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Traps will catch mice that get in. If they have an open route, they will keep coming. In my experience, decon works in a limited area... but have seen mice recognize the decon as food... take it, but not consume it. The problem is if they have easy routes in/out, the mice just keep feeding outdoors, never get around to eatting the decon. A friend had some machinery in a shed out back... as tight as we could get it but clearly not mouse proof... we found the base of a machine several inches deep with the decon.Steel wool. Stainless pot scrubbers. To keep the mice out you need to check every opening through the floor (and walls). Read back on my journey... Newer trailers & RVs may be better than older models. I don't know what my trailer was like when it was new... I bought it very well used & has a salvage title. (ie: been f*cked with before!) Others had silicone caulked around the propane lines. I found such large openings under the tub that I fitted wood to narrow the openings before stuffing with steel wool. I found openings under the kitchen around the drains & water supply lines, again I used wood before steel wool. I've wrapped the electical inlet cord with a pot scrubber. The present work is to close some damage in the wheel wells from blowouts. Hopefully you won't have any of that. I've used old ultrasonic repellers in the house... unsuccessfully... perhaps they were not working or NG? I'd really like them as a second line of defense. Good luck!Russ

I have the section of plastic box wedged into the wheel well. I'm still trying to jack the trailer up enough to get the wheel off so I can complete screwing it into place. Sheila has been sweeping up mouse sign & checking / removing mice from the trap line, daily. It's been several days since she found either. Maybe I am nearing the end with this sieve!

Hi & Welcome!I bought a Cummins... it came in a Dodge...

Yup!! Occasionally on a boat engine, I'd come across a rusted nut or bolt that HAD to be removed. I destroyed a lot of metric Craftsman sockets by hammering them onto the rust expanded nuts... occasionally got to the next SAE size. If all else failed, grind it off, remove the part, remove the bolt, reinstall the part with new hardware. I went through a lot of stainless steel replacement nuts & Never Sieze. #36 disc with a hard rubber backer on a disc grinder. I still own the grinder & think it still has #36 grit mounted on it!

The vacume activated Center Section Disconnect (front axle) proved troublesome. My 01.5 has it. Later trucks do not. With out the CSD, the truck motion drives the front diff all the time. There was nothing wrong with the older still way with unlocking hubs... except people had to get out (BooHoo). I think converting the truck in question to locking hubs would get the most mpg gain. If I wanted a 2WD truck, I think I'd trade for one.

Hell, I used to grind steel with 36 grit disc sander. Keep a Light touch!

I saw someone selling a over the visor shelf/rack. Unscrew visor, install unit, screw visor to shelf. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Rifle-It8482Shelf-It8482-Console/716354.uts?rid=10

I recall the hood insulation listed on the build sheet... probably came with one of the packages.

I'm not sure of the legalities of your area. I do not normally have rear seat passengers. I use a soft case on the floor of the rear quad cab, behind the driver's seat. I leave the end of the case unzipped so I can retrieve the long gun without removing the case... Standing on the ground, outside the truck... stock height 4X4... open quad door... just slide it out of the case. I have a factory optional floor bin under the back seat... not easy to get anything out of it. It would be less visible however. At this height, no one can see into the truck, let alone something on the floor. I guess this works because I only transport 1 gun also. Trips to the range have several on the floor, seat & etc.

I thought I was pretty restrained. My ex's father, was laying asphaut with his sons... came home for lunch. John Sr leans back in his recliner & proceeds to Zzzz. The & Sons go back to work.John Sr wakes up & looks out the window & notices a woodchuck sunning his self on the cord wood out back. Said woodchuck kept digging holes in John's pasture & had learned to stay out of range of the young'un's .22LRs. (John Jr was selling firewood on the side.) John Sr gets out his deer rifle... he won in a card game in deer camp... doesn't look like much, well worn used but not abused... pre-64 Winchester M70 in 30-06. A freekin tack driver. John opens the kitchen window, sets the rifle on the ledge & blows Mr Woodchuck all over the place. John Jr said he couldn't sell the top layer of wood with all the blood & guts. John Sr was pretty deaf from running dump trucks & heavy equipment all his life... I suppose he would have been after this anyway. John & I always got along, even after the divorce. My kind of guy.

