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ugh, I know what you mean. I really want to get a TDI. I was working a job here recently and they had me on a trial. I was driving 1,000 miles in a week! :banghead:

Heeeey, careful! Can that thing tow a 5th wheel or haul a load of hay or firewood? No? Didn't think so! :P

Well, searching around again, this is what I found: http://spokane.craigslist.org/csr/4217542574.html This is the type of look I was talking about. Works for me! Now I just gotta see if I can get the job!

Well with temps hovering between 20-30 now, the heater has not had to kick on as much and I think its doing well now. I estimate I will be back to filling propane every 5 days or so now. Went to home depot and bought this stuff called, "tiger paw". I would describe it as a moisture barrier for roofing over the OSB. Its very stout stuff and takes a knife to cut! Came in a 10 square roll for $78! I did the whole trailer skirting with it and have some left over. Perfect for temp. skirting! Did not have to pay near as much as an official trailer skirting either and really knocked the wind down under the trailer.

I can see the hazard that it may pose, but really, what is the problem with that? If you can light some wood on fire stacked out in the cold, you already have a problem on your hands way before the stacked wood catches...

There is a problem. A problem of leadership. I've just gotten started on a book called, "A shepherds look at Psalm 23". Its a very interesting read so far, and it goes into detail about this poem David wrote. When you can really start looking at the character of people compared to sheep, you see the parallel and why we are described as such. I suppose people unknowingly coin the term, "sheeple". But really, when you see it, you begin to understand that we are a flock without a shepherd. Yes, as Christians the Lord is our shepherd. In likewise, in our earthly realm, we need a shepherd to lead in our nation. Ideally, its supposed to be our President. The commander in chief. But the shepherd is not doing a good job! Who will rise and be the shepherd for our nation? We need a David in our times, someone who will lead his people. But where is this David? No one is standing up like they need to, to lead this nation back on course! I fear, maybe our David that we need so badly to lead our country, was aborted? God only knows... we shall reap what we sow! We need a leader that will chastise us out of love for the sake of bringing us back on track. But the bad shepherd is working so hard to make it not so. If only this shepherd would realize that if he took half the effort he has put into his so called flock, he would realize that it would be easier. But we as a flock shall continue to the slaughter... We are a sheep! We don't defy our shepherd, even if the shepherd is bad! We suffer from his actions... Sometimes we deviate and try to find the greener grass thats on the other side of the fence. But a bad shepherd does not view it as a good thing. We still must be brought under his cane and eat in the area that is given to us. We need to realize we are sheep. We need to be liberated from the oppressor and seek for the GOOD shepherd. The greatest shepherd of them all may just send one our way in due time. Maybe we will receive that person of leadership that will unite us as a people and we can return to what we once were. No, we do not yield to this leader as if he is our God. The people of Africa called Nelson Mandela their father, savior! Do not fall for the deceiver, the anti-christ. We need direction, leadership to unite us as a people so we can stand in unity and have a direction. We can say that we don't need a leader, that we can do this ourselves and that we can return our nation to the, "Republic, for which it stands" but your only fooling yourself... http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DxvBjevpGg

We will be traveling a path soon. We will have come to a fork in the road and as a country make a decision. Whether or not people are aware of it. We will either continue to live in bondage as a slave, or well become a free people. The choice is ours to make. Knowing when to make it is important. Our govt. and the relationship it has with its citizenry is like an abusive marriage. Once we can stop the cycle by putting our foot down, standing up for ourselves and saying, "NO!" will they realize we are serious.If they threaten us for trying to get out of the relationship, there is only one course of action... Because I would rather not try a restraining order anymore and keep running and hiding from my abuser.

Yep, its a 50 amp box, but I'm currently running few things on a 15 amp service. Keeping the t-stat at 63. Seems to be the happy medium with things. Jumping it to 64 seems to make the heater turn on much more frequently. So obviously keeping it any warmer like a house, which I would love to have at around 70, would take alot of energy to do. Ultimately, I want to put this trailer in a shop for most of its life and live out of it that way. But, one baby step at a time... My wife grew up with those oil filled radiators. She told me they were junk, so we never got them. How do you like them? When the CZ heaters hit the market, my mother in law got one. Used it for about a week and the lady said they were better than the eden pures. Well, if they were, then I'm not even close to being a fan of such heaters. Put it in an appropriate sized room and I never noticed a change. The technology they say thats in it to make it so supreme just makes me giggle... Yep, your telling me helical metal around a resistance element is the future. No offense to you, just ranting... Wow, seems like the trailer is small enough for the heater to work well or the heater works well enough for the trailer! Yea, my furnace in the trailer is a bit funky. It has 6 vents and the bathroom is heated the best because the duct is the shortest to the furnace. The cargo area gets heated well as well. Thats got the area with alot of the water lines, etc. I keep the toyhauler door closed all the time cause its a terrible area. Almost no insulation in that area of the trailer. I've been adding fiberglass batt under the trailer but have not gotten to the toyhauler section yet. So I'm interested in seeing how much of a difference it makes. I've spent quite a bit of money so far in prepping the trailer for winter, but I still have other things to address as well. I suppose I ought to start a thread about it instead of derailing this one!

