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RE: Bait&Switch
I agree that it doesn't even meet the standards for "lost leader" advertising. Advertising a very low - minimal profit - price on something you have to get folks into the store to hopefully spend additional money on other items. They apprently never had the item advertised. That's not kosher at all.
To the poster who mentioned the vehicle advertisement as an example: you can indeed purchase the exact depicted item if you select the appropriate options list in the particular state or country where the item was designed or built for.
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BruceStarkey
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03/18/10 10:18am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Replacing Truck Liner
I personally would not buy a used pick-up that had a drop-in bed-liner already installed unless the owner was willing to pull it out for me to view underneath. They are the worst rust inducing additon to any truck! All the wet crud that gets trapped under those things is a time bomb disaster.
I also recommend the Line-X and will suggest you go with the up over the rail install so the top edge of your bed rail is protected from scratches and dings from normal usage.
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BruceStarkey
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03/18/10 10:07am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: First 5th wheel- What things will I need to get started?
KKent: All are giving good advice, but like Agbat has suggested, why not save a bunch and take a trip to the campground with the essentials only then observe what others are using for that particular park. Here's why I say this:
Water pressure regulator referred to is usually a simple "restrictor" and not a regulator at all. It will still allow pressure to build when sitting idle. A proper Watts gauge equipped and adjustable brass regulator is a costly first time expense when perhaps it's not really needed for your first trip. Those others are wasted money.
Surge protector: Sure it's a good thing to have, but, with time you may find a pwer management system to be a better investment. Some parks suffer from 'low voltage' power supply and you may encounter this far more than the surge situation and a good transformer type of protector will boost/control/alarm/isolate from either problem. Your investment in a surge protector now will be rendered useless if you later find you need the better system due to the parks you're staying in.
Levelling boards: cheap boards in a width to support the entire width of the tire will suffice for first time out.
I make these suggestions with the observation that you will be going to the best learning academy there is; a trailer park. You can walk the park at your leisure and observe first hand what others are using/doing and after seeing something you think is a great idea, you walk past another site where you see an even better idea.
My final advice is to worry less about being completely prepared for your first trip and more about following the parking and set-up protocols that are workable for you and your significant other while resisting the urge to do everything in a hurried manner to avoid looking like a "newbie". Take your time and resist distractions by well meaning onlookers until AFTER you're completely settled into your new retreat. Good luck and enjoy.
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BruceStarkey
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03/18/10 09:54am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Alright Already
Interesting take on this for us as we've enjoyed our first year back in Florida so much, after having spent the last 5 in Yuma, that we've bought a sticks and bricks here in Lakeland. Can't wait for the summer to pass now so we can come down for another shot of fun-in-the-"whatever". Haaar!
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BruceStarkey
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03/17/10 12:39pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Best Exhaust brake
Very interesting reading Steve. A wealth of information contained in just two posts.
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BruceStarkey
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03/17/10 09:10am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: 2WD vs 4WD in Snow
cinker: I've lived the better part of my life 30KM's north of you and my whole life in Ontario and I've driven just about everything you can name in all seasons. Two of the better vehicles for me in the snow were a couple of 1/2 ton, 2wd pick-ups. Very early on I learned to load the beds up with 'chicken grit' in boxes built for the purpose that would sit behind the rear fenders and stay outside the width of the between-the-wheel-wells floor of the bed.
Before they started actively policing the road closures, we would think nothing of merrily firing up our old 67 GMC 3-on-the tree and enter onto Hwy 6 after a heavy snowfall and drive to work only learning after driving through drifts without meeting a plow or other traffic and arriving at work that the highway had been closed to ALL traffic, including the plows.
Later years we used to bank our vacation weeks and saddle up to the 36 triple slide fiver with our 02, 4X4 Duramax and head to Florida for 6 weeks every christmas and that would involve towing over snow, ice and any manner of******to get out of Canada while never once using 4 wheel drive. Driving adjustments need to be made as they would for any adverse condition but just let the idiots, in their zeal to impress you with speed, pass on by and resist the urge to wave at them as you drive past them with your rig as they are trying to climb out the windows of their cars/suv's/and yes, even the vaunted 4X4's, buried up to their door handles in the median.
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BruceStarkey
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03/17/10 08:48am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: ALERT!!! HUGE TOYOTA RECALL!!!!!!
