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  1. Oh my Redis and other things!

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 08/06/2025 02:23 AM

    I've been working on improving the server's performance over the last few days. I've done some memory management with the Apache server and PHP compiler. The CLS issue should come to a close very, very soon. I've been testing the code every night to ensure it's working properly. The page shouldn't jump much at all now.

    I've got Redis Cache loaded up to see if I can gain a bit more speed or use less time to paint a webpage for members using mobile phones. I've gotta give it some time for the cache to load up with page information and start working. This takes time.

    Now between the Redis and the changes to the MySQL server memory settings I've managed to improve performance here and make it load faster for most of us desktop users. My lab data for testing mobile devices is actually slower than I like but it should be nearly a passing grade.

  2. Fuel pressure!

    Thor · Mopar1973Man · 07/30/2025 04:45 PM

    I've been playing with Thor to see if I could fix the AirDog 150 to get closer to 15 PSI. I found a spring at my local hardware store, and it was way thicker, but after a bit of trimming work, I got the fuel pressure to settle at 22 to 25 PSI. Yeah, I know it's high, but I wanted to be sure the CP3 is loading fully and getting good, solid rail pressure. I'm struggling to understand the grid heater light, and it typically trips on deceleration. I'm doing more testing to figure out my issues. Today I've got to run back to McCall to return core calipers for my core money. Thor is going to do the task.

  3. Whoa! Rear brakes are rusted.

    Beast · Mopar1973Man · 07/30/2025 04:40 PM

    Yeah, I just got done doing brakes on Beast. Both rear brake calipers had rusted pistons that were so jammed that I couldn't seat them. @Tweety Bird was telling me just get it repaired, we need the trucks to function properly. I most likely got a little tear in the rubber boots, and the road salt finally ate the calipers up before the pads were even worn out on the passenger side. The driver's side rear pads were nearly gone due to the rusted pistons. In my position, without a shop, it makes it rather tough to get creative with rebuilding calipers. Yeah, part changer, but at least Beast is safer to drive.

  4. Still cleaning up the mess slowly.

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 07/23/2025 11:43 PM

    Today I was out in the yard running the little skid steer, loading bricks and concrete. Just getting things sorted out of the dirt is taking the most time. I just found the couch, which is pretty flat and crushed. Finding items from Marks' living room, I found the new but beaten network hub, which was less than half a year old. At about noon, it got pretty hot here, so we abandoned the front yard and came in. Still I've gotta give a huge amount of love for the Dischinger Family that continues to allow us the use of the skid steer.

    I made some pretty basic cheeseburgers for lunch. I don't know why... I was in my grey scrubs and grabbed my phone, went out, and just recorded a video and uploaded it to Mopar1973Man TikTok explaining I'm back but different from my cancer. Then, to flip the camera around and show off the work we managed to get done cleaning up the mess of a shop being smeared across the yard. Tiktok & YouTube have the video on my Mopar1973Man Accounts. Yeah I'm trying to let people know I'm back and things are starting to settle down now my health really isn't changing much right now but I have issues yet.

    I got busy trying to organize a bathroom between @Tweety Bird and myself. Crazy when there are two of us who do makeup work in the bathroom. There is a fairly large counter area for all of our makeup stuff. Yeah, I go into my little corner and start unloading my travel bag since I'm home for now and not traveling anywhere for now. Amazing how much black eyeshadow powder is on the mirror and even the counter. Time to clean it up. That's a hobby I enjoy is my makeup artistry with my character Titanium. I'll continue to post this in his blog area.

  5. Titanium takes the family out!

    Cosplay and Makeup Artistry · Mopar1973Man · 07/20/2025 06:44 PM

    Yeah, with all the stress of dealing with the mess in the yard, then the mess of everyone crammed under one roof. It gets to everyone here, so sometimes you just gotta get dressed up and grab a truck and go wander out in the woods looking for camping spots and even take Mollie, our fur baby, with us. @Tweety Bird found me a light ash blue wig and even picked up the lipstain as well. @Tweety Bird She is such an awesome fiancée, she is always trying to add to my Titanium makeup and clothing. We loaded up in Thor and took off up Smokey Boulder Road looking for different camping spots. We found several spots that are deeper back in the forest but close to the Boulder Creek so we can go fishing. Oh yeah, Huckleberries are out and OMG! I found a hotspot back in the woods, just full of berries.

