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Z the rear to get about 4" of drop before even working on the springs and shocks. In the front, unrivet and remove the original crossmember and cut off the two short pieces of extra frame that act as braces to the crossmember. That leaves those outward bulges of the frame where the original coils seated.
Weld in two short sections of rectangular tubing straight through those bulges. At that point I would have simple, straight frame rails on the inside, but with the weird little bulges on the outside. Those bulges could then be cut off if needed in order to have mounts for coil-overs and have clearance for upper A-arms mounted where the original knee-action shocks were. The lower arms could mount on a new, lower crossmember. Simplifying the frame rails should open the way for kit or salvage front end.
I might be better off doing a front clip. There are still a pile of unknowns right now. I suspect that Z-ing the rear will be necessary to bring it down and get the bottom of the differential up level with the frame at ride height.
If I've read everything correctly, going to 17" wheels will allow me to use up to 13" discs. A 245/45-17 tire is about 25.7" in diameter, or 12.85" radius. To get the bottom of the frame to 7" off the ground, I need the axle centerline to be 5.85" above the bottom of the frame. Right? Am I missing something, or trying for something unusable on the street?
On the front if you stay just behind the crossmember,,kinda like doing a clip then it can save a bunch of work..
Of course on the front you will lose some height in there so you will need to remodle the radiator support and inner fender wells to accomodate the modification...You may need to do something different on the radiator as well...
Good luck..
|Thanks OneMoreTime. Attached image shows both ends Z'ed. The rear looks fairly simple: A bit of jigging to hold everything in place, cut, re-weld, remove jig. The front is complicated by the extra frame rails, the coil spring hats incorporated into the crossmember, and the anti-sway bar mounts.
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That is ZZZ..actly how we do it..do it at the front as well and you will have a nice low stance and not have to go thru the misery of dropped spindles and all that sort of thing..
It's early in the AM, so this might be the result of sleep deprivation instead of clear thinking. What about doing a kind of Z-ing of the frame for the drop? Hope the attached image is readable. Only one side shown cut. Blue lines are where it would appear to need reinforcement.
Is this crazy, or just more trouble than needed?
Every design is a collection of compromises. The feedback I've received here has convinced me that this rear suspension design doesn't have any compromises that interfere with my goals. Because of how much I don't know about suspensions, I was afraid I had the automotive equivalent of a conestoga wagon suspension under it.
In the shop manual, it talks about the differences between the internals of the rear end used for the 6 and the 8. You were likely dealing with a rear end from a "Rocket 88" or 98. I'm still a little nervous about hooking a high torque big block to that old differential. I'd prefer to be able to use engine, transmission and rear end from a donor car.
Here are a few thoughts from me. Back in 1959 I owned a '50 Olds Coupe. It had a '56 Olds engine, '38 Cad/LaSalle trans with Corvette shift linkage. Suspension was basically stock except for cut coils in the front to lower it about 3". I ran the largest rear tires I could get at that time (8.20-15) and the rear wheel wells were radiused (Full radius). You might consider this for ease of rear wheel removal if you do lower the car as much as you mentioned. That car rode great and although I never tried any high speed type road racing, it handled very nicely. I did have new shocks on it.
As to the strength of the rear end; I believe your '49 rear is the same as the '50. If that is the case, third members from both Olds and Pontiac up to 1956 will interchange. That third member/rear end assembly was "the way to go" at the time ('50's thru '60's). It was the "9" Ford" rear of that era and is plenty strong for the application you have described.
Thanks home brew. I had missed that "rear axle to frame clearance" thread and it's just what I need to know. The original has a lot of suspension travel as well as a lot of ground clearance.
It looks like Deuce has about 4" in that C'd frame in his journal and that's also what was mentioned in that thread. Even when the body was on the frame, this Olds had almost double that much clearance to the stop. With the body off, it has 9" from axle to the rubber bumper and 12" from axle to the frame. (The rubber stop is positioned on the forward sloping part of the frame). This is encouraging.
I remember the first time I drove the Olds, it was remarkable how much that suspension absorbed. There is a set of railroad tracks in Leitchfield, KY that used to eat tourists' cars, before they fixed it. You go up a hump of about a car length and it suddenly flattens out to go over the tracks. There was nothing between the tracks but crumbled asphalt. Natives going into town would crawl over the tracks. Tourists heading out toward the lake would launch up that hump and slam down between the tracks. That Olds simply rose up and settled, no matter which way you went. It kind of wallowed side to side in the rear if you hit the tracks at an angle. Highways and travel patterns have changed a lot since its era.
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What I would do is take the springs completely out and then block the chassis at the finished ride height..Then I can see just what I need to do to get there from here..
the minum ride height that I will use is the height of the tire sidewall..If you are planning on using some of those 35 or 40 series tires then the car winds up with about 2-3 inches of ground clearance..Plenty low enough for even the most hard core low rider..with a 70-75 series tire you will have about 7" of ground clearance..
Now if you are using coil overs the distance between mounting points is 12" on the front and 14" on the rears..
You can go to stock car products.com and get the springs that you need for reasonable last time I checked..and check out their tech on chassis setup as it is very educational....
Also if you can find any of the books by Carroll Smith on suspension and chassis they are well worth the money..try Steve Smith autosports.com for those..
Deuce: Those long, hefty arms look great for transferring the push but I wasn't sure if the design was completely obsoleted by later ones. For straight-line travel, it looks like the harder it shoves, the more it has to lift the car. If I can find my dream donor car, a '76 Cadillac, I'll probably adapt its rear end to this setup instead of getting a Ford 9". The rear track of that Caddy is just 1.7" wider than the Olds. Or were you talking about somehow putting the Ford 9" into the existing housing?
powerrodsmike: The harsh ride is what I want to avoid. Easy spring changes sounds good, in case I get the itch to find out what it will do in a 1/4. When I took the shock links off and the panhard bar loose, the frame jumped up quite a bit, with the right side considerably higher than the left. I was hoping modern springs might have some magic to be shorter without being harsher. If the frame has to be notched to get both lower and retain a good ride, so be it! The front suspension does worry me. Images attached.
OneMoreTime: I will make sure the frame is at least as strong when finished as before. I don't mind intruding on the trunk space. To mock it up and find out how much the frame has to be altered, I need the donor car on hand, at its normal ride height?
I know where I want to end up with this car; it's getting from here to there that I don't know about. There's a huge difference between putting a car back to specs in a service manual and creating a unique mutant. Without you folks being willing to share what you know, I'd have been lost down any of multiple blind alleys by now.
When I set up a chassis to be as low as possible I measure the sidewall of the tires and set the bottom of the chassis at that height..set it on blocks at design ride height and then it gets a lot more clear as to what has to be done to get the chassis to that point..
Refer to my journal to see how I do it..others have other ways that work for them..
Deuce is right, I would add that your current setup lends itself to easy spring changes so you can get your ride height and spring rate changed to suit your needs Also, a set of air bags will be really easy to install on that setup.
