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I haven't followed up on this... I'm down sick. Bad cold or maybe flu? I just have to survive this. Interesting that the same bulbs are used.

Be sure to get their determination in writing. I sounds totally bogus to me. Get out the waders cause the BS is getting deep in here! With the costs involved, unless they get enlightened quick, I see a law suit coming.

Rear discs began with 2001.5 because my 2500 has them.

Man, you must like living in the dog house!

I didn't waste my money on an outerwares... not that they aren't nice but the BHAF has a wire mesh to keep the mice from damaging it. The same mice that trashed all my under hood insulation... would destroy it.

Previous snows had melted off. Rhode Island has a lot of salt in the air, Gulf Stream warms from the Sea, so it's usually pretty temporate for New England... though we can get buried but good. We got 9-10 inches in our yard. We have some elevation & as far away from the coast as anywhere in this state. The most snow total in our state was 12". Thanks for the Well Wishes, MMom! I'm trying to clean up from the Castle building project and puttering on my next build. I'm reworking some LiFePO4 battery packs for my new mobility scooter... and reworking to better solder-on connectors. The OEM battery packs were Lithiom Ion (more compact, 4X the cost, a tendency to catch fire) with cheapo crimped on terninals so I managed to buy my unit w/o batteries. All these cells seem to be made in China. I just received my China shipments.

Yes, today is our anniversary. The truck was my Chevy C30 (2 WD), Camper Special, built 454. I forget the tire size... old school mud & snow radials on 16.5 rims. Scamper Camper. This spring time picture seems to be only one I can find of the 2 together. If you look close, you can see the paddock fence under the camper nose. My dog & horse moved in a year before I was allowed to. I think the weight of the camper on the hitch made it bite better. Wife's out plowing with the ATV now... we measured 9-10 inches of heavy wet snow this morning.

snowing a blizzard out there. Just as it was 23 years ago. I remember it because we were married on the 30th. The rehearsal didn't happen, nor the dinner. In the morning, my bride & her MOH used her 4X4 to get to the church... eventually our families arrived. The caterer was wrecked on the way to the church.I'd been staying in a camper, down the street from her house (she had young kids). The pipes in the camper kept freezing. The campground owner thought he was going to charge me for keeping the camper all winter. I had planks under the tires & the camper off the jacks. Jan 1 I locked the 5th wheel on it & pulled it out through over a foot of unbroken snow... came right out. Parked it next to the horse shed at the Management Area Caretaker's house (where she was living.)

I actually thought my back up lights were pretty good until they weren't. I've used 'tuner cleaner' plenty on electronics but think the results are short lived. I think the chemical cleaner allows contacts to oxidize quickly. With trailer plugs, I use an old ignition file & emery paper. I think with this I'll try scotch pad pieces & that file first. I don't know if some dielectric grease would be good or bad.Still snowing...

Backing out of Dear Daughter's over Christmas... noticed lack of back up lights. (Driver's side out, passenger's came on... though it was still pretty dark backing out of her driveway.) I have a whole bin of bulbs... nope, not the right type. Off to the store I go. I buy # 3156... thinking single function backup lamps would be single filament. The lamps that came out are dual filament # 3157s. Well, I'd grabbed some spare # 3157s at the store, off the next peg, so I stuck them in... but I'm still scratching my head... Are these normally # 3157s or # 3156s? I'm trying to test the removed bulbs... look good... but it's like trying to hang onto a greased eel. (And, yes, again my bad fingers are a problem.) Thanks guys!I managed to test the old bulbs with my multi-meter... both filments test good in both bulbs Sooo I'm guessing that I have dirty sockets. It's snowing hard out there now... will check when it's not.

Sorry, I don't have one. I backed into obstructions below tailgate height. Once on each side. Replaced both taillights... bent bumper on the right & dented the lower quarter. Total bummer. I feel your pain. Oh, yeah, I cleaned the tie down out of the rear stake pocket, dented the top of the fender... hooked the gooseneck on a steep hill with a turn. D*mn.

The heater could be blocked with mouse nest. Have you dropped the fan motor, in the passenger's footwell. only 3 screws as I recall. In the truck, you can block small critters from the cowel area by shoving steel wool (I used SS pot scrubber) up behind the hood hinges where the cowel drain is. It will still drain but keeps critters out. After all that, my coupler was not broke either. It is was, I'd turn a sleeve on my lathe & use a vice to press it over the coupler. I've had plastic handles crack on shut offs in my camper... I couldn't get direct replacement valves... so I repaired the coupler on the handle & still working fine.

Glad you like the Castle project. MS is highly individual... I'm blessed that I can still drive & walk a little with something to lean on. I guess I'm in denial quite a bit. I get ideas & want to do them. Everything takes a lot longer because I must figure ways to work around my limitation which often requires extra steps. There were a lot of dropped screws & bad words that I'm glad little ears didn't hear.

