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dripley

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  1. Only if we can use a FA18 or other suitable air craft. Good one there, Rosalie.
  2. do you have a boost elbow on the turbo or something else to keep the waste gate closed until higher pressures are reached?
  3. I found these on Rock Auto. Pretty wide spread on the prices and I dont know which one is right. The first one is $16.30 and the second is $132.79. http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=933945&cc=1440064 http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=945948&cc=1440064
  4. Thats how'n I found out it tracked to the left on a left crown. Fast lane baby!!
  5. After my front end rebuild and alignment, my truck tracked very good. It still had would track a little to the left or right depending on the road crown and straight if the road was almost flat. I have the Moog track bar on mine and after about 60k miles it is showing signs of wear and the tracking is off a little more. The steering design is rough on them. Definitely not the best steering system by any means.
  6. I second the road crown as part of pulling to the right. Even after rebuilding the front end and an alignment mine still pulled slightly right except on flat stretches of roadway, where it tracked very straight. The crown of the road is causing a pulling sensation.
  7. I would lean towards the sender also. If it is pricey you can run the diagnostics listed with the codes to be sure.
  8. Marriage is much easier to get into than out of. I told my wife if we divorce we have 2 choices, sell everything, divide the money and give it all to our 2 lawyers or make friends with each other and split it where both are happy and use no lawyers. Neither way is appealing to me but the but the second seems best, but also seems fleeting. What you 2 have done for Betty is most admirable and I am proud to know you. I wish all the luck to Betty and both of you.
  9. My ADII came with a kit to remove the in tank pump. It also placed both return lines into the fuel basket with the pick up. I know I cut my pick up line a touch to short and also cut it on about a 15* angle. I worried bout it at first, but it will suck the tank dry. I have put 35 gallons in it on a couple of occasions.
  10. I have used electric heaters in mine ever since my first winter in the 5th wheel. Even in parks where I have to pay for power, electric has always been cheaper than propane. From what I have read here propane was always seemed more expensive out my way, east vs west coast. The last I bought was for the house and I have a 100 gallon tank. This was early last fall and I paid $2.50 a gallon then. My 30# usually cost about $25 to $30 to fill.It has been like that for a long time. I have heard about a shortage of the gas but since the RV has been sitting at home most of the winter, I have not had to buy any. I will have to check and see what the price is here in Alabama.
  11. I don't believe overboost will set the CEL, mine never has either. However it set the codes and they are in the computer. Now f you have had the Smarty the whole time it does boost fooling to the ECM and should not even set the code. The ECM will not see the over boost due to the Samrty.
  12. I have see several people with them and they swear they work. I guess they work. I guess it is hard to believe something works when you cant hear them work.
  13. Have you checked the voltage at the socket to see what voltage is getting to the lights. If there was some corrosion visible you might have some further back from the sockets in another connection or in the wires that is not visible.
  14. Have you cleaned the connections to the headlight itself? Sockets, plugs, and etc?
  15. My wife would drive over a cliff to miss a squirrel. Me, bump bump. Darn, he almost made it.
  16. I cant explain the C shaped piece. Maybe it is the old design they had so much trouble with. The shape does not make any sense for a "diaphragm" or seal of any kind. Definitely over my head.
  17. What does Bosch call that part you found? Is there a parts list that goes with the exploded view? Maybe this "diaphragm" does not do what I or we think a diaphragm normally does. I dont know, just paying devils advocate here.
  18. How about the ones in your shorts?
  19. I would imagine the manufacturing process with that hard of steel adds to the cost. DAP has them a little cheaper but not sure of the brand plus you would have to buy the o rings. $23 bucks for Cummins s about average. http://www.dieselautopower.com/category-s/448.htm
  20. That is the same fuel basket dodge gave me with the intank pump. It appears Vulcan's is that basket minus the pump and already modified for the whatever pump you have. What kind of fuel pressure gauge are you running, mechanical or electric?
  21. I was raised old school,but more rurarl to small city life. We never had any animal but dogs and cats. I was member of the church youth organization(EYC). At one meeting we had an egg throwing contest with the winner received a prize. I was the lucky winner. The prize, a live chicken. I took that hing home and my momma liked to had a heart attack. She looked at me with a red face and asked me who had given me a chicken. When I told her the church she really got red. That chicken spent the night in the basement and I never saw it again. That was the only farm animal I ever saw at momma and daddy's house. I thought it was pretty cool but momma did not see it that way. That was a little of topic too, but some things have to be said.
  22. I dont really know where their chicken originates from. All I know is it comes on the big white truck. I will ask someone. It is frozen, skinless chicken breasts. It would take a large flock of "free range" chickens to provide them theirs. I believe one of us would have seen a flock that big. They thaw it, clean up any fatty tissue the is left on it, marinate it in buttermilk, the bread it and pressure cook it. They are well trained in cleanliness and proper handling of the raw versus the cooked chicken. They also pay there help over minimum wage, not sure how much. They do hire a lot of school age kids and older. They also promote within the company and a lot of there store operators come from with in. They do not sell franchises. They accept applications from within and from outside. If you are picked, you pay around $5,000 and go the chicken school at CFA. They then build you a store a put you in it. They spit the profits with the operator(50/50 I think, but not sure). And if you ever tire of it or retire you just hand the keys back over to corporate and go on about your life. The last guy I built for in NC said his store would do near 3 million this year and thats got to equate well into the 6 figures for him. I just read an article in today's paper about another company, Hobby Lobby who operates on the same principles. Closed on Sundays, they share religious beliefs with CFA and pay there help, according to the article, 80% over minimum wage. They get my .
  23. I have to agree with you. Nobody is really equipped for a wide spread snow storm down this way. The state of NC is more prepared for than the states further south. But if state, city or county does nothing to prepare for it until everyone is on the highway is is too little too late. It is hard to plow or salt a highway when it is covered with vehicles I dont mind driving on snow. It is the other idiots out there that bother me. I have driven everything from my pick up to tractor trailers in the snow with very little issue, but ad a little freezing rain or sleet and I am finding somewhere to stay. I am not driving on the ice period.
  24. I lived in Atlanta in the mid 80's to the early 90's. There wer only 1 million people living there then. 2nd winter I live there they had a 1/2" snow fall the did almost the same thing. I had to abandon my car about 1/4 mile from the house and it was 2 days later before I could get it due to all the other abandoned vehicles. They are just not prepared for storms like this. Beings storms like this are rare in the Atlanta area, they are just not equipped to handle them. Couple that with the fact everyone went to work on Wednesday morning like usual and no one tried to leave until it started snowing and you have a recipe for exactly what happened. If any of you have been thru Atlanta at rush hour, imagine what 3" of snow added to that would be like. Plus the fact that when I left there there were just over 1 million people there and now there are 3.5 million people there. I am in a little town called Enterprise, Alabama and they decided on Tuesday to close everything for Wednesday and told all to stay at home. For the most part everyone listened. I bet there were not more that a dozen vehicles that passed the RV park all day. As far as a CFA up your way, I will have to let them decide. I just go where they tell me to.
  25. ^^^Thats the one I was thinking about. Might do that myself one day. Looks like a good location and you would be able to route the tubing out of the way.