    Here lets just post the video.
  6. During our digging around the shop, we found my old Atari 800 computer stuff. Sadly, the computer is most likely destroyed. How does this mean anything? My computer adventure began at a very young age, around 14. My parents bought me an Atari 800 computer. This computer was the starting adventure of communications, even before the Internet was out. I bought myself a 2,400 baud modem and a few other bits and pieces for the Atari 800, but I created my very own BBS. BBS stands for Bulletin Board System. I made a deal with my parents to take over the phone line at night after 6 pm and run the site till 6 am. I created all my own software between the two cartridges above. The basic language was what I ran for the BBS software. Then the Assembler Editor allowed me to create and edit even current software.

    Back in 1984, Fidonet was just getting started, and I was working on adapting Atari Basic software to get Fidonet node messages and download all my messages for my BBS. This was my start of communications back in 1984 using an Atari 800 Computer, an Indus GT floppy drive, a 2400 baud modem, Atari 835 UART to Serial, etc.



    By the time I was finishing ITT Tech in 1989, I had built my own voice reader for my message coming off of Fidonet. Shortly after that, I moved to Idaho and then started Cloud 10 Computers. I was a computer technician till 2008 when the market crashed. During this time, I was building and selling computers for the locals around me. I was good with Windows right up to the time of Windows Vista. This is where I made the jump around 2010 and switched over to Ubuntu Linux and continued my adventure into the communication world using Linux software, as I still do this very day. I figure you all would love to see how a kid back in 1984 playing with a computer became the owner of Mopar1973Man.Com and still maintains the server on my own!

    Ubuntu Software version list and release dates - I started with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS then currently using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

    As for web server software, I have used CentOS7 Linux and now AlmaLinux 8 Linux
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

    As a side tidbit the 2008 market crash was also a switch where I dropped Cloud 10 Computers and switched over to working on the website and Mopar1973Man.Com LLC as a shop and doing diesel repairs. Sadly I was pushed pretty hard to keep up during my @MoparMom kidney failure doing 5 years of dialysis to keep her going. She pasted away in 2020. Then twisted with my start of cancer in 2018.

  7. Thor might be fixed?

    Thor · Mopar1973Man · 07/20/2025 06:03 PM

    With Beast leaking oil out front and rear main seals, needing tires, and closing in on 500k miles. Beast needs work to keep him going. Mark suggested to try looking into Thor. Luckily my fuel pressure test gauge made it and was intact and undamaged. I checked the fuel pressure key on, engine off, barely 7 to 8 PSI of fuel pressure. Now start the engine, the fuel pressure drops to 2-3 PSI with WOT stab of the throttle. Ugh! Now I pulled the check ball and spring and did my typical spring mod bending the last coil to block the ball from getting in the coil. Now shimmed it with two washers. Barely made 10 PSI. The grid heater light is off. I'm going to replace all the fuel filters see if it improves the pressure and stability.

    A simple job like this should be much more than a few minutes to fix. When your tools are all scattered and the box is in ruins. We are still missing sockets and tools in the dirt of the yard. Highly frustrating to spend nearly an hour to find 1 socket, 1 ratchet, and just take the fitting out and modify a spring. Absolutely frustrating!



    Let's see if Thor holds up now. Time and mileage will tell!

