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Browsing Archive: January, 2012

Beware the Dinosaur -- Barney is Lifted!

Posted by on Sunday, January 29, 2012, In : Tech/Mods/Installs 
After holding onto boxes of lift kit pieces for weeks and months and...okay, well not years, but...a long time...Barney has finally got a lift on!  And which one?  C'mon, you had ought to know by now -- I announced it on H4O earlier this week!  I chose a Tuff Country 4" suspension lift.  To be completely specific, the kit I bought was actually a leftover XD-Series Suspension Lift, a re-badged TC lift, if you will. 

Unbeknownst to me, XD and TC partnered at one point, but the junction failed to...
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Building Barney: A (Nearly Correct) Timeline of my Mods

Posted by Hans Mertens on Saturday, January 21, 2012, In : Tech/Mods/Installs 
I decided last night, with snow and freezing rain falling outside, that it would be a good time to finally start a "build thread" on my truck over on H4O.  A build thread, for those unfamiliar with forum lingo, is a comment thread chronicling the various modifications I have performed on my H3T, complete with commentary and photos.  

You may be asking yourself, Isn't that what this website is for?  In short, yes!  Yes, absolutely -- however, not everyone cares about reading some overzealous ki...
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Barney Rolls Over...20,000!

Posted by on Monday, January 9, 2012,
On my 10-hour-absolute-delight of a drive back down to campus yesterday, I rolled over the big 20k mark.  It was initially my plan to snap a photo at exactly 20k, but I had been on the road about 4 hours at that point and it was only 9am.  Needless to say, I was in the zone, chief.  Regardless, once I snapped back to reality, I captured a photo of what I thought was the next most acceptable slightly-over-20k odometer reading to share with you all my future self when I read this six months fro...
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8-Bit Barney

Posted by on Monday, January 9, 2012, In : This and That 
My buddy, alias Nacho over on H4O, is sort of a Photoshop guru.  There's been a sort of fad floating around on the forum where, slowly but surely, more and more people are changing their username avatars to microscopic mini-me's of their full-sized Hummers.  Upset that I was missing a trend (unlike the whole Jersey Shore / Ed Hardy thing) I broadly inquired who was crafting these delightful digitized doppelgängers.  Within a day of posting, Nacho put his muenster in motion, his gouda in gear...
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