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Morning.

I had the popos flying over my house last night about 9pm. I go outside in the driveway to see him circling the back corner lots where I live. Neighbor is out front with his son on his shoulders watching as well, so we proceed to conversate on whats going on. A kid comes walking out of the wood on his cell phone casually, which is no big deal because they cut through the drainage easement between our subdivision and the one we back up to that is off another road. About 2 minutes after that another person comes out of the woods. Its da popo and hes in a hurry. I ask whats going on and should we be concerned and he proceeds to take his mag-lite and shine it right in my eyes and ask why I'm out in the yard? Well sir since I own this house this is my yard and I can stand in it if I want. I ask are you looking for someone? Perhaps the kid in the little kid in the black tank top that just came out of the woods ahead of you? Yeah he says, well he went that way and I point him down the street. Tubby popo gets on the radio and I hear the helicopter pilot is giving him the same directions I did. Waited in the yard for a few to see if he came back with the kid but they never did so we went back inside.

cliffs:
Popos choppa over da house.....
Popos chasing teenager thru woods....
Popos has dick attitude w/ me.....
IDK if they caught scrawny little twerp....

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Oh and DMB concert tonight :pepper:

Bro

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was scrawnly little teen and I think Cop may have been disoriented from the woods and heat so maybe he mistook me for the kid, I mean we looked just alike too, Kid = 5'4" and maybe 135lbs, Me = 6'3" and 220lbs. I mean I would of made the same mistake too ya know :facepalm:

Gary come help me replace me fuel pump plz

I can be back in time for DMB tonight, if so, sure :shake:

Fuel pump is mostly easy.

1. Get buddy to help lift bed off truck.

2. Disconnect wires. Use $2 disconnect tool or struggle for an hour with needlenose to get fuel lines off.

3. If rusty: Struggle with hammer and brass punch for days to remove locking ring.
If not rusty: Remove locking ring with hammer and brass punch.
If FIDIL attitude: Use a steel punch and hope it doesn't spark.
If you can spare $50: Buy proper locking ring wrench instead of using a punch.
If suicidal: Use dremel/grinder to cut off locking ring.
If a machinist: Make a locking ring wrench. Make one for me, too.

4. Lift out pump.

5. Insert new pump.

6. Reverse step 3.

7. Connect lines and wires. If it came with a new harness, splice that in...the old one was a bad design.

:roflmao:

i can tell it's getting ready to die. making all kinds if racket and whining noises today. im 99% sure when i replaced it in the fall of 2006 at less than 200K miles it was replaced with a cheap advance auto parts piece. that's not too bad for a cheap part lol

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Originally Posted by theholycow (Post 126758)

I've done a half dozen or so over the years, NEVER taken off the bed. I don't see why people do that. :think: It's seriously soooooo much easier, especially if by yourself, to put a floorjack under the tank, unbolt the straps, disconnect the filler hose and wiring harness and lower it down. :shrug:

It was replaced in 2006 so I doubt I'll have issues getting anything unhooked.

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http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...0401&ppt=C0025

Seems easier to lift the bed off and work over everything than to lay under the truck dealing with disconnecting all that stuff. Also, bed bolts don't get rusted in place but tank straps probably do.

When I did mine, I looked at it and decided it was better to lift the bed alone than drop the tank. I lifted one side, put blocks under it, lifted the other side, put blocks under it, repeat as necessary to get it high enough that I could slide it straight back...

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OBD fuel pump price FTW.

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OBS, even.

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Originally Posted by Juan! (Post 126741)

This commercial made me jest, reminds ne of how we talk on here. Lollll
[yt]CjWYbcbpiWA[yt]

The little camera at the top of the screen lol

0_o i see

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juan! (Post 126744)

Any of you beat level 4? No matter what I do, the train always gets destroyed in the little town with the 4 tanks or whatever. I've done it over and over.

i haznt. fucking dooshes. iz no get killed, i keel myself

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2005_Silverado (Post 126745)

i think thats where I quit...I cant kill all the fucking planes, towers and tanks at the same time :emo:

thats where i iz :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by theholycow (Post 126762)

SC = no rust :happy:

The last time I did it I took the opposite approach. I was in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn and had no one to help me. Had a lady friend bring a floor jack and I did it there. Tank was over half full. :blah: Maybe I'm just used to wrestling transmissions out from under the truck, but it literally took no more than 10 minutes to do it that way, and I'd never done it before. Since then I've done a few more to help people out and did it the same way.

Put jack under tank
Unbolt straps
Lower tank and disconnect filler hose/wiring harness
Prawfit

:happeh:

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i does haz one quesitonne

http://www.gmfullsize.com/forum/showthread.php?t=200913

I really have to get a decent jack. Cheap jacks with 2 inch round thingies suck for jacking down transmissions and, I assume, fuel tanks.

I rigged up a piece of 2x12 that sits decent on my jack but it would be much better with a good jack.

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I also should pour a concrete pad for working on vehicles...or take them to the parking lot at work. :jester:

:roflmao:

brb making new thread :secret:

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Originally Posted by SarkOzy (Post 126770)

:roflmao:

brb making new thread :secret:

http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...nny-cat-15.gif

Re: The Chat Thread

I also lifted the bed to replace the fuel pump, and I'm lifted so haz more room under lol. I started to remove the straps to lower the tank and it was being a pain in the ass. Plus disconnecting all the hoses and shit without seeing them? Fuck that nonsense lol.

