Mopar1973Man

I've hauled quite a few heavy loads here locally. Then there is a old member here that was hauling boats cross country upwards of 30,000 pounds behind a 2001 Dodge Cummins (Can't seem to find this user), but these trucks can do quite a bit as long as the towed weight is balanced correctly. Just consider @JAG1 has a pretty heavy slide in camper on the bed of his truck.

Now, to speak up on another fact. Just because I've changed my appearance with makeup and hair, it typically doesn't make me less knowledgeable. My typical day is that if I'm planning on going to town, I'll always do my makeup work before I leave. I was referred by a local repair shop in McCall (Sharlies Auto Repair) to a Cummins owner for tuning his Quadzilla. Even on a day like that, I was dressed up and rolled to this client's house to chat with him about tuning and getting his truck ready for a trip. This shocked my client that seen the makeup and dress code. But after talking to him for a short while and built a quick base tune to roll to Oregon for the holidays. He's totally sold on my abilities to diagnose and fix anything Dodge Cummins. When this client shows back up after the holidays, I'll be guiding him and his roommate on how to repair both of their trucks. I might not be able to turn the wrenches, but I can give guidance to people on how to fix their trucks. Wound up going into Riggins for a few odds and ends groceries. I stopped by the deli counter for a chicken strip to munch on for the ride home. The gal working behind the counter was fixed on my face. After getting my chicken strip, she said, "I really do love the makeup you did on your eyes!" Quite fascinating doing the makeup work I do, and the many comments and even people to come up and just ask, "Why? What's your story?" I can break out a quick tale of my cancer and move forward. Just totally awesome to be me and add the style of Victorian Goth with my jacket.

This last summer, after the landslide, I lost my weather station. Just up and died one day. I replaced my older weather head with all modern equipment. I purchased an Acurite Atlas weather station. It includes WiFi ability to allow the data to be sent to the app on my cellphone. I was looking for a way to share this data soon, which I'm going to publish on Weather Underground, so my local friends and locals can see up the canyon from Riggins or down the canyon from New Meadows. I'm also looking into the Linux version of the software for data capture of weather data. There are a few software out there that can read the data stream from the weather head directly. Currently, how the weather head is mounted and set up. I'm about 2 to 3 feet above the ridge of the roof. Better wind data now. The head is solar powered and USB Type-C rechargeable if needed. I want to be able to study past weather trends to verify the actual Global Warming or Climate change BS. The other problem we have is that the closest radar from the south is Boise, ID, and then the closest radar from the north is Lewiston, ID. When you visit any other weather site like NOAA.gov or any weather apps, the weather data is calculated for us here at an elevation of 2860 feet above sea level. Even looking at the MyRadar app on Android, there is a blank spot over us where we are actively watching it rain here hard, and there is NOTHING on any radar showing this storm. Like right now, we are looking at nighttime temperatures down to +17℉. It was really a pain to plan trips and travel for food and supplies, not understand the current weather in this dead zone from New Meadows to Grangeville roughly.

Heck. My wife likes it loud when we travel. Crank up the music for some songs and sing for miles. Then, after awhile the conversation chokes the music out. @Tweety Bird is more of a 70s and 80's fan. I'm more of a popular fan. Truth is, no matter what, we have to travel some serious distances just for supplies. Might as well have Beast in good repair right now being the winter weather is holding up shop work.

