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I have the Wolfbox G900 Pro and I run split screen with the front and rear cameras at the same time. It works great! I even have footage of a bull moose running in front of my RAM during this last Elk hunting season.

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Nice dash cam. I have a dash cam in all of my vehicles, not as nice as yours but it's cheap additional accident insurance for when the other driver says, "it's not my fault". Case in point when a truck pulling a trailer ran the trailer into my right front fender. He was giving me a song and dance about it until I said " do you see that camera in the windshield? It's recording everything". He then said, "I guess you got me". His insurance company was giving me a bad time about paying the claim. I told them to grab a box of popcorn and watch the video on You Tube. They paid up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mTHYzV5IT8

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Stopped out at @Danm Straight Customs (my painter guy) and cheked out stuff. Ready for color! So we poked at colors. I like the polished inner door panel color. Tried to match a standard color....closest we got. And the potential grey for the wheels and hood tip frame. Meanwhile digging up old reciepes from my files to see who they look once he programs them up.

Yeah... I was in a hurry and needed the truck and jumper cable to come out so I could get my wife to her appointment for her eyes. Didn't think and it blew the circuit for the cooldown timer and poof the Quadzilla had issues. Call DAP, and Lenny took care of me, and I ordered a new Quadzilla module. ($246 Mistake)

Always something. I put a 5 amp fuse on my Quadzilla. Hopefully it will pop first.

WOLFBOX G850 PRO 4K Mirror Dash Camhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD3NV7PX?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title With all the miles I've put down on Beast and all the wild stuff I've seen, now I can capture this stuff for future proof. I'm very pleased with the product and the function. I'll admit I've not finished the installation of the rear camera completely on the rear bumper. I tucked it in at the rear window for now, but the other functions, like lane departure warning, are incorrect because the camera location is wrong. Huge menu of options that make the whole camera part very universal for any vehicle. The 2 camera and 3 different views of the cameras. (Default is Rear, Front and both cameras side by side.) Rear View (Default) Forward View Side by Side view. This records in batches of 3 minutes for my setup. It also recordsin cab conversation, music playing so forth. On the left side of the view is the direction you are travelling and the rate of speed from the GPS. Time and Date is on the right of the screen. I've got a few things to configure and set up. Weather is suppose to change in the next few days maybe I'll get lucky and get the rear camera finished out. I wanted this feature for hitching trailers. I will eventually change to a smaller rear view mirror for a base instead of my factory rear view mirror that is a bit too long and you can see it poking out the right side.

Ugh. The Beast has a sticking passenger door handle, and the salt and rust have finally eaten that door handle. I was trying to free it up with oil and everything. It turned into a full cleaning, disassembly of the door latch, and power washing the latch re-oiling, and replacing the door handle which I was lucky our donor truck still had a door in the yard. I fried my Quadzilla about a week ago jump jump-starting the truck. Another thread on that. Then cleaned up the truck and got it ready to head towards Lewiston, ID, soon for a grocery run, we are getting low on supplies here. I have a new toy I've not even mentioned yet but I'll start another thread for it.

Haven't noticed a vibration. It had been a few months since I had the the driveshaft out. I keep it greased, but that u-joint had been kinda tight since the day I installed it. I don't do pulls or burnouts. (Tires are expensive af) Only thing I really do is get on it hard, but I never drop the clutch. I had my car trailer behind me (empty) and was taking off in 2nd. Had it revved up only a little bit and had let the clutch out nicely. It was actually completely engaged when the failure occurred. I'm hoping my driveshaft isn't ruined. Currently it is stuck in the transfer case. Hoping its just from getting kicked forward, but I fear it may have spun on the teeth. Haven't dropped the diff cover yet either as its been far too cold. But we're looking at 45º on Tuesday so I'll be under it.

Had you noticed any driveline vibration or noise prior to the event? Had the driveline been removed and re-installed recently? Was the rear u-joint still in good operating condition disregarding the damage from the end yoke failure? In other words, were the end caps lubed, not dry? How do you use this truck? Does it do any sled pulling? burnouts? I only ask these questions just to cover anything that may generate shock loads to the drivetrain. Personally, I would just replace the parts needed with the OEM style end yoke. After seeing what happened with your truck, I think I will inspect the end yoke on my truck. - John

I picked this piece up from the intersection the next day. Thinking it was possibly cracked already as I don't think it would have gotten t that dirty in 1 day. Also. I tried searching as a 3500 and still could only find the strap style for the rear axle

Looks like a U-bolt style was used on the 2nd generation 3500's, but not the 2500's. I think the U-joints are a 1410 series on a U-bolt style. A conversion would be possible, but probably costly. Did you do a failure analysis to determine whether it was an instant failure, or one that was coming on slowly? The photo doesn't show all of the broken area, so it is hard to tell if there was a crack first, then a breakaway. As far as I know, the OEM type end yoke is not problem connection. - John

Was pulling my car trailer the other day (empty) when I got into the throttle just a little to get across the intersection, the rear yoke decided it'd had enough. So, does anyone have any suggestion on a good strong yoke? Does anyone make a yoke that uses u-bolts instead of straps? I have changed the front over to u-bolts but haven't found one for the rear. Dana 80 axle in 2000 ram 2500 L6 5 speed.