As far as a harsh ride is concerned: Folks will lower a car by using up all of the suspension travel, then try to keep it from bottoming out the frame on the axle by putting stiffer springs. Bad idea.
You can C- notch that frame some to get some of your clearance back. A spring relocation would help also.
I would think that the front suspension is going to be more of a challenge. What does it look like?
later, mikey
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LAUREL, MD. 11-06-08---A sure sign the grass season at Laurel Park is drawing to a close is the scheduled running of the 1-1/8th mile $50,000 Find Handicap on Saturday. Fifteen Maryland-breds passed the entry box, including four also-eligibles.
Broadway Producer (5-2) and Dr Rico (9-2), the one-two finishers in the Maryland Million Turf on October 4, resume their rivalry. In the Million Turf, the duo drew away from the rest of the field and battled head-to-head to the finish line, with Broadway Producer prevailing by a neck.
Dr Rico returned to the turf October 18 but finished fourth in an allowance race at Laurel. Rosie Napravnik, who rode Dr Rico over the summer before missing three months with a broken leg, regains the mount on the son of Disco Rico for trainer Hamilton Smith. The 20-year-old rider has won two of 13 races, with eight in the money finishes, since returning November 1.
Second choice on the morning line is Baltimore Bob (3-1), a four time winner on the grass including three over this course. The son of Malibu Moon won at Saturday's distance, defeating among others Dr Rico, in his most recent start under Abel Castellano, who will be back aboard for trainer Carlos Garcia.
"There are a lot of quality runners in here but he is training well and we are looking forward to the race," Garcia said. "I expect we'll be off the pace, make one move in the last three-eighths and see if we can get there in time. He is coming along very nicely and I think he'll be much better next year as a 4-year-old. He'll go to the farm after this race and we'll bring him back in February."
The speedy Seeyouinthecity (9-2) upset Baltimore Bob in the Humphrey Finney Stakes at Laurel in August. He also sports a strong turf performance line, with three wins in six starts and two wins over Laurel's infield. Malcolm Franklin, twice a winner atop the son of Slew City Slew this year, regains the mount from trainer Dale Capuano.
Capuano will also saddle defending champion Headsandtales (10-1), who finished second in an allowance score on October 17, his first start in the Capuano barn. The son of Tale of the Cat has not won since his driving score at odds of 25-1 in the 2007 Find Handicap last November.
With intentions of racing on the main track if the race comes off the turf, trainer Chris Grove entered Lexi Star (15-1), the only distaffer in the field. The multiple stakes winning mare will be retired after one more race and the Find could be her swan song. The daughter of Crypto Star has won 11 career races, including five added money races, and $582,624 in 28 starts.
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ALGONQUIN, Ill. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – Playing in its final event prior to next weekend's Horizon League Championship, the Green Bay women's golf team earned a runner-up finish at the three-team Loyola Invitational on Sunday at the cold and windy Golf Club of Illinois. Freshman Katie Pokrandt (Eau Claire, Wis.) led the way for the Phoenix, finishing the 36-hole tournament in third place.
The Phoenix entered the day just one stroke behind the host Ramblers following Saturday's opening round, but Loyola came out on top with a two-round score of 666 (336-330). Green Bay finished with a total of 682 (337-345) and UIC was third with 696 (347-349).
Pokrandt fired an opening-round score of 82 on Saturday before shooting an 86 on Sunday for a 36-hole total of 168. She finished 10 strokes behind individual champion April Ohlendorf (80-78=158) of Loyola and runner-up Carey Farley (84-82=166), also from the Ramblers.
Finishing just one stroke back from Pokrandt were two more Phoenix players, as junior Grace Abitz (Appleton, Wis.) (84-85) and freshman Sammi Grunder (Pardeeville, Wis.) (82-87) both carded 169s. Green Bay freshman Steph Laude (Slinger, Wis.) rounded out the top-10 with a 36-hole score of 174 (85-89).
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Rex Ryan stepped to the podium, looked out at the cameras and opened his news conference with a warning.
"You're not going to believe this one," the New York Jets coach declared without any hint of a smile.
In what has been a bizarre season, the Jets' wacky quarterback situation took yet another twist. Greg McElroy has a concussion which he didn't reveal until Thursday and will be replaced by Mark Sanchez as the starting quarterback in the season finale at Buffalo on Sunday.
"We've come to find out that Greg wasn't exactly truthful with our training staff after the game," said Ryan, who acknowledged he was "stunned" to hear the news. "He never disclosed that he had symptoms after the game to our trainers. Right now, he's being evaluated for a concussion."
McElroy, preparing to make his second NFL start in place of the benched Sanchez, was lifting weights Thursday morning and started experiencing headaches, Ryan said. McElroy went to the team's training staff and then revealed he was suffering concussion-like symptoms after being sacked 11 times in the Jets' 27-17 loss to San Diego last Sunday.
McElroy and head trainer John Mellody then went to Ryan to tell the coach the news. Offensive coordinator Tony Sparano said he was "pretty silent" when he found out a few minutes after Ryan.
Ryan chose to start Sanchez over Tim Tebow because the team has just two practices and a walkthrough to prepare before the game. He also cited Sanchez's success against the Bills in the season opener, when he threw three touchdown passes in the Jets' 48-28 win.
Sanchez appeared to be on his way to a solid season, but it ended up being his best game. He was benched for the first time in his four-year career after turning over the ball five times at Tennessee on Dec. 17.
McElroy leapfrogged Tebow on the depth chart to start against the Chargers. After finding out about McElroy's condition, Ryan spoke with both Sanchez and Tebow to tell them of his decision.
"Obviously, Tim's not happy with that, as you'd expect," Ryan said.
The news came on the heels of some tension between Ryan and Tebow last week, when the popular backup quarterback told the coach he was "disappointed" at not getting the start and wanted to play "regular quarterback."
Seahawks' Sherman wins his appeal
Even when others were suggesting he drop his case and accept his punishment, Richard Sherman never strayed from his steadfast belief that his four-game suspension would be overturned.
As unlikely as it seemed, Sherman was right.
The Seattle Seahawks will now have one of the best young cornerbacks in the NFL available for the playoffs after Sherman won his appeal of a suspension for use of performance enhancing substances on Thursday.
Gone is the lingering question about a possible suspension that hung over Sherman and the Seahawks for more than a month.
"I know what the truth is and anybody else who knows anything knows what the truth is. The truth has been told today," Sherman said on Thursday. "People can say what they want, there are always naysayers. I have great teammates and great coaches and great fans and that's all I care about."
The decision that was made by former NFL executive Bob Wallace came early Thursday morning. Sherman was called by his lawyer and simply announced in the Seahawks locker room, "I won."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in an email the league is reviewing the decision, but was declining comment due to confidentiality provisions.
Sherman was steadfast since news broke of his pending suspension that he believed he would win on appeal. Sherman's appeal was based on errors in the chain of custody of his urine sample and that there were mistakes made by the tester.
