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Interresting. Would be great for us in Idaho with frosty weather. Heck even my NV4500 runs cold side at about 100 to 110°F on single digit days.

Lewiston ID new years eve it was 4.599 is the lowest I found. Still in Riggins ID was 5.499 here when I came back last night at 11:30pm.

Hopefully everyone is safe... no DUI's? Out here it was silent till around 11:45pm then fireworks went off and I fired three 9mm in the bank behind the house to ring in 2023. There was not traffic and no even a cop on the highway.

Well I would pressurize the air system and look for leaks. Then I would inspect the turbo closely for any rubbing od parts. Like my HX35/40 I fried the bearings in the turbo the compressor wheel is rubbing the housing and does not spin freely. The noise could be a boost leak. Strange but true my 3/4 bushing unscrewed from the manifold and fell out and hung on the boost tubing. Even at zero boost, my EGTs bit higher 900 to 1,000°F but still drove no issues. The sound was very usual. So pressurized the air system you can here the leak easy being the air is rushing out then I saw my boost bushing hang on the tubing. Hua... there is my problem. Fixed.

Even though I've got a bumper pull I weigh it out at least once a year fully loaded to see my net weight to find if my RV needs a diet. Last year I unloaded at least a few hundred pounds of unused junk. If you haven't used these items at least in the last two years it is time to clean out the RV.

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Happy New Year Gang! Yup its 12:50am Jan 1st...

Well... I'm starting as low as 60% on Zero boost and ramping to 100% by 5 PSI remain 100% till 15 PSI and ramp up to 150% at 30+ psi. Way better cold engine protection with it locked low like that EGTs max out at the most of 800*F with heavy throttle. Allows for a slow warm up while driving highway speeds. Basically the low end is about perfect stock fuel levels (235 HP at the flywheel). Not even a puff of smoke now it totally clean from launch to WOT. Runs right at 2-3 PSI boost at 65 MPH. Then at 82 MPH I'm barely 650-700*F but twisting 2,450 RPM and still barely 5 to 6 PSI. On snow and ice the performance is much better way less tire spin on the slick roads and builds power slow enough that even more enjoyable to drive. Yeah my trip to Everett WA I was using this new fuel table and highly impressed with the EGT's and driving performance. Pulling a U-haul trailer just about half filled, bucking a head wind, drove through drifting snow, and even managed driving on ice covered roads. Very stable and you don't have to be precise with the throttle with the deep cut at the bottom that you can let your foot twitch and it isn't going to spin the tires out from under you.

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No hardwood up here really. Mostly all soft wood like pine, spruce, white fir, red fir, apline fir, lodge pole pine, Etc. Tamarack is one of the most hunted for trees. It has the highest BTUs and burns clean Next would be Red Fir. Either way I don't care what I burn I just gather what I can get and burn it. When you have 2 building and 3 wood stoves to feed yeah it goes up in smoke rather quickly.

Simple way it just pull the field lead from the back of the alternator. This will virtually be unhooked. No need to remove the battery charge lead. When I was fighting the issues I didn't get the lock and unlock being I'm a manual but I got a wild cruise control where it would be set at 65 MPH and the ramp up to nearly 75 MPH and the drop to about 55 MPH when it started I just pulled over and disconnect the field lead and the issues stopped till I was able to get home and test things out. Since doing the W-T ground wire mod the entire issues has been gone for years now.

Yeah I've never really seen any issues with my truck I don't have any high loads at all on my truck. Most of the lighting is converted to LEDs. The main headlights are HIDs again low amperage draw. Don't have any stereo amps. No winch etc that draws high current other than grid heaters. Never tripped it. Now I've seen other truck that done the W-T ground wire mod and several things will cause the circuit breaker or fuse to fail. Bad batteries - Yup even though it still starts OK if the batteries are weak or have a shorted cell it will constantly trip the breaker till the batteries are replaced. Bad battery terminals - Again creates a weak connection and will not be able to charge the batteries fully which the circuit breaker will trip or fail. High draw devices - Now combine with the two above like having weak batteries and using a winch will trip the breaker or fuse. Weak or damaged alternator - I've seen stock alternators pass the 160 amp point and pop either the circuit breaker or a fuse. If your having issues with keeping fuses or circuit breaker I highly suggest you look at the battery terminal and the main cables first. Then bench test your alternator and check your charge lead. Typically under high load conditions the batteries are suppose to cover the load until the load is gone. I've seen guys put 100 foot a winch cable out and lay on the winch constantly with the engine running and the batteries start to drop charge quickly and the alternator will ramp up full throttle which typically can and will blow a fuse or circuit breaker.

Yeah I know it just as well. I've got a plan in place to hopefully be able to retire from wrenching in my 60's if possible. I'm currently looking for an apprentice o teach my skills and knowledge to and be able to hand the wrench work to this person. I want to get back to what I love doing is working the website but like most you notice that there is time where I disappear for periods and then pop back up. Those days I've been super busy work till 5 pm or later some days, wore out and hurting. This last summer I went camping with both @IBMobile and @JAG1 for there trip. Then one more time with @Honey Badger that was it my RV has been parked most of the summer and fall. Yeah I'm ready to break out and do camping and fishing. Last spring even @Honey Badger bought me a new fishing pole and never even used it being so busy with wrenching jobs. I want to change that this coming year and get a balance to my life to hopefully have a little fun and have a bit of spare time to have some fun memories.