Today I was stuck inside the house being its raining here in Idaho. While the mornings are cold here, I was checking back on a few videos near Christmas time. Sadly, I saw a few artists who were having a rough start to getting the Goth/Emo/Alt makeup. Either being laughed at or just treated poorly by people on the streets or at school. I'm going on 3 years of makeup artistry that I've self-taught. @Tweety Bird asked me to get the new weather station set up and working. I needed a 4x4x12 to get it up above the roof line for now. As I was rolling into New Meadows, I was still thinking about the videos I've seen and wanted to speak out for these new makeup artists. I got over to C&M Lumber and purchased a nice 4x4x12 pressure-treated, low-knot. I left C&M lumber and drove across Highway 55 and up this side road just a bit, and stopped in the road and broke out the phone. Tried to make a video but naw sounded dorky. Packed up and left. Got up the highway on 95 heading home had another thought and pulled over. Tried again. Just couldn't get the thought right. Drove on for home. Found a spot just before I drop out of cell range and fired up the camera again and created this video... https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth/video/7586810780318846221 What I've learned is that it doesn't matter what you do in life. Be happy doing what you do! Like for me, I didn't want the depression and BS because I can't work on Cummins trucks as a wrench job any longer. Yeah, I have trouble doing simple tasks because this ostomy bag is on my belly. I'm still alive and still have all my knowledge of these trucks. Still going to do what I enjoy tinker in my spare time when the weather is good. In the meantime, I'm enjoying "Titanium". I've been growing on TikTok with 600+ followers. I've impressed quite a few people with my makeup artistry. I still do daily makeup when I leave the house. So I want to show these artists that you can do it! First thing is to learn how to "Own That Look". @Tweety Bird is going to start popping up in the photos too, as she enjoys the colored hair and being colorful too. I'm going to start looking for a period of time to go Live very soon. OH! Just so you all know, if you click (or tap) on the banner photo, it will open up to full size too.

This is one of my first attempts at blending many colors evenly. This case told me she was going to wear green. Christmas colors, so I went to the wild side and took the fire-red wig and makeup to boot. I've been watching several makeup artists explain how they blend colors. Now, I'm combining the artwork I currently do with the tapered color down each side of my nose and outward toward the outside of my eyebrows. Since getting her eye surgery and correcting her vision, that is a huge blessing and makes it fun for her to enjoy her own style of makeup artistry. We had to be out and about on Christmas Eve. While we were out in McCall, ID, we figured on picking up a few odds and ends for Christmas time, like snack food and such. It was fascinating to see all the people giving us stellar comments about being festive and colorful. I've been enjoying the makeup work for 2 years. Yeah, it's been 2 years since my bladder cancer, when I started. Still, every day I do makeup when I'm out and about. I'm always challenging myself a bit more each time.

Yup after all the years and miles driven I've had a bad speaker on the passenger side. @Tweety Bird said, "Get this fixed! Time to get new speakers in Beast!" @Tweety Bird and I went to a stereo shop in Lewiston ID to look at speakers and prices. Great quality is really pricey say like $350 for a pair of speakers that really sound rich in frequency. Being budget mined I jumped over to Amazon and found. Kicker Dodge Ram Truck 1994-2011 Speaker Bundle - CS 6x9 coaxial Speakers, and CS 5.25" coaxial Speakers. Yeah Dodge and there strange wiring schemes. I'll list out the positive and negative wiring for each speaker. You can see I cut the factory OEM speaker plug off and wired in the new blade style terminals. Be aware of the polarity of each wire and speaker lug. In this set, the Kicker makes the ground with a black strip, and the positive lug is marked red. Left Front + Dark / Green Left Front - Brown / Red Right Front + Violet Right Front - Dark Blue / Red Left Rear + Brown / Yellow Left Rear - Brown / Light Blue Right Rear + Dark Blue / Orange Right Rear - Dark Blue / White

Thank you. It's been crazy here trying to get back to some functional state, between cancer, shop is destroyed. Then the perk of being married.

If you opt for a new connector then you might ask @Auto Computer Specialist for a pigtail. There are some out the but watch the price on them.

I've got to move my rear camera to the rear bumper very soon. I love the fact that high beams mean nothing now because it's not a mirror but a camera screen. With my unit being WiFi camera, I'm going to look into the WiFi handshaking with my network and possibly download camera footage. Dreaming at this point but give me a bit of time I might be able to pull it off. I'm really hoping!

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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)

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.