Quote:

Originally Posted by .GARY. (Post 126774)

http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...nny-cat-15.gif

:roflmao: reps when I get to my computer later

when my bro had his done my homeboy just dropped the tank

Soooooooooooo hungry. Want chocolate fondue now :jester:

That Frankie guy pisses me off...

lolz. BAMF manga. iz read :cheeky: least i think im sure its the one im thinking of
http://www.profilebrand.com/funny-pi...cide-blaam.gif

i haz snickers and g2 :drool:

BAMF house imo
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/haven/a...#photoViewer=8

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whoa whoa whoa whoa

Quote:

So much for transparency.

Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from "surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities." Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot.

That argument comes despite the President saying that one of the cornerstones of the sweeping new legislation was more transparent financial markets. Indeed, in touting the new law, Obama specifically said it would “increase transparency in financial dealings."

The SEC cited the new law Tuesday in a FOIA action brought by FOX Business Network. Steven Mintz, founding partner of law firm Mintz & Gold LLC in New York, lamented what he described as “the backroom deal that was cut between Congress and the SEC to keep the SEC’s failures secret. The only losers here are the American public.”

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Durable Goods Orders Fall Unexpectedly in June If the SEC’s interpretation stands, Mintz, who represents FOX Business Network, predicted “the next time there is a Bernie Madoff failure the American public will not be able to obtain the SEC documents that describe the failure,” referring to the shamed broker whose Ponzi scheme cost investors billions.

The SEC didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Criticism of the provision has been swift. “It allows the SEC to block the public’s access to virtually all SEC records,” said Gary Aguirre, a former SEC staff attorney-turned-whistleblower who had accused the agency of thwarting an investigation into hedge fund Pequot Asset Management in 2005. “It permits the SEC to promulgate its own rules and regulations regarding the disclosure of records without getting the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, which typically applies to all federal agencies.”

Aguirre used FOIA requests in his own lawsuit against the SEC, which the SEC settled this year by paying him $755,000. Aguirre, who was fired in September 2005, argued that supervisors at the SEC stymied an investigation of Pequot – a charge that prompted an investigation by the Senate Judiciary and Finance committees.

The SEC closed the case in 2006, but would re-open it three years later. This year, Pequot and its founder, Arthur Samberg, were forced to pay $28 million to settle insider-trading charges related to shares of Microsoft (MSFT: 25.86 ,-0.30 ,-1.15%). The settlement with Aguirre came shortly later.

“From November 2008 through January 2009, I relied heavily on records obtained from the SEC through FOIA in communications to the FBI, Senate investigators, and the SEC in arguing the SEC had botched its initial investigation of Pequot’s trading in Microsoft securities and thus the SEC should reopen it, which it did,” Aguirre said. “The new legislation closes access to such records, even when the investigation is closed.

“It is hard to imagine how the bill could be more counterproductive,” Aguirre added.

FOX Business Network sued the SEC in March 2009 over its failure to produce documents related to its failed investigations into alleged investment frauds being perpetrated by Madoff and R. Allen Stanford. Following the Madoff and Stanford arrests it, was revealed that the SEC conducted investigations into both men prior to their arrests but failed to uncover their alleged frauds.

FOX Business made its initial request to the SEC in February 2009 seeking any information related to the agency’s response to complaints, tips and inquiries or any potential violations of the securities law or wrongdoing by Stanford.

FOX Business has also filed lawsuits against the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve over their failure to respond to FOIA requests regarding use of the bailout funds and the Fed’s extended loan facilities. In February, the Federal Court in New York sided with FOX Business and ordered the Treasury to comply with its requests.

Last year, the network won a legal victory to force the release of documents related to New York University’s lawsuit against Madoff feeder Ezra Merkin.

FOX Business’ FOIA requests have so far led the SEC to release several important and damaging documents:

•FOX Business used the FOIA to obtain a 2005 survey that the SEC in Fort Worth was sending to Stanford investors. The survey showed that the SEC had suspicions about Stanford several years prior to the collapse of his $7 billion empire.

•FOX Business used the FOIA to obtain copies of emails between Federal Reserve lawyers, AIG and staff at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in which it was revealed the Fed staffers knew that bailing out AIG would result in bonuses being paid.

Recently, TARP Congressional Oversight Panel chair Elizabeth Warren told FOX Business that the network’s Freedom of Information Act efforts played a “very important part” of the panel’s investigation into AIG.

Warren told the network the government “crossed a line” with the AIG bailout.

“FOX News and the congressional oversight panel has pushed, pushed, pushed, for transparency, give us the documents, let us look at everything. Your Freedom of Information Act suit, which ultimately produced 250,000 pages of documentation, was a very important part of our report. We were able to rely on the documents that you pried out for a significant part of our being able to put this report together,” Warren said.

The SEC first made its intention to block further FOIA requests known on Tuesday. FOX Business was preparing for another round of “skirmishes” with the SEC, according to Mintz, when the agency called and said it intended to use Section 929I of the 2000-page legislation to refuse FBN’s ongoing requests for information.

Mintz said the network will challenge the SEC’s interpretation of the law.

“I believe this is subject to challenge,” he said. “The contours will have to be figured out by a court.”