I've been back on my stock turbo HX35W (54/60/12). Still doing good with my +150HP injectors. I see zero need for even a bigger turbo or twins any time soon. Heck with my current setup and tune I see maybe 0 to 1 PSI of boost at 55 MPH and at 65 MPH maybe 2 to 3 PSI of boost. WOT I'm set up for 35 PSI and very very difficult to even reach the 1,200*F EGT's. I will say the biggest thing to make it spool fast and stay cooler EGT's is attempt to get the final ratio close to 3.73 to the ground. Just a sample...

Can you post a link please... Nevermind I found it... https://www.thoroughbreddiesel.com/3959453-s/

Nope your IP was not found in the 500 IP I've got blocked... It not the server at this point. Sorry to say most Microsoft machine tend to trigger it being then can infections that try doing malicious attempts to inject code into the URL of the browser or attempt to inject code into the pages. Some iOS will do it too not as much as Windows but it does happen.

LOL... There is things like IP Blocker list. https://www.iblocklist.com/lists That prevents any agency from sniffing what your doing. The if you really want to get good then you use a what called a proxy server which moves your IP address all over the world every few minutes making it hard to trace. https://www.proxynova.com/proxy-server-list/ My best was doing things like this at public WiFi services like coffee shops because the only thing they can track back to is the WiFi provider. Linux is a wonderful thing, never had anyone sniffing around my machines ever. Being Linux machines already have a full firewall (closed all ports by default) on board and don't acknowledge anyone unless I open a port to talk other than that the only thing they can see is my IP address but if I'm running a IP block list my machine will not acknowledge anything to those block IPs. The only reason I know these things is I trained like a "hacker" to prevent others from attempting to hack into the website or my personal machine hence why I'm not worried... For all the Windows PCs and iOS (Apple products) since they are close source code of software hackers always attempt to go after those because the manufacture (microsoft & apple) are full of security holes and easy to hack into. Being Linux (Android included) they both are open source code and too many eyes on the code which means if there is a security issue its typically resolved in mere days not months like other software (apple and microsoft). Here is the blueprints to Ubuntu Linux all open to see... https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu Linux and Android both tend to keep all communication to the world closed till you open it. Being that you MUST log in every time to change any system stuff (root access) without my password you not going to be able to infect or communicate with any files till you do. Windows is huge security risk being EVERYONE logs in as a Admin (Root) which now make hacking very easy as long as your online. Linux you never logged in as ROOT unless you go to terminal and call out... michael@michael:~$ sudo -i [sudo] password for michael: root@michael:~# As you can see when using my system it in USER mode till I call the Super User DO command with -i switch now the system is logged in as ROOT. You should NEVER do this and opens the system for a huge risk! But you can see my prompt it shows michael@michael which is the user @ machine prompt. Also take notice Linux does not display stars for all the characters this prevent a hacker from seeing how many characters which makes it easier to filter down to find the password. Yes its a very secure system! Just to show how you would have to get a virus on Linux. First go out and get a virus infected file and download it. Then you would have to change the file permission to EXECUTE which by default any downloaded file is not given this permission. Then you would call out the sudo -i command to get to the root login and then execute the file. I still to this day love opening infected emails being even the files on email do not have the execute permission it will open up and show you the infected payload script that does the damage without running. Bring it on. This is why Linux & Android cant be infected. Matter of fact there is no anti-virus software provided for Linux because it never happens.

We will see if the trend is real when I start seen the drop more so. Yeah it was 6.479 in McCall at the Chevron about 2 weeks ago. Yeah it slowly coming down but man its still steep. The only bonus right now since its been raining here I've parked the diesel and been running around with Minnie more so being gas prices have drop considerably. Soon as the snow returns I'll be stuck to using the diesel being those are my only 4WD vehicles at this time.

Ummm... I made a trip to Donnelly ID with @Honey Badger she was getting her hair done. I waited out in the truck working on stuff on the website. It was a mere +9*F out and when she got back in the truck she was rolling down the windows because it was too hot in the cab. I can cook you in the cab of my truck at any temperature outside.

Do me a favor... Go to Google and do a search for "What is my IP" and then post up your IP address and I'll check the firewall for false capture. It seem Windows PC tend to trigger the firewall more so that iOS or Linux being it typically the most infected software in the world. I'll double check the firewall block IP to make sure you not snagged up. So post you IP for me I whitelist your IP so this doesn't happen.

Just like Washington state from the border to near Seattle is all $5.209 to $5.509 roughly. Hit Seattle it drops to right at 4.999 a gallon for diesel. So state average doesn't mean much when just the bigger cities get the discount and us in the rural areas get the shaft. It is this way for most of what I've seen. I've seen gasoline drop like a brick every where in the mid 3 dollar range and rarely I've seen a few at like 2.99 a gallon for gasoline (87 unleaded).

Yeah for Lewiston and Boise... Riggins One Stop is still 5.859 Chevron in Riggins is 5.499 Lewiston was 4.999 when I did my trip to Seattle.

Sad just a few days ago my power went out in the house and the heater heads where still fired up. Go down to find the Inverter shut down to a over current condition. Tried resting the inverter and trips instantly. I transfer back to city power and everything was working again. Few day later I found my issue is my step up transformer to create the 220V from the 110V inverter had burned up and shorted out. Now I'm hunting for a auto transformer to handle 30A to 35A service. As for my weather it warmed up the last few days and rained and rained. I've gotten over 3.00 inches of rain in the last 48 hours. Ugh... Please just go back to snow again I hate being soaked and laying in the mud.

I'm still running just the 150A circuit breaker and never tripped the breaker yet. No fuses to replace or carry.

I'vew seen that very same truck on TikTok a bout a week ago. Amazing job that they did yo stuff the 6.7L Cummins in and all the interior into a old 1960's Dodge body.