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I use the Bad Elf dongle, the Garmin app for highway use and Topo for off highway use. It uses high quality USGS topo section scans.

Besides that "Diesel Electric Hummers" would be an awesome band name, I've wondered why CMVs weren't run in that manner like locomotives.

Rear suspension upgrade! I wasn't worried so much with adding much lift as I was fixing the sagging rear when loaded out. I think this might just do it! Before: The old mark: The new mark: Thing became a little heated... But in the end it all came out well (the after):

How's your mandarin? Yes Yeti has lit them up with lawyers, I don't expect them to survive long, I wouldn't doubt if it was the exact same plant making both.

Today I found that most of the locals hang out on the 70cm repeaters, regardless I was clearly hitting a 2M repeater in the next county over (near the intersection of FM50 and FM60). So the demons have been exercised as of now. I'm sure I'll find a way to screw it all up again.

Saw that but I like being 2wd, the last 4x4 I owned was really good at getting really really stuck

I might have to do that. Thanks for the heads up!

I have 2 more cubes waiting for when I finish fabricating the front bumper, another short lightbar will go on it too...well that's the plan, I might go with plan B with putting the cubes on the sides of the rack.

Tire purchases need to consider not just the GVWR of the vehicle but the actual weight of the vehicle when loaded, which I believe quite a few overlanding types exceed the GVWR when loaded. Think of 10%. Under inflated 10%, over inflated 10% or overloaded 10%, any one of the three can cause...

I did something similar, using the low cost CREE LED bars from Amazon. Except I ran a fused bus directly from the battery, wired relays and had a switch panel made from Front Panel Express. I can have the light on with the engine off, which is nice for momentary use. The rear lights are for...

Last weekend's adventure to Fairfield State Park (Texas). I don't know if you saw the video of us dumping our canoe with the whole family in it, but I took this shot standing on the shore at that same point the next evening.

Slap hands coach! Thanks for the help and a meet up is in order. Right now I'm ignoring the ARTS functions, as with the Links and focusing on the basics. After a decade of APCO-25 radios with channel names I like having my list organized so I did read up on how to program the memory, use...

Well now I'm not getting the return ID from the repeater, I'm trying to hit it right now

Give me a few minutes and I'll hop on that repeater.

I found where the old coax was crimped badly between the roof and the shelf bracket, so that could have been the problem. No one was on the repeaters this afternoon while I was programming it, but I could pick up the local Unicom from the airport and the SO's primary radio channel (one of the...

I've seen quite a few not-wood axe handles fail with off balance strikes, just like a wood handle. The difference is it is easy to replace a wooden axe handle.

Warp 2. I'd use CDR and download his car, get the 5 second prior and the Delta-V's post impact, then compare that to the crush damage calculations and scene evidence. Except outside of significant injury or death no one would want to pay for what all of that investigation costs. The sentence...

And I'm glad for it. The percentages are small, the numbers of people are high. We average 90 people a day killed in collisions in the US, some of those are due to product failures of some sort, some are due to driver error, some are due to circumstances beyond anyone's control. Each of...

I glanced at the member number, but I failed quite a bit on this one. He said he didn't post much and I only quick glanced at the badge. He asked for some local info on the Sam Houston and gave him the scoop (it sucks), but I was so rushed that I dropped the ball. It didn't help that the boss...

This member drove by me today on I-45 while I was shagging ass to get to a collision site to begin the investigation phase (measurements, photographs, collision reconstruction stuff that no one else finds interesting). Waved as he went by and I noticed his badge and sticker. He said he is...