What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

They totally stopped the gravel and sand so it’s just salt now. The thing I don’t get is that the reservoir is owned by NYC. They have all sorts of regs about septic around them. That’s one of the reasons we have town sewer and water even though we are semi rural. The hard part is the water bill being about $1200 a year cause we buy it from NYC. The Wells we had got polluted and now we have a treatment plant for the city surface water. Sewer and water is almost $2k a year.

 

Good luck with the project! Should be great when it’s done.

 

Sounds like you have a plan there wildwest

Hope it goes smoothly for you guys.

 

Ouch!!!

One of the great things about where we live now, no water/sewer bills.

The rates seemed like they went up every year.

 

That's good because our friend had the first year if the 2.0t with a timing chain. 100k and lunched valvetrain. aka scrap. He's got a newer civic si now.

 

Ummm...always!

 

I have driven 4 out of 7 cars I have had in my life over 300k miles. One was a Mercedes 300D that had the motor rebuilt at some point so it doesn’t really count does it? It was around 400k miles when we got rid of it. Had gremlins and climate control and vacuum problems. All ove the vehicles are over 200k.

 

Down here a truck of that age with a decent package on it and 4 doors would cost $10k unless your buying one over 200k miles of dented to he'll and back.

 

The 4.7 job is not bad...just a lot of stuff has to come off. I will do mine on the sequoia when needed.

 

The number of belts is probably not the issue it's how it's all wedged in there. Once you have all the stuff off more belts is probably not any worse one. The price is all relitive small belts cheaper than 1 larger one buying them that is.

 

You would taste the salt! Haha

 

Wouldn't need self leveler if your putting new subfloor or a layer of luan. Still don't understand why your Putting carpet in a bathroom. If it is for comfort or warmth, I would put area small rugs that can be removed and cleaned. Wall to wall would get so nasty and get mold in a bathroom.

 

Chevy was an ecsb half ton, ram a quad cab short bed half ton, both 4x4. Mid range models but the Chevy slightly higher than the ram. The ram wasn't expensive to buy but turned into a bit of a money pit. Just luck of the draw I guess. Also turned out to be one of those trucks that one side of the truck requires parts for an 06, the other side an 07. That must be quite the nuisance.....

Just browsed for rams locally, I find an 08 QCSB 4x4 with roughly 70K miles that does appear to be a very well cared for, near perfect condition truck, asking $11K. I also found a 2009, same configuration, slightly higher miles and 98% condition for $9K. I'd choose that one. A 2007 quad cab with no visible flaws (albeit not many pictures) with 118K miles was asking $6K. That's probably more towards normal miles and pricing for a half ton that age here. One in less than perfect shape could be less.

Used Trucks are priced pretty fairly here I think for the most part. Like everywhere, you'll get the odd idiot that thinks what they have is worth their weight in gold. One model I really notice being overpriced IMO is the Colorado and canyon. People always seem to want a price that could buy a similar or even better condition full size.

Also found a 2007 ram, QCSB 4x4, 187K and a touch of wheel well rust(and no apparent other flaws), but a diesel manual one ton, for 10K bucks.

 

Reno work. Don't forget those pics

 

Well, I am away for the day and pages and pages get posted. Quite a read when I got back. The dogs and I now have squeaky clean teeth but my computer is in the shop for a deep clean. I won't get it back until next week when I go down again.

 

wildwest, sorry to hear about the Raynauds. I’m guessing the carpet will be a good choice. Have you thought about putting radiant heat in there as well? I know it’s expensive, but it may help.

 

Yeah, that is why when I bought my current Explorer, the 100,000 (okay 98.5k) on a 4 YO vehicle didn't bother me. Had to be easy miles. Or at least I hope so. Of course you always takes your chances when buying used. I'm betting they traded in the vehicle because the A/C compressor went and they didn't want to spend that kind of money on it . . .