When I was out west we went to the top of pikes peak. It's 14,000 something or another.

I had to get some oxygen lol

 

Curious if you were at Ft. Ord similar timeframe as Wildman4x4 here.

 

You're full o crapperz. You full well could have gotten 40/60 by adjusting the Wilson frequency range up another kHz!! Gonkulator isn't all it's cracked up to be.


Nonetheless....straight up banter is healthy! That torsion bar topic was great until it got mobbed....

 

I was at Ord from 91-92 when I got out of the Army when Uncle Bill was getting rid of all us mid-termers. I stayed in the area and worked up the road from Ft Ord. I would ride my bike to work most days. My Jeep I had at that time was down for a blown engine. Then I traded the Jeep for a Vette. That was fun for a while. I miss that Jeep. It was a YJ but I had fixed it up pretty good.

 

Spoken like a damn fool kid who's never run a gonkulator on anything bigger than a four banger. You can't just crank up the splice frequency on an engine of more than about four liters of displacement, especially if it's got relatively long intake runners. If you do, you risk that at higher RPM's you'll set up a resonance that creates a standing wave that will run one or more cylinders way too lean. Those starving cylinders will get wicked hot and put you at risk of catastrophic detonation. I guess that's okay if you've got a spare radiator cap to park a new truck under when your engine grenades...

I hear, though, that there's a new fantabulizer in the works that prevents standing waves by doing frequency hopping and generating swept FM, and that, as a nice side effect for old guys like me, puts and end to that nerve jangling exhaust drone, too. I'm waiting for that one to hit the market before buying my new Wilson splice. Besides, it being winter, I don't want my wife having too much horsepower under her foot on these snow packed roads.

Heck, I found it entertaining even after the OP got all indignant and hostile. I figure that a guy who can't laugh at himself has no business going at a vehicle with tools in the first place because the inevitable, unforeseeable challenges will cause so much frustration that finishing the job becomes more important than doing it right. I don't want to be on the highway with other people driving vehicles suffering from half-assery. Keep 'em typing rather than wrenching and you're providing a public service.

 

half-assery? Ok, that's a new one..... but, I rather like it. I was laughing so hard, my dogs came runnin' to see what was causing the latest insanity......

 

Lol. Internet thug. I've dealt with them before. If they only realized how utterly retarded they sounded.

Unreg and whitenuckle, wtf are you guys talking about???

 

 

 

I was there from '85 through '88. 519th Maintenance 3rd shop.

Was Artillery wrench, but we had so many mechs for artillery, I was cross

trained in small arms (they were in our shop) and also light wheel and heavy wheel.

As well as driving bob tail delivering trailers and what not to Hunter Ligget, the Presidio and Camp Roberts.

Fun times. Still in touch with two of the guys who were in my shop.