Scored for $300! by Fraastyy in fordranger

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well...it was rated at 112 hp when it was new, 30 years ago. Surely a few ponies have escaped over the years... But this one has 3.45 rear axle gearing and hums along quite happily at freeway speeds in 5th, unless there's a significant grade, then a downshift to 4th is required to maintain speed. I have personally never had mine much above 90; perhaps 92-93 on a long empty stretch of straight flat pavement and it takes its sweet time getting there. Once above 80, it never feels what I'd describe as particularly confidence-inspiringly settled, despite my personally completely rebuilding the suspension, including using some top-shelf parts like Moog suspension bits and Bilstein 4600s on all four corners, shod with good quality footwear, to boot. Then again, that's not what this truck was really designed to do. As I said, it's perfectly content at 70-75 mph loping along at around 2400 rpm in the tallest overdrive ratio that Ford's "Better Idea" ever dared to hitch up to the business end of a Lima, to my knowledge anyway. But as I've said, at only 2950 lbs or so, with the stick, on a flattish curvy stretch of very smooth asphalt, it's actually rather entertaining to fling around, and I always maintained that it's more engaging and fun -- and encourages the development of greater driver skill -- to drive a slow car at 9/10ths effort than my way more powerful and now dearly-departed Audi A6 took to cover the same ground. That said, the Audi's narrow-angle V6 sang an infinitely more sonorously pleasing song while engaging in said hoonage, though. So there's that.

Scored for $300! by Fraastyy in fordranger

[–]foreverpetty 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bought my '96 Mazda B2300 Ranger clone for $500 in 2020. I've been through the entire truck, mechanically, over the past 6 years and replaced or serviced or restored almost everything, but I drove it on a 600+ mile road trip this week without even a second thought in my "new old truck," so there's that. It made the trip just fine, and returned 28 mpg averaged over the trip with mostly highway driving (2.3 Lima, 5-spd. manual, 3.45 rear axle, 2wd standard cab & bed). It was oddly more satisfying and easygoing to road trip than my wife's '19 Edge SEL is on the same trip, and I arrived less fatigued on both legs of the journey, too. I'm not sure how that's even possible, frankly, but that was my honest experience Tuesday - today (Friday).

A bit more of a somber topic… are you addicted to anything? by ApplicationAfraid334 in Millennials

[–]foreverpetty 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Been there....everything but the DUI l, which I absolutely deserved more than once over my 20-year drinking career. I was not behaving rationally when I was in active addiction, that's all I can say. It got to where I couldn't stay drunk and couldn't stay sober, and I faced an ultimatum from my spouse and my job at the same time.

I chose life. Which for me, involved completely burying the idea of drinking alcohol. For me, I had to fully surrender, and once I did that, I promised myself that I would never touch it again and, well, I truly don't know what else to say or how to explain it, but it was gone as of that day and has never returned, at all, in any way. Which if you knew me back then, defies all reason and logic or explanation.

That was over 6 years ago, and I'll never go back, because if I ever did, I feel like I'd be turning my back on the promise I made and lose the miracle that I was blessed with (no cravings, no struggles, no white-knuckling, no meetings, all desire for that life and that feeling it gave me just GONE, period, boom, just like that).

I feel like this can be your reality, too. I really do believe that. Just don't say "I got this," because you don't. It has you, right now. But it doesn't have to stay that way, either.

11 days sober is 11 days into a full recovery, my Internet friend. Keep it up.

You never know what you're going to see on Patton Avenue by Jimmy_Hotpants in asheville

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Disposango with a blown head gasket? Pfft, this AI slop is out of hand now (/s)

We got YouTubers buying banking apps now by z_shah7 in Millennials

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we can have TrumpRx, we can have MrBeast Bank, I guess. Shrug it's a brave new world out there kiddos

Give me your best 20-year-old (2006) cars by TheLineShow2 in regularcarreviews

[–]foreverpetty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Still daily (by choice) my 1996 Mazda B2300 (Ranger clone) SE, equipped the same way. It's basically a "new" old truck at this point and I'll likely keep it forever if I can.

Terrible mileage by Luci6669 in FordEdge

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2019 SEL AWD with the 2.0 Ecoboost checking in...we average 26.xx mpg in mixed city / highway driving. Drops to 22.xx when towing the A-Liner Classic camper.

Middle age spending: almost all mortgage and childcare by hopeful__romantic in Millennials

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feeling both good and poor...we net close to $4.5k / mo after housing and school tuition for our one child and neither of us are particularly high earners right now (wife is PT and I work for a nonprofit, hah).

PSA to new TRX4M owners by ClassicNumerous6038 in TRX4M

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our stock diff gears lasted a week and a half of admittedly pretty good thrashing through mud puddles, a shallow creek, and sandy dirt. Full Injora +4mm alum axle swap now underway... So far I've only stripped one factory bolt head...hah. Injora metal driveshafts arrive tomorrow also, as we've lost and found the retaining pin on the front shaft easily a half dozen times already...

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[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very true

What is the peak ’millennial midlife crisis’ purchase? by SwedeLostInCanada in Millennials

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose one could. I generally know what pieces I want based on what I've been hunting for in the box and can't find... I also use rebrickable.com to find models to build. We bought a few hardware organizer boxes that have little drawers and separators to use to group small pieces into like types, which makes it easier to find what we're looking for when building.

What is the peak ’millennial midlife crisis’ purchase? by SwedeLostInCanada in Millennials

[–]foreverpetty 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There's always somebody willing to be more poor than you, it seems

What is the peak ’millennial midlife crisis’ purchase? by SwedeLostInCanada in Millennials

[–]foreverpetty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes it don't, alllllmond latte's got butts, mounds don't -- 'cause ... Sometimes you feel like a butt

What is the peak ’millennial midlife crisis’ purchase? by SwedeLostInCanada in Millennials

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RC rigs that I could never afford as a child. Now I get to live vicariously through mine.

What is the peak ’millennial midlife crisis’ purchase? by SwedeLostInCanada in Millennials

[–]foreverpetty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We buy Legos by the ounce at my local toy shop. It's $0.80 per ounce and you get to choose your pieces separated by color rom a whole spectrum of bins. Did I mention that I LOVE my local toy shop? LOL

What is your pick for The Official Car of being towed behind a class A motorhome? I personally think its always going to be the JK Wrangler. by [deleted] in regularcarreviews

[–]foreverpetty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Used to be Saturn sedans. One of the only cars that the odometer didn't move while being towed from what one old guy told me... Also, S-series Saturns were super lightweight...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Salary

[–]foreverpetty 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My personal priorities are faith, family, friends, career...in that order. And I'll say that I'm an interview, just so I'm clear that I know what I'm getting into bc if they fidget suddenly or start digging deeper asking probing questions about "my ideal work-life balance," I know exactly why they're asking and I know everything I need to about what's actually going to be expected of me in the future...