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Cowboys • Nose tackle Josh Brent was driving with a suspended license and had a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit at the time of the car crash that killed teammate and friend Jerry Brown, according to documents released by police. The 24-year-old Brent was tested after the crash in the early hours of Dec. 8 at 0.189 percent, well above the Texas limit of 0.08.
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Ross Chapin, AIA, who helped draft design guidelines for his town of Langley, Wash., recalls a developer who proposed a 54-unit-per-acre downtown housing complex for the elderly. The building was 150 feet long and three stories high and had no façade changes or connection to the street. Although the zoning code would have waved it through, the design standards stopped the project in its tracks. "It was just packaging the elderly, not giving them honor and respect," Chapin says. "This one would have had a huge impact not only on that part of town but also on the direction the town grows in."
So much of good architecture is context: the feel of a street, the way a tracery of tree limbs adds depth to a building's façade, the rhythm of marble stoops or iron railings, the way a house steps into a hilly site. In school, architects are taught to design buildings that respond to the environment in which they sit. Most do this commission by commission, their houses scattered about like jewels in the landscape. Others take on the architectural zeitgeist of entire communities. They sit on design review boards, planning commissions, and city councils. Whether volunteer or paid, they're working within the system to make sure that good design gets built.
As empowering as work in the public realm may be, it's often an uncomfortable position to be in—especially for a practicing architect. Besides the political pressure to vote a certain way, sitting on the other side of the table requires a great deal of objectivity: You need to put aside aesthetic preferences in deference to the written guidelines. You also have to shed the "secret language" of architecture and speak about design in a way that doesn't intimidate or alienate laypeople. Those who've served in official roles say they like spreading around the benefits of architecture and that it puts their own work in context, helping them understand the forces affecting what architects do.
"I think one's training as an architect is misleading in a way," says Wendy Kohn, San Francisco, who has an architecture degree and co-authored The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision with Moshe Safdie, FRAIC, FAIA. As a mayoral appointee to the Lower Downtown (LoDo) Design Review Board of Denver, where she lived until recently, Kohn was one of three architects in a group of seven charged with interpreting and enforcing LoDo's design guidelines. She was also teaching urban design to graduate students at the University of Colorado at Denver. "We're taught that you're making all the decisions at your drafting table," she says. "As you start to practice, you realize there are people making the key decisions that have huge consequences. Being involved at the city level and interacting with all the voices around the table to affect what gets built was a real privilege."
small-town politics For architects in popular vacation destinations, being a member of the design police means deflecting the status quo. Not only do people try to transplant incompatible house styles from their hometowns (picture an Atlanta McMansion in Aspen, Colo.), speculators gravitate to the safety of tried-and-true floor plans. For Ann Darby, AIA, who volunteers on two local review boards in the Vail, Colo., area, the two biggest challenges are ensuring architectural diversity and environmental sensitivity. The homes, which routinely range from about 5,000 square feet to 13,000 square feet in size, need to be stepped into the mountain and scaled to look like part of a community. "We're not in the business of creating suburbs with McMansions," says Darby, principal of Avon, Colo.-based Darby Architects. But it's a delicate point to enforce. Often the owner push-back is cost-driven—breaking down a house's mass creates more forms, which is more expensive.
Some Vail-area homeowners will ask the Realtor who sold them the land to look over their house plan to make sure it's salable. One plan in particular circulates among the real estate community, resulting in homes that—if not quite cookie-cutter—look similar. Darby encourages people to move away from those stock plans to something that's site-specific, yet has broad appeal. "The homeowner is more likely to accept criticism if it makes the project better," she says. "But the developer is focused on financial decisions. Many times we'll table a project and ask them to come back with the changes we've encouraged. It's not our business to design people's homes but to lead them in the right direction, and there's a fine line between the two."


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I have been assigned to teach English to Cardio/Thorasic and Medical Sciences students in the next semester, but our university doesn't have any English materials for the medical field. Plus I am a computer engineer whose background is obviously NOT in the medical field.
My search for materials has been all over Phitsanulok and Chiangmai without success. I have not had time, nor do I suspect I will, to travel down to Bangkok in search of books.
So my thoughts are to seek assistance from the plethora of knowledge which resides in this great forum.
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Prefactoring approaches software development of new systems using lessons learned from many developers over the years. It is a compendium of ideas gained from retrospectives on what went right and what went wrong in development. Some of these ideas came from experience in refactoring. Refactoring is improving the design of existing code to make it simpler and easier to maintain.
This practical, thought-provoking guide details prefactoring guidelines in design, code, and testing. These guidelines can help you create more readable and maintainable code in your next project.
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Prefactoring is an exposition of principles for software design, laid out in the context of the development of a fictional application. I've never been into that particular style of writing about software design; in fact, it was the only thing I didn't like about Martin Fowler's Refactoring, which is the inspiration for both Prefactoring's own fictional case study and its name as well.When you've got one programming book named after another one, one reasonable idea is to compare the two. Prefactoring's premise is that, instead of fixing your design afterwards -- an extremely terse summary of Refactoring -- you apply what you've learned from that in the past to build it with the right design principles from the get-go. That sounds like good common sense, and it is. Unfortunately, it really only makes sense in the context of a misunderstanding of Refactoring. Refactoring and debugging are different things. It's very common in software for people to use buzzwords and catchphrases as an alternative to thinking, and consequently, in certain organizations, you'll hear "refactoring" used as a synonym for "debugging."In fact, refactoring is supposed to happen during debugging -- but it's also supposed to happen during the course of development, and in fact this is the preferred time to do it. Refactoring comes from agile development, specifically Extreme Programming, where the basic cycle is to write unit tests, write the simplest code that can possibly satisfy those tests, refactor that code, and then begin again with new unit tests. Refactoring can mean improving things during debugging, but much more importantly, what it really means is streamlining existing code as you refine it. To say that the best thing to learn from refactoring is to get your code right first time is to use the vocabulary of agile development to advocate waterfall development, and this, in fact, is what Prefactoring often seems to do.Worse still, many of the code examples are in Java, and they don't use Josh Bloch's guidelines from Effective Java or Java Puzzlers. This might be a quibble, but I'd certainly hire or fire based on this quibble, as I think it's very important (and therefore not a quibble at all). Pretty much everything I've done for months has been in Ruby on Rails, so I'm frequently reminded that Java is not popular in every sector of the tech industry -- however, if you are going to write Java, I personally feel that writing Java without observing Bloch's guidelines is careless at best, and borders on outright negligence.On the other hand, I seem to be kind of eviscerating this book here, and that's not quite fair. I disagree with some of the design principles laid out in this book, but most of them are pretty strong in the common sense department. Also, software development is one of those things where you can be better off after reading a book even if you disagree with it. For instance, just in criticizing this book's attitude towards refactoring, I've had to question my own understanding of it. If you read this book with the right frame of mind, you'll challenge your own ideas and come to new conclusions, and probably become a better developer in the process
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For James Doan, doing undergraduate research in biochemistry at the University of St. Thomas was a way to fuel his passion for science and get ahead of the curriculum. It also helped him earn a full-tuition, merit scholarship to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in El Paso, where he will start in the fall.
