Rusty Van
From : clyde
Q: like a wide assed rabbit attacks a guy when hes injured.g wait a minute! thats my rule good shot fur face!! gbmfg gotta take the shot when it presents itself... got snow got about two inches and yer wife says thats about it.bfg fucker!!!!! gbmfg what was that other rule....never let friendship stand in the way of a good cheap shot yup that was it. bfg roy denny .
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From : rachel easson
nice garage. how big is that thing and btw you suck!!! - -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving a friend of mine has one. 15k lift cost him around 4k to put it in i found it to be a quality piece of equipment. ymmv not by much... http//home.earthlink.net/tlawren349/garage/fourpostlift-2.jpg thats my 15k 4-post lift. long wheel base 22 wide ramps dually-friendly. heres how i brought it home from the freight dock http//home.earthlink.net/tlawrence51/lift/lift1.jpg http//home.earthlink.net/tlawren349/garage/twopostlift-2.jpg thats my 10k two-post lift. i got that one first. a buddy and i unloaded that one by hand off of a semi that delivered it. not a lot of fun. it was handy to have to unload the 4-poster from the trailer... i backed the trailer into the bay and used the lift arms of the two-post lift to take components off the trailer - couple of pieces at a time. the two-post lift was fairly easy to install with just two people and basic tools a rotary hammer would be helpful for drilling the concrete for the anchors - i did it with my little 24v hammer drill but it took a while. the only heavy lifting is lifting the columns upright - i was able to do that myself probably should have two people for safety but i was impatient. the four-post lift needs some type of machinery - forklift backhoe something that can lift 800lbs. about 8 feet. thats the main beam with hydraulic cylinder that spans the columns. its about 14 long. we did it with a combination of an engine hoist a tranny jack and some 6x6 blocks. i dont recommend that for anyone else... it was decidedly unsafe. the tracks weigh close to 1000lbs. each but they can be moved around on some moving dollies. oh yeah - the four post lift needs 16 holes drilled in the concrete to anchor it. i rented a rotary hammer for that after burning up the motor in my little hammer drill on the 2nd hole amazing how much harder concrete is with its 2 years old vs. 1 month .
From : rachel easson
it is not a matter of driving skill it is a matter physical size and it not fitting. my truck just fits into my garage length wise and it is a standard cab long bed. a crew cab long bed would not fit and a mega-cab long bed would be almost two feet longer than that. i can see how much farther my truck sticks out in a parking space than many of the cars around it and my buddies crew cabs stick out even farther. this mega-cab would stick out another two feet beyond the length of a crew cab long bed and would probably get its nose or tail clipped by other vehicles unless you parked it out in the boondocks taking up two spaces and the turning radius would probably suck as well. then you could add to that the possible negative public opinion of such a huge unnecessary vehicle when we are already in trouble with our current fuel consumption that could kill sales and their investment in this new model which may happen anyway. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving i have no trouble parking my truck -- -chris 05 ctd 99 durango as i said before perhaps they will in the future but to do it now would be way too expensive and not worth the investment for a new model especially since this new model would be just about impossible to park in a lot or garage. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving on fri 27 jan 2006 122950 -0500 christopher thompson kf4drr@alltel.net wrote my next door neighbor has a 35 foot fleetwood he pulls behind his crew cab short box f250 he has only slid the hitch forward once. most the time he pulls his with the slider slid back. says it does fine and makes him feel better as he worries about the cab interference if he should forget. dont know if i would want to try pulling one that way though. i wonder about pin location and weight dist with it slid back. i guess that was my point. why should i have to pay extra for a slider hitch and why should i have to worry about dinging the corner of the trailer against the back of the cab in a truck in a senile moment when i forget to slide the hitch back. they should offer a long box option imo. greg .
From : clyde
as i said before perhaps they will in the future but to do it now would be way too expensive and not worth the investment for a new model especially since this new model would be just about impossible to park in a lot or garage. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving on fri 27 jan 2006 122950 -0500 christopher thompson kf4drr@alltel.net wrote my next door neighbor has a 35 foot fleetwood he pulls behind his crew cab short box f250 he has only slid the hitch forward once. most the time he pulls his with the slider slid back. says it does fine and makes him feel better as he worries about the cab interference if he should forget. dont know if i would want to try pulling one that way though. i wonder about pin location and weight dist with it slid back. i guess that was my point. why should i have to pay extra for a slider hitch and why should i have to worry about dinging the corner of the trailer against the back of the cab in a truck in a senile moment when i forget to slide the hitch back. they should offer a long box option imo. greg .
From : beekeep
on fri 27 jan 2006 110031 -0500 rachel easson rske@sympatico.ca wrote check out this british video http//www.exn.ca/video/video=exn20040414-towbike.asx budd yabbut does it have heated leather seats mike now mike youre not talking to that eastern wabbit you should say that correctly . . .try again . . .yea budd !!!!! yea budd!!! does a goldwing come with heated seats i ride american brands now and real riders dont need them. just ask beekeeper. budd eastern wabbit just stuff a couple of warm rabbits up your pants falling apart at the gut rach i thought that game was played with ferrits beekeep sheep will do from the old country dont forget the velcro grn hey heard of pressed duck after you eat the wabbit they wont tell if you eat them ill tell you how an ol algonquin told me to cure the fur if you hurry you can make a bunny outfit for the missus before feb 14 rach .
