Wild and Free

Why can't you have a company come fill them, very common here to see 250 or 500 gallon tanks sitting beside RV's that are used for long term vacancy? Just get hold of a supplier and rent whatever size tank that would get you through the season and they will do auto fills and you have no worries then. Most companies here actually supply tanks as long as you sign an agreement that they are the only ones you buy propane from and they set it up and maintain it on their end, if any issues arise call them and they fix it no extra cost to you. I do know some companies require a certain size minimum amount to qualify for rental and fill service though so this may be what you are looking at as an issue.

We will definitely be looking you up and will keep in touch. We are looking at possibly heading north from Tampa this trip and checking out the north west gulf coast area and pan handle area if the weather is good, if not the wife wants to head south and spend more time at Sanibel island or the keys again. We want to check out the area between You in St Pete and Cape coral a bit more. Hopefully we can get good pre-rip insider info on places to check out from you, meeting for a BBQ at our place sounds great especially that close to the beach which is where we would be looking for a spot to stay at anyhow.

I agree, after having 3 second gens and constantly working and tweaking on them my 05 3rd gen has been a dream, 115K miles as of this week and other than replacing the ball joints has been rock solid, much more solid cab and frame and overall just higher quality in my opinion.

I can see some of the aftermarket designs being a pain to work around..........and all of them if mounted on anything other than a 2nd or 3rd gen Dodges where the grill pops up out of the way with the hood, I love my ranch hand even with my size 12 boots I have enough room to stand on the bumper behind the grill guard and even sit on the cross grill, to me it makes working on my rig a lot easier on the back. I have a 2 step stool that is the perfect height for working in the engine comp from the side a lot nicer as well even being 6'3".

I am starting to think I am living in Seattle here....................cold and rainy again was supposed to be low 70's today and only 10% chance of rain, not going to pass 60 and has been raining for 4 hours straight now. Our ground feels like walking in a rain forest very soft and all of the prairie and lawns are greener than they have ever been which for seeing green in the open prairie much past the end of July early August on a good year in this part of the country is rare.

He hasn't popped in for over 2 months, seems since he got his new hot rod ride he must be spending more time driving it than posting about it. You doing ok down there buddy? I sent you a PM about my wife and I being in your area again soon and was wanting to meet up.

WOW, I paid 1.39 summer fill price this year, took 1150 gallons to fill both of my 1k gallons tanks from last year. If I do not run the furnace in my shop I can go a little more than year on a thousand gallon tank for just my house but I keep my shop just above freezing 35-40, I have a shop thermostat that goes lower than a normal t-stat and I don't have it insulated very well or fully finished yet either inside. If the way this summer are any indicator of the winter it is going to be another cold one, this summer has been very cool and very very wet and foggy as of late. Hope we don't get pummelled with snow, extended forecasts say normal to light precip but colder than normal again....................sigh We are only in the 50's and 60 the last several days with lows in the 40's, nomal average highs are at or above 80 and 60's at night for this time of year. Had to throw an extra blanket on the bed and find a jacket today.

Well added another horse to the barn today. Got it for $2K under book, only 14K miles on it and 13 months of the 3/36 bumper to bumper left and it also has 5/60 powertrain on top of that so that was a plus finding it was put into service late. Last oil change sticker looks like it came out of Illinois. I can't believe how roomy and comfy it is, hard for me to find a comfy car I want to sit in.

Axle better not be moving backwards when loaded down, if it is you gots issues young man. The axle needs to stay in the same position when loaded down no matter what, the traction bars keep it from twisting or in other wards it keeps the pinion pointed straight ahead and not aiming up or down when the springs wrap up under torque.

How much HP and TQ do those put out? That is insane RPMs!

Wife and I have both always wanted a convertible of some sort and we both saw a Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet earlier this summer and both liked it. I have been looking into them and they have only been made for 4 years and 2014 is the end of the line for them for lack of sales. It is a two door coupe all wheel drive convertible crossover SUV vehicle. I have read reviews on them and older folks like them even though they are a 2 door they have a lot of back seat room and is easy to get in and out of. They are pretty much loaded with all options as they are a higher end car to start with, the only downfall is that mileage sucks at only 18-23 since it has a big 3.5 V-6 and all wheel drive with CVT tranny but that is fine with me as I am looking at it as a sort of collector novelty car anyhow to hang on to long term. I found one local ad am going to look at it tomorrow. Just wondering if anyone has any pros or cons of first hand experience with the Nissan Murano line, they seem pretty popular and I can find little to no bad reviews online for them but find lots of the regular ones not the cross cabriolet for sale. Here is a link to the local one I am looking at tomorrow. http://www.rides-autosales.com/vehicle-details/4a3d5e44a71b534c8bff66103e59a569

If it is a POD I would make sure it is up on level 99, sounds like it may be turned down, if not look through it and let us know what all of the sub settings are. Like said it should be night and day. I just have a Smarty JR POD on my 05 and it is night and day and I have never installed gauges yet on my 05 either and at 115 K miles and about 90K of it with the Smarty JR and if one looks through my thread of myself towing stuff over 30K gross I am not worried at this point anymore, heck still bone stock original tranny yet and still going strong.

