The Dude Abides

Whats everyone up for, some light wheeling or just strait up camping and bullcrappin. Lets start with something simple. Mick when are you available because i can get fridays off relatively easily now and no offence but i think brent schedule is pretty loose these days.

Brent is thinking about headin up as well. Might be a fun trip.

Can you recoment a good hotel to stay at. Or a bad part of town to stay away from.

I cant believe 160k and no HG problems. Why would you part it out though man, is the body in bad shape.

You soob dork, whichever one you want to bring.

Still havent heard anything about this. Ive sent a PM to the other guy but if he doesnt respond im going to try and plan my own thing. Whose in.

Sounds like a fun trip for me, but me bust balls.

I hate that i couldnt buy it but im glad you got to. Now to try and pry it out of your hands.

How much for the brighton with the 5 speed. Minus the subaru alliance paint job. Also what would the alliance say if i shot up there for a weekend. You know, see how the wisconsonites do it.

The tan you used before was really close but if you found one closer thats great. Figure out a place to meet up, maybe at brents in a few weekends when i drag my derilect (but still good mpg) subaru over to his place.

U still need your lift taken off.

I need to get mine going again. Even 18mpg would be better then what i get now.

If you can find something that cheep i would of bought it off of you while you still took home a profit. I just cant afford the big bucks.

I miss driving mine. I need to get it back on the road ASAP. Brentttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

I will look into donating more but times are hard and lots of people are out of work. But whats 20 bucks for a good cause these days so thats not that big of a deal. As far as suggestions i think raffling off a car would be a bad idea. As much as i would like to win a subaru from washington i don't want to pay for it to be shipped to iowa and i think some might be with me on this. I think facebook would be a good idea since it is free, but the target of facebook is communicating between friends so i don't think it would be beneficial to look into it that much. I wouldnt take away features from people just because they dont donate but maybe have a graded package. IF you try to collect donations every year have a grading scale. like 0-10 Bronz 10-30 Silver 30-50 Gold 50-above Platnum. Just have a colored hugh around there name or around the donations signature so people can know whose donated more. I think that would get rid of the 10 dollar people (which sadly i think i am) and you can show how much USMB pride you have. Just a thought. Ben

On a side note do you live in rockford. I used to live in a small town called Cary. Grew up there till about 97. Was such a cute small town.

P.S. Dual Range Please with selectable locking diffs as well.

Again as soon as we find a chance to meet up friend i have these for you.

I didnt know about that other websight i will check it out. As far as the 1st one goes i would be in on that but i havent heard anything about that for a while now. So i figured i would post up on it since its around april we start planning for a mid june event. Just sayin. Ben

Ok, whose up for this. If your up for it i can plan something.

I miss driveing mine.

I have a observation and a question. My 05 caravan was running decent but the EGR valve was acting up. After reading up on here about the gas MPG pros of using regular gas i switched. Upon the first tank of gas the van stopped working correctly. All the problems the ethanol was masking due to the bad egr valve came out when i switched gas. I had the EGR valve replaced and ran regular gas. Ran smoother then i could of ever imagined and ran like a new vehicle. The gas MPG improved but just the way it acted was better then i expected. Since this i have stopped using ethanol which i have faithfully used since i started driveing in 1995. Now the question. What is the possible benefit from useing ethanol to lenghten our oil supply. We are in fact running out, weather it happens in our life time or not it will run out. Could the future benefits outweigh the cons. We are becoming a throw away society so a fuel that doesnt allow the cars to last longer doesnt shock me one bit. Im just curious if anyone has anything good to say about the use of ethanol.

Funny, that photo was taken shortly before you joined the board right. When you were just a young punk makeing incomprehensable runon sentences.

Hey man, why didnt you just repaint the whole car. Hows the paint match on that. Looks good though.

No dice on the valance. Dented up.