Doan is among the 328 undergraduates and 350 graduate students who will participate in the 61st Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 14 at Reliant Arena, One Reliant Park.
After four years at UST, Doan is still getting used to the idea that he will be going to medical school on a full scholarship. "It feels good that you don't have to worry about the monetary stuff while you're studying," he said. "It's a great honor because they only give it to 20 of the incoming students, and it was merit-based." As the medical school is fairly new, Doan will be in the third class, which includes 80 students.
UST has a high acceptance rate into medical school. Between 2005-2010, 71 percent of applicants from UST were accepted into medical school, said Dr. Michelle Steiger, assistant professor of chemistry and physics and Co-Chair of the Health Professions Advisory Committee.
However, being accepted into medical school is one accomplishment; not having to pay for it is another, and Steiger is excited for Doan's full-tuition scholarship. "I thought it was awesome," she said. "I was very happy for James, and I thought the award was well deserved."
From the beginning, Doan knew he wanted to pursue the pre-medicine track. His favorite class has been organic chemistry, a class known among pre-med students for its difficulty. "I really enjoyed it," Doan said. "It made sense to me. I would read chapters three or four times and still be interested."
Doan believes his research helped with his medical school interviews. "It shows that you're dedicated to the science field," he said.
Doan first started research in his freshman year, using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). "The faculty chose five freshmen who they believed could understand nuclear magnetic resonance, because you actually learn that in organic chemistry sophomore year," he said.
Later, he declared a biochemistry major, and he started doing research with Steiger, who has been his advisor for several research projects. "I learned all the biochemistry lab techniques before I took biochemistry," he said. "It's a way to apply what you learn so you remember it."
Along with techniques and scientific principles, he also learned that experiments don't always work. Doing NMR research the summer before junior year, he tried to extract lipids from E. coli bacteria membranes and observe them on phosphate NMR. "The signal wouldn't work," he said. "It was complete noise. We concluded that we needed to do a larger concentration." The experiment required mixing a liter of solution at 4 degrees Celsius. "I had to go into the cold room, physically in a refrigerator, to mix it," Doan said. "It was a lot of fun though, and there were a lot of good techniques that I learned."
Steiger described Doan as a conscientious, smart and dedicated student. "He definitely puts extra effort into everything he is doing," she said.
Doan said working with Steiger is one of the reasons he has enjoyed UST so much. "She opened me up to a new field of science that I never knew about before college," he said. "She's always there if you need anything." If a class did not do well on a quiz, she would review the material again. "She tries to make you understand before she moves on," he said. "That's what I love about her."
Doan's excitement for science also extends outside the classroom and lab. He is president of the American Chemical Society – Student Affiliates chapter at UST, and the group is involved in several community service events. Every year, members participate in the Education Rainbow Challenge, a math and science competition for elementary and middle school students.
Steiger said Doan has dedicated a lot of time to the ACS student chapter, as he has to be present at all the events they host. "James is able to do a lot and do it very well," she said. "Even when he's stressed he is still smiling. As a professor, you automatically love that."
Steiger said Doan is a testament to the strong biochemistry degree program at UST. "In time, he's going to be a wonderful physician," she said. "He will, no doubt, be a leader of faith and character."
Doan's graduation from UST and acceptance into medical school continues the family legacy. His two older brothers, John and David, also attended UST, and now both are physicians. Doan said his parents are proud of him and his brothers. "I think they're pretty proud that we were able to achieve that," he said. "They're very supportive, and none of us could do it without their help."
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The Rangers, Kinsler and Cano
The Texas Rangers are discussing a six-year contract with second baseman Ian Kinsler that would begin in 2013, according to major-league sources.
The holdup?
Indirectly, it might be Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano.
Kinsler and the Rangers, trying to complete a deal by the team's opener on Friday, have been unable to reach agreement on the financial terms of the new contract.
The Rangers, sources say, are willing to give Kinsler a salary higher than Dan Uggla's record average for a second baseman, $12.4 million. But the team probably does not want to go far above that figure, which is where Cano enters the equation.
The Yankees exercised Cano's $14 million option for this season and hold a $15 million option on him for 2013. His next deal, whether achieved in an extension or through free agency, figures to be at a much higher number.
Kinsler, who turns 30 on June 22, is signed for $7 million this season with a $10 million club option for 2013; the option would be eliminated in the first year of his new deal.
He might not be at Cano's level. But, judging from their respective career marks in OPS-plus, he's not far off.
OPS-plus is a player's combined on-base/slugging percentage adjusted to his ballpark and league. Cano's career mark is 119. Kinsler's is 114. And Kinsler has been even more productive than Cano in the post-season.
So, let's say Cano's next deal is for $18 million per season – and that might be conservative, given the recent eruption in the market.
Kinsler, then, might be shortchanging himself if he accepted, say, $14 million per season. His goal might be more in the $16 million range.
Rangers general manager Jon Daniels told reporters Tuesday that he does not expect to complete any contract extensions before Opening Day. But he also did not rule out the possibility of a last-minute deal with Kinsler or any of the Rangers' potential free agents, including catcher Mike Napoli and center fielder Josh Hamilton.
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Paul D. Shisler of Patterson, New York, died Thursday May 3, 2012 in Carmel, New York, at the age of 16.
Paul was born February 12, 1996 in Carmel, the son of Mark and Annmarie (Fay) Shisler. He was a sophomore in Brewster High School and a member of Sacred Heart Church in Patterson. Paul loved his family, computer games, his Playstation 3 and his dog Toby.
Besides his parents of Patterson, Paul is survived by his brothers Robert and Sean Shisler of Patterson; his maternal grandparents Mike and Mary (Pollard) Fay of Westford, NY; and Uncles Pat and Mike Fay.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday May 7, 2012, 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church, Putnam Lake. Interment will follow in St. Lawrence O'Toole Cemetery in Brewster.
Calling hours will be held Saturday May 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. and Sunday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Beecher Funeral Home, 1 Putnam Ave., Brewster, NY 10509. Please visit our web site at beecherfuneralhome.com.
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Hey all,
I think this warrants a thread now, I'd started this about 2 years ago and only now got round to finishing it off (although I may still cut out the armour and make a vest)
The original idea was to put a Dragon Models body, new hands, replace the feet etc...but I'd run into a dead end then and so decided now, to go with what I've got.
So it's a Dragon head (James) on the Hasbro body and a repaint of some parts..
I had the vintage 70's 12" fett and scalped the pouches to fill the inexplicable gap in the later (1992) Hasbro ammo belt - superglued and repainted the whole belt
a repaint for the red and chromed chips and kill stripes on the helm and he red on the gauntlets...
painted in the LED chest display
and a touch of brass and thge red light deatil on the ear cap and rangefinder
and finally heres Boba (James) Fett without his helm - scarred by a hot screwdriver
Other details are added the pipes from the gauntlets to the sleeves and the neck/head cowl from Dragon's German soldier - Zanis.
then I decided to cut out the visor and install a more realistic transparent one
Opaque visor area - cut out...
template traced and marked onto plastic deo lid...
and cut out, with a bit extra on the bottom length for possible error...
