Doubletrouble

@IBMobile, thank again for the above video. Turns out it was the gas valve. Replaced it today, we now have a working furnace. Also changed out the kitchen faucet at the wifes request. She now has one with the retracting sprayer built into the faucet head. Looks nice i must say.

That's the thing. It was the correct way in the phone. Thanks @Tractorman

***update*** Got the 5th wheel hitch installed on Sunday. It spans over the void where the gooseneck once was. Everything went together well. Took a lot longer than I thought to get it done. Drilling the frame for the mount brackets was a bear! But all in all I'm happy with it so far. Once I have the other bed ready to install I will repair the frame where the gooseneck ate it. I also installed a second 7-way trailer plug in the bed on the driver's side. Thats gonna work out great with the 5th wheel. Not sure why the pic turned like that.....

It's a rainy cool day here to. High was about 50°F but it didn't feel like it with the wind and rain.

I have not read it. I belive a movie was made of it as well. Is that as good?

Finally was able to get the bike out today. It was sunny and 60°. My 2 sons have been wrenching on their bikes lately and were ready for a short ride today so I fired mine up and went along. Almost got the bike stuck in the mud not to far out of the motorcycle shed. Oops. It was a nice hour long cruise. Nice to be able to enjoy a ride with my 2 boys. Also, in my pretrip inspection I realized it's tire time! Placed my online order for a new pair of Perelli Night Dragon motorcycle tires. Should have them by the end of the week. Gonna need them for the trip to Florida in May anyway.

I don't believe all Russians are bad. There are many that are against this. I find them interesting as a culture myself. I also respect them for many reasons as a country and a people of this world. I however do not support what their leader is doing. No more than I support our leader now and what he is doing. The entire world is under attack by the globalist. We all need to realize that this has been planned for a very very long time.

I'll have to check out that link. Our mainstream media is biased left, woke garbage as well. Newsmax is probably the closest you get to real reporting. Not sure if the have reporters there or not. I tried to limit myself over the weekend on my news intake. Had enough going on already. Lol

See, @wil440 our news media here is extremely censored right now. They are nothing but propaganda to steer us towards what ever they're agenda is for the day. Put mainstream media is HORRIBLE for this. Secondary media is hit and miss. We can't get good information on much of anything.

Camping in the desert sounds fun. At least before it gets to hot. Lol I'm looking forward to the camping season. We typically don't go much further than about 50 miles bit it's still a good time. I want to venture out further once I get some things done on the camper and truck.

I didn't watch much. I think today I will try to go news free to regain some of my sanity.

Yeah, on the driver's side. Ill have to repair the top edge of the frame. Should be an easy fix. I have done that, alot of the damage I saw after the removal of the hitch wasn't able to be seen when it was installed. I know what I have to deal with now so it will all be correct before the other bed is set on the frame.

UPDATE ********* So, gonna switch gears a bit for towing. Not the rear end gears literally. The gooseneck hitch is gone. I don't have anything with a gooseneck to tow so I ordered a fifth wheel hitch. I had the bed rails already (they were in the replacement bed I bought last year) so I got the hitch and all new hardware to mount the rails in the bed with new brackets to tie it to the frame as well. For now I will mount it all in this bed, the hitch will span the hole left by the gooseneck hitch. I did a test fit and everything lines up fine and bolts through good metal. The replacement bed needs to be sanded, primed and painted before I swap them. To cold to do that now. Once done everything will transfer over with minimal trouble I think. The 5th wheel hitch I bought is a Curt E16 which will tow up to 16,000lbs and a hitch vertical load of up to 4000lbs. Our 5th wheel is 10k empty with approximately 2600lbs on the kingpin. This hitch should be adequate for us at the moment. Once all installed I will have to check clearance for my tool box while turning and such but I think it will all work out. Worst case, I may have to get a pinbox extended for the camper to move it further back from the hitch. Right now the kingpin is directly below the box which puts the nose of the camper closer to the cab and toolbox.

I feel the same way. Everytime I watch Newsmax I have to limit my exposure. I can feel my blood pressure rise. It sickens me to no end how bad things are now and the possibility of it getting even worse. They just passed the omnibus bill which is 1.5 TRILLION dollars of our tax money! Some of it for Ukrane relief, some for "gender equlity" (what ever the hell that is) and don't forget the 21% raise they gave themselves while we struggle with the most expensive energy costs in history! WTF!!!!!!! There was also something in this bill giving the fed more control over firearms. Wonder why? Maybe its because they know that sooner or later we WILL be coming for them! Don't know if it's the coffee or thinking about this now but now I'm wound up. I'm pissed! I'm sick and tired! This administration needs to be fired and tried for treason! This has been a government take over! Someone or several need to hang! The truckers in DC need to crash the gate and park the trucks in the white house foyer. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGHHHHH!!!!!

Looking great! Cant wait to see more!

I was thinking about him yesterday. If you hear from him please share

Yeah, mother nature is a mean old woman....lol

Well, I did not get to ride Saturday, had to help my brother fix his wife's car. That took way more time than I expected. I did charge the battery and reinstall it in the bike. Fired it up for the first time this year. Man did it sound good. Gonna have to spend some money this year. Need 2 new tires before our trip to Florida in late may. I'd like to replace the tuner I messed up as well. (Whole nother story there) Today it's back to reality, it's 35° outside and raining. Mother nature is a mean old hag!

I've gotten several compliments on them from guys at work (when I was on nights). One guy even had me order him an led light strip for his truck.

I know I'm a bit late on this, been a busy week. Here are my reverse lights. I have LED bulbs in the stock sockets and the the LED light strip with brake/turn signals and reverse lights. Makes for plenty of light for me at least. First pic is the back of the truck at night in reverse. Second is the light it casts behind it, taken from in the bed.

As long as there isn't a catastrophic failure they should last quite a while. Catch stuff before it goes critical. Especially bearings. That's awesome if you got over 300k out of one. Hope they all last that long.

You read that right, here in northwest Ohio it's supposed to be sunny and 70 tomorrow. The bikes battery is on the slow charger to be load tested in the morning. Might have to take off for a couple hours tomorrow to get a pack of smokes or something. Lol

I am out of the way for a stop by but can't wait to see it !

Yeah, I don't blame ya there.

@Max Tune, that sucks! that was one of my concerns with these new milwaukee 8's there using now. Harley vibrate, the new ones not as much as they used to but they still do. Thats gonna be rough on those small radiators. My brother has an '18 or '19 ultra with that motor. My son just bought a '21 with the 107. Not knocking them it's just that I'm not completely sold on them yet either. Hope they get it fixed soon for ya!