Me and the father in law were just running this idea around the other day. Are there any reloading manufacturers out there still that make just the copper jackets?

I've got Firestone Destinations and they run me $250 a pop last time I got some. Seem to be so far so good...

Well, depending on how your state is, you may or may not be able to get away with doing a straight pipe. Some places define the turbo as a muffling device and do not require a muffler. My truck is straight piped. No extras to it. It can be kinda loud, but I have always like it. It would be the cheapest way to go and if you did it all in 4" you would never have to buy it again.4" is pretty big although and if you never plan on doing anything to it except occasionally driving with it, stick with the 3". From what my exhaust guy tells me, he is not aware of any exhaust shop that can bend 4" pipe. The reason being that it is so expensive for a shop to own such a machine to do it with. Thats why most of your large exhaust kits have to be special ordered.I did have a section of 4" pipe when I got the truck and replaced it with 3". I noticed about a 50-100 degree difference in EGT's. But a 3" pipe is good up to quit a bit of horsepower. Mike could tell you...

Haha, I suppose you could say it was a bad joke at how the psychology of peoples minds seem to flip flop from the temperatures...

Here is for hoping to get a Milllyuan miles out of it now!

Haha, you guys are lively bunch...Call me Mr. Studmuffin.

I went to a local ACE's and bought a proper sized needle valve for my gauge. I also installed it right before the VP44. You could attach it at the OEM filter canister housing, but I bypassed mine due to restrictions in that part of the system. Installing the gauge and AD is easy. Just follow the supplied instructions and it should be straightforward. I believe as long as you do not go bigger than an AD100, you do not need to drop the tank. Unless you want to do a draw straw mod or revised fuel basket mod like I did for my AD165. Other than the instructions, the only other deviation is the aforementioned modification. http://articles.mopar1973man.com/general-cummins/36-fuel-system/34-fuel-pressure-gauge-and-water-hammer-effects

Garr! You did not show us the in process pictures!

But you still have to leave the house to work...I'm mainly looking at work that can be done on the computer. Working for a call center for example is one. Or running tech support from home for Dell, etc.

I was just trying to make Mike seem more appealing, haha!

Oh, that reminds me. Yea I do have a heater. Its a presto dish. Works great, but I was fearful of it in one aspect. Being that its a radiant heater that focuses heat, the heat just does not fill the room up like a typical heater does. So its not as effective in that department. Yes, it does make a difference, but not as much as I would have liked.I was trying to get a local propane company to come out and put a tank down, but there are only 3 around here. One company won't hook up to RV's due to their insurance and the others won't do it unless you are there for atleast a YEAR! :banghead:

Its been a couple years, but I think I have bought something from them. I get e-mails from them ocassionally. They do have a reputation and I'm sure they are just as good as any other guy, really. Look for the price, unless its really a company that just stands out.

Monkeys! ...forest fairies! I think I may need to PM you more about it. This telecommute work stuff seems elusive.. I have met very little people who work from home for a business. But the idea is extremely appealing to me for various reasons. There is alot of people up here in the Sandpoint area that will literally sell firewood for so dirt cheap they are cutting their own throats! As well, people around here do not want to pay more than $150 or so typically. That includes all my operating costs, delivery and they expect it to split and seasoned. I have even stacked for them before as well. Price for wood does not really go up much more in the colder months when people do not have any. I have had a couple people pay $200 a cord before but its not common. I've tried different approaches at getting people to buy firewood but the biggest problem I face is their ignorance. I try and tell them this is why I do it and its better and they just look at me like a deer in the headlights and then say they are not interested. I've sat on dozens of cordwood for a year or more before just because no one wanted to buy until it was cold. I've thought about trying to deliver firewood to the Spokane area because I can ask atleast $200 a cord down there. That area still has people offering cordwood at $150 a cord, but even still, they cut their throats. I've also got to scout for wood and the dead standing is not as common as you may be finding it. I can also only go far off the road as well. It makes for a bit of a miserable time... I think I've got a surefire way to make firewood into a viable business but I think I would need darn near 1/4 million first, to make it happen, lol.

Funny how the weather people revert to measuring the cold in the winter and then measure the heat in the summer. It should be a measure of heat, no matter what.

Bleh, I'm burning up a 7 gal. propane tank every 3 days or so now this week. Doing the best to keep this darn trailer warm, but its not built like a house! I think I'd rather fight to keep this thing cool instead of warm!Too bad I could not get a woodstove in this puppy!

So you got it back together?