I've shaved as much as possible from the interior as the plastic is quite thick..there's a tiny hole in on cheek where I shaved too vigorously but it's nothing major, I'll fill it later...
well..it glued.
it looks pretty cool, as far as fit goes, the trimmed helm lets it sit less recessed and the visor is a nice fit for the gap.
the only problem then was that using superglue left a naaasty misty film over the visor, it's still transparent but not shiny, which is..well..not Boba Fett..
so plan b:- cut another visor (number 4) and try a different glue.
different glue, new visor, job done


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Dumars4Ever, Dec 9, 2006.
Yeah you can only hide them for so long.
I read somewhere that Joe is considerin tradin FlipM straight-up for Bonzi Wells. Seems like both players need a change of scenery. One "Flip problem" might be solved reeeel soon.
Is this serious?
Its in Blakely's latest blog entry.
I would do it. Not too high on either, however, Bonzi might be a step up from Flip.
Murray is just on loan (possibly Bonzi too)... we're better off building our future with someone that we are sure will be around for two cups of coffee. Murray is not building a case for the scouts looking for new acquisitions.
@Merc's sig. I'd do the trade. Hopefully if it happens he uses Delfino and Bonzi at the same time.
Something like Delfino, Murray and our own 1st rounder for Bonzi & Luther Head (drafted #24 last year)... that would set us up... Head is having a nice year as a combo guard... Blalock could still get a shot at some reserve minutes.
Head is a poor man's Ben Gordon. I'm not sure I like that deal, and I'm not sure I like including Delfino in any trade that bolsters Murray's value unless it is for a salary discounted star or we are committed to developing Jmax/Amir at the 3.
True... however Head is a rich mans Murray
``Murray is just on loan (possibly Bonzi too)... we're better off building our future with someone that we are sure will be around for two cups of coffee.'' Guys play harder in contract years. I'd rather have Bonzi around for 6 months than for 3 years.
I hope I have made my point about this 4minute brother (3 fouls/3 turnovers) tonight... lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalaLOOOO-SER!
Doesn't appear to be the case with Finals-MVP All-Star Billups. This season, he often looks like he feels he has already proven all he has to prove and is just waiting for the highest bidder.
That's Chauncey. It's a bit different when one is a top FA, no?
So what is going on with Flip Murray that his game has been heading south lately? During one of the OTs last night I thought I saw him heading back in the game and he wasn't wearing his headband. He probably attributes his poor play to his headgear or else he's trying to change it up a bit and see if that will bring him some luck. There has to be concern on the part of Joe D. and the upper echelon of management to figure out whether to trade him or let him play through this horrible stretch until Lindsey Hunter gets back on his feet. In the meantime Delfino can play SG and even Dupree should get some minutes because Flip Saunders isn't going to let Flip Jr. struggle much longer. He said this isn't the developmental league and doesn't even want to talk about his namesake anymore.
No matter how he plays, Flip is depth. It only takes one twisted ankle between our starting guards for Flip to become very important and relevant. Particularly since his production efficiency increases with starter minutes. We're lucky he's stinking it up because he's not really in our long term plans and it is giving Delfino opportunities to show and increase his value.
I actually think he cares about winning more than his contract, and I don't know why people can't believe that. He's playing bad, he's not taking nights off. He did his job by racking up assists and not turning the ball over. He's in a shooting slump, but it's not his job to score.
Nope. Rip gets injured, Delfino should get the start, Flip Murray still should not play. Ditto for Billups, Flip should still not get any minutes while Blalock gets the start. Rip and Delfino in together can spell Blalock, with Rip guarding the point and Delfino running the point on offense. Flip Murray has no guard skills, and so should never play as a guard. Also, we can bring in JMAX or Amir Johnson in as a small forward as needed while Tay plays gaurd.
I don't think Delfino should start at SG. This team is heavily dependent on 20 PPG from the starter at that position. Delfino has shown a lot of intangibles and a good nose for the ball, but he hasn't shown any indication the team can lean on him game after game for bulk points production. I'm no Flip Murray fan, but he is capable of putting up 20+ in starters minutes. There is an element of pressuring defenders which is part of the "the best defense is a good offense" cliche. It would also be great to see him play his butt off because he wants a nice contract this offseason.
I don't see why there must be 20 from the SG position. Not having Rip means running more plays for Sheed and Tay.
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Dr. Mark Bailey: Welcome to DTS Dialogue: Issues of God in Culture. I'm your host, Mark Bailey. I have the privilege of serving as president of Dallas Theological Seminary.
Today we want to interact on "key topics in the emerging church." We've already dialogued on the general topic of the emerging church in an earlier podcast, and we want to take the opportunity today to dig in a little bit deeper.
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One of the passions that I've picked up is the passion to be missional. I hear that term, and it's used by many people.
What do we mean by "missional living" and "missional ministry"? The doctrine, the incarnation is often referenced as justification for being missional. What do you men here and what do you think that being missional means?
Dr. Glenn Kreider: I really like the language of "incarnational" better than "missional" because it's more Christological, Christocentric. I think at its core, what I would affirm it means to be missional, and incarnational, is that we are the incarnation of Christ in the world. We are the body of Christ. That we're the only Jesus people can see; if you want to see what Jesus looks like, you look at us. That we ought to be about what He was about, we ought to be leading people to follow Him and to discipleship and mentoring.
And that the incarnation is not simply the means by which God sent the Redeemer into the world, but it's the way, it's the means by which He redeemed the world and establishes a model for ministry. That if the Creator of the universe humbled Himself, as Paul says in Phillippians 2 -- which, by the way, that great Christological hymn, I observe, comes, is not written in order for Paul to... Paul's not developing a high Christology in Phillippians 2. He uses Christ as an example. So if the Creator of the universe humbled Himself, and came and gave Himself even to the point of death, that's how we ought to treat one another.
And whether that's involvement in taking care of the poor -- the least of these -- whether that's involved in working for justice, whether that's involved in politics, it's a matter of how can we, like Jesus, be redemptive and be agents of grace in the world that God has created. And I think, I like that "incarnational" -- and obviously I didn't invent that, I think Joe Aldridge talked about that long before I did, it's not a new thing. The missional focus is not a new thing, it's kind of become a buzzword now, and I have kind of an immediate reaction against the use of jargon and buzzwords, but I do think that's what it means to be missional: to be incarnational, to be redemptive in the world, like Jesus was.
Mark Bailey: Not just claiming to be Christian, but living Christian.
Glenn: Mm-hmm.
Mark Bailey: I had the privilege of having a group of pastors -- and Andy, you were in on that meeting -- with a group of our alums who are ministering in the area in larger churches. We've been meeting with pastors of different kinds of churches, and different sizes of churches, and just dialoguing with them, finding out what we can learn as a seminary from them and their context of ministry. Letting them know what God's doing on our campus. We recently had five or six pastors on campus for lunch, and as they shared a little bit of the DNA of their ministry, a common theme that really came through was that they, by acts of compassion within the context of their ministry community, they have broken, if I could say, the blockade of bringing Christ to schools and to leadership structures like city councils.
