Posts by Doc&Ruby

  • Clutch slipping

    Quote from BKL

    Did you replace the stock clutch with a performance clutch or just stick with the stock clutch?

    ZZP performance clutch. Grabs instantly, somewhat stiffer than OEM clutch - just something you get used to. LOVE the way it grabs when you drop a gear and put your foot down. Perfect clutch for a boosted setup. 10/10 would buy it again!

    Install is a real ba$tard, but that's on the Slingshot design. Pretty sure Polaris could have made this loads more serviceable with a removable frame member underneath. (I smell liability lawyer interference here...). It is what it is, you need friends, beer, and an engine hoist. A set of wobble sockets and extensions will be needed as well.

    dangerdarrell is the acknowledged master of this black art in my neighborhood, I'm just an apprentice wrench twirler and socket fetcher...

  • Conservative Politics & Daily Events Discussion

    Quote from openair

    I said "from United States citizens". She WON the popular vote, Bill.

    Too bad she didn't run in a country that elected officials by the popular vote. I mean heck, if you can win 57 counties out of 3,500 nationwide, you DESERVE the presidency!

    This sort of nonsense is why we have the Electoral College in the first place. The founders understood that the rural and small state voter should not be disenfranchised by large population centers.

    It is NOT the people who directly elect the President, it is the several States who elect the President via their Electors. When the citizens vote for a presidential slate, the confirm Electors to execute their will in the Electoral College. This process insures that voters in smaller states still have a legitimate voice in the process.

    A presidential candidate must appeal to voters nationwide. Without the Electoral College, just 5 states would be able to select a President by the popular vote and the voters in the other 45 states would have no voice at all.

    I don't support disenfranchising ANYONE, regardless of party affiliation, gender, race, etc. There is no legitimate defense of disenfranchisement. NONE.

    Ignorance of the constitution is no excuse for ignoring its rights and protections.

  • Clutch slipping

    Quote from OrangeSlingFL

    15k life on a clutch? How hard are you driving this thing. A properly used clutch and assuming non abused should last well over 50k miles.

    I'm blaming Kyle D ! LoL!

    Actually, my clutch was problematic from the off, adding a ZZP stage 1 turbo & intercooler just finished it off.

    The new clutch works great! Expect it to last for a long time!

  • Clutch slipping

    replaced mine at 15,000 miles.

    BIG job, you're gonna need an engine hoist and preferably somebody who has done this before.


    Oh yeah, better brush up on your cussin too!

  • Conservative Politics & Daily Events Discussion

    Quote from Funinthesun

    It looks like Old Joe can derail ANY topic he chooses. He supports Amtrack while it loses $700 MILLION dollars annually and thinks he almost had the training running from FLORIDA to Tampa. I think it's time for this conductor to go



    Used to ride Amtrak from Chicago to Orlando with my mom when I was a kid. The ride was great, nice people, good food, loads of fun.

    My mom continued to use Amtrak (Florida to Pomona, Ca) as she got older, service deteriorated. Pomona station was truly a scary place in a bad part of a sketchy town.


    Amtrak was running on track owned by freight companies so they got rock bottom priority. Could not predict arrival time within even an 18 hour window. Mom would call when the train passed Palm Springs & I would head out to collect her. Seems like she always got in around 3am and I would be standing at a "cold" station (no personnel there, just a concrete platform, often crowded with sketchy bums sleeping one off.


    About the time we came to AR, Katrina knocked out the rail connection through New Orleans. Obominable bashed Bush about that, but the track still isn't fixed. Mom's last trip was Sebring to Little Rock in 2015... wouldn't want her riding on the train today. 🙄😬

  • Where Did You Take Your Slingshot Today?

    Well, finished classes Thursday (still have grading to do and whining to put up with) and Friday was beautiful. Put the grading aside, kissed the Captain goodbye, and fired up Ruby for a nice road trip to places nobody has heard of.

    I first set out for Trident, AR. Why? Never been there. Headed out AR-16, west out of Fayetteville for about 35 miles. Trident is an old moth-eaten church, a flourishing graveyard, cattle, and suspicious people peering out of windows at the weirdo in the 3-wheeled car. Stopped for a photo, but didn't go ask anyone for directions (banjos in the distance discouraged me.)


    Headed south on AR-59 through the Ozark Nat'l Forest, Cincinnati is nice, sign says 600 people. Old granny complete with sun had and giant sunglasses on her 3-series John Deere waves and smiles - I wave back. No time for a picture, and no where to pull off and take it. Ruby and I press on through Summers (no sign) and on to Dutch Mills. Dutch Mills is where the internet dies. Pandora swing channel dies in the middle of a Louis Armstrong solo. For the next 60 miles it will occasionally blare out Glenn Miller or Parov Stellar at odd intervals, but mostly Ruby just sings to me as we motor through Tolu, Evansville, Natural Dam, and Cedarville - I am content.


    We dodge through Ruby (avoid the Love's Travel Stop at all costs!) and under the I-49 and head up AR-71 - the "Road to Nowhere". This highway takes you through the Boston Mountains and along lake Ft. Smith, lots of long drops to green valleys with water at the bottom. Next stop, Mountainburg (Pop. 630). Yes, Mountainburg DOES have a police force - and I saw all of them, including the swift water rescue team. Some poor fool had misjudged one of the curves, gone through the guard rail, and on down into the water at the bottom (God only knows how far down.) Cops and EMT's peering down the slope and I am waved by, saying a prayer for whoever is at the bottom. The cop/flagman looks at me with a scowl - no doubt motorcycles and such are the bane of his life.


    Artist Point and Winslow are nice, there is a neat cafe there overlooking the valley with Lake Ft. Smith in the distance - it looks abandoned and is for sale, its a nice place and an empty parking lot, so Ruby poses for a sexy photo or two. 8o:love:




    On again through Pitkin Corner, West Fork, Greenland, and then home to Elkins. All told, about 160 miles and 3 and a half hours of therapy. Good lord, after this last semester with the Zoom Zombies, I really needed that!


    Tomorrow? More grading, and perhaps a ride with the Captain! :)

  • 40mpg Slingshot!

    I keep track of milage cause I HATE running out of gas and hiking or hitching a ride.

    I did notice that going turbocharged reduced the milage I was getting from about 27 mpg to a bit under 24 mpg - TOTALLY worth it!

    Strange, but I get asked about milage a lot, my standard answer is "no real slingshot rider gives a damn."

    I used to say "My other car is an Elio", but nobody gets that joke anymore. Not even Paul Elio.

  • Some Funny Comics I recently received in emails

    Quote from Edward Neal

    good luck with that now days - - with smart watches and phones kids now days have calculators and much more 24/7 - - - - - - - and if you try to take their tech away their parents will have a shit fit screaming that they need it for emergencies


    the reliance on technology has gotten so bad that many kids cant even tell time on a clock with hands and they have no clue what a real set of encyclopedias looks like or how to use one.


    dang kids can put most of us old farts to shame when it comes to tech and computers, but one EMP and they would screwed

    Gotta say, they're not that good with computers either.