From : rachel easson
stupid question time. snip i was a bit surprised to see only $2k difference in the base price between the 2500 srw and 3500 duelly. makes me wonder why anyone pulling a 5th wheel would ever consider anything but the duelly but you see it all the time. what do you mean by that ive put close to 25k miles on my 5th with my 03 2500 ho. ive been coast to coast and up to coldfoot ak and back and many shorter trips with no issues where a 3500 duelly would have made a difference. i suppose i would have hit more frost heaves and potholes with the larger footprint of the duelly though. i think you see it all the time cause for lots of folks it works well. fmb .
From : rachel easson
on thu 26 jan 2006 202228 gmt greg surratt glsurratt@verizon.net wrote on thu 26 jan 2006 084912 -0800 mac davis mac.davis@splinters.comcast.net wrote my guess though i dont know shit about snow or plowing is that they were looking more at the rv market with the mega thing.. seems like a lot of money for a truck youre going to plow snow with.. im not even sure they were looking at the rv market with the megacab. it has a shortbed box on it which means if you go with a full sized fiver youd have to spend the extra bux for a sliding fifth wheel hitch. greg good point greg but most of the folks that i know with 5ers have the short box and 4 doors... a lot of f-250/350s i was advised by a lot of people that if youre going to buy a 5th wheel hitch spend the extra $100 for a slider as cheap insurance and hope that you never need it.. my buddy has been full time for a few years now with his f-250hd and whatever they call their 4 door cab... short bed 5th wheel hitch and 36 5er... he says that hes used his slider twice so far once at the dealer to make sure that it worked once when he was coming out of a tight space and slid the hitch just in case... mac please remove splinters before emailing .
From : robertpatrick
-- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving try clicking on the back to mac link in the upper left hand corner. it doesnt look like a link but it is and all the stuff you are looking for is there. i did wouldnt work. thats strange but not impossible. i just checked it again and it still works for me. what browser are you using and what is your security level set to. here is the link for his home page https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/index.htm .
From : robertpatrick
i see no problem with this at all. just by its name suggests that this vehicle was not intended for plowing more in line with transporting a family or large group around with the ability to tow a heavy trailer and do it in reasonable comfort. kinda like a large quad cab or crew cab. i dont see where mega cab suggests not intended for plowing with a cummins but it is okay with a gas engine. if that front end is that close to its limits... we are talking about a $59k truck. this is nothing unusual for dc to do. my 97 with a 5 speed has less towing capacity than the automatic of the same series and the 360 was not available with the 5 speed because the nv3500 simply was not up to the additional torque. they could have increased the spec for the nv3500 to handle it without limitations or just used a nv4500 but the nv3500 was already being used in the dakota and costs less $$$$$ than the nv4500 and would work in the 1500 with limitations so thats what they did. it appears that they have since increased the spec but when i bought mine..... as for the term mega to me that sounds more like a luxury version of a crew cab and who plows with a luxury vehicle of course i dont plow and this is only my personal view on the matter. i bet that this vehicle is extremely heavy by itself and when you add the weight of the diesel to it pushes the limits of the front end components. it is probably using the same front end as the crew cab to save money. you can plow with a crew cab but does the crew cab weigh less this could be a re-use of parts issue like the trans in my truck. with the rising cost of fuel they might not want to invest more into this model than absolutely necessary different front end components until they get an idea of demand and then will address these issues if they see it as profitable to do so or to even keep the model at all and the crew cab components were probably not designed to carry that increased weight. i guess that my question would be why would you want to use a truck with such a large cab to plow snow to a contractor a truck is a tool like a hammer or saw. if it is a 4x4 then it better be able to plow. while true there are different types of hammers and saws and each one has its intended use and are not all completely interchangable. i dont know how well my 4x4 1500 would hold up plowing does the cab size have much of an effect on the ability to plow with the vehicle such as manuvering and blind spots is the extended cab model still available you mean a quad cab yes with a cummins and plow. i was actually talking about the one with the half sized back doors but even here it seems that they still have a vehicle that can hold 5 people and still plow. i havent seen this new model yet does the mega-cab actually hold more people than the crew cab or does it just have more room for the same number of passengers luxury version -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : beekeep
i guess i blew this subject way a moment ago sorry. i was trying to edit my comment. anyway we lost the tranfer case at hiway speeds a couple of weeks ago. the truck is a 1999 dakota with a 5.1 v8 extended cab with automatic trany. it has been a really great truck with very little trouble before this. we have had oil changes and maintenance usually at the 3000 mile mark and once in a while out as far as 5000 miles. the shop that is working on it said that the gears looked in good shape and they had never seen a failure like this before. are there really 9 different transfer setup in the dakota lineup they said that they had to have one assembled as we had blown the part number off the case with it came apart. thanks lowell @ eagle view home of the 5mm craig .
From : clyde
the truck is a 1999 dakota with a 5.1 v8 extended cab. it has been a really great truck with very little trouble before this. we have had oil changes and maintenance usually at the 3000 mile mark and once in a while out as far as 5000 miles. the shop that is working on it said that the gears looked in good shape and they had never seen a failure like this before. are there really 9 different transfer setup in the dakota lineup they said that they had to have one assembled as we had blown the part number off the case with it came apart. thanks lowell @ eagle view home of the 5mm craig .