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Can it take the lug nuts off of outer Budd wheels on a semi? It should be able to, and if so it's worth the money. My ears and my joints have paid the price for using a 1" air impact.

Found a weight distributing hitch bar barely poking out of the sand near vendors row in Glamis. Tell me what brand you lost and you can have it back. We'll be here camping at vendor flats until tomorrow morning, after that it will be headed to Tucson area.

RIP. I saw him twice at outdoor shows and I think I could have heard him even if he didn't have a microphone - what a voice!

Flying is easy. Landing is the hard part...

Yes exactly.

As just mentioned, they perform the same function for points, electronic ignition with a distributor, or electronic ignition without a distributor. Current flows through the primary winding and then is abruptly stopped by some mechanism, causing the magnetic field to collapse which induces a high-voltage  current in the secondary winding and fires the plug. Pretty much the same idea as a transformer in an AC circuit, which can only operate with a varying current. In this case it is a pulsating DC current instead of AC.

The only real difference I can think of between coils is that many distributor-less cars that aren't "coil on plug" use coil packs, which are essentially pairs of coils that share a primary winding and have each end of the secondary winding going to a spark plug wire terminal. In this system, both of those spark plugs are  fired at the same time and on every revolution, creating a waste spark on the exhaust stroke for one of the two cylinders.

One thing I learned in Baja was to put the extra gas in when you stop for the first time of the trip, instead of carrying it in the extra container until you are running low. Obviously you can still have a problem early in the run, but you can reduce the likelihood that way. And has already been said, leave it in camp unless you are going on a long ride where you will need it.

Been here since last Saturday: 

https://www.wildwestshootout.net/

I was there too. And I agree, what an awesome track, so sorry to hear that it is going away. I think I heard it was going to become a half-mile, what a bummer.

This man was a heck of a driver (I can attest to that from seeing him many times), and while I never met him personally he seemed like a great guy from his TV interviews.

Gil de Ferran, who won the 2003 Indianapolis 500 and two INDYCAR SERIES championships, died suddenly after a brief illness Dec. 29 near his home in Florida. He was 56.

De Ferran’s career blossomed when he joined Team Penske for the 2000 season, pairing with Castroneves for the next four seasons. He won the first of his two-straight championships and made racing history during qualifying at California Speedway when he set the closed-course land speed record with a lap of 241.428 mph, a mark that stands today.

Two laps in under one minute at Fontana is mind boggling...

Not exactly bad parking spots, but we were at the Plank Road at Buttercup and there were a bunch of camps that let their young kids play (on foot) in the the "kiddie tracks". The kids would duck down when they heard vehicles coming. Many of them are at least three feet from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the berm. It made me cringe with all of the "camp racers" who have no idea that kiddie tracks even exist and hit them blindly at 50 mph or more. Luckily no one got hit.

Also saw these two cars at the bottom of comp hill and later on talked to the driver of the one with the crushed cage. He said that he and his pal came down the hill and then were going out towards the flats when the one in front pulled over unexpectedly and they got together, front corner to rear corner, and the one in front rolled a bunch of times. They were at least 80 feet apart when it was all over. Lucky all he got was a sore neck. When I saw the car I was afraid it would be a lot worse. It was both of their third trips to the dunes. The one with the broken suspension had a kids car seat in it.

I've never had much luck with plugs on tires that have 60 psi or more, but maybe I was doing something wrong. I've had them last for years on car and half-ton pickup tires.

Don't go to Road Forks, just across the AZ/NM line on I-10.

Kind of like the wine brick during Prohibition:

Grapes were a hot commodity in the 1920s and 1930s. Shipments of rectangular, brick–shaped packages traveled from California to the East Coast and flooded the market. Included on the packaging was a peculiar and highly specific warning:

“After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”

I've always found it crazy that the angular subtense of the sun and the moon are almost exactly the same, i.e. they look almost exactly the same size to us on Earth. The diameter of the sun is 400 times bigger than the moon but it is also 400 times farther away.

11 hours ago, Bobalos said:

I have not exactly figured out if Im going to spend "a bunch", "a hell of a lot", or "a ridiculous amount" on optics

Its always easy to spend someone else's money, but as a friend of mine once told me, "You can't take it with you, and even if you could it would just burn up when you get there!".

I have been thinking more about that lately... and stocking up on silver dollars ;)

As far as I'm concerned, you have earned the right to bitch a lot!

That being said, do you have the finished product all planned out?

Here is another option to pretty much carry concealed and in plain sight at the same time. I got an unmarked one, but my buddy was smarter and got the one with the cross on it. I've heard that no one ever asks about the one marked "insulin pump", but that EMT's don't like it. 

https://www.sneakypeteholsters.com/?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhfipBhCqARIsAH9msbmpEcg_1MTmtxLRThE8Ffhc1sy66w2CP3G-BXDMiGdLI4DPeoRwElIaAuaZEALw_wcB

CCW's are not required in AZ either, but there is reciprocity with some other states if you have one, and you can buy a gun here without another background check if you have a CCW.

Watch out for campfires too. I hit something in Osborne Wash at almost the end of the 1995 Parker 400 that was for sure man made. So not only in Mexico. Luckily it didn't break the car (a 2-1600) but it was pretty exciting. We only had one light working for the whole last lap so I never saw it.

Seen Saturday at Ace hardware in Heber, AZ. Obviously a jewel like this deserves segregation from the hoi polloi...

Wow that is awesome! So great to see a young man interested in learning the art and pride of craftsmanship, as opposed to "I can get one on Amazon".

I have the same experience as many of the others (45 yrs of dirt bikes, crotch rockets, and now a cruiser), and I agree with all of the above (get a good helmet, take a class, etc.). Also, if you aren't already used to it, force yourself to learn to hit the front brake hard to enough to just about lock up the wheel. It's way more natural to stomp on the rear but you won't get anywhere near the stopping ability. And FWIW, I decided awhile back that I would rather risk a speeding ticket here in AZ and get the heck away from traffic wherever possible. Too many tailgaters and/or texters out there these days.

Never heard of them before.....way cool!!!

I would love the bead roller stuff. 

Those cars are incredible, and I will have to get there and check it out one of these days. Thanks for sharing! It reminds me of the museum at Barber Motorsports Park near Birmingham, AL, but that one is almost entirely motorcycles. As a lifelong bike guy I finally experienced sensory overload after about four hours of being continually blown away by amazing stuff. My favorite was probably this one, since I had a Kawasaki H2 750 two stroke triple back in the day. I saw it across the room and got all confused, since they never made a five cylinder. When I got over to it the sign said that some guy in England had cut two 500's up to make it. Anyway, if you are a bike person and happen to be over that way it is something you won't want to miss.

Like my buddy Big Julio (RIP, the guy who got me into Baja racing) used to say, "Don't take anything to the races that you can't afford to lose".

This one seems like it should have been mostly avoidable, but you never know what is going to happen.