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The stabilizer just fixes the symptom, not the problem. The problem can be as simple as an out of balance wheel all the way up to the the king pins bad, and I mean the actual pins not just the bushings. It can be many things in between. tie rod ends, wheel bearings, steering box, cracked frame...

One of the main areas to look at is the underneath. The "frame" rails are actually formed sheet metal so they have a bad habit of rotting away. There are NOS large underbody repair kits available but they are drying up fast. They are around 500.00 the last time I looked. Body panels are...

My philosophy is: If you get stuck because you were doing something stupid, then you are staying stuck...no help from me. BUT, I will call the rangers and get you some help. It is funny you say that because it makes me think. I have never left anyone stuck or broken down in the woods, it not...

A bad lifter will give a tap but not a chirp and generally it will tap under load and not. I have a bad lifter in mine, it comes and goes but it is always a tap and it does not matter about the load. Rick

Sometimes but not always. They will be around the flywheel bolts. A trick I have used in the past is to spray water up in there and let it sit for a day or two. If there are cracks you will generally see fresh rust tracks after a day. The longer you wait the better you will see the rust, up to a...

Surplus engines do not generally have air cleaners on them and that intake has a BIG dang hole in it that can catch anything thrown or dropped. A little moving around and right down it goes. Rick

Sounds like a cracked flywheel. Pull the flywheel cover and look around the mounting bolts to the crankshaft.

Once an area is irreversibly damaged, and the ecosystem is demolished, then all the FWD types need is a good unreclaimed West Virginia strip mine to off road in. If you haven't seen one of those in person, you'd appreciate what the Park Rangers are trying to stop from happening in your...

The easiest way to tell is to pull the dash and look. any normal dash that has not been out is 30 years is going to look like it, thirty years of unmolested dust. You will know right away if someone has been in there. I think you have all the proof you need right there though, what I gave you...

Mass exodus and bankruptcy.

Good luck in your battle, you see where the problem lies. I don't have a clue what the organizations are that you listed in your back ground. I was fighting this battle (and losing) since long before any organizations existed. I finally gave up in the mid nineties. In your letters to the DEP you...

Jerseyjeep, do you remember the conversations we had about those cleanups? I said then that the people you were trying to impress were not listening and they were still going to close the trails. That was what, a year or two ago? This is nothing new, it has just been brought to the forefront by...

I had one of those trucks at one time, we would go to our favorite area and play and then cruise out. There was always some ahole that would back into a water filled hole and power brake it in two wheel drive and dig the hole out till he bottomed out. I came across a Ranger one night at 01:00...

You can legally reset a speedometer as long as it is well documented AND, this is the biggie, it is reset to the original mileage as the one that was replaced. It is not that hard to do. Different states have different laws pertaining to how it is done. When it comes right down to it if you...

Keep in mind that I am a four wheeler in addition to being someone who wants to see the pinelands kept in a preserved state. The way things are headed that area is going to be turned into a wasteland because of the overabundance of 4WD vehicles and idiots driving them now. Everybody wants to...

bingo!!!

Mudlord, what is your avatar? I have been traveling and wheeling the pines since the 60's. I have seen it all back there. I was good friends with chief Ranger Langdon In the 80's and he told me that the behavior was going to be the downfall of the wheelers. We used to have a couple of areas that...

There is only ONE way the mileage goes backwards and it is not legal. And yes it is human intervention. You probably need to find a different caretaker for your truck before you come back to a pile of wreckage! I am sure there are a lot of stories around town about your truck while you were...

I sent an E-mail to Jim, I will resend it. I don't mind paying and where I was parked was well out of the way of vendors and traffic. After the debacle I had at Aberdeen if I can't find a quiet spot then I will not go. Rick

Still waiting to hear about camping arrangements. I have an e-mail out to Jim Gilmore but have not heard back. If I do not hear back within the next week I will have to blow it off. I have to give work vacation notice. Rick