And they have -- by being Christian in their conduct, in loving relationships, meeting needs, being sensitive -- they have really opened doors that have given them the opportunity to share Christ at the appropriate times. And so that each conversation wasn't evangelistic by its nature, but each conversation prepared for an evangelistic opportunity to explain why we do what we do.
There was a common theme, African-American, as well as other kinds of churches, and it was great to see that common thread. That something is happening, where even with those who share great theology, there is missional living to a point that is opening the doors, a phrase that I picked up from a pastor of the Katrina-effected churches in the Gulf Coast. That he said by sharing the small grace with the community, in matters of clean-up and in matters of ministry, they have been given a privilege of sharing the big message of grace. And I think that's a healthy passion.
Barna's comments of what the church looks like -- those who claim to be born again, and either who don't know the scriptures or don't live like a Christian -- I see a real reason for reaction. I see a real reason, a legitimate criticism that's coming. And whether we like the way the response is taken, I think the passion for why it's necessary, we ought to be listening to and thinking about.
Glenn: And the church's contribution to the world is grace. It's not content, it's not what we do, but that we have the opportunity to be Christ in the world, to be redemptive and to be gracious. Whether it's small grace or big grace. Grace is grace, and grace is good.
Dr. Andy Seidel: When you think of the pastors in Second Corinthians 5, where God is entreating through us, being reconciled, you know, that's just kind of an amazing thing, and it puts it in a whole different perspective. That God is reaching through His people into the world, and that He would entrust us. Because He didn't have to do that.
Glenn: And He probably could have done a better job.
Andy: You think so?
Glenn: Without us.
Andy: Oh, I think so.
Mark Bailey: And He boils it to one word, He says, "The word of reconciliation."
Andy: Reconciliation.
Mark Bailey: That's great. A couple questions to wrap this up. What resources would you all recommend first for people who want to read more widely, who want an exposure to the spectrum of those who have -- and there are -- who have good theology, but have a passion for being missional, and even identifying themselves with emerging culture? Whether they would call themselves an emerging church, an emergent church. There is a big spectrum, and I think we would do well to recognize that. But why don't some of you just popcorn some of the resources that you would recommend for reading, to get that acquaintance?
Andy: I have to say that part of my real interest in this is in the whole area of leadership. And in a number of these emerging church books and materials, they're talking about needing a new kind of leadership. That, especially given the discontinuous change and all of those things, we need a leadership that is different from just the programmatic in the past. There's a new book out by Allan Roxburgh and Romanuk I think is the second name called the Missional Leader. I think it's very interesting, kind of putting that particular missional perspective on leadership and how one makes the transition in churches towards a missional approach.
Glenn: There are a handful of books I think everyone needs to read who's interested. We talked about listening to the beliefs of emerging churches the earlier five views book by Leonard Sweet, Horton, McLaren called The Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives and Eddie Gibb's and Ryan Bolger's Emerging Churches, we talked about that before, too. Those are really helpful books, not simply because I say that they are, or because other theologians or publishers say that they are, but people who are involved in the conversation say that they are.
I think there's a second set of books and articles and blogs that ought to be read, and that is much more specifically if you want to understand, as I said earlier, Doug Pagitt, read him, if you don't understand McLaren, read him, and read for understanding and for conversation and dialogue.
And a book that I'm not recommending, but I do think is important to mention because of the way it's been praised by people within the conversation is the book by Peter Rollins, How Not to Speak of God, that several prominent leaders in Emergent Village have said, "This is the most important single book to read." I find it very problematic, but if you want to understand what that stream of the conversation, what the emergent -- with a t -- folks are about, Rollins' book is I think an important book to read.
Mark? Any others?
Dr. Mark Heinemann: Well, I mentioned the Kimball book, They Like Jesus but Not the Church. I think this is a great example of someone who is holding on to Scripture, holding on to the Nicene Creed as the fundamental foundation of faith and trying to head-on face these accusations or these false images that people out there have. This guy has a pastor's heart; he's at least reading Kimballs' stuff. How can you not like this guy? He's got to be a nice guy; I'd like to meet this guy.
Andy:He is a very nice guy.
Mark Heinemann: He loves sinners. And so there are some things to learn and there are some other things I...
Mark Bailey: For those who were at the Dallas Seminary, Dan served on the staff with Chip Ingram at Santa Cruz Bible Church before he launched the Vintage Church, just by way of biography and history there.
Mark Heinemann: I think another book I'd like to recommend is by David Wells, it's called Above All Earthly Powers: Christ in a Postmodern World. It's pretty obvious that David is going to stand for truth and a solid view of Scripture; I think he does a fantastic job of looking at that subject so I'd recommend that book.
Mark Bailey: That's great; those are helpful. For those who would want to read particular authors who are standing strong for Scripture, have good theology and who are still a part of this emerging conversation, any names that you want to put on the table that would be helpful to mention?
Andy: I think Scott McKnight would be one. He says he comes through this movement, that he's part of, but would still be evangelical. And Kimball.
Glenn: Kimball?
Mark Bailey: Dan Kimball, Mark Driscoll would be strong in terms of biblical and Christological authority. I understand that Andy Krautz has a book coming out soon...I would recommend Krautz as well.
Mark Bailey: There are other books that have been written in evaluation in varying degrees of concern and sternness and gentleness, and those are out there that I'm sure many are familiar with. But I think one of the criticisms, and I think people like Mark Driscoll, Dan Kimball, and others have mentioned of the movement themselves even if they chose to be in that movement or in that dialogue, in that conversation is that there are places in Scripture, like in the pastorals, where a defense of truth and an exposure of error is a part of pastoral ministry.
And I think to not hold strongly to Biblical truth, to protect the flock, and I think of passages like "preach the word" in Second Timothy Chapter Four, "Preach the Word, be ready in season and out of season. And there's a place for reproving and rebuking and exhorting, but with great patience and instruction, and there are times", it says, "that are coming, where they will not endure sound doctrine. People will want to have their ears tickled and they will want to accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires. They will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you be sober in all things and endure hardship and do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
There is a place where unapologetically but with gentleness we affirm the truth of scripture. We affirm the truth that has been revealed and we do stand against error. And there's a time to expose when, Glenn, as you've said, they go off track and entertain unbelief as opposed to belief as optional. And I think all of us would have concern with regard to that. Not to end on a negative note, but what are some of the cautions, as you have read, that you would give to those that would be looking at this movement. What are some helpful warning signs, "be careful," or caution signs, because it is a wide movement?
Mark Heinemann: Along the lines of what you've just said, Mark, that a new emphasis on the study of the Gospels and the study of the life of Christ which we can welcome does not result in a neglect of the Epistles and the other writings. It does concern me that as I read in this field that Paul is almost invisible. And he's committed some faux pas in some people eyes in that he's come out fairly strongly on some things and seems to have the attitude that he knows the truth. And as you were going through some of those passages, I thought about First Corinthians 7 where Paul says, "This is the rule I lay down in all the churches." In First Timothy , tons of times - chapter 4 "prescribe and teach these things", chapter 5: "maintain these principles," chapter 6: "preach and teach these things..."