  8. YouTube, and more...

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 07/17/2025 02:47 AM

    Hey Gang, I just spent some time going back to YouTube and doing some tweaking to my account. Now my Mopar1973Man.Com videos are still there, and I'm going to start building videos in the near future for articles. I'm going to still have to do repairs with what I have so this is going to get interesting working in the yard, doing repairs on Beast and Thor both in the wilderness of Idaho. Currently, the last few days here have been right about 95℉ to 108℉. Yeah, I'm going to be doing brakes on the rear axle, being the slide pins got bound up and worn the pads down pretty quickly. But Yeagh, I've got to keep vehicles running and do the repairs for now. Time to dig out the GoPro and do some video work.

    Mopar1973Man.Com YouTube Link
    https://www.youtube.com/@mopar1973man

    Now, since Titanium is my new character (Emo Goth / Goth). I took my old personal account, downloaded the few videos off of it, and then renamed the account to Titanium.

    Titanium Social Media Links
    https://www.youtube.com/@titaniumgoth

    https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth

    I'll start filming my makeup artistry here in the Titanium account. This is my Goth character I created to help me deal with my second run of bladder cancer. You all have to realize that the very thought that I could die from cancer this time. Instead of letting the depression eat me, I fought back with Titanium and won the hearts of my medical staff. Then, after the medical was done and I survived the odds, I started to enjoy the reactions of people with Titanium.

  9. Titanium goes to town

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 07/11/2025 06:19 PM

    @Tweety Bird and myself were not feeling well last night, so we slept long and hard. I got up this morning and she was requesting I head to town and get hamburger buns, and we would have something simple to eat for today.

    As usual, my local people know me and always love the makeup and the effect it brings to people. A couple of the female store employees have colored their hair green and purple. I always give people compliments about their appearance, and I always get right back as well. As for my appearance is with the purple hair again and similar makeup as my previous blog post.

    Left the grocery store and headed for the fuel station with Thor. Yeah, I've still got an injector issue, but I needed to bring home fuel in that truck as a fallback. I crossed paths with an older lady, and she looked like the outdoors type. She commented on my hair and appearance. As always, I thank the person for the comment. I put my fuel into Thor and saw her return and start to chat with her as my fuel was just completed. Find out we are both ostomy patients and she was highly impressed with my positive attitude for a person who survived bladder cancer twice, getting married this summer to @Tweety Bird and doing makeup artistry that most people think is impressive. I darted back to Thor and grabbed a business card for contact info, and often to share my knowledge of my ostomy journey to hopefully aid her.

    My own journey with losing the shop, digging to find anything that might have survived the mudslide. Trying to keep things around here in good repair without tools is rather tough. Slowly, we are trying to order the needed tools and stuff right now to keep even the internet and communications going. Yeah, I found a damaged CAT5 cable and am attempting to keep the WiFi going in the house.

    I got interrupted by Mark's dog barking, and it was the mail lady who 4WD around the outside of the debris pile to deliver our mail today. I told her Thank you for getting the mail to the door for us. She was even asking how we are doing and gave her a more detailed rundown on what's up and going on.

  10. Performance Tunning for the Website / Server

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 07/10/2025 07:39 PM

    I'm back at it again. I'm looking to make this website a hotrod as well. Still having issues with the Total Blocking Time of JavaScripts. I'm playing with the Google Pagespeed Module now on the server to help clean up the wasted bandwidth on unneeded things. It's all about being able to trim off the unused code and compress the required code, and get it sent to your desktop, tablet, or phone quickly. Part of this might take some time as the pagespeed module learns and creates methods of saving bandwidth and time for all of you surfing here.
    I will say for the most part, the CLS (content Layout Shift) is corrected, and it was the Google AdSense attempting to lay down ads and skew the page by pushing the content down, and there is a score system to this. Currently, through my testing, I'm well below the threshold of a problem, but my biggest move, which is tiny 0.02, is looking for the staff banner. Not bad, I'd say.
    If anyone is having issues, please make sure you contact me in a private message here. I'll make sure to look into any strange behavior.

