've lost about 25 lbs, too.  Already been seen by Pulmonary.  I have an appointment at the end of the week with Internal Medicine.  I'm now on blood thinner medication.  Just this month alone I've probably had my allotted lifetime allowance for imagery like x-rays.  Anymore and I might start glowing green. 

 

I'm glad to hear you made it out of the hospital.  How are you feeling?

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8 hours ago, Transient said:

I'm finally walking without a cane.  I've lost about 25 lbs, too.  Already been seen by Pulmonary.  I have an appointment at the end of the week with Internal Medicine.  I'm now on blood thinner medication.  Just this month alone I've probably had my allotted lifetime allowance for imagery like x-rays.  Anymore and I might start glowing green. 

 

I'm glad to hear you made it out of the hospital.  How are you feeling?

Embolism?

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Embolism?

Several.  Also deep vein thrombosis.  They pulled 18 inches of blood clots out of my left leg and dissolved the clots in my lungs with heparin.

 

My wife says I'm lucky to be alive.  Although I agree with her, I'm also a bit of a smart-ass.  I told her when Death saw me standing on his doorstep he took one look at me and said, "I'm not ready to deal with this one."

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