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Hmm, seems like a real adult response - you bash a forum member because he bashed another forum member, and then follow up with puerile insults.

Why do you think you are entitled to act this way, and someone else isn't?

Maybe so, but It's Ray who's doing the kindergarten dummy spit.

Yes he knows a lot about Patrols, and is willing to share.

But it's tiresome to click on View New Content and see 90% of the new threads are Ray whinging about his hated Labour Gov't, or throwing links from the daily newspapers mainly covering more political crap.

I have in the past challenged him directly to join the Liberal Party so he can really contribute to ending Labour and fixing all the ills he sees, but he declined this suggestion. Kind of "put up or shut up"

If you need to lock at slow speeds, such as when descending steep tracks, the brake disconnect would be counter-intuitive; I can't say for sure, because I can't do it at the moment, but when descending in low low the engine would probably still provide insufficient braking to keep you crawling slowly, so the brake would still be required.

If following someone downhill or just being cautious, you'd get pisssed off with having to unlock every time you want to stop or ease over a ledge. I think the proper solution is reduction gears for this sort of stuff, doubly useful if you run 33" for off-road rather than standard 31" H/Ts.

Even better would be to run 4.6 diffs with 33" and then the T/C would lock up much better by itself. I run 32" highways, and even they bugger up the factory lockup due to the higher engine load being used by the ECU to decide when to lock.


Pity a set of 4.6s and reduction gears is around $2300 plus installation

I like Panadeine Soluble.

The thing is, it's important for roughly half the population to be "right".

Check some books (Florence Littauer writes some good ones on personality types) to discover the broadly 4 types that everyone has a varying mix of.

The problem with being "right", is that even if one is, one isn't, necessarily.

The words "valid viewpoint" should be substituted when analysing things; there would be much more progress, and much less angst and anger.


A wise mentor once told me that people will not change for the better, become more learned, or improve their socialising skills if they do not read books and meet new people. (anonymous Forums did not exist back then, so I'm adding this - keyboard dancing does NOT qualify as reading books or meeting people).

Note that I'm not saying all the books you read and new people you meet are going to lead you to nirvana.

But if you're reading a book on, say, "Photography developments in the 21st century", and someone walks up to you and engages in conversation about photograpy, you might end up with a new customer.

Like getting jobs - statistically most jobs in Aus are filled without being advertised, because the job seeker has come in contact face to face with the employer. It's called networking.

So in summary, most faceless communications aren't worth a pinch of shit - forums are the same really, until you meet the others in person and see that the spelling nazi is really a nice easy going bloke, for example.

So I'm deciding right now that I'm dribbling a bit so

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The thing is, it's important for roughly half the population to be "right".

Check some books (Florence Littauer writes some good ones on personality types) to discover the broadly 4 types that everyone has a varying mix of.

The problem with being "right", is that even if one is, one isn't, necessarily.

The words "valid viewpoint" should be substituted when analysing things; there would be much more progress, and much less angst and anger.


A wise mentor once told me that people will not change for the better, become more learned, or improve their socialising skills if they do not read books and meet new people. (anonymous Forums did not exist back then, so I'm adding this - keyboard dancing does NOT qualify as reading books or meeting people).

Note that I'm not saying all the books you read and new people you meet are going to lead you to nirvana.

But if you're reading a book on, say, "Photography developments in the 21st century", and someone walks up to you and engages in conversation about photograpy, you might end up with a new customer.

Like getting jobs - statistically most jobs in Aus are filled without being advertised, because the job seeker has come in contact face to face with the employer. It's called networking.

So in summary, most faceless communications aren't worth a pinch of shit - forums are the same really, until you meet the others in person and see that the spelling nazi is really a nice easy going bloke, for example.

So I'm deciding right now that I'm dribbling a bit so

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Is it just my imagination or is your tie rod bent?

I spent a bit of time over the weekend cleaning out all my posts. After reading this thread I just tried to log in and was presented with this little gem!

According to the mods I have "damaged" the knowledge base. Seems they think they own my contributions.