  11. Off to see the insurance company

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 07/08/2025 03:15 PM

    Yes, I'm off to McCall, ID, to meet with my insurance agent and review the actual insurance policy, word for word. Just to give me a boost today, I went a bit more like Clown Goth. I've a few other stops today, including picking up medications and doing some other shopping. I've got several fans in McCall who enjoy my makeup work and love the reactions of people. Oh, check out the gallery photos. I've got a new shirt. Gotta keep building my character up. I'm hunting for a second shirt, but still searching for something particular.

  12. Personal Note

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 07/07/2025 07:08 PM

    Hey there gang, I'm still here working at the website.

    I know there are people there that just don't understand why I've changed in appearance and my nature of being. Sadly, the whole aspect of my life was permanently altered when I had my last run of cancer. You have to realize I'm no longer able to work as a mechanic and do Cummins diesel work at a commercial level. I have an ostomy bag hanging on the front of my belly that is a constant reminder of the cancer I fought through alone. I deal with depression on a mild level because all the things I enjoy doing are gone! I can't lift more than 40 pounds because of hernia risk. My makeup is my way of making the most of the life I have left. As much as I love to turn wrenches now you toss in the fact that my shop is gone due to the mudslide here. Some people ask why you don't just put on your cowboy hat and go back to wrenching. Sorry, I can't I've got medical limits that prevent me from doing the things I love. This is why the character Titanium was created to help deal with my depression of not being able to work on diesels, I can't do a lot of things now because I need to keep my stoma and ostomy clean at all times. Infection at this point could cause huge problems for my health.


    What is left of my toolbox and tools, a lot of my sockets spilled out.

    My makeup and character "Titanium" create that boundary because I'm usually dressed up. Yes, the dress code I wear some usually shirts like my "Don't like me F___ OFF Problem solved! I've got another shirt that says Fun Fact: I Don't Care. At any rate, this is all about the laughter and smiles I create while I'm in Titanium character. My medical team loves the makeup and shirts I wear. Even when I'm out in public I've got teenagers yelling out over the parking lot of Albertson's, "I Love You Titanium!". The more I'm experimenting with movie set makeup, like Mehron and other high-quality makeup providers. This is what I now enjoy as fun is getting into makeup and making smiles and also supporting other cancer patients and medical patients. Yes, I have a following on TikTok members with similar issues.

    As for the nature of being. That has been changed too. I'm tired of the people who just say, "I'll pray for you" and offer zero help. It's gotten even worse now. Just now found out my neighbor, who actually his water line actually caused this issue, is willing to create a GoFundMe page for Mark, but no help for me. That is just absolutely rude. The fact since the landslide, the Dischinger Family is the only one to come help us with the clean up. Even my church group is not even offering to help. I'm sick and tired of all the "fake love" or "fake help" towards us as a family unit. I'm sick and tired of people posting this all over Facebook in turn does nothing to bring help. Everyone knows what happened but no additional help has come, and it has led to a lot of conversations. Yeah, it's been over a month still a huge mess.


    Month later its just the Dischinger Family and Us (Mark, Suzanna, and I) cleaning this up.

    Just a few days ago, the Rupp Family had a major mudslide come down through their orchard and cow pasture and made a huge mess. I know they are very religious people too. I told the owners, "I'm NOT going to say the same old, I'll Pray for you." No, I did the right thing. "Is there anything I can do with my abilities to help you and your family with getting your business back on its feet?" Yes, even as broken as I am I offer help to my local community.


    Beast, sitting in Rupp's parking lot, While I offer help to the Rupp family after the mudslide.


  13. Shade tree mechanic back at it

    Beast · Mopar1973Man · 06/26/2025 08:17 PM

    Both @Tweety Bird and I gotta have a break from all this. I had to deal with rusted slide pins on the calipers front and rear axle. We managed to find enough of my tools to at least do a simple repair. Suzanna has been busy packing the RV so we can go take a break camping locally.

    I'm kind of amazed. Got the front brakes done with slide pins. Both side you had to beat the pins out of the boots. The last time I did brakes at 350k miles till now with 497k miles and rolling.

