Heck of an ice storm
From : denny
Q: on sun 09 jan 2005 022235 gmt denny wddodge@woh.rr.com wrote finally got the electric back after being off since wednesday. we got about 3/4 of ice that brought down every piece of wood more that 7 ft off the ground followed by about 6 in of snow two days later. talk about a friggen mess. denny wow that sounds nasty. ice storms are the worst. we get some pretty bad ones but they dont last more than a day around here before it warms up. good luck hope all turns out ok for you. .
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From : roy
i have the same problem too!!! also mine sits for 20 minutes running before i leave work for home um sounds like a serious problem. i know my fuel economy dropped when i started leaving my truck running overnight and for the life of me i cant seem to figure what has caused this. has anyone else corrolated a direct relationship between use of thier block heater and dramaticilly higher electric bills just as cold last month but bill was much lower. and i was away this month i plugged in the ol gal 2 x on exceptionally cold mornings and this month my bill was about double. on sat 08 jan 2005 191426 gmt goat fake@not-real.net wrote the block heater probably draws around 800 watts or so. assuming 800 watts for 8 hours that would be 6.4 kw & assuming you are paying 8 cents for every kwh that would be $.51 for every 8 hours of use. goat so doing the math bob used the block heater two nights. goat figured that cost $1.02 cents. bob says he electric bill was double what it usually is. id sure like to have a $2.04 electric bill for a month! ;- greg is he talking about december did he have christmas lights on at his house inside or out was it cold enough for his heat to come on more often and does his heat and / or hot water use electricity in some way i doubt that any engine heater could double anyones electric bill in two days unless like you say his bill is normally a few dollars a month. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : jerry
has anyone else corrolated a direct relationship between use of thier block heater and dramaticilly higher electric bills just as cold last month but bill was much lower. and i was away this month i plugged in the ol gal 2 x on exceptionally cold mornings and this month my bill was about double. well it isnt that hard to figure out. block heaters are about 1500 watts im dont know what is in the dodge but the ones i have installed in other trucks are 1500 or 1800. battery blankets are usually 1500 watts. take 1500 watts x number of hours it is plugged in each night x number of nights you plug it in each month. this will give you total watts consumed. divide by 1000 to conver to kw and multiply that by the kw rate you pay for electricity. the easiest way to cut down on cost is to get an outdoor timer. scott .
From : jerry
nope no christmas lights on to speak of and the ones that were on are battery operated window lights. has anyone else corrolated a direct relationship between use of thier block heater and dramaticilly higher electric bills just as cold last month but bill was much lower. and i was away this month i plugged in the ol gal 2 x on exceptionally cold mornings and this month my bill was about double. on sat 08 jan 2005 191426 gmt goat fake@not-real.net wrote the block heater probably draws around 800 watts or so. assuming 800 watts for 8 hours that would be 6.4 kw & assuming you are paying 8 cents for every kwh that would be $.51 for every 8 hours of use. goat so doing the math bob used the block heater two nights. goat figured that cost $1.02 cents. bob says he electric bill was double what it usually is. id sure like to have a $2.04 electric bill for a month! ;- greg is he talking about december did he have christmas lights on at his house inside or out was it cold enough for his heat to come on more often and does his heat and / or hot water use electricity in some way i doubt that any engine heater could double anyones electric bill in two days unless like you say his bill is normally a few dollars a month. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : theguy
denny wrote finally got the electric back after being off since wednesday. we got about 3/4 of ice that brought down every piece of wood more that 7 ft off the ground followed by about 6 in of snow two days later. talk about a friggen mess. denny i feel your pain. went through one here christmas of 2000. eleven days without power or heat. assholes gouged us to death for kerosene to use in the heaters. had a generator but getting out for gas was a pain in the ass. nothing like hearing exploding trees all around you at night while wondering if the next one was coming through the roof and when you have several 70 foot trees around you it can keep you on your toes. watch out for soft ground as ice can soften the ground up over a foot deep and you dont realize it until you drive or rather attempt to drive on it. jerry .
From : tom lawrence
i have been told that i could install the coil spring from a 2500 into my 1500 any thoughts or suggestions.my trucks a 98 the other springs are out of a 2000 thanks ledhead --- outgoing mail is certified virus free. checked by avg anti-virus system http//www.grisoft.com. version 6.0.822 / virus database 560 - release date 12/22/2004 .
From : tom lawrence
fittings or such. am i looking at a big bucks shop job here or is this something i can tear into and fix i have fair mechanical ability and average tools but i have never torn into automatic hubs and stuff. first you need to determine whether its the hub bearings or the u-joints that are worn and making the noise. ... tom thanks for the great response! you must write repair manuals for a living. i think ill give the repair a try myself based on your instructions. if i get in trouble my son lives next door g. paul johnson .
From : beekeep
recently i noticed when driving in sand on the beach that my 95 ram 2500 4wd 95000 miles was making a squeaking sound from the front end especially when turning and/or accelerating. later i noticed that it was making a rubbing sound 2wd dry pavement when turning. and the hubs are slow to engage or disengage when the shift lever is put in 4wd 50 -75 feet of moving before the light comes on or goes off. i guess the u-joints at the wheels must be dry or worn out. i cant find any kind of grease fittings or such. am i looking at a big bucks shop job here or is this something i can tear into and fix i have fair mechanical ability and average tools but i have never torn into automatic hubs and stuff. paul johnson .
