That happens with age. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

Everyone tells me they can't hear my M4 with a silencer on it. To me it's louder 'en hell. The motor is right there by your ear and so is the piston. Only thing with the silencer is that it puts a bunch of weight on the tip and makes it about 6-8" longer, but it does cover the orange tip so you don't stand out.

One guy gave me a Tosco scope for it. Nice to be able to see people...that I can't shoot. And then you barely see much of the BB's path. They sell a lot of Red Dot scopes that are 1x. I always wondered WTF why 1x. Now I kinda know why. I think this is a 4x and it's way overkill.

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LMFAO when i saw your new avatar. and then your comment reminded me of the email that's floated around a couple hundred times with the bad costumes. one is a husband/wife where the guy's head starts to poke out like she's giving birth . then the one I was really thinkin about was the nerdy lookin guy walkin around with the sheep stuck to his front end. looks like he's rearending it Hoss style. you guys know the costumes I'm talkin about ?

house? we move next week. my wife has been busy cleaning the smaller of the 2 houses we're moving into. it's disgustingly filthy, and needs 2 rooms painted. boy, am i glad she's such a good painter. just my good training i guess!! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

wow, wierd. our diesel works out to $3.40/gal (currency converted). Our fuel is NEVER the same price as yours (we have so many extra taxes added in here in socialism-land). our gas is 3.11 for regular. WTF is that all about?? since when is gas LESS than diesel?? my friend at a refinery told me we're paying an inflated price now, to upgrade the equipment for some newfangled diesel that's due to come out in '06 or '08. he says this way, once it comes out, we won't hafta take the hit all at once.

 

We've had higher diesel than gas for a good year or so now. There's so many new diesel pickups on the road now there's a bigger demand. Though in CA nobody really uses oil to heat with. It's all mainly natural gas or propane in the country so that's not an issue.

Taxes in CA run about 36 cents total (half state, half fed) plus you have to pay sales tax which varies. We're 8.25% or something like that in Clovis and like 7.95 in Fresno.

CA is already supposed to be running Ultra Low Sulfer Diesel. The more sulfer they can pull out of diesel the cleaner it will be. And that's pretty much where the smell comes from as well.

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Anyone else seen "Dust to Glory?" Oh man it's killer. Gotta see it if you're into off-road racing. Documentary of the 2003 Baja 1000.

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Welp. Looks like i might go up and do some wheelin tomorow. Got a message on my phone from a few guys that came up tonight. That are gonna be doin a starlakes run. I have to do a few things to the jeep but i might go up in the morning. I dunno. lol
I was hoping my buddy could go but hes busy. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

Meh. I dunno.

 

ya, we got low sulphur too, but whatever they're doin to it by '08 (or whatever year it is) is supposed to be even cleaner. i wouldn't wanna begin to calculate where our fuel taxes start and end. there's lots. our diesel has been higher for awhile too, maybe 2 years. but i don't buy into the theory of the more demand = higher price. if that were true, then gas would be way more, cuz there's still more gasoline used than diesel. so why not stick it to the gas users??

 

I'm sure there is some gouging factor in there. But as demand increases, if the supply remains the same, the price will increase to what the market will bear. That's what happens in a "free market." And I wouldn't doubt some of the price increase has been due to new formulations.

Look here at the commodity prices: CNN Commodities

Heating Oil is very close to #1 Diesel (I believe they are actually interchangable so it's not to hard to figure that's close to #2): US$1.90 per gallon

Unleaded Gasoline: US$ 1.67 per gallon.

So that's at least 23 cents/gallon difference right there.

The local ARCO is running 87 for 2.759 amd #2 for 3.299. That's 54 cents. 23 cents of that is the commodity price alone. That leaves another 21 cents. 4 of that is sales tax. And I know that diesel has a different tax rate. Next time I'm at a station that sells both, I'll check out the tax notice. So we're talking about 17 cents per gallon difference somewhere along the line. It would be interesting to see the prices all along the line.

Crude Price
Crude Production Costs
Crude Delivery to Refinery Costs
Refining Costs
Refined Fuel Cost
Transport Costs (Refinery to Local Terminal)
Wholesale Cost
Transport Costs (Local Terminal to Retailer)
Retail Markup (usually about a penny per gallon)

And as the retail price goes up, so will the transport costs.

When our equipment was moved the other day we had to pay a 15% fuel surcharge price.

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Im still up. haha
Im working on the jeep still. No progress at all. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]
Ive tightened it all. At this point im really about ready to give up.

 

Welp, im up already. I was up till almost 4am.
I adjusted the LCAs as long as theyd go. Each side of the axle was different anyways so i dont think it had been set in a LONG time. haha It tightened the steering up quiet a bit so im happy about that but the death wobble didnt change much. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] A lil but not much.
I retorqued EVERYthing, well everything that didnt have a castleated nut on it. And did notice that my control arm bushings look pretting old and warn. That might be some of my DW. Other than that i REALL cant find anything wrong. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] Ive tried.


Oh, and i reallize the ASTROS are playing today so im not going ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!