I bought the Heater Treater part & instructions. I will not re-orientate if you lose the orientation & put the motor in backwards. The instructions from the say to find the nub on the bottom gear & position it at the edge of the gear over it. Then install the coupler & the assembly. The chip will learn the rest from there. When I removed the assembly, I should have taken it to a bench to disassemble as the motor can fall right out, losing the orientation. The motor will fit reversed but not work correctly as I found out first hand. Since there is no mark on the little stepper motor, I would be smart... smarter than I was... to carefull open it on the bench & use a marker to differentate the motor.

The Princess's Castle is 4+ feet tall... Some of the dolls are 12". The tops of the towers are set down 5", so there are 4 levels of shelves.

I thought all Princess's lived in castles... Sonotubes used for pouring concrete footings... become castle towers... don't you see it? A pine board... Outside for more spray paint Christmas Eve Day Doors installed... Wet paint Christmas Eve to be continued...

I used to have nice bronze twist fuel shutoff valves around. Never thought to install them in the truck. They're common in marine installations for controling tanks. With gas marine engines, I installed them on either side of the fuel separator/filters, for just that purpose.

I put on a "just a year old" used AD150 off CF, and have been happily running it 2 more years...

It takes people a while to build trust... I know in our boat service marina, that trust was hard earned but we always treated people right. The new owners swept away 17 years of goodwill overnight. Screwed over loyal customers. Once the trust is broken... built up over years... it takes forever to recover it, if you even can. Your reputation is everything. In the case of AD/Raptor, everything is riding on our lift pump. These trucks are our babies... no room for products which don't stand up.

I appreciate the thoughts! Yes, I was coughing up nasty stuff & if it had not cleared, I'd be off to the doctor. My symptoms seem to have cleared up with a day of coughing up crap... still a sinus drainage problem lingering. I'm using a nettie pot to flush & that seems to be helping the drainage. I seem to have burned off what ever was in the heater, I can't take the car out of service this week. (With only one hand, I can get the heater motor out, remove debris by hand, vacume up inside again... but I can't hold the motor up & start the screws by myself.) I left the heat with no airflow / fan, let the heater get hot & drove with windows open for cross ventilation & the problem seems to have stabilized as far as the car. I'm back to running the heater on the floor but not defrost or top vents which blow in my face. I need to pull the cowel plastic & fix the screen there, so this can not happen again.

An armed society is a polite society! (Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon)

I will give up my semi-autos when those who guard the President give up theirs. My life is worth as much as HIS! I believe the Second Amendment means what is says. If ever there was a need for young Americans to be familiar marksmen with a AR15 it is now. Instructors from our club, National Match competitors all (and former service members) volunteered at the start of Desert Storm and over a long weekend retrained several hundred deploying service members from Ft Devens, useing our club range and members and club owned semi-auto weapons. (They did bring a truck load of GI ammo to use.)Several club members started as Juniors came up through the program, which our club sponsers, and won full scholarships to US service academies.

WTF? I'll keep my 5.9 with it's VP44. You are not showing me anything (good) with the 6.7.

I honestly don't think there's a conspiracy... but these do gooders don't get it that "gun free zones" are attractive targets for nuts. The Movie Theater attacker passed up several closer to attack innocents where it seemed a longer response time. I don't like what I'm hearing. I believe that we will have Gun Control shoved where the sun doesn't shine. There's just too much momentium. I hope that we will have a long memory and those who have this wrong idea, no longer represent us.Sure we can harden the schools more, though the school that was attacked had some of the best. But not bullet proof glass. Who'd have thought? What is happening here is Police are now in every school. High schools often have an assigned officer... If the government destroyed every civilian gun... and prevented smuggling them in from overseas... the evil people of the world will just use dynamite, propane, fertilizer... Line police do not favor gun control... I don't know any cop who does not leave a gun at home with his competant spouce... civilian guns! I think that there should be "a gun" in every school... a Police Officer, an armed guard, a Principal/administrator appointed as Special Officer. My High School had a Sp. Off. so many years ago. If it were a Principal / VP a locked box could be bolted inside their office. I recall from my Police Training (again many years ago) some high risk stings where store fronts were built with bullet proof counters & gun ports for back up officers. Schools deserve nothing less! Previous tragidies have resulted in better Police tactics... new, active shooter drills include defacto squads making entry as quickly as possible since it seems the cowards who perpitrate these acts... never intend to leave alive... but don't want any pain & will end it at the first counter action. These new techniques are always reactive after previous plans have failed. But charging into gun fire bare handed only works in movies... John Wayne need not apply! A simple drill will quickly identify cover points & fields of fire. It will seem miracious... shooters will avoid schools if they believe they'll meet resistance... because they seek out other softer targets. My Son-in-law is African, from Cote d'bois... a country with years of civiil wars, elections which were ignored without armed intervention. For all of the USA amosity... our transition of power is remarkable. Perhaps unique in the world. We've not had much luck exporting our peaceful traditions... But unique in our Liberty... is the responsibility... if we choose to own firearms...

I wonder if the agent will risk committing insurance fraud on something this well documented. The agent probably doesn't know the time line & the sleazy driver probably is trying / hoping to confuse things by taking the ambulance ride.