Putting Off Lifting My Truck Until May or Later Now

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I think what went from early October has shifted to early April then to late April and now until May or maybe later. May is a little tricker with work, but I think I will wait until then to wear the tires down a bit more. At some point though, I am going to do the lift kit or I will have to stuck getting another set of tires and an alignment – so I better it do before then.37460_467969787515_637912515_661868When I was out picking up some work clothes, I parked down from a Silverado pickup like mine with 35s and a 6 inch lift. That really is an about perfect amount of lift. A 6” inch lift plus roughly 2” inches from the bigger tires brings you up to 8 inches. That might not seem like much, but when your talking about a 4×4 truck that already has decent ground clearance and a relatively high stance, that’s pretty high. Not sure if I’d want to go higher. People do sometimes go higher – and I want to have wheels with enough backspacing to ensure if I decide to go to 37s later on by adding a body lift, that’s always an option. But I’m not sure if I’d really want to do that.

Partly the delay is a money thing – this winter has been full of big heating bills and just everything else has got more expensive – part of it’s my schedule. I don’t want to fill up either of the last two weeks of April, as I am planning my first extended weekend camping trip then.

BEARCAT980SSBLikewise, I am putting off ordering the CB Radio and antenna for my truck for now. I think I know what I want, but I want to delay spending the money for a bit, and it’s just two darn cold to be out there working on my truck. When I install the radio, I plan to pull the battery and the windshield washer fluid container to see if I can find the leak and either replace the malfunctioning low fluid sensor or just short circuit it to fool the computer.. Maybe it’s the leak that’s causing a valid low fluid warning, but I have my doubts. Whatever it is, I should be able to fix it once the weather gets nice.

Cold weather, insufficient funds, and the fact I don't drive my truck that much in the spring. But once the weather warms up, I plan to jack it up, and put in my CB radio.

It’s All in the Dirt

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There is a lot living in the dirt below your feet, especially in a healthy forest or farm field.

Sunday is Daylight Savings Time

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A lot of people are complaining about the early week for the start of daylight savings time, but I don’t know, I would prefer to have more daylight in the evening then in the morning. I would rather have some daylight when I get out of work and deal with somewhat darker mornings – although as I am a 9-5 employee, the mornings really aren’t too dark either.

I look forward to having a daylight in the evening to go down to the park and read, although days will have to get a fair bit longer and the snow will have to melt first. But those days can’t be too far away.

Sunrise at the Campsite

Winter is rapidly starting to fade away, even if the mercury isn’t showing it the past few days. The reality is if it’s below 20 degrees all day in March then when we switch to above average temperature it will be in the 50s and 60s, and the snow will rapidly melt away. Usually in the Albany area in the spring, we have weather in the 20s until a high front comes through, and it goes up to the 70s and 80s.

Breaking Thru

I won’t get my hopes up to high. It may warm up — even be oppressively hot in March or April, but spring really won’t come until late April in the lowest elevations, and not until mid-May in the Adirondacks.

Next weekend starts daylight savings time.... should be nice having more daylight in the evening, despite it being somewhat darker in the morning.