I wrote dodge about the g56, nv5600... what will they say

[JHardwick]

Where do you think the offroad concept came from? I quit offroading and started racing sprint cars 10 years ago, and offroading has gone quite far since then, but where do you think it started??? I can tell you, it started with us rednecks putting bigger and bigger tires on trucks, trying more and more stupid ****. We were the pioneers in the 80's. Bigger tires, more suspension travel, bigger motors.



I make driveline parts for the Samson monster truck, make parts for a guy with a 4 cylinder (for weight) Jeep, planetary driven as a rock climber (been on TV) and make parts for another guy who builds Trackers with laid down shocks similar to an F1 or Indy car to gain wheel travel ... ... ..... I don't do it anymore, but I know what it's all about and it all started with playing in the mud, LMAO.

^^ Here SKargo, lemme help you out a bit :-laf

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

You've seen plenty uhauls hauling vehicles inside??? Remind me to stay off the roads in your neighborhood.

That's not what my post said. It specifically stated "TOWING rigs", e. g. with either the little dollies (no not hot women) or flatbed trailers. So you are safe around these parts.

hot women... . hot women. hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... hot women... .

Heck, with all this goof'n off, no wonder they are so POed, and even leaving folks. :-laf

 

[SKargo]

That's not what my post said. It specifically stated "TOWING rigs", e. g. with either the little dollies (no not hot women) or flatbed trailers. So you are safe around these parts.







Heck, with all this goof'n off, no wonder they are so POed, and even leaving folks. :-laf

My apologies, I did not see the towing part in your response. I was still a few posts behind it, thinking about hauling one inside.

 

[Tim]

Since this has become the pimp your trail rig post, here's a pic of me gettin' it awn in the rocks for Fourwheeler Magazine last August.



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And, well, I just really like this picture:



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[swexlin]

Very cool, Tim. Was that for the Top Truck Challenge? I threw away that issue by now, but to you have a Web link maybe?



You weren't planning on doing that with your NEW truck, were you?

 

[Tomeygun]

Very cool, Tim. Was that for the Top Truck Challenge? I threw away that issue by now, but to you have a Web link maybe?



You weren't planning on doing that with your NEW truck, were you?

http://fourwheeler.com/eventcoverage/129_rtcc04/

 

[swexlin]

Thanks for the link, Tom.



So, Tim..... is that you, Timothy Nuccio, in 14th in the '84 Chevy K-10? Very cool.

 

[Tim]

You weren't planning on doing that with your NEW truck, were you?

No, I have a 20' long flatbed trailer that tows my trail rig everywhere it goes. I wanted something nice to relax in after a long day on the trail... and I figured a new Dodge would do it.

Thanks for the link, Tom.



So, Tim..... is that you, Timothy Nuccio, in 14th in the '84 Chevy K-10? Very cool.

Yep that's me. Had some breakage that weekend and wish I could have made a better showing, but I did the best I could given the circumstances.

 

[MABurns]

And for your info, any idiot can jump into a truck and go "muddin". All the rookies start there.

I suppose all the "professional" trial bike riders feel the same way about motocross riders. Rookies.



To each his own. Wait, I would be pressing my opinions on others sorry.



It is also so good to see that there are still people in this world who feel they are better than everyone else and that everything they do is perfect and all others are inferior.



I was beginning to think the world had been rid of most of its dictators but its comforting to see that there are a few in training.

 

[swexlin]

Yep that's me. Had some breakage that weekend and wish I could have made a better showing, but I did the best I could given the circumstances

You did better than most of us. I understand it's pretty hard to get into TTC.

Congrats. Maybe you could be first to 'wheel a 3rd Gen Dodge Cummins in TTC.

 

[Tim]

You did better than most of us. I understand it's pretty hard to get into TTC.

Congrats. Maybe you could be first to 'wheel a 3rd Gen Dodge Cummins in TTC.

I wasn't in TTC. I am in the voting, maybe I will get in. I was in the sister event of TTC, called Real Truck Club Challenge, or RTCC. They've been doing it for two years now, this year will be the 3rd year. It's held in Indiana at the Badlands off road park. I had a great time, no matter how I placed. It was awesome. I came to the conclusion that I'm really just not a competition type of person. That stuff makes me way too nervous and it took me til the last day to relax and start driving. I'm much happier at my own pace on the trail, taking my time and treating it more like a vacation, all that rushing against the clock and such makes it feel like work!!



