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A friend rescued me a while back with a jump starter & I decided that I ought to own my own... Sure, probably start more gassers than diesel BUT worst case would be one of these stone cold diesels. So I'm looking for recommendations from those who own them. What to buy, what to avoid? Those who have them... do you carry in a vehicle or store them in a shop or central location? Thanks!

Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/eyewitness-to-hitler-warns-keep-your-guns-and-buy-more-guns.html FELLA'S! Call me a whacko, nut-job, whatever, I'll be anything you want me to be. I'll do it to my last dying breathe! Pause here, for a moment, and REALLY let this sink in for all of us! Think about how relevant this is to our times! If you agree, we need to be doing better at preparing. Is this something that we can honestly say we will be victorious over? This is not like our founding fathers' time...

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After several years of wanting to go this route I finally pulled the trigger.On a normal camping trip I am between 5800-6500 on the rear axle, generally at 6000 with careful loading. Since I have 6390 lbs worth of tire I have been wanting more "buffer" room, short of a few tires there are really few options for more than 3195 lbs/tire in 17".Additionally LT tires are too soft, and tire life was dismal at best with how/where I use my truck, mainly where... lots of dirt and towing on dirt. I really don't get more than 25K useful miles out of a set of tires.This is why I started researching 19.5s a few years back. They are plenty strong, the wheels are strong and the rubber …

Wife went to put my truck back... she slammed the door. Next thing she knows the power seat has gone crazy & run her to the roof! HA! HA! (Truck was stopped.) Don't slam the door! A couple of years ago, I had this same thing happen at 65 boxed in on a crowded highway through the city... Nothing to do but keep driving. The empty oil bottle in the door pocket can fall forward & hit the power seat button. (In my case an unavoidable bad pot hole initiated the sequence... before I replaced shocks, I might add.) I thought I had the oil bottle (TCW3) retained so it couldn't do that. I'll look at it today when she's not here.

So, how big is it? There were five people in it and I got this message:

Did you miss us? moparmom

You see our Gov't is working off printed money so the hope is that our grandchildren will have gainful employment to pay it back. But Gov't keeps legislating with an ideology that hurts, cuts jobs.You and me... we work hard to produce goods and services that have a much longer lasting value to our country than those talking, legislating, arguing and delegating. They take home very high salaries and expensive benefits. Our hard working folks producing goods and services have a positive ripple effect throughout the economy. It helps hold the value of each dollar by producing something of good useful quality.Now with almost every dollar printed your pay becomes reduced in va…

Ok, I know I'm not the only CTD owner in the SE. Lets get this region rollin!

Anyone priced them lately???? It's too "cold" to shoe horses today, so I'm surfing. Decided to check tires, even though I don't need them now. "Holy Burnt Rubber Batman"!!!!!! Wow, have the prices gone up in just 2 years!!!!:duh:AH64ID…………………You'd better buy your 19.5 rims and tires now based on how prices are skyrocketing!!!

Yep, this actually made me choke up and shed a tear! Source: http://jesus-loves-you.org/angel-on-the-highway/

Anyone know or do you yourself have a home-based job? I'm really trying to figure this area of occupations out as I'm having some trouble deciphering what is legitimate and what is not. I would love to be able to have a home-based job to work. It definitely would be alot easier to do, but I don't know if the majority of offers made are really just a pipe-dream!What sort of jobs would I expect in a telecommunications job?

Here is a challenge to all cummins ram owners. Lets see who can record the lowest temperature on their dash or overhead console computer. Must have picture to prove. The only prize is bragging rights. I will start with mine, it was -38 Celsius (that's -36.4F) on Saturday morning here as I was travelling on highway 43 to Edmonton, Alberta. That's why we need block heaters! Sometimes I wonder why I live here. :banghead:

Figured something fancy out so you guys can see. Only members can see this section so only members can see this link.. http://mapalist.com/Public/pm.aspx?mapid=404996 It works off a google docs spreadsheet which I can update, then click update on that map it updates from the google doc. Very slick. I need to see if I can somehow make it to where when you click on the pinpoint, it shows info but also a hyperlink to the thread that guy started so they can see more info. A lot of you have special instructions and stuff so it would be a good idea, I just have to keep playing with it.

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I suppose I will have to buy the house in the mountains first.... Then

I've come across "chips" supposed to get better "MPG & Power". Built for your specific make & model of vehicle. The ads make clear they are only altering the sensor readings to 'fool' the OEM software. When looking into the installation instructions it becomes apparent that these 'chips' are IAT foolers... I rejected buying one for my daily driver... because it is 'only' an IAT fooler... and WAY over priced. Their MPG & power claims are pure horse pucky at least as far as my experience with the IAT fooler on my CTD. On the other hand, my experience with my home built IAT fooler is a gain of about 1mpg in cool to cold weather... with 410 gears. I'm c…

Picked this guy up in Twin Falls, Idaho last night. Made the girls (3,5,6) pretty happy! He is 7 weeks.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-ceo-obsessed-with-making-eggs-without-chickens-pwIZGz1NRcO2hhuI3iFTAQ.html We have 26 chickens, 24 hens and 2 roosters. We are getting about one to one and a half dozen eggs a day at the moment. Hope to have all laying by spring. I like my home fresh eggs! As for the rest of you, God help you! ...its like imitation crab meat.

Where I live we have received about 10 inches of snow in the last day and a half and I have cleaned my driveway twice. Now the NWS says we are supposed to get another 18 or so inches by tomorrow evening. I am tired of moving snow already...... I don't know if this will show up here but I live right near the bottom of the yellow. Here is the link:http://www.crh.noaa.gov/wxstory.php?site=dlh After that then it is supposed to get down to about 15* BELOW zero.........