Removing the front bumper on a 99 Ram 1500 (2nd request)

From : gerald levin

Q: on thu 14 oct 2004 233258 gmt roy roy@home.net wrote on thu 14 oct 2004 202924 gmt roy roy@home.net wrote heres something to play with. www.iei.net/usa1/reaction ooops it isnt working. sorry roy sure it is bro.. your reactions are just so fast you didnt notice it.. 4s all the time. bro did you catch the piece on abc about the wias over 4k of them. anyway it seems the govt. isnt doing shit for them. sound familiar one guy is living in his friggin car cause sam ruined his credit unfuckinbelievable! well it would be if it didnt happen before. roy my wife went to a va info class through work and the said that about 30% of the homeless in ca. were viet vets... over 50% of the homeless were vets.. now they have a whole new group from this war. too bad jerrys idiot wont help them out. he put them there. .

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From : gerald levin

on mon 11 oct 2004 180932 -0400 matt whiting whiting@chilitech.net wrote azguy wrote on sun 10 oct 2004 212047 -0400 matt whiting whiting@chilitech.net wrote azguy wrote on fri 08 oct 2004 064928 -0400 matt whiting whiting@chilitech.net wrote everything else isnt even close to equal. it is pretty well documented where could i see this documentation yahoo google etc. with these keywords most engine wear occurs start tried that. all you get are ads for various oil additives that start with the same unsupported statement of most engine wear occurs..... saying something doesnt make it true. im interested in documents that show the results of actual tests proving that an engine started and stopped x number of times wears out x number of running hours sooner then one that isnt. i dont think ive seen such a test as the cost of doing so would be horrendous. ive seen over the years data from fleets of aircraft that shows clearly that airplanes flown a lot of hours as a function of the number of engine starts last many more hours tbo than airplanes that experience a lot of start/stop cycles. i dont understand that statement. based on my somewhat limited knowledge of air craft requirements i thought that regardless of how an aircraft was operated the engine had to be overhauled at a fixed number of hours of operation even if it was running perfectly. thats in addition to all the mandatory inspections at other fixed and shorter intervals. also if you look at vehicles such as taxis and police cars they tend to last a lot longer than cars used for daily commuting. i agree but i dont think it has anything to do a start causing engine wear but has to do with the fact that the vehicle is always warmed up. or to put it another way i think its cold starts that would maybe cause extra wear not just any start. so if you are comparing a car that gets started cold in the morning and then gets started over and over during the day after sitting 10 minutes so they are hot starts you wouldnt see any extra wear from the hot starts. other then the starter wearing out. plus the oil is always warm and doesnt build up sludge from cold operation. compared to the little old lady who only makes one trip a day to the store 3 miles away the little old ladies car is going to have much more wear in 50000 miles then the taxi. but its the kind of starts much moreso then the number of starts. thats just my theory. id still like to see some kind of data for wear due to each type of start - but i bet its hard to come by. -- elbridge gerry of massachusetts what sir is the use of militia it is to prevent the establishment of a standing army the bane of liberty. . . whenever government means to invade the rights and liberties of the people they always attempt to destroy the militia in order to raise a standing army upon its ruins. -- debate u.s. house of representatives august 17 1789 .

From : roy

i have removed the front bumper on my 2000 and then on my 2001 ram 1500. no big deal. there is nothing on it regarding the air bag. you have to take out a few screws and release a few clips on the plastic facia. other than that just a few big bolts and it comes loose. i did not completely remove mine. i swung it down in order to get easy access to mount and wire in fog lights. but i could have just as easily removed it completely. gerald levin wrote come on guys. need some help. im looking to remove my front bumper hammer out a few dents and reinstall. new bumper with shipping is $150-200. is the bumper easy to remove as i dont need it to look perfect just better. also do i have to disconnect the battery to prevent the airbag from engaging help! really appreciate anyones help on this. thanks gerald ps truck is nice about a 90 pointer but not a show truck just want to improve the appearance if i can reasonably remove improve and reinstall the bumper. .

From : miles

you dont understand the limitations set on the presidency do you a president is not a monarch not until now that can set down laws on a whim. this one doesnt seem to have to concern himself with laws. he operates mostly outside the law. -- budd pres. bush john kerry has changed his position on the iraq war so many times he could debate himself. b.c. and lose. miles wrote ken wrote we seen his work gwb............... time for a change. sure cant hurt! its like russian roulette gwb is a dud load the next chamber! except that weve seen 20 years of kerrys work in the senate and its not good. too bad democrats dont take notice of what kerry has done for 20 years. not to mention what edwards has done or didnt do that he should have. what can 1 of 100 senators do in comparison to 1 of 1 presidents apples and oranges. .