I just use Napa Heavy Duty Antifreeze, and a coolant filter, to keep SCAs in check.Purple coolant? Is that G13? What's it like being able to wipe your bum with dollar bills?
So what did you do with your truck today?
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DougBoy66
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I WISH!!! It is peakWhat's it like being able to wipe your bum with dollar bills?
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I got the un diluted and mixed it with some distilled water it was similar cost
The_Josh_Bear
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I liked Fleet Charge till I couldn't find it easily around here anymore. Now I just switch everything to Final Charge whenever it's time and haven't looked back!I WISH!!! It is peakYou must be registered for see images attachI got the un diluted and mixed it with some distilled water it was similar cost
Holy fittings, Batman! Got enough adapters on that coolant thingamajigy?
DougBoy66
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It really isn't as bad as the the picture looks one is just an adapter to go from my hi-flo airfitting to the one that came on the kit. It's pretty simple to use and it should make sure there is no air or bubbles trapped in the system
divemaster5734
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Are those projectors? Where did you source?
Thanks
Picked them up from Baja Retrofits
87-91 Ford OBS Headlight Retrofit – Store – BajaHID Retrofits
Ford F-Series 87-91 Headlight with projector Retrofit. Includes Morimoto Mini H1 V8.0 Bixenon Projector Retrofitted with Morimoto Bi Xenon Harness and 35W Hylux Ballast and Morimoto Bulbs NEW!!! Now a 3" LED Projector option is available as well Approximate turn around on this build is 6-8 weeks
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Well I'm going camping next weekend, I'll follow up with how it goes. Even in the day time it lights up the tree across the street, so thats promising. what did you end up going with?
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nelstomlinson
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Yesterday made a grocery run to Fairbanks in the ambulance. 200 mile round trip on icy roads, and the ambulance doesn't have studded tires. Each time I felt it skid a bit I slowed down, probably averaged around 45.
The Morimoto LED projector headlights are wonderful. Even on low beam I can see quite a lot.
I found that the width inside isn't quite enough to let me lay 4x8 sheets flat, so the 12 sheets of 5/8 rock had to stand on edge, leaned up against the passenger side.
The Morimoto LED projector headlights are wonderful. Even on low beam I can see quite a lot.
I found that the width inside isn't quite enough to let me lay 4x8 sheets flat, so the 12 sheets of 5/8 rock had to stand on edge, leaned up against the passenger side.
The_Josh_Bear
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Wow, good thing you had room to stand them up on edge! Even more amazing that you were able to source 5/8" sheetrock at the grocery store!
It's people like you that have to drive 200 miles round trip to the grocery store that keep me humble. I'll never complain about my 10 minute drive again!
IDIBRONCO
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It doesn't matter how fast you get there as long as you get there. That statement sure pins me as a IDI driver!
IDIBRONCO
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I didn't actually do a lot today. I picked up some more firewood to replace most of what I burned during the week. After I got home, I cleaned out the rest of the ashes from my stove and took them, along with the full ash tray that some big, stupid dummy forgot to empty, to the town dump and that's about the most of today's accomplishments. I did see the moon rising on the way home so I had to take a picture of that. You can just make it out above the right hand ditch. It was much brighter by the time that I made it to the dump. Between home and the dump, I did have to stop and help a friend who was trying to figure out his no dash/tail light problem on his '99 Dodge. I gave him a fuse. Cummins drivers anyway!
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IDIBOBS
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Boy hearing all the ice stories makes me glad is dry here. It’s been in the low 30s during the day and mid teens at night but very low humidity and no rain or fog or anything like that. But very windy 60 plus mph. Still have snow on the mountains up higher but nothing at my place. I took advantage of the lul in the wind and drove across town in the 90 crew cab and loaded up with 34 bales of hay for the horses. Got back just at sunset. Unloading and stacking hay in the hay shed at 28deg is not fun.
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rreegg
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Least bucking hay in those temps will keep ya warm? Especially if alfalfa
IDIBRONCO
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MUCH better than in triple digit temps!
