Gene,

Are you going to come out and play with us on the 10th?

 

Yeah, I am hoping to arrange that this evening. You guys are having way too much fun without me!

 

At least I didn't subject him to YOUR favorite Enya tune...

o/~ Sail Away, sail away, sail away... o/~

 

I figured I redeemed myself by rocking to AC/DC when going through the Tanktrap at Tinkham!

 

Well, there is that...

My snorkel will be here on Wednesday, so I am hoping to get it installed before the run... if all goes well

 

Cool. I've got the CO2 tank and tubing, just have to pick up a couple of fittings and I'll be good to go. I installed the lift 2 weekends ago, and am curious to see how it handles now.

 

Gene are you going to prerun the naches with Rob,Ben and myself? Oh Gene how are you doing tanning.I did well 2nd degree burns.:pat:

 

Hell yeah I'll be on the pre-run - counting down the days!

Oh and I too did the 2nd degree thing - borderline 3rd. Medical attention - the whole nine yards. Sucked. I even missed a week of work!

 

Hey Grape,
Im about 98% sure I'll be there on the 19th. Im trying to finish up projects before then.
Are you getting my e-mails? I also found out this weekend that Feature Price shut down there servers and won't give the new owners access to them. So my site is down as well.
All my sh*&t is all f*&ked up!

 

There was a little rain this morning out in North Bend...everyone be sure an put in a request for nice weather on Thursday.

Jim

 

I'll make sure to sacrifice a chicken tonight and do an anti-rain dance!

 

well i got my cb today. a little cobra one from cascade cb. it was like $60 and then i had to buy the antenna too. i'll probably hook it up tomorrow. i just don't know where to put it.

 

I'm glad you guys are going to be there on the 19th. Now all we need is lawnjob. Mike I'm not getting any of your E-mails The only place I can talk to you is here. Rob will 70 be open or close when we do the naches?

 

Are you serious. I thought you were ignoring my e-mails. Rob, I sent you one last week. Did you recieve it?

 

Hey guys,

A sort-of off-topic question- I just went to have my 4runner aligned because of the lift, and they said the outer tie-rod ends on both the left and right sides are frozen, so they couldn't do the alignment. I'm just going to go ahead and replace both the outer and inner, but I'm wondering if I should avoid wheeling with it until they're replaced. I haven't noticed it handling weird, but a failure on the trail would be bad... Do I risk it or wait until everything is kosher again?

 

that sucks david. i had to get mine re-alligned too. i noticed some uneven wear on the driver's side tire. i guess it was a pretty simple adjustment though. took about 30 mins, if that.

 

Hrmm, I donno about the differences between the 4Runner and Tacomas, but I think there are only outer tie-rod ends. See the following link:

http://www.jowie.com/content/psboot.aspx

If that looks similar to yours, then it shouldn't be that difficult to remove the outer end and replace it. Adjustment is as simple as loosening the nut shown in step 4, then adjusting it. The last photo of step 11 shows the part that the tie-rod end screws into, minus the PS boot.

If they are just frozen, and can't be adjusted, I would think it should be fine on the trail, since its not a wear related problem. Just might get some abnormal tire wear.

 

Closed up tight as a drum. We are doing the roundtrip

 

Nope, you have as silent as... well... let's not go there...

 

There's not really anything to fail. They are likely talking about where the outer tie-rod connects into the steering rack. Our inner tie-rods are generally considered to be part of the rack. A couple of big wrenches and some home made "Break Free" would likely free them up.