Hey; after being asked to testify in front of a congressional committee and having your nuts roasted for not reporting on a timely basis and then also having the balloon floated that the NTSB may not have acted in an aggressive enough fashion; who can blame them for reporting every little "loose nut' issue to perhaps recover some sanity in the system by showing everyone the other side of the coin; ergo: you want reportage; O.K. we'll give you reportage!
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BruceStarkey
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03/17/10 08:14am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Foamy Gear Oil
Opinion only here but from navy days of maintaining huge Vicker's 35,000 to 300 RPM reduction gear boxes, it was my experience that higher temps than the oil was designed for and moisture intrusion were the two primary causes of foaming. In your case I would suspect the occurance of a normal temperature range upon cooling down drawing in humidified air via the vent and this simply allowing for a little foam to occur - NORMAL. That small amount of moisture will evaporate off and expell itself via that same vent through heat from towing or long runs.
Now, if you have towed your boat a few hundred miles and then backed down a launch ramp far enough to bury that vent which would create a rapid cool down of the pumpkin, and subsequent vacuum created, sucking in a load of water through that vent, well, all bets are off, especially if you've done this a number of times.
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BruceStarkey
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03/17/10 07:41am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: 3500 SRW or 3500 DRW
simdrtfan: Congrats on your decision and acquistion. In spite of everything to the negative about duallies; just because they're a minority group in the parking lots, and even though those business's that cater to folks who will very likely use a truck to carry stuff home (Lowes, Home Depot etc.,) but paint their parking lines to fit honda civic's, is no reason to feel discriminated against, Haaar!
I usually end up parking further away due to my 25' overall length and my bike barn side door being 52" wide is where I would carry 4x8 sheets of ply or other large items of purchase, but, cannot begin to count the number of times I've returned to the truck way out there only to find someone has parked there SUV right up close and personal to my truck. In those instances I simply move the truck to a position for loading that will make it obvious to a returning owner of the SUV just how inconsiderate he was.
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BruceStarkey
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03/17/10 07:18am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: 3500 SRW or 3500 DRW
I guess I'll chime in with: It shouldn't matter a rat's patooty in making your decision: the ratio of driving around town to driving while hooked to a reasonably heavy trailer!
If you intend to tow a heavier trailer the duals are better case closed. Why does a compromise on the toughest part of the job your truck will be asked to perform seem sensible because you also want to have convenience for the drive thru's?
I equate this to the framer who buys a 12 oz. hammer because he's going to have the thing clipped to his belt all day; wassssup? Convenience vs performance; a no brainer.
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BruceStarkey
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03/15/10 07:12pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: 3/4 ton truck and mobile suites?
Keith: How much he lied to you is easy to figure. Mobile Suites use a 15" stacked frame using 3 sections of square tubing to achieve strength = heavy.
Mobile Suites establish their dry weights without any options or additions including batteries and full 80lbs of propane. You didn't say if it had a washer dryer set, if so - it's way forward of the axles. The SB3 floorplan has an extended width bedroom slideout, more steel = heavy. Does it have the King bed with the hydraulic raising head portion, if so, that entire underbed construction is square tube steel = heavy.
My unit pictured below is an 05 38RL3 with the narrower bedroom slideout and a combo washer/dryer so therefore may be lighter than yours and it puts over 3400lbs onto my truck.
DRV doesn't engage directly in obfuscating the facts as when I talked with the factory rep prior to purchasing mine, his first question was "what truck do you have"? Dealer salespeople are another animal entirely! There is just too much reliance on people buying these things exercising due diligence and performing in-depth research.
My opinion only but, all manufacturer's should be required to weigh each and every rig as it leaves the factory with all options installed and publish that weight where it is easily viewed somewhere on the individual trailer.
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BruceStarkey
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03/15/10 06:49pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Some people do not like snowbirds
Being a "guest" anywhere requires modifying your normal at home behaviour where everything is taken for granted and very customary. I've found wherever we go that injecting a little humour into someone's otherwise trying day can work wonders for smoothing the bumps.
I know that Texas has a reputation for actually verbalizing the concept of the economy getting a boost whenever the snowbirds are around but other locations do appreciate it with most folks everywhere just expressing a little chagrin at their daily commute being longer due to more traffic. I view that as normal in todays society where we are used to complaining when inconvenienced and short on appreciation for all the good in our lives.