Mark Bailey: It evidentially isn't arrogant to do that.
Mark Heinemann: [clears throat] Well, he's an apostle...
But he's...but Timothy's not an apostle.
Mark Bailey: That's right. That's right.
Mark Heinemann: And if these are to be passed on to faithful men, those faithful men aren't apostles, either. And so, somehow we also have to have a balance between having an open, dynamic theology that is willing to entertain questions that are uncomfortable and things that...that, maybe we thought we were sure about and maybe need to reconsider and having it so open that everything leaks out of our container and, and...we have to reinvent the wheel, then, with every generation.
I think about....uh.. the children, the youth, the members of a given assembly. They don't need every time to have some sort of an open ended theological discussion. They need to know that that's how theology is done and they need to have a "chastened intellect" as, as Dan Grentz would have said. But they also need the milk of the Word and the meat of the Word and that's in there somewhere. We've got some places where we can stand...and I would hate to see those be eroded away and there's just that danger. A caution.
Mark Bailey: As one who has made it a life passion to study the Gospels, as well as the Epistles, I think many people would be surprised if they simply took the Great Commission - final phrase - teaching them to "obey everything I commanded." And when you look at the nearly 200 commands of the life of Christ and what it involves in reference to money and reference to marriage. And in reference to immorality, reference to the future. As much as he said, even in the areas of eschatology, you know, there is a lot that he has communicated that you can't do a walk-by truth. You can't be a walk-around morality. When it comes just, even, to the message of Jesus.
But I...I fear, one of the cautions I would raise is that there is an enamorment with the meek and mild Jesus of Hollywood and at times some artwork to the expense of what Jesus said -whether it was to false teachers, whether it was to his disciples, there is a significant condemnation, obviously, of hypocrisy which looks inward toward the religious. But there's also no mealy-mouth mixing of whether or not it's truth or err in regard even to culture. And so, if they would take seriously Jesus, I think it would lead them to Paul. And Paul obviously points back, you know, to Jesus.
Glenn: I think the strengths.... that are being raised are...are the weaknesses as well. And that, that an emphasis on being incarnational and missional an emphasis on understanding the culture sometimes lacks the criticism of the culture. That it is that doesn't mean necessarily mean that it's good. I think there's...I read sometimes what looks like an attempt to find commonality, and to find things to choose and use, but not an evaluation of and critique of things...Let's come back to the need a theology of culture - that an attempt to bring together the head and the heart - an experiential Christianity - sometimes is implicitly a denial of the importance of right doctrine, of the intellect, and the raising of good questions in an attempt to avoid inappropriate dogmatism, and to be humble is sometimes not a sound humility - I like the way Andy put that.
And the emphasis on narrative and story sometimes is at the expense of...there are systematic categories that are handed down to us from the Apostles' Creed through Nicea, and the appreciation of the Christian tradition.
But at some times, it's a pick-and-choose, cut-and-paste of the practices of the tradition, although at the same time I do want to say I appreciate in the conversation - in the churches that are intentionally emerging, those that are very intentional about returning to the orthodox confession of distinctive Christian doctrine through the creeds, I think that's incredibly helpful and we ought to affirm that. And I think sometimes an attempt to be christological and christocentric is not adequately trinitarian nor adequately ecclesiological.
We cannot separate Jesus from the church, and we cannot have Jesus apart from the Father and the Son, and we cannot have the parts of Jesus switch we like, or that make us comfortable. It's an all-or-nothing thing with Him, and sometimes He's easy to get along with, and sometimes he's not quite so much.
Mark Bailey: Great - that's a great point.
Andy: And I think that, just adding one more thing to what you've said is just to realize that this is, as they call it, an emerging movement. And in any emerging movement you push the envelope, and maybe then pull back from certain things, and so not everything that is said that's a part of the movement will be a part of the movement a year from now or two years from now, and so just to have that perspective that this is an emerging thing - it isn't fully developed and formed yet - and it's a reaction movement in a sense, and so it will change.
Mark Bailey: I think all of us have recognized some of the good challenges of the movement - to wed truth and practice, to be involved, not just against the culture, but involved with the culture in presenting a consistent lifestyle that backs a Christian message, and so while we're getting cautions, we obviously, I think, all around this table would appreciate the challenges that it brings to us as well.
Thank you men for being with us today. Let me pray for us.
Father, thank you for the privilege of interacting, and we ask that this conversation might be helpful as those who listen wrestle with the same kinds of issues. That they would read well, they would listen carefully, and that we would read with Biblical perspective, so that we might have wise behavior, and never lose the love for our world that your son demonstrated - the kind of love with which He loved us, and others. And may we reflect that compassion, and stand for truth and at the same time love people like You do. And we give you thanks in Jesus' name. Amen.
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|October 23rd, 2012, 09:14 PM
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Well, I've been lurking on here for quite sometime and figured it's time to start my build thread....
This is my first time building a dedicated trail-only rig, but certianly not the first time with a wrench in my hand. Anyways, a little background about the truck, I have always had a soft spot for full size chevy's (k5's in particular) and jumped at the chance to pick up my relatively clean 89 from my aunt. Who was unfourtnatley selling to pay for medical bills for my uncle, who had a stroke last year. Never the less, I was a happy owner of my new-to-me blazer at a great price.
When I brought her home she was all stock
Jasper Rebuilt TBI 350
Slipping 700r4
31" all terrains
|October 23rd, 2012, 09:35 PM
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I apologize for the lack of pics in the beginning, I literally drove it home straight into the barn and started taking it apart. I waited a while to start this due to my sloth like build speed, Ill try to bring you guys up to date. First thing i did was grab the sawzall and hack out the stock axles.
|October 23rd, 2012, 09:52 PM
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|October 23rd, 2012, 09:58 PM
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Shorty after selling off the ten bolts, I picked up a set of 3/4 tons. When I got em home I found out the rear 14 bolt had a gov-bomb in it. Being a college student with a job only allows me to make it home to work on the truck every third weekend. The the next logical step was giving a call to Advantage Drivlines in Jackson. They swapped out the carrier and welded up the spiders for 25 bucks (more on that later). The gave them a quick coat of rattle can black and threw em under the truck...
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|October 23rd, 2012, 10:29 PM
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Next i picked up a set of 17" marsh racing beadlocks from another member on here who's name is eluding me (thanks if your reading). They were a little rusty and a baby blue that I was not a fan of (no offense). So I cleaned them up and painted them to match the blaze. It was winter of last year so i had to heat them up on the grill at my house at school before i painted them outside. Should have seen the neighbors faces...wish i had a pic of that lol, but they turned out pretty good. The GF picked the color, and it was a perfect match!
|October 23rd, 2012, 10:37 PM
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While buying the wheels i was asked if I needed a set of tires to go with them, I said "sure do". This ended with me driving home with a set of 37" Red Label Krawlers
First one mounted and bolted up...
