http://www.dieselbombers.com/blogs/ Diesel Bombers - Diesel Enthusiasts Community is a Discussion Forum for owners of Cummins , Duramax , Powerstroke and All Diesels Engines. Bombers are those who bomb diesels , Bombing a diesel is to modify a diesels stock form to increase power , durability , drive ability and longevity en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:55:44 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.dieselbombers.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.dieselbombers.com/blogs/ http://www.dieselbombers.com/blogs/benjamin/9-my-money-pit-called-house.html Mon, 12 May 2008 18:40:43 GMT well some of you may not know i've been doing a Bob Vila special with my house and restoring America so i'd have a place to live. here is perty much the whole story since i know ya'll want to hear it.

once apon a time there was a school house built in Boston GA. it was a 2 room school house the bigger side was for the begining education and the other side was for the higher education. half of the other side was a concrete area that was used as a "vocational" school to teach women how to do canned goods. this was in 1904.

then during WWII the "Vocational" side was eliminated due to the young boys going into the draft and the whole half for higher education was turned into a canning plant to make canned goods for families that were strugling during the war due to no males being around to provide for them.

then in the late 40's early50's Boston had a new school house built less than a block from the old school house and it had multiple rooms for classes and the old school house was renovated into a living house for the principal of the school.

in the late 60's the Boston school burnt down and it was about the same time as integration was going on and all the schools were trying to combine together to create a "central" school Hence Thomas County Central Middle School and Thomas County Central High School.

the house sit vacant for a few years until in the early 70's the county auctioned it off to the public. my grandfather lived across the street from the house and he didn't want 1 particular person to buy it because he told him he was going to tear the house down and put up a gas station on the property. needless to say my grandfather bought the house and lot next to it for $5,000 and had his garden on the lot for YEARS after that until he passed in 89' and him and my grandmother rented out the house up until a couple of years ago.

when me and my wife got married we were looking at houses to buy as i don't ever want to have to rent if i can avoid it. we found a few houses but i wanted either one finished ready to go or a diamond in the rough. well my grandmother is now like 80ish and can't drive at night so we descided to fix up the old rental house and stay across the street from her. (atleast i know i could get some good cookin' every once in a while)

my cousin had been renting the house but was over a year behind on rent and him being family my grandmother wouldn't kick him out. he kept saying that he wasn't gonna pay rent till we fixed the place up. well he let it get so bad that you could see the sky from the living room and from inside the garage with the doors closed. it was a big job to do so we found a jack of all trades (master of not a damn thing) to come in and do some of the work to get it livable again. there is alot i did like add a walk in closet in the master bedroom, converted the 1/2 bath into a full bath, and opened up a wall from the kitchen to the dining room and built a bar. here are some before and after pics for ya'll to see.





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]]> Benjamin http://www.dieselbombers.com/blogs/benjamin/9-my-money-pit-called-house.html http://www.dieselbombers.com/blogs/benjamin/3-my-rig.html Mon, 12 May 2008 01:35:42 GMT Well to start off my truck is a Regular Cab 2X4. It has a full custom paint job of Viper Black and Prowler Orange. I recently redid the seats in a... Well to start off my truck is a Regular Cab 2X4. It has a full custom paint job of Viper Black and Prowler Orange. I recently redid the seats in a two tone Black and Grey Pleather. It has 5" Mitre cut stacks and a toolbox that is flush to the top of the bed rails and sits inside the bed behind the stacks. my truck is truely one of a kind. It has shaved door handles with remote poppers, a shaved body line and 5% window tint all around. It is rolling on Eagle Alloy 5 star aluminumn wheels and Maxxis Commercial 235/85/16. My truck has 370 Injectors, 191 Delivery Valves, 4KGSK, 100 plate, HTT Quick Spool Manifold, HTT 71 Series 64/14 Turbo, K&N FIPK, Snow Stage 2 Methanol Kit, NOS Nitrous Kit, Goerend Built to the hilt Transmission with a tight Tripple Disc Converter, Mag-Hytec Tranny Pan, GM rear wheel cyl. upgrade. It has all Autometer Pro-Comp Boost, Pyro, Tranny Temp, Drive Press Gauges. HID's, Tripple Train Horns, and rolled in bed liner. Aux. tranny cooler and fan under the cab.


The story behind this truck is kind of funny. I never really had the use for a big truck like this one. I had a friend that had some financial troubles, a business went under, stuff got repo'd and he had to file Bankruptcy. He was starting back doing vinyl siding and needed a truck to pull the equiptment trailer as his Explorer wouldn't do it. At the time I was into street racing and drag racing in general so I kind of needed something to pull with. He found this truck that ended up being a steal at a local dealership. It was all black, every pannel had some dings or dents, the passenger side fender flare was busted and the bedside was gouged behind the flare where someone jack knifed a trailer. The radio didn't work, the cruise control didn't work, and it had bent up simulators on it. It ran strong and would do anything we would ever use it for. We made an agreement that I would sign for it and he would make all the payments on it and when he got over the bankruptcy deal he would get it financed in his name. Well a year and a half later, after over 12 late payments and 4 payments behind (over 2 K out of my pocket to keep my credit up and in good standing) I repo'd the truck from him and started bringing it back up to speed. The driver side window regulator was bad. the radio was gone. A couple months later the fuel shutoff solonoid and starter went bad in the same day. I started with window tint and making the beginner mods. Exhaust, starwheel adjustment, and fuel plate. Then it got modded more and more until it is what it is today.




I prolly did 90% of all the work done to this truck. My painter did all the finish painting I did some of the primer. I did alot of the body work. Darren Morrison helped me install the delivery valves and injectors, and Ray williams does some of the stuff I don't feel like doing like valve cover gaskets, brakes etc.

I'd classify my truck like being in the National Guard. One weekend a month and two weeks a year..... lol.... well not really but that is what it feels like. It's a weekend warrior. It's a tow truck when i need something moves and a race truck when I need to put a Honduh driver in their place. There are definately days that she has been rode hard and put up wet.

My truck is featured on Goerend Transmissions website www.Goerend.com and was nominated for Truck Of The Month on DTR and held it's own against 2 other 4X4's but I was beaten by a far superior truck than mine. ]]> Benjamin http://www.dieselbombers.com/blogs/benjamin/3-my-rig.html