Excellent work! The brakes looking like poo and broken sway bar link are REALLY common on Rangers. Awesome to know about that adjuster behind the MC. My ranger brakes have been spongy since new no matter what I have tried...this will be next!

1st Gear: What I find maddening is that President Toddler Hands wants to slap a tariff on foreign made cars due to a national security risk, but then is willing to forgo the tariffs if the EU will make concessions on their 10% tariff for American built cars. So if the EU gets rid of that 10% tariff, all of a sudden…

And it would be nice if the government cooperated with this. Rather than investing in a costly trade war to protect dying jobs, invest in reeducating workers to allow them to adapt as your mother did.  

Robots and automation require skilled technicians and engineers to setup and maintain, albeit far fewer employees than would be required without the automation. We’re doing our best to prevent this scenario and keep old school manufacturing jobs around by gutting our education system. You can’t engineer automated…

usually stories involving “the ATF” and “remote desert locations” end entirely differently...

NIC card.

I’m mostly on a liquid diet these days: Gin, wine,.........

Look at North Korea and China. Trump screws over China with tariffs, loses leverage with China. China helps NK break sanctions, NK starts expanding its nuclear strike capability. It’s so obvious and so stupid.

There are good people on both sides.

RE: #2: I think everyone is ok with a “racing incident” if it occurs but dodging vehicles cutting across an active racing surface with no warning is not part of what they signed up for.

You should see sailboat racing, that takes pettiness to a whole new level.

Me talking to the Jalop Commentators Anonymous Group: My name is Bob and I like to comment, but hate reading.

1st Gear. Um, I’m not going to say I think Trump is anything great, but staking out some nutty position and “compromising” from it isn’t a bad move during negotiations. Last car I bought, the dealer tried to get me to name a price first. “How much do you want to pay for this car?” “$20, this car is for a 16 year old…

4th: So we’re going from this...

It’s almost like the entire premise was bullshit from the start.

Good, then we will be able to refocus our security concerns to our true enemy, Canada.

I believe my comment from a previous thread still holds:

You’re saying that if Europe removes its tariff on US autos, the national security threat posed by European cars will evaporate too? Wow. Who knew?

Why Are We Doing This?

re 5th gear -  sit back and enjoy your popcorn.