Converting it to "no transfer case" is probably a lot of work & new parts as well. You could leave the driveshaft off... (cheapest)You could eventually install the hub conversion to "manual hubs" like the old 4X4s & reinstall the drive shaft. I think the manual hubs get the best mpgs.

Wife caught a mouse in the camper bathroom... blood all over the floor. I got the outter fender off. I cut a new liner from the shaped corner of that mortar tray I mentioned. It's not installed yet, just wedged in place, but the hole is now closed. She caught another mouse in the bathroom. I hope they are not still getting in. I was headed out there to work on the today, had to U turn to get a rifle... d@mn woodchuck headed for the garden. I took a stand behind the backhoe... I didn't get a shot. This house s*cks. The porch railing is in the way. By the time I get out there, Mr Woodchuck is gone. I think he has burrowed under the old horse shed. {At my ex's place... the slider looked right up the center aisle of the barn. After I had the horses out for the day, I was at the kitchen table, could see the barn rats in the barn center aisle. I piled books on the dining table for a rest, opened the sliding door (checked the glass twice), sat there with my cup of tea and Savage .22 Hornet & hand loads. No more rat problem.}

A blonde calls her boyfriend and says,"Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started." Her boyfriend asks,"What's it supposed to be when it's finished?" The blonde says,"According to the picture on the box,it's a tiger." Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle. When he gets there she shows him the puzzle spread out all over ...the table. He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resemling a tiger." He takes her hand and says, Second, I want you to relax. Let's have a cocktail, and then......" he sighed ...... "let's put all these Frosted Flakes back in the d*** box."Author unknown

It has the Windows 7 OS so should be an upgrade from my antique & beloved XP machines. Have spent all week exploring & cleaning the files up. Something went wrong & I decided (had to) to do a system restore. The system restore restored the previous owner's passwords & locked me out. I called the previous owner but could not make the password work. Spent 5 hours on it... threw in the towel. (The previous owner is a decent guy... had gone to work... could not call me back until his shift was over.) Called my computer girl... went over & spent the afternoon with her. Did a "Clean Install" (which I'd tried to do in the morning). It installs the Windows 7 from disc & overwrites the old. The computer then has to get all the updates. Spent all afternoon... it was still updating. I guess she felt bad for me, cooked me supper (and did not let her 2 big Pit Bulls eat me. (Actually they are friendly enough once they get to know you, but the real danger is they nearly knock me down / trip me. Even the one who tangled with another dog & she had to pay the other dog's vet bills. I would not want to be the one to lay a hand on her!) Sometimes, you have to know when to get real help. She was a software engineer. She thinks I got a nice computer for half what a new one would have cost... If had to pay full price, the new one would have been cheaper. Not what I planned to do today. <<< Sigh >>> More... The strange thing, she (the computer girl) was doing the same things I'd already tried (I think... it was hard to watch her flying fingers, but I saw screens going by that I remembered). But she was having no luck either. Then, in frustration, she took the Red CD install disc out of the drive & wiped it off. (I'd taken it out, looked at it, put it back.) And d***! After she did it, it worked! She was telling me what she'd done... telling me that a speck of dirt could keep a drive from reading... I'm thinking, the install CD was in a sealed envolupe until I opened it, how could it be dirty? When she noticed a ball of lint... a dust bunny... the size of a small pea. Less than a pencil eraser. On her dark top where she'd wiped the CD. It must have come from the CD drive. Background I often have to clean my desktop computer of accumulated dust. I vacume it, disconnect power before opening the case, toothbrushing, Q-tiping, vacuming inside. Eventually it will clog up again... I can tell because the fans run too much... the unit is overheating! Our house seems to make a lot of dust. (It could be me scuffing the rugs as I drag my weak leg.) The rest of the story: I noticed the new laptop had some lint in the bottom louvers. (After unplugging & removing the battery), I also opened the bottom access hatch with a jeweler's screwdriver & toothbrushed & vacumed some lint. But I didn't open the CD drive. I bet if I'd blown air through it, I would have blown that lint out. Who'd have thunk!! I continue to learn every day!! The laptop is Happily Updating itself, every update since Windows 7 was released. Just the first batch was 83 updates.