Try looking up what you need on one of these sites, I look up factory parts a lot on these sites every so often when it comes to odd parts or OEM only parts. http://www.wholesalemopar.com/parts_catalog.html http://www.moparonlineparts.com/ http://www.factorymopar.com/dodge-parts-pg.html

Thanks for the correction Ed, heavy equipment is behind automotive in making all electronic controls use the same system but are all just trying to find common ground as automotive industry did but have a long long ways to go yet. I was intertwining the two as they are in my world on lots of heavy equipment yet but not all and mixed up the two systems. Think of automotive Can bus at a sort of ether net system connecting all the main ecms; ecus, and other computer controllers together.

Nope, was actually a guy I work with who told me about it, he lives in the town of the pull, Not a big area around me for Fords, Chevy and Dodge are more common, sounds like a lot of guys coming from the western oil patch area of the state with a ton of money stuck into their rigs.

Locals pulls going on around me too, local pulling guys finally added 2 diesel classes after I begged and whine for them for years and after I got out they did it......... Heard a newer Ford took the diesel class and pulled the sled out the end of the run and a lot further like 380+ feet and was still going when they flagged him to shut it down, wish I would have seen that one.

It is actually called a Can Bus "Controller area network" that came along around 1996 when OBDII became standard and is what the ecm uses to communicate with most electronic components, it is a small 5 volt wire that runs from the ecm to almost every electronc component, sensor and gauge and back to the ecm, so to answer your question about half the wires in the harness are related to the bus. If you have an issue with the Can bus circuit it will throw a code for whatever circuit it is in or major issues all together, the issues come when you have a bad connection or component not doing what it is supposed to some of which may or may not set a code all depends on what protocol is set via the OEM on that.

Nope never saw any of those commercials but we also do not have any Phillips 66 stations in the area I am aware of either, plus I grew up on a farm where we only had 3 over the air stations until we got a big ol sat dish in the late 80's. I actually learned that trick from an old tech I worked with who was about to retire when I was just getting started. If you have black diesel engine oil and or exhaust soot that doesn't wash off with any soap the detergents in engine oil always did the trick.

clean new Engine oil makes for the best hand cleaner.....................old school tip from a 20 year diesel tech, don't want to make it a habit with all the chemicals in it but in a pinch or when heavily soiled with soot or ground in crud, works as well as the best hand cleaner on the market! Or is this not the type of discussion you wanted Skellyman???????

I thought this would fit your run of luck here lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXysRO11Xi8&index=1&list=RDbXysRO11Xi8

lol, where I work I think it would be hard to not find some sort of weapon in at least 50% if not more of the vehicles at work. Heck there are 2-3 gun dealers who work at the mine, at least twice a week there is a swap meet or deals or show and tell going on in the parking lot after shift. Lots of farmers ranchers who work at the mine who are never without a weapon in a vehicle just like me as that is how I got into the bad habit of having them laying all over coming from a large farm ranch as that was normal to me, we had many pickups and vehicles and they pretty much all had rifle racks in them, heck in high school in the late 80's it was common for most vehicles in the school parking lot to all have weapons in the rear window including mine, the high school superintendant was a hunting freak and met me in the parking lot every morning just to see what I had shot on the way to school, he was a sucker for goose and pheasant which he got from me once or twice a week. Now kids get thrown out of school for even thinking about guns.

I pay for almost everything via CC now days for the purchase protection they all offer as it can be contested through them as well and the cc company can get your money back if enough evidence is presented to them. I got 600 dollars back on a used engine I bought from a salvage yard on the web many years ago that was supposed to be in excellent shape.......................got engine delivered and it literally looked like they drug it out of the ocean after it sat there for a year, all rusted out and full of water, I took many many pics called THE CC COMPANY described what went down and sent them copies of all paperwork from the company stating it was to be a usable part which it wasn't, they responded within a couple weeks and said I would get refund and they would take care of things, and sent the engine back postage due.

Under my seats........HMMMMM..........That's usually where I look when I can't find a gun during my semi annual inventory round up for cleaning, usually find all sorts of other hunting equipment there too, coyote calls ammo ect. usually buried in a lot of dirt and lint.

Have owned 5 Dodge pickups since 1995 and about 450K combined miles all on auto trannies and I have yet to have an issue........................................Before I switched to mopar I never got a GM tranny to last more than 30-50K miles manual or auto. Having worked at a tranny shop I can say that there are just as many manual tranny failures as auto. Just a personal preference..................and if anyone sees my thread on towing things you know what my trannies see quite regular. Can the autos be a bit more glitchy, yeah but are manuals any better or stronger overall........no. From my experience it comes down to common sense and knowledge of knowing how to and what not to.

Pistons are damaged way more often from injectors be it bad or weak spray pattern or too big or wrong spray angle ect than any other reason then throw timing on top of that makes for a bad combo when loaded, this is where an individual high cyl temp can be created but not picked up on with a manifold mounted probe seeing the collective temps of all cylinders mixed. I had my 02 at 560hp for many years and I rarely ever saw less than 1200-1300 while towing long hauls with it consistantly, ran it like that for close to 100K with no issues at all along with all the power pulling and a few drag races over the years with BD 155 sticks, and II silver 62 turbo and HRVP44, had over 150K on it when I sold it and the head had never been off, she was still a virgin engine. But until the OP does some more troubleshooting and reposts his results before ripping and tearing into it first we will not know for sure. Could have broke a valve spring and dropped a valve/ could be a bad rocker arm bent push rod, bad cam who knows. Lots of things to create a knock and more blowby than a bad piston.