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I have the Retroshop 5000k D2’s. Best lighting upgrade I’ve done. Tried different housing with different bulbs. Same crap view. Some people got lucky with the right combo. Love the D2’s. The only thing I had to do was move the wires around in the factory plug. Low was high and high was low. Shines very well in front and to the sides with an excellent cut off.

I’m extremely happy with mine as well. I got all my parts to build mine from flea bay. Most parts are Turbo lab. I also drilled out the wastegate to 7/8” both sides are gated now. My Pacbrake down pipe is a true 4”. If it was a toy and not my DD and workhorse and had the extra coin I would have gone with a GXE style turbo. I’ve also read the in-line exhaust breaks aren’t as efficient as the turbo mounted.

Couldn’t you mill yours out and buy a 67mm turbine wheel? Or do like I did and buy one milled already with the bigger wheel. Much cheaper. Or am I misunderstanding you?

@Mopar1973Man wouldn’t having a bigger turbine wheel help? Your turbo is 60/60/12?

Dam that’s good Mike! I just ordered some Toyo A/T. Dropping back down to 265/17 from 285/17.

I paid 9k for mine 4 years ago. Probably have put at least another 6k into it. I could sell and make a profit but I’d be out more money to replace it with a comparably equipped truck. It is crazy what they are going for now.

Our temps here in Visalia,Ca are slowly fluctuating to cooler temps. Had mid 80’s temps over the weekend. Mornings are 50’s and 60’s. Gonna hit high 90’s for a couple days this week but go back down. Evenings have been nice. Can actually go outside and enjoy the weather. In the past September has always been a hot month. Temps don’t usually start doing this till about mid October. I’m hoping this is a preview to a wet winter. Fires are burning around us still so we definitely need the rain. My brother in laws folks had to evacuate their home last week. We’re fine done here in the valley just bad air. The cool mornings have helped though.

Here’s a dumb question. By chance is there an exhaust brake on the truck?

I’ve heard good things about both. The 57 is good for 400-450 hp and the 62 is good for 500-550 hp. The 57 will spool up a little faster while the 62 will do better on keeping the EGT’s down. Just my .02. I’d talk to @dieselautopower

Me personally with an auto I’ve tried 13*. Timing reduction 5*@50%. Ran decent enough. At city speeds putting around town when it would shift into 3rd it would lug and jerk when it hit lockup. Timing would drop to like 10-11*. I even played around with %’s and degrees with the timing reduction. I noticed it wasn’t quite as bad if timing wasn’t dropping below 11 degrees. now I start at 15* and 5*@50%. Timing drop to high 12’s to low 13* the lugging is gone. I get a slight back and forth jerk once lockup hits ,billet converter,if I’m below 35mph but nothing like before. The take off is much better. Over all it seems to run much better. Now when I tow I may have to drop it down more. I’ll just tweak my tow tune. That’s just my truck and what it likes. Not saying one way is better than another. That’s the wonderful thing about the Quadzilla!

Here’s a good article I found. They’ve really improved on the panels. https://lifeonroute.com/rv-solar-installation-complete-guide/

I’ve had a solar system with one 100w panel. I want to get it mounted to my travel trailers roof. 2017 Forest river Grey wolf. I want to install everything clean. Meaning nothing hanging over the side. Everything except the panel of course ran through and mounted inside the trailer. Does anyone have pictures of their install and advise on doing this? Later on I will add more panels. Thanks!

Last I heard according to my broker it’s a good idea to stock up on brass and lead

I always try to get some oak every year. Fireplace, backyard get togethers, camping and bbq’n. Good all around wood! No pun intended! 😂

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The flu has been around for 1,000’s of years. If there weren’t different strains of it once one had it they would never get it again because of immunity. And there would be one vaccine for everyone to take. Masks don’t do a thing to stop viruses. The virus will go right through it. There is no science proving otherwise. If covid was more deadlier than the flu the death rate from 2020 would have been much higher than it was over the past five years. My point is the flu just didn’t go away. It was payday for the states and local communities to mark someone from dying from covid. Hell my local Hospital decided to remodel the front entrance during the middle of it. Making people go through a detour to get in. My immediate family and I haven’t gotten sick in a couple of years. Vitamin C and Zinc. A couple of my buddies got covid. I was around them both. They got over it as well. Even the guy that invented the PRC test says it’s not meant to check for viruses. It’s meant to read DNA. When was the last time you got tested for the measles, small pocs , and so on and so on , because there are actually vaccines for that. Sorry off topic. Gonna be 106 here today.

Not this guy or my family. It’s actually an experimental drug for use under emergency authorization usage. Not FDA approved. I’m not going to be part of an experiment. The Moderna supposedly gives you 95% immunity. Funny how vaccinated people are still getting covid. Most people have a 98.9x chance of survival rate with their own immune system. Higher the younger one is. It’s been proven hydrachloriquin and Iburvectim (sure I spelled both those wrong) ,have been out for many years, and works to stop covid. Also funny how flu deaths almost completely disappeared. If you go on the CDC website you can see the death rate from about 2015-2020 were all close to the same numbers. But hey this is America. If you want to take an experimental drug and or wear a mask go for it!

We can’t even thin out the dead stuff here. Years ago they would. It’s like they have some sort of agenda. Climate change = summer, fall, winter and spring.

Our genius politicians here in Commiefornia let most of our rain water flow back into the ocean in the Bay Area. Most of our days have been 100 -111. We past a bond years ago to build more dams but nothing done. But we are 70+ billion in a train to no where. The only things that have rights here are criminals, illegal aliens and animals. Here in Ca they all can vote to.

Looks good!

Got any pictures of the seat covers installed?

Both mine and my brother in-laws ‘02 have the ground wires and lug under the drivers side battery.

Nether can I.

Can you post your tune? Did you see the Quad working properly on the truck you bought it from? You may need to send it to Quadzilla to be fixed. Is the map sensor plug snapped it properly from the Quad?