We are winding down the stay in our winter destination in Florida and have had nothing if not excellant treatment. We have spent the last 6 winters in Yuma and I have to say Florida has been wonderful, aside from the weather that is.
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BruceStarkey
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03/14/10 07:17pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: ALCAN-Canada & Firearms-Gravel Pits
I understand the point being made but, can also anticipate that if those Canadians who would desire to carry or transport a gun for whatever reason within the confines of Canada were prohibited from doing so as a rule only to find out our gov't agencies have been allowing foreign visitors to do so, would be understandably P'OD.
It would certainly be against the grain for any law abiding citizens, resident or visitor, to be allowed to do something that only our resident thugs seem to be able to do with impugnity.
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BruceStarkey
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03/13/10 11:23am |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: ALCAN-Canada & Firearms-Gravel Pits
I'm skeptical as well about the ability to bring a handgun across the border in any fashion, over four inch barrle or not. Owning a hand gun in Ontario with all of the proper licensing requires you to have documentation provided by your local police dept. that will allow you on a "one time basis" only, to transport that handgun from your gun club to your residence, with trigger lock in place and preferrably in a dismantled state. No ammunition can be transported at same time and you had better not be caught anywhere off a direct route from your club to your home with that gun anywhere in your car; EVEN LOCKED IN YOUR TRUNK. Same scenario exists if you need to take your gun to your gunsmith for a "tune-up/repair".
It is my understanding that handgun owners in Canada, as a rule, simply maintain a lock box at their shooting clubs and those individuals who have permission to carry are VERY few and far between indeed.
I can't imagine the rules for visitors being any less restrictive than for our citizens but all of this is predicated on my understanding of the rules being correct.
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BruceStarkey
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03/13/10 08:19am |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Why not put the Toyota in neutral?
They're building these things for a generation of folks who just love the electronic dependancy and that includes the (on average only) younger folks of the North American continent. TPS's -throttle position sensors, have been around for years and are used on virtually every class 8 semi rig on the road today. Using them in concert with an ECM that totally isolates manual control of ignition, transmission and wimpy brakes may not be the thing to do though!
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BruceStarkey
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03/10/10 06:12am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Are you from Louisiana
I love that state! If ever there was a state that embodies all that is fine about the southern culture and hospitality, we've experienced it all when visiting there.
'Acadian' as expelled French Canadians from the eastern provinces of Canada came south to the Louisianna area, where the French language was also prevalent and accepted, to settle and the Acadian was shortened to 'Cajun'.
The "lunch" thing is purely a North American invention with the rest of the english speaking world adhereing to the older formal dinner and supper names for afternoon repasts.
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BruceStarkey
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03/10/10 05:50am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Computer Chip on a Used Truck - Anything to Worry About?
Thanks Foosh1 and Dale S wasn't aware that there had been more (later) legislation enacted regarding mod's and the point of lawyer involvment is also one I hadn't considered. Those are two more good reasons to avoid anything that has been chipped.
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BruceStarkey
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03/10/10 05:23am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Computer Chip on a Used Truck - Anything to Worry About?
I believe it's the 'Magnusson Moss' act that PREVENTS a dealer from invalidating warranty UNLESS he can prove that the modification was directly resposible for the failure so warranty would not be my concern. However, buying any used truck brings risks as they are often used hard and if it already has been chipped, that's basicly the same as the previous owner writing a declaration to you that he was dissatisfied with the available stock power and wanted more! Quarter mile passes for brewski's or simply impressing the kids in their Honda Civics at the stop lights, either way, not a good thing.
I'd say "nope" to him.
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BruceStarkey
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03/09/10 05:10pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: How fast do you drive?
I run at 62-67 in tenth and with the rear 3:08's that puts me at 1420 RPM's. With 2250 available RPM's I guess I could run at over 90 if I wanted to really "show off" but will stick with the mid-sixties for safety and tire reliability. I run "H" rated tires on my fiver but have had one "shed-a-tread" and the damage that does is unbelievable. Speed equates to heat and tires HATE heat!
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BruceStarkey
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03/09/10 04:52pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Best vaccume for 5th wheel
We use a Hoover Flair bagless and love the thing with it;s articualting small power-head and also have a 15.6V Dirt Devil wet & dry cordless for occasional spill.
Haven't used the Dometic central vac after the first time we used the thing as it's a major PITA!
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BruceStarkey
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03/08/10 06:45am |
Fifth-Wheels
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