Me Again wrote:
1jeep wrote:
Same where I live, diesel trucks with stacks, lifts and big tunes dumping raw fuel wherever they go....we were all there once, they will grow up.
Ive aged to where I like my silent diesel that has no scent or cloud.
And I would add "aged to the point" of being the fastest or first to the top of the mountain is not high on the list of things I compare when picking a new truck. We can leave that to the young bulls!
Maybe you have heard the story about the young bull and the old bull looking at the cows down the the valley. The young bull wanted to run down and have his way with one, and the old bull said "lets walk down and have our way with all of them"!
Chris
My truck is my play and work truck, working in the oil and gas industry. Have any of you spent day after day in the middle of winter driving through a foot or more of fresh snow to get to abandoned well sites or made trails on old lease roads for the snow plows? Have you had to park your truck in a warm shop for days to "melt" out the snow and ice from the engine bay to change oil/filters? I lift my trucks to keep the snow/ice out, and make it much easier to wash the mud out after those rainy days. But then most of you old farts drive pavement queens anyways and wouldn't understand. As for those with stacks(redonkulous I agree) they most likely (as probably most of you did when younger) drag raced on weekends. Those stacks are a requirement at some drag strips, due to the "clouds of black smoke", with conventional exhaust the staging area can get smoked out making it dangerous for all involved, with stacks the smoke is raised which reduces the amount of smoke at ground level, making it safer for all to see. A lot of the "racers" will have a setup of a "T" in the exhaust where they can temporarily install a stack and cap off the tailpipe, then remove the stack for normal driving. There are plenty of us "tuned trucks" out there, not all blow black smoke!