    Finished this project. Sadly I found my MPG loss. Driver side rear was stuck on the side pins and ate those pads up about 1/4 of a inch left.

  14. We are back from our camping trip

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 07/01/2025 07:16 PM

    @Tweety Bird And I had to get out of here and get some downtime. Extremely stressful to get up every day, looking out the living room window at an entire mess of my shop buried under tons of mud and dirt. It was wonderful to just go out north of McCall, ID for about 4 days. We didn't do anything but rest. Now we have returned home and are going to start making moves to clean up the main house with all the unpacking from moving to my place. Lots to do. Then still need to handle the mess in my driveway of my shop. Here shortly I'm going to post up a Go Fund Me Page and we are going to attempt to start heading towards normal life again some how. Anyone who wishes to help out, I will not turn you down. As for those who just want to send Prayers, thank you, but it doesn't clean up the mess, replace my shop or my tools that were lost.

    Beast and the RV are up near Upper Payette Lake, Idaho


    Miss Mollie on her first camping experience.

  15. Google Search & Webpage CLS

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 06/23/2025 12:41 AM

    I spent a good part of the day trying to recover from a loss of search engine ranking. Yeah, I have been super busy dealing with insurance agents and people coming and going. Now things are settling down, I jumped back into the website more so. On to the website stuff.

    My biggest hit was a problem called Content Layout Shift, or CLS for short. We had most of the mobile phone pages were as high as 0.44, which is a huge fail.



    Now to see this for me I have to logoff and view from a guest level. Yeah this started to explain the problem why the search engine is dropping search results we are falling out of the first place.

    Now to fix this problem, being I have a dynamic webpage. Mopar1973Man.Com will allow you on a desktop to pull the window frame smaller width-wise and the webpage will automagically change from desktop, to tablet, then to mobile format screen. Basically, we need to make sure that frames for Google Ads are pre-laid out, in other words, reserve space on the screen for the ad to be placed without skewing any page text or graphics up or down. Inside the backend of the website, I have a way to add CSS scripts to the theme so I can alter the way information is displayed.

    Here is my Custom CSS
    /* GOOGLE AD CODE FOR RESPONSIVE ADS */ #ipsLayout__main .adsbygoogle { width: 320px; height: 300px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } @media (min-width:500px) { #ipsLayout__main .adsbygoogle { width: 480px; height: 300px; } } @media (min-width:800px) { #ipsLayout__main .adsbygoogle { width: 780px; height: 300px; } } @media (min-width:1050px) { #ipsLayout__main .adsbygoogle { width: 1040px; height: 300px; } }Now you have to go back over your Google Adsense code to add a bit of custom code around the Google Adsense code.

    <div id="ipsLayout__main" class="adsbygoogle"> <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-0000000000000000" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <!-- Header Ad --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-0000000000000000" data-ad-slot="0000000000" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div>Here is how the magic works.

    The custom CSS script creates a container on the webpage. I'm more worried about the height pixel more so than the width. It's the vertical shift of information on the page that is where the issue of CLS comes into play. The CSS script checks the screen size (window) and then, if the window size is at the "min-width" value, then the reserved space is width and height values to the right on the same line. This keeps the layout from moving as the ad loads from Google. The <div> tags in the HTML code of Google AdSense this is what create this container in the code.

    The results of the code change below. The Google side panel is on the right showing the CLS value of a few random pages.



  16. Landslide - Update

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 06/15/2025 05:19 PM

    First, let me say that for any of you who own your homes, please review your insurance policies. I just found out that the majority of homeowners are not covered for landslides, mudslides, earth movement (earthquakes), etc. Like me, it's a completely lost. The insurance policy doesn't cover this at all, not one dime. For all those religious people who walked up and said they would pray for me. They packed up and left the scene quickly and gave ZERO help at all. Even my neighbor who is part of the same church group, came over drunk with a glass of wine and offered ZERO help.

