that wouldn't be to bad, hey if you take the job, send some extra cash my way...

 

wow you're all about me giving you money huh. i don't make that much. and it's only a little over 200k if i stay a year. but you gotta remember uncle sugar likes to dip into that pretty good

 

well I'm about anybody with extra giving me a lil...lol yeah, you'd only see about half that since it would throw you into a diffrent tax barcket....

 

That jeepster thing looks like it would be fun as hell to run around on, but with the size I bet you'd have a bad day if you ever got hit by another car or truck.

 

hahah bad day if you got hit. no worse than getting ran over in one of those dune buggy conversion's which thats all it is pretty much. with more bells and whistles.

and it would probably put me in a differnt tax bracket except i believe for civilian's 80k of it is tax free. there for if i only worked for 6 months and took 6 months off of work or worked as a trainer which they are paying 32 dollars an hour it wouldn't be bad

 

80k tax free, were do i apply????

yeah, if you wee hit it would be about like biegn n a bug...

 

**** PM there are all kinds of jobs over there. i'm not sure about painting but i'm sure there are. and most of them start out from 80k to 105k a year. check out KBR, LSI, or go to usajobs.com they are always looking for people. i'm trying to think of some other good sites. i've got alot of e-mails from people getting my resume from militaryhire.com which i believe has a job search also. or just google jobs in iraq or afganaland.. if you don't mind sweating your ***** off and being away from your family for 3 months at a time it's the way to go

 

Well, it's a done deal. I brought it home yesterday and worked on it for a few hours. Worked on it a little more today when I got home and with the help of a couple buddies we got it running great. Turned out the problem was mainly the throttle position sensor and idle air control motor, both of those were trashed. The spark plugs definitely weren't helping either, as bad as those were i'm surprised that it was even running on all the cylinders and wasn't misfiring. I have a few more things to replace on it before I get it inspected, but when it's all said and done i'll have a great truck for around $2,000, book value is about twice that.

I really love this truck already too, I showed up one of my buddies a couple hours ago. I saw him dumping his life savings into the gas tank of his 5.9 dodge ram 4x4. I stopped and talked for a few minutes, as he proceeded to ask why I would buy a gm product, I should have got a mopar, blah blah blah... and when we left I laid a patch of rubber about 75 feet down the road, then at the next stop sign I hammered the gas as I turned left and the truck grabbed posi and drifted around the turn very nicely. That made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside because his big fancy truck could never come close to what my $1,500 beater just did. It might be really hard for me to keep tires on this thing at the current rate, burnouts are waaaay too tempting with almost 300 hp under the hood.

 

I'm definately jealous of you. did you end up getting the 98. i've saw a few for around that price 2k ect. a little story about bad plug and wires. i used to have a 79 cj7 jeep and the music teacher in high school had and 89 camaro sitting in the shop parking lot. so i traded him straight across for it. well everyone thought the motor in the camaro was blown cause when you started it there was a god aweful knocking even my teacher who was so old he was working on motors when they were invented thought it was. well i rip into the car being a little motor head that i was. take off the head and one of the cylinders had some carbon build up. being focused on changing some rings and rods i payed no attention to it. so i flipped the motor tear into the oil pan and it's perfect. i'm like WTF. so i tested all the plug wires. the guy drove around on 7 cylinders for so long it built up so much carbon that it was knocking. long story short it gave me the chance to bore it out 30 over and put flat top pistons and a roller cam in it. yeah that car was trouble.

 

Yeah, I got the 98.