From : tbone
denny wrote finally got the electric back after being off since wednesday. we got about 3/4 of ice that brought down every piece of wood more that 7 ft off the ground followed by about 6 in of snow two days later. talk about a friggen mess. denny i feel your pain. went through one here christmas of 2000. eleven days without power or heat. assholes gouged us to death for kerosene to use in the heaters. had a generator but getting out for gas was a pain in the ass. nothing like hearing exploding trees all around you at night while wondering if the next one was coming through the roof and when you have several 70 foot trees around you it can keep you on your toes. watch out for soft ground as ice can soften the ground up over a foot deep and you dont realize it until you drive or rather attempt to drive on it. jerry the wife and i were talking about a generator. yes it would have come in handy but do i really want to spend $600-$1000 to get one get it wired up and then it set there for years till its needed i can see the arguments either way but i dont know what im going to do yet. denny .
From : roy
so..... who pissed you off are you bitching about the spammers scott. ill bet you couldnt pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel. you are a canker. a sore that wont go away. you are a fiend and a sniveling back-boneless coward and you have bad breath. you are degenerate noxious and depraved. i feel debased just for knowing you exist. i despise everything about you. you are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagous cloacal parasitic pond scum. and i wish you would go away. youre a putrescent mass a walking vomit. you are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. you are a jerk a cad a weasel. your life is a monument to stupidity. you are a stench a revulsion a putrefaction a big suck on a sour lemon with a lime twist. you are a bleating foal a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. an insensate blinking calf meaningful to nobody abandoned by the puke-drooling giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in regret for what they had done. i will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. you are a monster an ogre a malformation. i barf at the very thought of you. you have all the appeal of a paper cut. lepers avoid you. you are vile worthless less than nothing. you are a weed a fungus a ferment the dregs of this earth. and did i mention you smell if you arent an idiot you made a world-class effort at simulating one. try to edit your writing of poorly thought-out material before attempting to impress us with your insight. the evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers but they will be able to access it more rapidly. you snail-skulled little twit. would that a hawk pick you up drive its beak into your brain and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. may you choke on the queasy convulsing nausea of your own trite foolish beliefs. you are weary stale flat and unprofitable. you are grimy squalid nasty and profane. you are foul and disgusting. youre a fool an ignoramus. monkeys look down on you and laugh. even your own hand refuses autoeroticism. you are unreservedly pathetic starved for attention and lost in a land that reality forgot. and what meaning do you expect your delusional self-important statements of unknowing inexperienced opinion to have with us what fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat spinning rabidly in a circle waiting for the bite of the snake you are a waste of flesh. you have no rhythm. you are ridiculous and obnoxious. you are the moral equivalent of a leech. you are a living emptiness a meaningless void. you are sour and senile. you are a disease you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meat slapper. on a good day youre a half-wit. you remind me of drool. you are deficient in all that lends character. you have the personality of wallpaper. you are dank and filthy. you are asinine and benighted. you are the source of all unpleasantness. you spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. you are not even worth an original flame. you may join your intellectual peers in my twit filter. this means that i find the lack of intelligent content in your posts so embarrassingly painful that i can no longer tolerate such lackwit effrontery. you smarmy lagerlout git. you bloody woofter sod. bugger off pillock. you grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. you clouted boggish foot-licking twit. you dankish clack-dish plonker. you gormless crook-pated tosser. you churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. you cockered bum-bailey poofter. you craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. you gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. you dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. i cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. i mean rock-hard stupid. dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. you are trans-stupid stupid. meta-stupid. stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. singularity stupid. blazing hot mid-day sun on mercury stupid. you emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. quasar stupid. your writing has to be a troll. nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. im sorry. i cant go on. this is an epiphany of stupid for me. af
From : denny
lowerlink@webtv.net writes cold climate also contributes to poor mpgsas cold sensor readings richens mixtureplus any warmup timebut all in allthe 5.2-5.9 fuel milage just sucks. too much weight + too much wind resistance + too tall of a screw .
From : denny
denny wrote finally got the electric back after being off since wednesday. we got about 3/4 of ice that brought down every piece of wood more that 7 ft off the ground followed by about 6 in of snow two days later. talk about a friggen mess. denny i feel your pain. went through one here christmas of 2000. eleven days without power or heat. assholes gouged us to death for kerosene to use in the heaters. had a generator but getting out for gas was a pain in the ass. nothing like hearing exploding trees all around you at night while wondering if the next one was coming through the roof and when you have several 70 foot trees around you it can keep you on your toes. watch out for soft ground as ice can soften the ground up over a foot deep and you dont realize it until you drive or rather attempt to drive on it. jerry the wife and i were talking about a generator. yes it would have come in handy but do i really want to spend $600-$1000 to get one get it wired up and then it set there for years till its needed i can see the arguments either way but i dont know what im going to do yet. denny at the other house i put in a 6 circuit transfer switch for the gen. i used it twice in 15 years. at this house im going to use a couple of quad boxs on extension cords and be done with it. nope i havent used it much but when i needed it it was nice to have. kinda like insurance you pray you never need it.......... roy .