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RE: Usefulness of Ford "5th-Wheel/Gooseneck" package
If you plan to keep the truck for a long time get the hitch package. You may someday decide to try a different hitch that would use the puck mounting system. Or even the Goosebox gooseneck adapter that is growing rapidly in popularity and use the ball mount.
Thats what I got from Curt. I really like it.
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ksss
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06/07/23 08:30pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Rain bow
Both require testosterone blockers to enjoy?
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ksss
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05/18/23 05:24pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: I Bought Too Much Truck
Bonus points if the bikes not on it and you can’t see the handy bars over the tailgate!
Its a Harley, its ALWAYS on the trailer:BOr sitting alongside the road...waiting on the trailer. :)
I keep telling him to get an Indian, yet here we continue to be...
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ksss
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05/06/23 10:49pm |
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RE: Chevrolet 6.6 burning oil
If you get on You Tube you will see some discussion of it. Is the pickup under warranty? I believe the last number I heard was one quart every 1200 miles was GM's line. Hopefully the dealer will get you some help. This seems to be hit and miss on who has the issue and who doesn't. I don't know if they got some bad rings on certain engines or what this is about. On other issues such as Duramax fuel injection issues with the Bosch system used for a while, GM has been pretty good about accepting issues under warranty. If there are a bad run of 6.6 gas engines, hopefully they do the same here.
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ksss
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04/24/23 08:15am |
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RE: Twisted Receiver Square
I had not heard of any issues with the 3.0 which is updated for this year. I was curious if he knew something that no one else does.
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ksss
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04/23/23 12:10pm |
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RE: Twisted Receiver Square
Now that you say it’s a diesel I would skip it. Look for a non problematic gas engine, with a good hitch!
Why would you suggest a gas engine?
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ksss
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04/23/23 09:59am |
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RE: 2023 Chevy Colorado
It's certainly a good looking midsize pickup. Unlike the previous gen, it was designed from the ground up for North America. I had a 2018 ZR2 with the 3.6L. It was crazy good off road. The interior was not great. I always thought that the 3.6 was kind of an odd engine for that pickup. The power looks really good, but the MPG isn't as good as many were hoping for. From the Utube videos I have seen its equal to or tad under the previous 3.6 NA engine, but depending on which version of the 2.7 Turbo your comparing it to, the 2.7 T is more power than the 3.6L. I am hoping that they drop the 3.0 diesel in it at some point. I think it is going to be very popular.
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ksss
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04/19/23 05:01pm |
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RE: New EPA Requirements
I am hoping a change at the top, will stop this ridiculousness.
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ksss
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04/15/23 09:37am |
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RE: 2024 Chevy HD ZR2
I have my name on a HD ZR2 months ago. I am waiting to see what the specs are before I decide if I want it. Seems whenever they ZR2 a pickup the tow ratings are way low. So I am interested to see what it can do pulling a trailer.
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ksss
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04/14/23 09:02pm |
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RE: time for a diesel?
That screaming of the engine is what gas engines need to do to make their power. All of them do it. Nothing is coming through the hood, diesels make their power at a much lower RPM. Some people can't stand that high RPM. Your options are deal with the high RPM or get a diesel.
If I had some way to prove it I would bet most people driving diesel spend more time above 90% of redline than gas engine drivers do.
Why do you think that? The only time I see higher RPM is with the exhaust brake when loaded heavy, then I would agree the revs get high when its steep and I am heavy. Other than that, I would completely disagree.
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ksss
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04/14/23 07:55am |
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RE: time for a diesel?
Go up a 10 mile long grade at 60 MPH, takes you 10 minutes. Up the same grade at 30, takes 20 minutes. Now how much of your drive is steep enough to pull you down to 30? And the diesel will drop some speed too.
Bet if you really ran the numbers, in the course of a day you might save half hour, unless you are speeding in the diesel. Of course that does not account for the assault on manhood of somebody passing you.
Well, I'm not a biologist but I am a woman and I know that for sure after birthing 3 kids. I don't care if people pass me, I prefer that! It's those one lane roads and the 6.2 screaming that get to me. I don't like hearing an engine work like that and it gives me visions of something shooting through the hood.
That screaming of the engine is what gas engines need to do to make their power. All of them do it. Nothing is coming through the hood, diesels make their power at a much lower RPM. Some people can't stand that high RPM. Your options are deal with the high RPM or get a diesel.