If I did get into TTC, either now, or in the future, I'd prefer not to take a fullsize rig. It's cool for pictures and all to have a fullsize pickup gettin' it like Jeeps and such do, but my future rig will be much smaller, lighter, faster, and shorter, and more powerful. It's not that fullsize rigs don't have their place on the trail, but as you can tell from the pics of the body of my truck, there are space limitations to where fullsizes can go.



Diesel would be cool, but no electronic diesel on the trail for me. Gotta be a mechanical diesel. Can't be having little parts fail forcing it to quit, nor can you submerge all those electronics for long periods, and unfortunately on this side of the country, sometimes water, and even mud, are encountered on the trail.

 

[DPKetchum]

I think he had/has some real valid points. All it takes is a PHONE call to keep somone informed. I've had something planed for months and had a new truck go down and I was as po'ed as Tim.

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

Perhaps his points are valid, but his delivery leaves much to be desired, e. g. personal smear campaign against a TDR member. Furthermore, when he is brought to task about his malfeasance, all we hear is the same lame excuses over and over and over again.



My 04 was a month and a half late. Basically, I was stuck at home, forty miles from town. Plus it put the kabosch on my hunting season, except for local traipses behind the station. Did I flame my dealer, nope, I sucked it up and dealt with it. Read my posts and I have had nothing but good to say about Yellowstone Country Motors in Livingston Montana (DC in general excepted). In fact, I think I'll just give them another free ad - better overall deal than Dave Smith, JCBillion, Lithia in Billing, Performance Dodge in Butte, or Dishman in Spokane.

 

[camsv3500]

Well... far down in this thread DODGE finally wrote me back...



"Thank you for your inquiry about the g56 transmission. It is currently on hold and no orders are being accepted. Please contact your Dodge dealer for further information"





The dealer has no further... didnt know when they would be released... tried to sell me a ford instead... .





Signed

patiently awaiting the 06's

 

[Jengle]

We also wrote a letter to DC asking about the G56. Lets see if they send the same response to us. If so, we will respond back to them saying the dealer had no more information and recommended we contact you. See if that will get a rise out of them. Not holding my breath. But am holding my wallet.

 

[Tim]

I think he had/has some real valid points. All it takes is a PHONE call to keep somone informed. I've had something planed for months and had a new truck go down and I was as po'ed as Tim.

Thank you.



I don't care if y'all disagree with me, it's not going to make me any less disappointed. I wanted to go on my trip and I didn't get to go. There will be others--but I ordered my truck earlier than I thought I had to in order to make sure this wouldn't happen, and it happened anyway.

 

[DPKetchum]

To SOME of us a purchase of a vehilce in this PRICE range is next to buying a home. To SOME when making this step and ORDERING certain color,equipment etc. is a BIG plunge. To some it takeas a lot of soul searching to finally say I'll spend THIS kind of money and get what "I"want. Once this is done its hard to listen to advise of WE'LL buy whats on the lot or why not take THIS one etc. I can understand his frustrations. After all they are THOUSANDS of good used and new trucks around. BUT Tim decided to order and buy what he wanted. ALL a salesman needed to do to start with is CALL and inform to whats happening. I looked at the one I bought a dozen times over three weeks before taking the plunge. Wife and I taked about MONEY three dozen times before jumping. I understand very well were Tim is coming from. Human nature HE"S not really concerend about HOW busy a salesman is or what someone else might do etc. Thats normal. We ALL have differant expectations and really are only concerned about US/ME. WE are here(forum)to vent,praise,discuss issues about a product. It won't make THEM deliver it any quicker or more perfect but its(forum)probaby the only place a lot of us men can vent or let it out. Put yourself in HIS shoes. TommyGun/Dodge or who ever will forget this in a hurry and move on to the next and the next. Tim won't. Its too bad the Dealer(and I understand why they won't)couldn't have called,informed in a timely manor and said LOOK if it dosen't show up in time heres a clean used truck to use,make your trip,don't tear it up,return it clean and chill until ours gets here etc. I bet when the DEALER owner was BUYING his franchise he was as nervous as a hen when a fox in the hen house. Let something HOLD up closing or buying or building it and he had the SAME feelings as Tim. We'll enough of my Doctor Laura. That was my long 02 cents worth.

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

We'll enough of my Doctor Laura

There's no doubt in my mind Dr. Laura would not ramble on about Timmy's hurt feewings (sic). She, like most folks here, would have told Tim to stop being a :{ baby, suck it up, grow up, get over it, and move on.



Again, it's not about Tim's "right" to say what he wanted, but how he chose to say it that he got follks POd. Big difference.