AuroraGirl
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- Northern Wisconsin
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- Taylor
- Truck Year
- 1978, 1980
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- K10, K25
- Engine Size
- 400(?), 350
I dont know, Ive seen aftermarket, albeit that is not stock, have the same design which were mounted in rails used the center for the very ass end of a 2wd trans then the output shaft while what is left is exhaust clearance that doesnt reduce ground clearance. I dont know what all the late 80s had and they seemingly were plenty and thats both an auto and a 2wd, i have 4wd, manual so whos to say what variations may have been. or, with the similar wavey, that one could look normal upside down and i saw someone who modified to make it work that way, but that is different. did look interesting.
point is, i know its not the right direction and often the crossmmebrrs were slotted side to side but either were offset if you cut them in half, one way biasing prob to keep them from being backwards for skidplates or carrier brackets to fit right or keep the offset holes the right way because maybe something about certain year frames had multiple holes and the wrong way could fit somehow or tilted. prob an ease of assembly thing. IDK. BUt then I do know for a fact the mounts are generally reversible despite being offset, so you could put it on backwards and the t case adapter wouldnt know anything different other than its a tight fit(ha)
Because my grandfather was spiteful and very much kept ramming the square peg into the round hole until he made it fit i dont make any assumptions of normalcy or logic in trying to understand how he did things
The 6+ pieces of rebar in random spots, hard to access spots, and the other devious ways he installed the wood chute on the house is a great example. He either was thinking about how to make it hard for the next ****** or he knew it wouldnt be coming out in his lifetime and just went and overbuilt it without a concern or care lol. He had frequent displays of both those in most things he did.
Like screwing my rooms window shut by doing the siding over the edges of the window but he had to make at least 15 custom pieces of siding(wood siding inpanels with trim over where they butt, panels are a few feet wide, stained , and some interesting heading stuff.) because of where the window sits, he had to and I mean had to have made the panels on the ground, get up on the roof of the garage, and install from end to end of the wall following the gable v of the garage on the bottom, the gable v to the top of the roof over the house, so pieces that would be angle cut on both ends, and 8 ish feet tall, a little more or less, roof slops are also different. and when he got to the window, he either had it all measured proper to overhang all 4 edges or he setup some temporary benches of some kind on the roof of garage and was cutting them all out test fitting, which is just as possible but knowing how much he loved to sit down and figure dimensions for things he built and also how much he likes to stew on paper, I feel he may have done the first thing. because then under the window the piece is smaller by a lot based on where it sits(chest high while in front of it, makes sense.) it wasnt as hard to mock up for sure. But if that all seems like a lot of ******* energy to make a window not open, you are right. context story to the reasons for blocking window:
he did it because my cousin and I were like 10-13 and played ps2 on the TV in the bedroom and it gets about 110 degrees in the summer with the window shut and the door to hallway even opening. its facing the so much sun where we live and he kept the house at abotu 90 because he where he sat in his chair, in the basement, it would get chilly.. under the vent... if the upstairs was kept at a modest 70-80 :|
and one day he came in, threw the tv off the stand, closed the window, and wouldnt talk or look at us for like a month because he was outside and saw the window was open and we were wasting all the AC that he worked a lifetime to pay for and in 1946 in his parents ****** house with 9 siblings they didnt have AC and you couldnt play video games because your hands were calloused and they didnt exist.
So please, can your enthusiasm for your disproval of me, not all of us have driving gloves, which also differ from the golfing gloves. and make emphatic gestures getting out of chairs or expressing shock/uneasyness instead of grunting (age universal) and using words or not being so fragile that the behavior of emphatic gestures is a noticeable trait when faced with... adversity... thats not a word I use for the stuff IM refering to but it would be for the golf gloves getting mixed up with the driving gloves.
that was an insult. it was wordy but if you understood it then good. if you didnt..refer questions to someone else
GPA was sadistic in is games and lifes's issues looked like nails, he was a hammer, and the issues were very much lag screws. It doesnt fit 100% but lag screws are strong, put in with a lot of force, over a screw, and may take some work to put in like drilling etc. But he used a hammer. And if it didnt fit/work he just kept hammering until it did. so imagine a threaded lag screw with the labor invovled having been installed with nothing but a hammer. Doesnt make sense like i hoped it to.
He put square pegs into the round holes with a hammer. He also put round pegs in with a hammer. He put torx in with a square, phillips in with what i can only assume was a ill fitting standard and square heads in with what i assume was pozidrive. maybe he just sunk a lot of screws with drill bits and made sure to leave no useable remains. except the porch, he used the right bits just alternated between all of them.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
