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At least I was not locked out & could access the tools in the car. The coat hanger & a hunk of braising wire were in the trunk... I have rescued others several times over the years. The lock out on the truck, I must have bumped the manual lock button getting out (with my MS I tend to hang onto something to be sure my legs are going to hold me when I reach the ground). My truck auto locks when I reach a certain speed (I think it's to help keep doors closed in a crash). But when you get out, only the doors you open unlock. So I use the electronic lock to unlock the whole vehicle. If I bump the manual button, the passenger's side is unlocked. Putting the keys in your pocket is better...

Well, a failed Lift (Transfer) pump will not trip the CEL but will throw a code with the key trick or scanner. At least it did on mine when it left me beside the road.

Laid the strip of felt. It'll catch a simple key ring.

One can lift the rear wheels off the ground, by not supporting a trailer ramp when loading heavy equipment. It's a good thing I don't do such work, as it's a bone-head move waiting for me to arrive!

Actually I do use a lace around my neck for keys now, if I have my reenacting clothes on. Also one on a mini-mag for trips to the outhouse... I never dreamed that the keys... or anything else for that matter... would drop in there. It was a perfect bullseye, too. Now that I've warmed up it's almost funny. It takes a bit for the brain to click... What just happened? I have some dark felt I've used for other things... I can cut a piece to fit. Velcro if it needs attaching. In the truck, I have the center seat flipped down as a console... I put them there before climbing in. But if something happens once, it can happen again!

The blend door coupler is a PITA to get to but it can be done with the dash in. It's on the passengers side of the hump & requires on the sec gen, to have the rubber floor pad under the rug cut away for clearance. The stupid plastc coupler is prone to crack & split. A reinforcing sleeve can be turned & pressed on in a vise or a new part made.If the air only blows on defrost, then either the vacume is lost or the vacume actuator to the right of the driver's side is broke & does require the dash to be laid on the seat.

I have a key screwed in a hidden place. I was about to go after it... but then I'd still have had to retrieve my usual key with the fob. I did lock myself out of the truck at a fuel stop... I pulled the key out enough that it wouldn't ding but left in the switch. No pockets in my reenacting clothes anyway. I must have bumped the door buttons.I borrowed a screw driver & retrieved the hidden key at the pump... no body looked twice. I'm going to tape something over that slot. It might happened somewhere I wasn't supposed to be, then I'd really be screwed.

I finished my shopping, packed my car (Cirrus). I find it's hard to dig out my keys once seated, so I've been putting my keys on the car dash in front of the wheel. Right handy once I get settled. Today was a cold day... about 30 with a stiff wind blowing. As I was getting in, the keys fell off the dash, hit the steering column... and disappeared down the tilt wheel slot! Crap-o-la!!I tried tilting the wheel down & I could just touch them but they were jammed. I tried the coat-hanger hook but FAILED. I ended up with them falling all the way to the knee panel. I couldn't reach behind it. I tried fishing some more. No luck. I couldn't see the screws but eventually I was able (with frozen fingers, kneeling on the asphalt) to drop the knee panel with the general (Phillips head) purpose screw-driver from the door pocket. About an hour to get back on track.These klutzy MS fingers will be the death of me yet!I will be taping over or otherwise covering that slot.

That's it exactly. What my machine had was a Lever Lock. The operator had a bank of hydraulic controls to operate. The brake was a foot pedal to the left & the line lead up to the lever lock to the left of the hydraulic controls. A slant 6 ran a hydraulic pump. The winches & motive drives were all hydraulic motors.

That is a nice looking truck. Judge the mechanicals yourself.

My Marine Lift had a hydraulic lock on the brakes, stand on the pedal, flip a lever attached to a cam which activated a plunger the cuts off the brakes & YES, it locked the machine up. I really would NEVER trust any parking brake. I had the coupler in the brake cables totally rust out. Since I'd automatic, I don't use them much. Some grease money stomped the ebrake, parting the connector (behind the cab, driver's side & returned it to me with the Brake light on. I gave them an earfull. They jiggles the cables until the light went out but it was physically disconnected from one side & worthless until I had it repaired elsewhere. The 01.5 & later have a mini-drum ebrake inside the rear hub... legal maybe but a bad joke as far as holding the truck.