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ksss
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04/13/23 03:42pm |
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RE: Ram Cummins/Aisin Failures
After the tranny gets fixed, it will be "redneck's with less of a paycheck."
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ksss
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04/11/23 06:01pm |
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RE: Ram Cummins/Aisin Failures
The dry weight was steering 5300, drivers 6840, trailer 6700, total weight 18840.
So only about hundred pounds transferred to the front axle with a 13,600 pound payload (above the weight of the trailer). I imagine I could influence that somewhat by where on the trailer I put the machine. I placed the back of the tracks over the front axle on the trailer.
So you now believe that not a significant amount of weight is transferred to the front axle, yes?
LOL yea I believe it now. Hard to argue it, the numbers don't lie.
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ksss
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04/06/23 05:46pm |
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RE: Ram Cummins/Aisin Failures
The dry weight was steering 5300, drivers 6840, trailer 6700, total weight 18840.
So only about hundred pounds transferred to the front axle with a 13,600 pound payload (above the weight of the trailer). I imagine I could influence that somewhat by where on the trailer I put the machine. I placed the back of the tracks over the front axle on the trailer.
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ksss
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04/02/23 03:26pm |
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RE: Ram Cummins/Aisin Failures
So a couple nights ago I was coming back from Boise after picking up a mini excavator that was being worked on. So with this on my mind and well its like midnight and what else do I have to do, I stop at a truck stop in Idaho Falls and weigh my set up. The trailer is identical to the one Fish posted in the '24 Chevy run up Ike thread. Diamond C gooseneck, 35', tandem dual, and the truck is a Chevy '20 CC, 3500 DRW. The DRW has a 100 gal. fuel tank on the flat bed but it was mostly empty. Steering 5400, Drivers 9580, trailer 17540, total weight 32520. I am unloading the trailer today and take it back to the truck stop and weigh it with just the trailer.
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ksss
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04/02/23 09:34am |
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RE: 2024 Chevy Duramax HD Ike Gauntlet
Glad to see they tightened up the exhaust brake, that needed to happen. I have the exact same blue Diamond C 35' GN trailer, love that trailer. I like the looks, the interior, just wish they would have given it like 1100 pound/feet of torque. The L5P is capable of whole lot more than 975. Banks Engineering has proven that. Either way, looks like a nice upgrade from 20-23 trucks. Last week I priced a '24 3500 DRW, CC, LTZ, and it was 80K. Less than 2K more than the MSRP on my '20.
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ksss
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04/01/23 08:19am |
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RE: Ram Cummins/Aisin Failures
I have never checked to see how much weight is transferred to the front axle on a gooseneck or RV. That said I run heavy, not so much with the TH but with a gooseneck. I am licensed to 40K and typically right on that in combined weight ('20 3500 DRW). I am struggling to believe that such a small amount of weight is transferred to the front axle. It just doesn't seem possible. The differences between the trailer weight ratings between tag and gooseneck on all the HD OEM's just makes that a leap for me to believe. The way the truck sits when loaded heavy between the two types of trailers says there is more than a couple hundred pounds on the front end with a gooseneck. I don't have data that supports what I am saying, and I probably should have, but when I run over scales which is typically at gravel pits, I just look at gross combined. DOT has not hassled me so I run with that.
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ksss
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03/27/23 08:54am |
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RE: Ford 150 lightning recall
I ignore any info coming from Motorbiscuit. Their writing style is simply for click bait.
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ksss
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03/14/23 11:05am |
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RE: The Ford Explorer Men only Edition
Cute. I get it . . . in recognition of Women's History Month. OK.
So, when is Men's History Month, or did I miss it?
The world's population is almost an equal split, 50.4% men, 49.6% women.
So, we should expect equal billing, right?
Women haven't had equal billing ever.
They just got the right to vote in 1920.
They still are told what they can and can't do with their bodies by old white men.
They still get paid less. 18% less.
There might be as many women as men but they sure as heck don't get equal billing IMO.
Well they live longer then men so there is that. I would say that is an advantage.
Affirmative action has more than made up for any advantage that men once had in hiring.
Still told what they can do with their bodies by old white men? Old white men prevent the use of women using birth control? Never seen that... If you mean abortion, that is society driven at the State level now, Your free to vote for whomever you like to make that decision for you.
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ksss
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03/10/23 12:48pm |
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RE: New Super Duty on order
Coming soon to a jurisdiction near you.
Where you chose to live matters....
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ksss
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02/11/23 11:09am |
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