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Offline rocket

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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #15 on: October 31, 2008, 04:47:22 AM »
i'll be at the park n ride
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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #16 on: October 31, 2008, 01:23:27 PM »
I will be at the park and ride ready to ride.
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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #17 on: October 31, 2008, 03:54:32 PM »
i'll be at the groton town house ready to roll

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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #18 on: October 31, 2008, 09:11:12 PM »
Death wobble eliminated!!!  I took it to Lombardi's over in New London and they fixed me up.  Very good service, no B.S.  I even grabbed some cards to pass out. 

So the guys at Lombardi's tell me that when they dismounted the tires, none of them had Equal in them.  The front tires didn't even have any lead weights on them.  The Penski truck guy next to the Gold Club completely ripped me off.  He didn't even balance the fronts, and kinda balanced the rears.  He also told me he spread a bag of equal for all of the tires, which he didn't do.  Chances are, I didn't even need to replace my hubs and ball joints.

The left rear still has a small oscillation, but it's minimal compared to what is was before.  The front is now smooth, even with only one stabilizer.  I may still put the other stabilizer on for the long trip up to Mass tomorrow, just to make the steering a little stiffer for the highway.  I can finally do highway speeds with no issue's! 

Lombardi's.  Good place.  They do other stuff besides wheels and tires.  I may use them for other stuff in the future.
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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2008, 09:17:07 PM »
I'd go back to the other guy and say WTF??? Congrats though!

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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2008, 01:43:15 AM »
(the moderate trail completed by tx_country and smaug1911) what an OUTSTANDING run... almost got the rubicon stuck a few times. If anyone wants pics email me at tm2ss.rubicon@gmail.com and i'll send them to you.

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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2008, 02:26:11 AM »
post some up tx
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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #22 on: November 02, 2008, 04:05:45 AM »
Yeah...it was just what I wanted...maybe even a little harder.

bonus that we had a small amount of vehicles so things moved along pretty well.

For moderate, there was plenty of skid plate action and locker assistance.

A few guys needed tugs and we even had to move a tree.
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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #23 on: November 02, 2008, 04:56:33 AM »
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/568422805TGWmHN?vhost=good-times


computer is saying bite me. so i uploaded them to webshots... hopefully you can see them...
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Re: EC4WDA Annual Food Drive Run
« Reply #24 on: November 02, 2008, 02:48:02 PM »
Cool.  Glad you guys had fun.  I only have two pics of a couple of other people from our group.  I have several videos though.  Most of them are of me trying to make it up the first obstacle  ::) .  Rocket has the most pics, so I can't wait until he get's them loaded on webshots! 
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