Good one!!

I bet that's it... the roll over ball.

On my old Dell Dimension 4600... It was originally on dial up. I have upgraded the ram to 2GB.I have had my old original All-In-One scanner printer... in the rear USB port. I don't print often enough these days to keep the cartridges from drying up... so I use a thumb drive to move any rare print jobs to Sheila's new printer. I have an external Wireless adaptor plugged into a front USB with an open one for that thumb drive or my external (back up) hard drive. Both the CD & DVD drives have been broke for some time (years). This is a problem if I want to add software. Media like music can be moved on an external drive. It's been on life support for some times. I plan on continueing to use this Desk Top while I learn the new laptop.

I finially managed to figure out how to get it on-line. It is way faster than my old XP. I'm just knocking around right now... I need to pickup a mouse. The memory is 3 GB. I think I did good.

"P1456-- leak detected in fuel EVAP system." Check the gas cap!! first.

My old computers are vintage 2002. Desktop C drive is about full & as much as I love XP (because I know it), I think the support has been lacking recently.So I gave $200 (cash & carry) for a Dell 1545 laptop, Windows 7 Professonal OS. Complete with charger, software discs & manual so I don't think it was hot! It powers up ok... I have not had a chance to explore it yet.I do not find laptops convienent... I'm hoping I can plugin this larger screen, keyboard, mouse... Anybody know if I can close the cover after turning it on? Maybe tomorrow I can check out what it has for hardware.Russ

He's funny...

I bought a 4" turbo back SS system off ebay. A universal kit, it came with a few large sections and several shorter to accommidate different truck lengths, all SS clamps, welded on hangers, oversize bright exhaust tip. (The muffler & tip were the better SS alloy & polished light.) The pipe mates with the OEM turbo flange, expands in the first inch. The "muffler" with the package is "straight through" really no muffler at all. The upgrade in size... I think OEM is 3.5 at the turbo and less beyond the muffler... so going 4" full length is a decent upgrade. The SS is so it doesn't rot out like the OEM. Next time in the shop, I'm adding a SS swirl resonator to tone down the drone when running heavy. I bought a k&n drop in at the local NAPA auto parts... saw no improvement with stock truck. I disgarded the k&n after 10,000. Initially I put in an improved drop in dry filter. At least I have clean air going in. I don't know what k&n you are running but most do not feel they filter adequately for a turbo diesel.

I used self drilling screws (to the ribs) to reattach the under hood insulation. However, in the end, I removed the underhood insulation and the cowl air box... because it was great mouse habitat! Each section I ripped out, I was greeted with a shower of acorns. I didn't notice any noise difference from removing the hood insulation... if there was any, it would only be with the windows down! However, the cowel box insulation removal did make the truck louder.

Back in the days before cell phones... an IDIOT (He's dead now so no point in describing further) stood IN MY DRIVEWAY and threatened to shoot me. (He did not like our purchase of the lot next door & building a house. If he had wanted his privacy that bad HE could have bought the property but he didn't.) Since I'd had previous run ins with this person, I has carrying a tiny pocket recorder in my shirt. I whipped it out, turned it on & held it up at face level. He proceeded to repeat the threat. (The ex-cop in me wanted to get my sidearm out of the safe but I didn't.) Unknown to me, my wife had gone in the house & called the State Police who cover out area. In due course, the Trooper shows up & I play the tape for him. Trooper says "Do you want me to arrest him now?" I said "NO, but I don't want him on my property again". Trooper paid him a visit. I stayed off his property, he stayed off ours. Life is good.

It's not like he parked even near her... He was in a parking space, she was not. I think I would have taken her plate number & called the cops. People need to mind their own business. I own a truck because I NEED a truck... I don't see that it's anybody's business. And if I pull in off the street, yes, I'm going to idle it until the turbo cools down.Oh, yes, one has no right to sit in privacy in a parking lot unless one owns the property. Not content to make an ___ of herself once, she does it twice. I hope others see what a piece of trash she is. (Reminds me of Roseanne!)