My torpedo heater helped with the mounting process, as did a variety of pry bars, BFH's and body weight. By the last tire I had the routine down smoothly.
She's sitting on all fours!
|October 23rd, 2012, 11:12 PM
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A few more shots, my 9 month old lab-zilla "Ruger" posing as if he built it.
Poser Shot in the snow..
Shortly after this all hell broke loose. I was planning on building this in stages as the money came in, but I guess my blazer just wanted one tons.
As I mentioned before I had advantage drivelines do some minor work on my axle being that I didn't have time with school and work. Well I picked it up three weeks later when I was home, and assumed it was full of fluid, as I was told if it comes back dry "it will have a tag on it". My mistake, come to find out, no tag, and it was dry. I took it for its madien voyage around the property and a grinding began. Unsure if it was the "slight" intoxication or the pure lack of thoroughness on my part or a combination of both that caused me to miss where this was coming from or what. By the time I located the problem the next morning the axle was feeling as bad as I was. Learned a lesson the hard way
|October 23rd, 2012, 11:20 PM
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Well, after a good cry, the search was on for a 14 bolt FF, which is what should have been my first step anyways. Before pulling the toast axle out I noted a cv rear shaft was in order as my d.s. angles were horrible as expected.
Nice exhaust huh?
|October 23rd, 2012, 11:46 PM
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I ended up with a saginaw style flange for my hack n tap, since I wanted to do away with the slip yoke before my new driveshaft. Bought a 7/16 rapidcut bit from precision tool and it worked very well, cut like butter once I got through the 1/4" or so of hardening on the end of the output shaft.
Tapping the shaft was a different story. I knew my crappy harbor fright tap would most likely be obliterated in the process, so I purchased a craftsman set for the job.
The craftsman tap started the first few threads but was shortly destroyed, turn over the box and it says made in china. I understand it's tapping harded steel but i figured it would hold up much better than it did. I assumed most of thier stuff was made in the U.S. still? Especially when quality materials are a must i.e. in a tap set.
Luckily the HF taps finished the job and I returned the craftsman set the next day. The store clerk informed me that they are having a ton of problems, and a lot of returns since craftsman has started outsourcing some of their tools to china. Which was the first i have heard of it.
|October 24th, 2012, 06:02 AM
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Nice build, looking good so far, I also have a soft spot for those body style of gm trucks. I still have a K5 waiting for some lovin after I get done with my jeep projects.
|October 24th, 2012, 09:18 AM
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|October 24th, 2012, 01:14 PM
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The truck sat like this for some time as I was busy with summer, riding at the dunes, building a track in the backyard, and work. As I got time I started stripping out the carpet and interior to prep for bed-lining the floor. When I picked up the truck, the rockers were a little soft, so I was anxious to see how much rot was actually hidden under the carpet, this is what i found..
Rear floor pan,
Front floor pans along kick panels,
|October 24th, 2012, 01:25 PM
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Dont have any pictures of the front but it had been patched previously. It wasn't the best job but they are pretty solid for the most part. Im still debating which way to go on this, so opinions and advice are welcome. The way I see it right know I have three options..
1) Try my hand at body work, replacing the outer edges of the floor, along with outer and inner rocker boxes. Then add frame mounted sliders underneath.
2) Cut out rockers completely, weld sliders to the body (bottom of the door jam would be the slider). Still having to fix parts of the floor.
3) This is the one Im leaning towards most, Boatside it, which would eliminate the need to repair 95% of the rust as it would just get cut out to make room for my bracing.
What do you guys think??
|October 24th, 2012, 01:44 PM
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Number 3 would be your best bet, if you're going to do trails and rocks.
It might get tight on some of the trails. so hope you are okay with a few dents. Make sure you do some fab work to the frame around the steering gear box, they like to brake.
here is a pic of my old Blazer. it was fun.
|October 24th, 2012, 03:13 PM
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Im aware the steering box area being a weak link in the frame, Im thinking plate on the outside and inside of the frame, possibly adding extra bracing to the front crossmember (crossover and hydro assist in the near future)
|October 24th, 2012, 07:41 PM
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The last few months I have been gathering parts for the k5, I also changed my mind about the leaf setup (I think I may have undiagnosed ADD). Anyways I realized I on was on my way to building a rig that lacked the flex I needed (rough country lift springs, need I say more) and had a high COG, which didn't suit it's intended use. So now she's getting a 52" spring swap, the rear 52's are loosing the add-aleaf and being transplanted to the front. I should be sitting about 4" higher than stock now.
The rear is getting a set of 56's out of the rear of a 2500 Burb.
The 56's have an offset center pin, but no worries there, switching the sides on the shackle flip will solve that...
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|October 24th, 2012, 07:59 PM
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Ok, You'll be up to date in a few post so bare with me, like i said above Ive been rounding up parts more than i have been workin on it lately. Picked up a couple important parts recently. Got a great deal on this brand new crossover set up. .250 wall DOM drag link, 1 ton TRE's, steering arm, and a new 2wd steering box w/pitman arm...
Well the GF wanted to take a random trip to cedar point, I told her as long as make one stop and pick up a dana 60 I had my eye on. Stock LP 60, 4.10 gears, 1 bad u joint. Bought a truck part while making the girlfriend happy, win-win
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College Sports Roundup: Dartmouth men, UNH women cagers lose
The Bulldogs (6-4) hit 17-of-23 (.739) of their field goals and 19-of-20 (.950) free throws after halftime to break open a game that was tied early in the second half. The loss dropped Dartmouth to 2-8.
Boehm finished shooting 11-of-16 with a triple and a free throw, and fellow freshman Alex Mitola dropped in 15 points (three three-pointers) while handing out five assists.
The Big Green's leading scorer, Gabas Maldunas, was held scoreless in 19 minutes of action.
Five Bulldogs scored in double figures, led by Frankie Dobbs with 19.
Trailing 25-23 at the intermission, Boehm tied the game three different times in the early minutes of the second half, the last knotting the score at 31-31. But Bryant scored the next 13 points and maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way.
Boehm scored 10 of the Big Green's first 12 points in the second half.
Bryant led 20-9 in the first half before Dartmouth hit its final five shots to close the half at 25-23.
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Cleveland State 58, New Hampshire 47: At Cleveland, the Wildcats slipped to 5-6 despite Cari Reed's third double-double of the season. Reed finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds, and she also managed four blocks and four assists.
Nashua's Kelsey Hogan scored 10 points, four assists and three rebounds for UNH.
The Vikings were led by Shalonda Winton (22 points, nine rebounds, three steals, two blocks).
CSU, which won its sixth consecutive game to improve to 7-4, burst to a 9-2 lead and the Wildcats were unable to pull even the rest of the way.
Trailing 26-18, New Hampshire opened the second with an 11-5 spurt to close within 31-29, and later trailed 42-40 following a Hogan three-pointer with 6:09 to play.