Yes, that's me giving it the throttle. I can ease it up to speed, but any greater acceleration and it starts cutting or bucking. The more throttle, the more likely it's bucking. And it's consistent now. Thanks for sticking with me John. Edit: One thing I keep going back to in my mind is that the PO said he'd replaced the fuel pump a couple of times. So, a couple of possibilities: either something in my system may killing these pumps, or I'm dealing with a reman pump of not good quality that's failing. I recall reading on the forums that there are recommended rebuilders and you don't want to go cheap on that.

Thanks for posting video. That is definitely all cylinders cutting out - like the fuel is briefly shut off intermittently. I watched your video a few times. Couple of questions. Just before the first cut out, your tach increased in RPM's. Was that you pressing the throttle or did that happen on its own? Can you make it happen? If so, exactly how do you make it happen? We gotta get this fixed! John

No progress yet. Here's a video showing minor sputtering around 10-13 sec, and then major from 20-25 sec. The shaking is just from the miss. Typical road bumps all other times. Log at the same time showed no red flags at those events. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E14BZAQJ3RQUKvTiRCBajmeTOiAcBrsw/view?usp=sharing

That is going to be one of the coolest trucks in history. I took notice of the 11 YEARS this thread has been going on regarding your custom build Cummins truck. I'm sitting here waiting for another bag of popcorn to watch this come together.

One step closer to color

Titanium's story continues in public. I've got followers all over the place. At Starbucks coffee in McCall, the two gals who work there started to ask questions about my appearance with my colored wigs and makeup. When I was done explaining the story of my cancer, they both were impressed with my ideas of heading towards a Goth/Emo/Alt appearance. While I was still in the Albertson store, which has Save-On Drugs and the Starbucks coffee, two kids stopped me to tell me they loved my hair color. Compliments from other people are truly amazing. Today, I had to run into town to handle some banking for us. I ran into an old client I had worked with on his Toyota, and he gave great comments about me wearing my Victorian Tail Coat and basic black makeup. He told me to stay in touch and stop by once in a while. Then I stopped by the Riggins One Stop fuel station. I needed to drain the ostomy bag. While I was there, I said hi to the staff, and one gentleman who lives in the RV park out back gave me wonderful comments about my appearance. After he understood the story of my cancer, he fully supported my dress code and makeup artistry. He's now a follower on TikTok. No, my other passion for makeup artistry will never stop at this point. Even my wife loves the aspect that I'm doing makeup and getting rather good at it. As for all my abilities, like Computer repair and Network Administrator, Diesel Mechanic, and now cosplay and makeup artistry. I've made the choice that I'm just roll along and enjoy life to the best of my abilities. This means slowly start building articles as a diesel mechanic, but it will be rare to find photos now of me without a wig or makeup. Nearly 3 years of doing makeup artistry.

Finally, I'm getting back to doing things with the trucks. Beast has been rolling on a blown radiator for 2 years with a 200℉ with zero pressure. Yeah, I bought time (too much) and just clipped off the vacuum breaker part of the radiator cap. Now I'm getting the radiator installed in Beast and have a 16 PSI pressure once again. First off I gotta show off my mini shop for now so I can keep our vehicles in working order. It's tiny but its dry space somewhat. We are still sorting out stuff and getting @Tweety Bird moved into the house. The garage here in the main house is small. Let's get that coolant drained. Opps! this a screw plug type of drain. Unscrew the drain and then still your hand in front of the stream and deflect the flow into the 5-gallon bucket. Yup, a mess. Typical removal, nothing out of the ordinary. The new radiator is fully assembled and ready to drop into the truck. I got the new radiator all installed and pulled the 200℉ thermostat and saw the inside of the block at 501k miles. Well water and coolant is doing awesome, barely any surface rust on the cast block. Just a tip to all of you that do a radiator drain and flush, just make sure to pull the thermostat and replace it while you're there. The refill can be done with the thermostat out, so the block can burp air out quickly. Nice green hue with a 50/50 mixture of coolant. Now drop in the thermostat and run the three 8mm bolts back in snug.

cab primed!