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As I pointed out to Northerners who laugh at Southerners and wintry conditions, ice hates everyone, no matter where they're from and wants to kill you.

 

If someone wants to kill you, that's an enemy.

If everything wants to kill you, that's Australia.

 

 

FIFY

 

 

Just not with guns

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Using the de-icing liquid makes sense, just expensive. I mean, the road outside where I live hasn't seen a gritter since winter 2017!!!. I'm just waiting for an emergency that either the ambulance or fire brigade simply can't get to.

Winter tyres and all wheel drive is all you can do here.

 

Stay safe this winter.

 

Charles

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It's a tweak to the chassis that is inherent in the design.

 

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The M34 and M35 were companion models with the only major difference being the bed and the rear duals or singles. The conversion, insofar as the duals/singles is concerned involves flipping the hubs around with the same bolt holes that the drum attaches with being the same as the bolt holes for the axle half shafts. The bearing races are the same inside and out.

 

The reason for the singles gives higher road speeds, less unsprung weight, 1100s have higher load bearing capacity and a bit more ground clearance. Off road you're running the rears in the same path as the fronts so you're not making another channel in the mud after the front's have pushed their channel. So, you're better off getting through the sloppy stuff.

That's not a Deuce this is a Deuce

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It's a tweak to the chassis that is inherent in the design.

 

10646655675_975cd9dab1_b.jpg

 

The M34 and M35 were companion models with the only major difference being the bed and the rear duals or singles. The conversion, insofar as the duals/singles is concerned involves flipping the hubs around with the same bolt holes that the drum attaches with being the same as the bolt holes for the axle half shafts. The bearing races are the same inside and out.

 

The reason for the singles gives higher road speeds, less unsprung weight, 1100s have higher load bearing capacity and a bit more ground clearance. Off road you're running the rears in the same path as the fronts so you're not making another channel in the mud after the front's have pushed their channel. So, you're better off getting through the sloppy stuff.

That's not a Deuce this is a Deuce

 

 

Why not?

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Canadian built M35 trucks which were bought in the eighties are known as MLVW. We called the 1950s built M135 trucks deuces or deuce-and-a-halfs.

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Canadian built M35 trucks which were bought in the eighties are known as MLVW. We called the 1950s built M135 trucks deuces or deuce-and-a-halfs.

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I know some places have gone to using deicer based off of beet juice instead of salt.

http://www.deeproot.com/blog/blog-entries/deicing-with-beet-juice

 

Learned something new.

 

 

Interesting. So the brine is not only salty, it is also sugar sweet. :D

 

I wonder if it used in Germany? every autumn the roads are full of lorries and tractors hauling sugar beets to the refineries. hmm need to investigate..

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It goes from 80 to 39 overnight. Only in Texas can the weather be that crazy.

 

Chinooks in southern Alberta.

 

In Pincher Creek, the temperature rose by 41 °C (74 °F), from −19 to 22 °C (−2 to 72 °F), in one hour in 1962.[

  • 9 months later...
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It goes from 80 to 39 overnight. Only in Texas can the weather be that crazy.

 

Bah, when I lived in Wisconsin , there was a day where temps dropped 40 degrees in about 4 hours in the middle of the day.

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Well we broke a 102 year record for cold. 23F yesterday with a wind chill of "COLD, Holy SH*T BATMAN ITS COLD!".

 

What is the reason for these weather/temperature changes?

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Well we broke a 102 year record for cold. 23F yesterday with a wind chill of "COLD, Holy SH*T BATMAN ITS COLD!".

Ummm wasn't someone laughing at me when I thought 95-100F was warm this summer ;)

 

(don't remember if it was you Murph but today you have to wear the Texas colors for this one :D)

/R

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It goes from 80 to 39 overnight. Only in Texas can the weather be that crazy.

Bah, when I lived in Wisconsin , there was a day where temps dropped 40 degrees in about 4 hours in the middle of the day.

 

That's a weekly occurrence in Colorado especially in the spring and fall. The change from sunny and 65 to snowing and 25 during the course of a couple hour hike can put a serious damper on a day in the mountains.

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Well we broke a 102 year record for cold. 23F yesterday with a wind chill of "COLD, Holy SH*T BATMAN ITS COLD!".

Ummm wasn't someone laughing at me when I thought 95-100F was warm this summer ;)

 

(don't remember if it was you Murph but today you have to wear the Texas colors for this one :D)

/R

 

I wasn't laughing, i was... befuddled :(

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True, so true. But darn it’s cold.

 

 

Well we broke a 102 year record for cold. 23F yesterday with a wind chill of "COLD, Holy SH*T BATMAN ITS COLD!".

 

Ummm wasn't someone laughing at me when I thought 95-100F was warm this summer ;)

 

(don't remember if it was you Murph but today you have to wear the Texas colors for this one :D)

/R

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No idea.

 

 

Well we broke a 102 year record for cold. 23F yesterday with a wind chill of "COLD, Holy SH*T BATMAN ITS COLD!".

 

What is the reason for these weather/temperature changes?

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Well we broke a 102 year record for cold. 23F yesterday with a wind chill of "COLD, Holy SH*T BATMAN ITS COLD!".

What is the reason for these weather/temperature changes?

 

Cold front.

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Well we broke a 102 year record for cold. 23F yesterday with a wind chill of "COLD, Holy SH*T BATMAN ITS COLD!".

 

What is the reason for these weather/temperature changes?

 

 

Karl Rove and his Cobra-approved Weather Dominator.

 

I hope this joke isn't too dusty btw.

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