TGO David

Welcome. 

  Are you saying that the owners of your local gun shops don't work hard for their money?  Does the $20-40 you might save by buying online make as much of a difference in your life as it might in the difference of a small business owner's success or failure?   Just things to think about.

  I've discussed this with MacGyver and while we believe helping animals is a noble pursuit, we'd really like to leave sticky posts to threads that are relevant to the purpose of TGO.  Just as we selectively opt what types of advertising we allow on TGO to ensure that it is relevant so as to avoid diminishing the impact of our ads, we'd prefer to reserve sticky threads and other such attention-grabbers and use them selectively for maximum impact.

  Truth.  It's the secret hand-shake of Kentucky.

Fluke.  Pay once, cry once.  Mine is about 20 years old now and still running strong.  I used it for a decade in some of the nastiest industrial environments.

Holy lightbox.  I want to come play!

  Yeah it does!  And it stays in your sinuses at least as long too.  I've "smelled" that stuff in my nose for days after working on a differential.  Phantom-stink!

Very cool.

  Tell me I'm wrong!  They use some of the nastiest petroleum and additives possible for that.  Couple it with being churned around in a relatively airtight space for tens of thousands of miles and usually having clutch-pack friction material stirred up in it for a that entire time... MMMMMM MMMMM MMMMMM that's some good smelling stuff.   Most friends who have had me help them set up gears on Jeeps or Mustangs have literally gagged a bit the first time they've cracked open the pumpkin on a differential and inhaled all of that possumy-butthole goodness.   Makes your eyes water sometimes!  :D

Martin's is tops on my list as well.  Another favorite is one plenty of folks might not even know about.   http://www.hogheavenbbq.com   They're located right behind Centennial Park, tucked behind the McDonald's on West End.  Seating is open to the elements so it's not a place for 20*F days when snow is piled up, unless you are going to grab a plate to go.  Their food is so good though.

I know how and have set up numerous gear sets over the years.  The right tools are imperative.  If you don't have access to knowledge and tools, let someone else do it or just swap the whole front axle assembly with a known-good unit from a salvage yard.   Even with my experience and tools, I fret a lot when I set up gears.  It's not a fun activity and differential fluid smells like a sack of rotten possum buttholes.  :)

Welcome to TGO!  Thanks for supporting the site so quickly, too.  Greatly appreciated!

Serious response:   Bigger tires will mean lower MPG and will require you to recalibrate your speedometer/computer.  Bigger tires also generally yield reduced braking performance (heavier) and reduced acceleration (changes the overall gear ratio).  They also frequently mean the need for suspension lift or leveling, new wheels for proper offset to clear things inside the wheel well (control arms, body mounts, etc.) and, depending on how much bigger they are, re-gearing the front and rear diff of a 4x4 to get back some of your acceleration.   BUT...   Slightly larger tires can often look better and going with non-OEM tires almost always gets you a better tire.   I am putting larger tires on my new truck because the factor suspension is so tall but the manufacturer went with such wimpy, small tires.  It looks goofy stock.  I am also replacing wheels to get more offset to push the inside wall of the tire away from the upper A-Arm and also away from the body mount for the cab.   One thing always leads to another once you start messing with this stuff.

  Eh, the drawer fit in my 2012  :)   In the F150 the Console was the way to go because it was much larger.  The center console in the JK is so small I don't know if there is much benefit there other than the fact that it would be more readily accessible.  I'd have to weigh space vs. accessibility in this case.

  Yeah well... your argument lost.  "Get over it."   :rofl:

I had a Console Vault in our Raptor.  Very nice.  I happen to still have the Tuffy concealment drawer from my JKU too!  ;)

EOR does really, really good work.  I'd use them for sure.

  Significant sale this weekend.

Discount Tire has a smoking sale going on this weekend.  Bought new wheels and tires for my truck and got over $200 in refunds being sent back to me.