Old Goat
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Shouldn`t be cold with all the fires going on in southern Calif.,
Use to drive from Santa Cruz to Tracy, Ca. to load up Alfalfa.
Would load up 66 bales on my 67 1 1/2 ton International.
Some the bales would have grass in them and they were heavier,
like 135 lbs. Just about sraighten out my hooks.
It was 70 something miles ea way, and would blow through 30 gallons of fuel. It was probably $0.35 a gallon or so.
One week end we made 5 trips and hauled in 20 tons.
This was before the hay squeezes they have today, where it picks up ea dump from the Harrow Beds and loads the big trucks.
We some times hand loaded out of the big piles and other times they had these old Chevy trucks from 47`s to 53 round fender one`s. had a boom on the back with a small Brig & Stratton connected to and old car/truck axle. Had one rope going to the Master cylinder which was to stop the brake in one Drum. Other end had one of those smooth curved drums with a rope around it connected to a big Hook., with a rope off the end of it.
Stick the hook in a bale, pull on the MC rope, would quickly pick up the bale and swing to our truck. back off the MC. Bale would drop on our truck, then he would pull on the rope off end of Hook, and drop the bale, and swing back to the next Bale.
Could load 66 Bales in about 15 min or so.
Throw on the "V" Boards, which was 2 8 ft pipes with 2 chains welded on ea end so the ropes didn`t cut into the top of the load.
Sinched it down up on top with a Come a Long and a safety chain in case the Come a Long failed. And off we went to the scales.
As I remember is was around $365 a load.
I was around 30 then, and fearless and stupid the things we did then.
Still have that old truck, like to get her up and running again, pull the 345 and throw in a R&D IDI Pumped up 7.3.
Has a 4 spd and a 3 spd Brownie. OH well, in my next life.
Was my DD till fuel got to $0.55 a gallon, couldn`t afford to feed her and all the Horses back then etc...
Like the old Cow Boy said, "Spent some of my money on Beer and Women, the rest I just wasted".
Goat
Use to drive from Santa Cruz to Tracy, Ca. to load up Alfalfa.
Would load up 66 bales on my 67 1 1/2 ton International.
Some the bales would have grass in them and they were heavier,
like 135 lbs. Just about sraighten out my hooks.
It was 70 something miles ea way, and would blow through 30 gallons of fuel. It was probably $0.35 a gallon or so.
One week end we made 5 trips and hauled in 20 tons.
This was before the hay squeezes they have today, where it picks up ea dump from the Harrow Beds and loads the big trucks.
We some times hand loaded out of the big piles and other times they had these old Chevy trucks from 47`s to 53 round fender one`s. had a boom on the back with a small Brig & Stratton connected to and old car/truck axle. Had one rope going to the Master cylinder which was to stop the brake in one Drum. Other end had one of those smooth curved drums with a rope around it connected to a big Hook., with a rope off the end of it.
Stick the hook in a bale, pull on the MC rope, would quickly pick up the bale and swing to our truck. back off the MC. Bale would drop on our truck, then he would pull on the rope off end of Hook, and drop the bale, and swing back to the next Bale.
Could load 66 Bales in about 15 min or so.
Throw on the "V" Boards, which was 2 8 ft pipes with 2 chains welded on ea end so the ropes didn`t cut into the top of the load.
Sinched it down up on top with a Come a Long and a safety chain in case the Come a Long failed. And off we went to the scales.
As I remember is was around $365 a load.
I was around 30 then, and fearless and stupid the things we did then.
Still have that old truck, like to get her up and running again, pull the 345 and throw in a R&D IDI Pumped up 7.3.
Has a 4 spd and a 3 spd Brownie. OH well, in my next life.
Was my DD till fuel got to $0.55 a gallon, couldn`t afford to feed her and all the Horses back then etc...
Like the old Cow Boy said, "Spent some of my money on Beer and Women, the rest I just wasted".
Goat