    As for @Tweety Bird and myself, I know we have been kind of MIA right now. We have been trying to unload all of @Tweety Bird house into my garage. We are downsizing to financial responsibility. Then, to make matters worse, you start with the NO KINGS protest (https://nokings.org). Most of you know I'm a Trump Supporter! We have one small load of stuff to grab out of her garage, and we are done. The house is going on the market. Nampa, Idaho, is an armpit right now with protests and construction everywhere. Yeah, during my last visit down there, dealing with medical too I was pulled over by a Boise City Police officer in Downtown Boise because of smoke and loud exhaust. (Oops. Wrong tune loaded.) There are state police, county police all over the place because of the possibility of riots because of the NO KINGS protest.

    So, doing inventory of the house debris, my ATV is damaged beyond repair, both of Mark's trucks are destroyed, and all of Mark's and my tools are scattered all over the place. I don't have a full set of tools! We did get lucky and find, like my bow and Mark's bow. Mark's black powder rifle is undamaged. Still have not found the big double door refrigerator, stove/oven, etc. I'm hoping my MIG welder made it, but doubtful. The washer and Drier of @Tweety Bird is crushed and gone. Currently, I have no way to even pull the injectors out of Thor to send back to @dieselautopower because I've lost most of my tools. Like my air compressor is damaged, shouldn't be used. 4kw generator got ruined, etc. Thousands upon thousands of dollars of damaged tools, equipment, and building, all gone and not covered by my homeowner's insurance.

    I've gotten some donated funds to keep fuel in the equipment (track hoe, and skid steer) here so we can keep digging. Thanks to the Dischinger Family for bringing TRUE HELP! His wife made us all dinner the night of the slide. Their son AJ, has been helping out with running the equipment and digging up stuff slowly so we can try to recover stuff. Andrew has been super helpful and brought other friends to aid in the dig for our stuff.

    I'm calling on any of the Mopar1973Man.Com family for help. You all have to remember that since my battle with cancer, I've been dealing with my health problems including my Stage 3a Chronic Kidney Disease and my ostomy that I now have for the rest of my life. This puts me in a bad place where I can't even help to move all this. It's been a challenge just trying to move @Tweety Bird here with me. Even if all you can do is support me on the website as a staff member and watch over the site as I try and handle other problems I've got to handle.

    Be aware that some people might get their feelings hurt. Understand that their action hurts us as a family.

    At this point, I want to say to all you "religious people" who keep doing the same thing, "I'll pray for you!" You, my friend, are part of the problem! We have had so many come here to peer at the destruction and just walk away to say the same phrase, "I'll pray for you!" and do absolutely nothing to help us. Please, if you can help, please take action and do the right thing and help. Either with donations, equipment, or time, etc. I've even contacted my local church group to that I was with and got the same answer "I'll pray for you!" Please, I'm truly asking for help to move dirt and clean up this mess that is taking forever because too many people want to do the LAZY thing and "I'll pray for you!" then leave.

    Video (Tiktok)
    https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth/video/7516228282023497002?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7516228666382091807

    As you can see, most everything was damaged or turned into junk rather quickly. A few things under plastic that was some computer parts I've kept.


    They recovered my ATV, which is a total loss. Damaged beyond repair.


    Mark's 1998 5.9L V8 Magnum truck seriously damaged and possibly a bent frame. It was shoved sideways for about 20 to 30 feet.


    You can see both my Mother's bicycle and mine are a loss too.


    All I'm asking for is some help to hopefully clean all this up and then hopefully build a shop in a new location on the property. Like all my ability to do the little articles and such just came to a screeching halt. Without even a basic set of tools, it's tough to do an oil change right now. I don't even have a chainsaw to go get firewood with for winter or even cut the fallen trees up in the landslide. Seriously, I've lost everything!