  This.  It's pretty much impossible to reach that voter with logic and reason, because most of them are swaddled in the warm embrace of academia and think that they are the logical ones.   I am going through this with my college-aged, college-enrolled son right now.  Its a gut-check for me of what happens when someone else raises your kids (ex-wife) and fails to fill their life with traditional values or a work ethic that will survive first contact with adversity.  He posted on Facebook this week a personalized manifesto of why he supports Bernie Sanders and will be voting for him.   The kid's 22 years old so he's not even really a kid any more, but the post read like a naive 14-year old wrote it.  It was everything from free healthcare no matter how much he has to pay in taxes (well then... it's not really free is it?) to saving the damn planet.  I'm not ashamed of him because he's my son and how could I be... but I am torn apart inside and very distraught over the fact that he's seriously "one of them" and won't allow himself to be reached.   His uncle still wants to kick his ass, literally, for voting for Obama and might actually do it if he shows up at a family gathering with a Sanders bumper sticker on his car.

Actually it looks like they used a die-grinder.  You can see the spray of dust and debris all up the front of the door.  A torch doesn't do that.  The cuts are also very straight and in places you can see where the metal is bent, like they twisted the cut pieces back and forth to break them off.   That safe looks like an entry-level Browning.  It's good for keeping honest people honest, and maybe protecting your stuff for 20 minutes of exposure to a house fire.  There are far better safes on the market and those photos are proof of why you should buy one if you really want to protect your stuff.

  The boom is probably here to stay, thanks to hipsters, but worse yet is the bourbon shortage that a lot of distilleries are predicting.

Time for some White Knuckle Off-Road sliders for that bad boy! I had them on my 2010 TT and they did great. You can kinda seem them in this picture:

  Only if folks know who's behind the screen name.

I'm not trying to discourage you or anything but let me tell you what relationship certifications and experience have when it comes to getting hired.  And this is coming from me, a guy who manages a Tier 3 problem-solving team for a Fortune 100 company and has no problem ending an interview 10 minutes into it to either tell the candidate "Thank you and have a nice day" or "I think we might have a place for you here".   Certifications without experience will often get you in the door to get experience.  You passing an industry standard test in your field of focus tells me that (a.) you know the basics and have a foundation that I and my team can build upon, (b.) have the tenacity to see something through to completion and (c.) perform at least reasonably well under pressure and can recall those basics of your foundation when the heat is on.   Experience without certifications will often get you overlooked by the resume screeners.  Automated or human, doesn't matter.  I and many hiring managers like me want resumes screened to see if you have various certifications for the reasons I mentioned above.   Certifications AND Experience will not only catch my attention but, provided you interview well, aren't a douche, and can honest-to-God back up anything you put on your resume, may even land you a job with pay commensurate with your experience and skill level.     Seriously, if you listen to only one piece of advice I offer freely... don't fluff your resume.  If you don't want to risk being asked to expand on it or, worse yet, do it as part of your job... don't list it as something you are proficient in.   If you have casual experience with something and feel compelled to include it, mention that it is just that:  Casual Experience.   Nothing causes me to blacklist someone and spread the word about it faster than a candidate who wastes my time by seeding their resume with key words just to get an interview, only for me to find out that they misrepresented themselves on paper.  Nashville's IT community is staggeringly small, and word gets around fast.  Many of us who have been doing IT professionally within Nashville for 10-20 years have acquired a network of friends and former colleagues all over town.  A bad reputation with one of them can quickly spread to all of them.   I'd strongly suggest you pick a field of technology that really resonates with you and begin mastering it.  Pair that with leadership traits and back it up with a management degree of some sort, and you'll be amazed at what doors open for you.   Oh... and one last thing:  If you aren't applying for a management job, you might think carefully about specifically calling those out in your resume.  Some managers hate hiring people who were previously managers, as they feel threatened.  I couldn't care less and actually like seeing leadership roles on a resume, but I've got peers who wig out about it for some reason.   Hope some of this helps.