Recent content by irishtom29

As I recall the CVT Ford used in the CMax can be flat towed. Check the manual. The 2020 Explorer can't be flat towed, the last Explorers that could be were the 2019s with V6s (not the 4s).

On what do you base this 10% margin assertion?

@JackL Agreed, if using only the four jacks on the corners of most trailers to level you could leave the middle of the frame unsupported and damage it. That's why when I added 4 additional jacks to my trailer which I placed them just behind and ahead of the axles since the axles and wheels...

One can steady and level with scissor jacks if the jacks are of sufficient capacity (and number). I did it with 8 scissor jacks on a KZ toy hauler travel trailer; the 4 that came on the trailer and 4 I added. The thing leveled no sweat and was steady as can be. Like any other rigging task you...

You'll be hard pressed to find a normally aspirated V-8 with more low RPM power than the turbocharged Ford 3.5 Ecoboost V6. Forced induction changes the nature of the power delivery profoundly. The abundance of low RPM power and the effortless feel of the 3.5 Ecoboost is why it's so popular with...

A base model pick up will do all the tasks a high end model will do, other than make you cozy. In fact the most capable F150, that with the heavy duty payload package (over 3000 pounds), is unavailable in high end trim.

Well, automatics and AC are standard but you can get a Ford XL with rubber floor, regular cab, steel wheels, painted bumpers and grill and crank windows. And they're cheap. My brother, a wealthy reverse snob, drives one.

Contrary to the stereotype turbocharged engines often have more low RPM power than larger normally aspirated engines. The Ford 3.5 Ecoboost (which I owned and pulled a trailer with) makes considerably more low RPM power than the 5.0 V8 used in the F150. I had a Fiesta with the 1 liter 3 cylinder...

I am I just clean my shower and faucet heads with acetylene torch tip cleaners. The notion that there's a best shower head is one that never occurred to me. 

I think a prevented roof needs no maintainance.

Traveling plans are cancelled, period. We will lay low as long as needed. And that's that.

My wife and made a contingency plan when we started full timing: we rent a lot year round in an RV park near a large southern city in which we have our doctors. This gives us a place to retreat for the winter, when we tire of traveling, get sick or need to lay low. Right now our travel plans are...

Road Rat, eh? Rat. You named yourself fittingly. Just kidding (kind of).

Indeed, if the people had been staying in a rest area several days the copper was probably just running them off; at least in southern Texas RV parks are emptying out and many state parks are still in business.

Pickup trucks today are ridiculously high, so high that it degrades their function as vehicles for a job of work. For instance you can no longer reach over the side of a truck to load it or grab tools. And now 5th wheels, many of which are already over 13' high, are being lifted so as to not...