    Toss in my cancer battle, social security battle, and now the landslide that wiped out my guest house and shop. It's very depressing and mentally tough to handle on a daily. Just imagine for a second you get up every day and look out your front window, and see this mess. The best you get for help is "I'll pray for you!" Please understand it is not only just me who is affected, but also Mark and Suzanna, we all live together in the main house.
  17. Mopar1973Man.Com Shop was leveled by a landslide.
    Yeah, with a heavy heart, I lost my entire shop and guest house to a landslide. I won't discuss how this all happened yet. The biggest thing I lost was the entire building. My Best Friend, Mark Hall, was living in my guest house. He was one of the few who helped me out with my cancer. He was protected by a guardian angel. I just saw where his bed landed and what pinned Mark in the house. Mark's Dog Hachi made it too, and no injuries. We managed to hunt for stuff. Like my huge black tool box it was there under the roof lot of our tools between Mark and I. There are tools but scattered all over the ground, spilled out during the landslide. As you can see I had a load of stuff from @Tweety Bird on my BigTex trailer pulled by Thor. We got home at 1:30am and hit the bed by 2am. This event happened at 6am roughly in the morning.

    I would like to apologize in advance for my being missing in action for the last few weeks, I've been busy getting @Tweety Bird moved in with me. Then the landslide issues were another that really took all my attention from the website for the last few weeks.




  18. I was coming back from Lewiston, ID, a few days ago. I looked down at my fuel gauge in Riggins, ID and just above 3/4 of a tank. Within about 2 miles, it popped the elbow quick connect off the return line and started pumping fuel on the highway. I notice the fuel gauge rapidly dropping shut the key down. The AirDog pump stopped and pulled over, found the quick connect fitting blew off, and dumped $100 of fuel on the highway in under 2 miles. I'm in the process of hunting down the old steel JIC connectors for the AirDog 150. I'm not a fan of these junk plastic fittings, so here really soon I'll post up the fitting part numbers and where to buy them.

    I'm no longer going to use these cheap plastic connectors and hope and pray the fuel system doesn't blow apart in the back country hauling my trailers.

    @dieselautopower - Mitchell I'm working on it!



  19. Got up today and hopped out after Thor to finish up the front seats. The driver's side repaired seat looks patched and actually appears correct in the roll of the foam. Being I've got 3 days plus of clear warm weather coming we need to get @Tweety Bird moved out of Nampa ID, promptly. The Big Tex trailer is all hitched up and tested, all tail light functions are present and even for short trip down the driveway and back up the side yard I had good brakes on the trailer and you can feel it tug back some.

    Found the factory truck side of the taillight loom behind the fender had a broken ground wire. Now the parking lights work correctly. Then seen the other wire from the brake controller had to be butchered to make it work again. Sucks, but gotta make Thor work right now we need this truck now for the job at hand.

    The seat repair turned out great. I'm enjoying the driver seat again, being my left hip is not sitting on the steel seat frame any longer. As I said in my previous blog, right now funds or thin for this project, so I've gotta hold tight for funds.


  20. Looking for members that wish to help!

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 05/22/2025 02:51 AM

    Hey there gang, I'm looking for people who truly want to get involved with the website. I'm adding functions like the Gallery so people can place there truck photos up and show them off to the rest of the world. The Event Calendar is going to be set up for the idea that we might plan travel trip to places and share our location so people can meet up with me. I also want to bring the Zoom meetings together too. I'm going to be building articles on Thor here shortly we are going to have more information on 3rd Gen Trucks soon. I'm serious I'm looking for people who want to get involved in building up this website. I'm willing to teach and show you around. Most of the stuff you would be handling is from the front end and no code knowledge is required. Anyone wishing to become part of the staff please contact either @Mopar1973Man or @Tweety Bird and we will interview you and see what you have to offer the website.