It's just a cover. It could be made of any porus fabric. It's just to stop the leaves & big stuff. The actual filter does the real work. I never bought one because it would just become so much mouse habitat like my under-hood insulation.

You need to code scan.

Oh, Crap!! Condolances.

D4L, I think you are spot on. I am SRW, 4.10 gears, 8800GVW rated and the tongue weight (even worse than a 5r pin weight) is too high returning (black water full) even with the Weight Distributing Hitch. Notice the axle position is 1/3 vs 2/3 so there is naturally a lot of tongue weight. The trailer is a '28' but that's the box length... probably 31-32' overall. This is a lot of trailer. My truck shrugged off the gooseneck horse trailer... with heavily loaded with camp gear 18' in front of the axles (under the horses). Because the weight was centered on the rear axle. Mama-mia, the jack was barely able to lift the hitch to uncouple. This was a poor design. If you not going to load heavy ATVs in the rear, you might want to ballast the rear. How often are you going to move the trailer? My attitude would be different for occasional towing vs frequent.

I like mine as well... towing... 36 X 4" It's still not quiet. It has swirl vanes in it but no baffles per say. I should have put it on when I did the exhaust in the first place.

My ToyHauler is bumper tow. 30 foot. It is definately nose heavy... coming home with the black water full (I was able to water the pasture with the grey water before departing) is a 500# weight shift. My mobility scooter is not as heavy as the designed ATVs... Can't move the axles to improve balance so I'm actually thinking of adding ballast to the rear! With so much hitch weight, beyond the capabilities of the WDHitch, it is a bear to keep it between the lines. Steering control is reduced. Now the trailer you are looking at is substantially bigger. Higher GVW. I've towed heavy horse trailers... my gooseneck puts way too much weight on the truck but still towed it fine because the weight was centered on the rear axle. I got rid of my fifthwheel before I got the Dodge, but that was a 28' including the gooseneck & well ballanced. My single rear C30 (rated 9000 GVW) towed it like there was nothing back there at all. The hitch becomes very important. I don't care for the sliding hitches. Mine are/were all 8 foot beds with the hitch either centered over the rear axle or even a couple of inches forward of center. The book will probably tell you dually. There's no way to know for sure what it would be like on a single rear wheel.

I'm not sure what you mean 'synthetic rope'. I'm familiar with lots of yacht ropes. My buddy had his atv cable replaced last fall with something like this but it's broke already. He's not happy... and they replaced his roller fairlead at the same time. He offered me the old roller fairlead but I've already ordered my own new replacement. We cut off the worn piece of cable. Really there were fairly few splinters. I've seen much worse on come-a-longs. As we only use the winch for the plow... there's only 3 feet of cable deployed... it's not like general purpose uses. I'm thinking the steel cable might be the beter for my use.update: My friend says his winch rope broke on the first use.

I wouldn't think the current gas-a-hola... would have water but we're gassing from cans so it's possible. I added dry gas & turned up the idle. With a one cylinder, a miss can stop it. Yesterday was first day back for schools. A state owned road that leads to our house... a narrow road already... they are a foot short of the white fog lines. Hope to not meet a bus cause somebody is going to back up! The stone walls & banks either side of the road, there's no way to plow snow up & over unless they come in with a payloader. We got a 1/2" overnight... should melt off.It's funny how the only things which are mine need expensive repairs or fixing... I have ordered the ATV parts (roller lead & spare plugs). Since she had to get towed back in... I bought a Tow Strap & will leave the ratchet strap in the front (to emergency lift the plow).

