What did you do to your Spyder today?

[CloverHillCrawler]

Checked things out and did not find anything that I had any movement. In the course of checking things, I found that one of the locking nuts on one end of the tie rods were not tightened after the alinement. Of course it was one of the inner ones. Got it snugged up I think!

When I kept having wear on the inside it was due to a bent pitman arm that was missed during the repair after being rear ended at traffic lights.

 

[Cobranut]

Went for a ride with my buddy Jerry. Had a highway assassin make a left turn at an intersection right in front of me while I was doing about 35 MPH. I got to test my anti lock brakes. Luckily Jerry was not right on my tail.

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I'm in the Philippines right now. I rented a 150cc Honda ADV scooter to get around.
Everyone should learn to drive here. The rule is basically, if you can get ahead of the other vehicle, you have the right of way.
Amazingly, it seems to work. People just accept it and go on about their day.
Horns are actually used to get someones attention or warn of your presence, instead of a way to express anger.

 

[Snoking1127]

I'm in the Philippines right now. I rented a 150cc Honda ADV scooter to get around.
Everyone should learn to drive here. The rule is basically, if you can get ahead of the other vehicle, you have the right of way.
Amazingly, it seems to work. People just accept it and go on about their day.
Horns are actually used to get someones attention or warn of your presence, instead of a way to express anger.

I drove USCG and other trucks borrowed from the AF in Sattahip Thailand for a year in 1966-67. Not only on the other side of the road, but with crazy Thai's that thought missing you by inches was the SOP.

 

[Gwolf]

I'm in the Philippines right now. I rented a 150cc Honda ADV scooter to get around.
Everyone should learn to drive here. The rule is basically, if you can get ahead of the other vehicle, you have the right of way.
Amazingly, it seems to work. People just accept it and go on about their day.
Horns are actually used to get someones attention or warn of your presence, instead of a way to express anger.

You on Luzon, maybe close to Manila or Angeles City? A lot of us did learn to drive there, but that don't work so well in the CONUS.
They have the laws, they just don't enforce them. There are worse places to drive on that side of the world. Some of it may have changed since I was there. Taiwan had highway with 60 clicks limit outside of town, but you would never get over about 30 clicks. The bicycles, ox-carts, and farm tractors share the road with the motorcycles and taxis. Slower traffic supposed to stay on the shoulder of the road, but when it gets mixed up it is all slower traffic. Take the scooter back and get a boat. There are about 7,500 islands in the PI. Never know what you will see there.

 

[Cobranut]

You on Luzon, maybe close to Manila or Angeles City? A lot of us did learn to drive there, but that don't work so well in the CONUS.
They have the laws, they just don't enforce them. There are worse places to drive on that side of the world. Some of it may have changed since I was there. Taiwan had highway with 60 clicks limit outside of town, but you would never get over about 30 clicks. The bicycles, ox-carts, and farm tractors share the road with the motorcycles and taxis. Slower traffic supposed to stay on the shoulder of the road, but when it gets mixed up it is all slower traffic. Take the scooter back and get a boat. There are about 7,500 islands in the PI. Never know what you will see there.

Yep, Luzon, but up in Baguio City. We fly in and out of Angeles City, the old Clark Airbase. They built a gorgeous new terminal there with HUGE wood beams and tongue and groove joints. My wife is from Bagiou. We're visiting family, and I'm helping modernize their water system with new pumps and float switches to automate things.

I've been to Taiwan for work several times before I retired. The traffic there is about the same as here.
If you can find a space to squeeze through, you better go for it or you might get run over by the next guy trying.

It's really funny to be riding up the shoulder or middle of the road, pass a cop, and they pay no attention. Had one even wave at me today.

 

[Gwolf]

Yep, Luzon, but up in Baguio City. We fly in and out of Angeles City, the old Clark Airbase. They built a gorgeous new terminal there with HUGE wood beams and tongue and groove joints. My wife is from Bagiou. We're visiting family, and I'm helping modernize their water system with new pumps and float switches to automate things.

I've been to Taiwan for work several times before I retired. The traffic there is about the same as here.
If you can find a space to squeeze through, you better go for it or you might get run over by the next guy trying.

It's really funny to be riding up the shoulder or middle of the road, pass a cop, and they pay no attention. Had one even wave at me today.

Yep, we operated out of Clark a lot before the volcano buried it in ash. Did a lot of cargo operations out of Subic too. I was officially a guest of the Chinese Air Force on Taiwan for several years about half way up the Island at a place called CCK. Unofficially, I was anywhere between Hickham, Hawaii and Diego Garcia that they told me to go, moving anything a C-130 could carry. You went to the mountainous area. It is beautiful there. Seen a lot of it from the air. Got my Jungle Survival training in the Luzon mountains from a Nigreto contract instructor. We spent a week in the mountains, but it is almost impossible to see anything from under the jungle canopy. Not even real sure where the training was located. Went in on choppers and there was only one small cleared landing zone. From there we went into the jungle on narrow trails. Most of the people from my area of Florida never been out of the state. If you try to tell them about places of the other side of the Pacific they think you are crazy. I still have a bolo machete made from a WW2 jeep spring that I traded a half gallon of peaches for. Still got some of the wood carvings of carabao too.

 

[Snoking1127]

I drove USCG and other trucks borrowed from the AF in Sattahip Thailand for a year in 1966-67. Not only on the other side of the road, but with crazy Thai's that thought missing you by inches was the SOP.

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I climbed the 625' Loran C radio navigation tower during construction to take pictures. We were testing during that period, so the transmitter went down for me to mount, and then again to dismount. So I climbed it "hot". First is looking down at the station buildings and second one is looking over to U-Tapao AFB. Mainly B-52's and KC-135. However, SR-71's stopped by along with other aircraft during the war. I was an electronics tech, but did a lot of other duties. In the top of third picture of the Tech's, ETCS, XO and CO, myself without a lid and the guy to my left are the only two remaining walking on the planet.

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