  21. Clean Up Day and some Seat Repair

    Thor · Mopar1973Man · 05/22/2025 01:58 AM

    Today I bounced outside, and it was warm and sunny. I wanted to get busy trying to make Thor cleaner and comfortable. Yeah, grab the power washer and nearly a gallon of degreaser and give Thor a good washing down on the engine so I can hunt oil leaks and other things. Don't need a greasy engine. I sprayed down the door jams and hinges so I can lube them back up and get the creaky door hinges to stop. The driver seat was pretty bad I peeled the seat bases out of both sides. Not really hard, just need to be sure to unhook each hook on the frame of the seat. You'll see in my photos I took an old 2nd Gen Seat and chopped up a chunk of foam from the 2nd Gen passenger seat (salvaged truck). Now I slowly pieced the seat foam back together with Gorilla Spray Contact Cement. This worked out great for binding foam together. I also cut a chunk of fabric out of that old 2nd Gen seat and used it to fill it.

    When funds are available I'm planning on purchasing the new seat skin and the foam pad both...

    SEAT CUSHION - DRIVER SIDE - CLOTH, VINYL & LEATHER ('06-'09, 2500/3500 ALL CABS & '06-'08, 1500 MEGA CAB ONLY)
    https://www.genosgarage.com/product/seat-cushion-gg-sc0609cl/seat-cushions

    FACTORY-MATCH BOTTOM SEAT COVER (MEDIUM SLATE) - CLOTH - DRIVER SIDE 40/20/40 & BUCKETS ('06-'09, 2500/3500 SLT, ALL CABS & 1500, MEGA-CAB)
    https://www.genosgarage.com/product/ram-cummins-seat-covers-dr-slt-08-ms-p1-dc/seat-covers-oem-material

  22. Terms Of Use and Policies

    Mopar1973Man.Com Software · Mopar1973Man · 05/11/2025 09:48 PM

    @Tweety Bird And I have been busy rewriting the terms of use and policies for the website. This is all new website software, and more features now than in the past. We felt that it was time to review the dated policies and realize we need to totally rebuild everything. Here, shortly, there will be a full database of policies for everything on the website for the usage policy. This is being built in a database so that when other issues develop, we can append to the current policies easily. This will be broke down in a modular design so there will be a policy for each division of the website.

    Then I've been digging through the site. I'm trying to get everything working right when I've got time at the keyboard. I know the event calendar is currently broken. I need to grab a few days at home and be able to do tag team with the software manufacturer so I can get this resolved. The event module needs to be repaired. I want to post Zoom Meeting schedules. Yup! I'm going to push forward. I'm getting tired of social media and the censoring of speech. Since I have the website, I need to build up a few more features, like face-to-face Zoom meetings to help you fix your trucks. Yeah, I just leaked an idea... 😱😁
  23. I had to run up and get some new meds my kidney doctor wants me to try and hopefully help my kidneys heal. I opted for full white face and blacked out my neck. OMG I had fun walking around the store and all the great comments.

    Surprise ive got video proof!
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjyjHXcA/

  24. Long Nap for Beast

    Beast · Mopar1973Man · 04/20/2025 11:10 PM

    Beast, is nearing 500k miles on the odometer. I'm doing the smart thing at this time and parking Beast back in the garage for a long nap. I need to do both a front and rear crank seal on Beast. Beast needs to be parked and left in storage for the time being. I want to be out and building new tunes for Beast. Thor is going to take the lead at this time. This will allow me the time to fix Beast properly. Beast final project was the chasing the truck bed and tailgate.

  25. Boise & Medical

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 04/24/2025 03:37 PM

    Here is am taking a road trip down Tuesday for medical for both @Tweety Bird and myself handling my Cronic Kidney Disease. Yeah my cancer might be over but I'm still with health issues. Yesterday I was dressed up similar to today's pictures. My nurse sure enjoy chatting with me and wondering why the make up.

    Something about having radioactive material injected into you and watch you kidneys light up on a X-ray screen then watch them drain into my ostomy in realtime. Yeah that test was super close to blow out. My bag was full!

    Yeah they still betting on me in my purple and black hair. The day is young yet ill see about updating with more pictures and adventures.

    Oh no chatting for me. The gallery will show locations where photos have been taken. Let's see what else I can do for locations.

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