I like mine under the truck WITH 5" SS pipe, FTE swirl resonator, straight through "muffler" to 6" SS tip (the kit came with). The drone is not too bad towing but wifee still wears ear plugs so I don't have to talk to her. I moved the GPS over to my side since she can't hear my questions anyway. I had enough stacks on the Twister (Bruce Mfg), Massey Harris & JD tractors. Wish I had the Twister back actually... I'd ditch the B&S & repower with a Honda twin.

http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2013/feb/09/79/southern-new-england-braces-potential-blizzard-ar-1345199/ http://www.abc6.com/story/21093873/northeast-trying-to-get-back-on-track-after-storm Being country folk / campers, we are better prepared than most. These storms remind me of the weaknesses in our plans. I gotta get our 6500 Generator fixed. We should have played the lottery. What luck! So many out of power & out here in the sticks, we're still on! (But then a huge tree came across the road 2 weeks ago, crossed both travel laves of state route, power was out all day... maybe that was ours!) Another lucky happenstance. ATV started with new plug. Manual (on CD) Says the big thumb wheel is Idle Speed Clockwise to increase, CC to decrease. When we got it we couldn't shift in warm weather idle was cranked up so much. Shop reset it last time it was in for service. I need to know how to do this myself if it's critical. Now it was dying out when cold, every time you let off throttle. Ordered more spare sparkplugs. Sheila & I work terribly together. Somehow we managed by sheer luck to wind the broken cable IN until the end came by, clean break, vise gripped it & pulled it out. Double clamped it over a thimble. The Cast iron Fairlead is worn out. I already been reversed once. Plow use has worn deep grooves in the iron. The other side was better so put that down again. Need to buy roller fairlead insteasd of stupid iron block. Ordered it! But incredible luck to retrieve cable! She kicked me to the curb & went back to plowing... opened everything up nice but then it balked again. I'm wondering if it has some bad gas.

It was a bad storm. Up to 24" in Rhode Island, 30" in Mass towards Boston. The storm was 2 day+, 24 hours of heavy snow, thunder snow & such. 65mph winds. Gusts on the Newport Bridge were 95mph. They closed the high bridges to prevent wrecks. Mass, CT, RI closed the roads to all but Emergency Traffic until 4PM so they could get the roads plowed. The interstates are well plowed but the ramps & secondary roads are not. 180,000 RI with out power. They could not begin restoring power until mid day... could not get the Utility trucks out because of the deep snow & winds over 30mph. Predicting most will have power back by MIDNIGHT on MONDAY... In terms of snow fall, it ranks in the top 5. Did not break the record Blizzard of 78. A lot of people are grumbling but this is not our first storm... we were better prepared than most (and not as well as we shold have been.) Sheila didn't want me outside so she plowed with the ATV for many hours... until she called me downstairs (& outside) because she broke the cable which lifts the snow plow. As a stop gap, I rigged a come-along to lift the blade & she went out to finish. A neighbor towed the ATV back into the yard because it quit on her blocking the street. So, NOW, she expects me to fix it. By then it was already dark. I just put on my outdoor clothes to go retrieve the tool kit from the ATV to see what spares I had to work with... and she complained because I went out in the dark (head light on my cap, winter boots, cane with gripper on the bottom.) There are a couple of spare spark plugs but not sure if they are any good. Now what know the number, I'm going to check in my workshop & see if I have any new ones... So I'll know in the morning if I must go to the autoparts. << sigh >> This is a storm that should have been plowed with the backhoe (which I always used to do) but I can't get up there & she afraid of it.

Winter tires... What Load range? E.

I can't find the thread... I think Mike described his winter tires. A taller narrower tire, same diameter. I'm thinking of picking up some 16" stock steel rims and real winter tread. I don't use the truck much in winter, but with Sheila's Subaru gone, it's our only 4X4.

Our power stayed on overnight! Great news. Wood stove is heating... 300,000 National Grid customers, more in RI than Mass, out when we went to bed at 12. Now 650,000... increassing as people wake up. About 2 feet of heavy wet snow so far here, travel bans remain in effect. ($500 tickets for those who get caught.) It's still too windy for power crews to put the bucket trucks up in the air. I don't know if it is new snow or blowing snow I'm seeing out my window. I'm thinking of getting some of Mike's narrower tires, some read snow treads & pickup some spare 16" rims.Russ