Recent content by Jarlaxle

For me, it was simply the QUALITY.  Instead of a flimsy, leaky box on an overloaded bread truck chassis with marginal brakes and running gear, I have a watertight steel body, a chassis I cannot overload, and Class 8 truck running gear.  This past June, I had nine people on the roof of my...

Yes, a LR D carries more weight than a LR C, but the WHEELS might not be rated for the higher weight and pressure.  Do not overload the wheels!

Might want to crank that spring back a couple notches before you pop a blood vessel, dude.

Not even close.  A 10.00-20 has about the same capacity as an 11R22.5 or 295/75R22.5--the trailer comes in loaded to the roof every time it goes out,m plus the thousand pounds of power liftgate hanging off the back.  The trailer is about 8000lbs empty, ~30,000lbs loaded.

If looking for a class A...I'd go for it if the price was right.  Water heater is no big deal. 1996...wonder if that's a Vortec 454 or a TBI engine.

I think GMAC will also insure buses.

One reason is very simple: the price tag on the Sprinter van is staggering!  I was at a show last weekend...for less than the price of a tiny Sprinter-based class B, you can get an E450 chassis Class C with three times the space!  For JUST the price of a Sprinter van (not a class B, a cargo...

My friend's first MH was sold with 166,000 miles...it was a 1977 Dodge B300 chassis (Coachmen body); with only a 318-3 engine and what I think were 4.56 or 4.88 gears, it ran every mile flat-out.  Several times, we stopped after a long grade (sometimes running for close to an hour at WOT) & saw...

I guess I shouldn't mention one of the trailers at work...it's an elderly 28' pup, I think a 1972.  It still has manual slack adjusters, has no spring brakes (there is a tag above the landing gear crank, "TRAILER MUST BE CHOCKED", and still runs lock-ring wheels with 10.00-20 tires.  The ones on...

First thing I would do is check for broken springs!

One of the guys I work with has a DP...he found that the entry door used the same generic key as the cap on his Dakota.  And all his bays used the same key as his file cabinet. They don't anymore!

Also, some companies use the old alphanumeric system for sizing trailer tires: your ST205/75R15C is equivilant to an F78-R15-C. I have to say I am surprised to see 15" trailer tires with load range C...most 15's I see are LR D, most C's are 13" or 14".

Porsche, BWW, Lexus, Chrysler's SRT vehicles, Cadillacs, and Corvettes all use Mobil 1 from the factory. Having said that...for 99% of the vehicles on the road, oil is oil.  Synthetics are probably better, but it just doesn't matter, because regular oil is good enough.

...like this one. My wife's best friend is a nurse, she was working the ER on the early shift (in at 2am) on Christmas eve. Maybe 3am, a guy came in looking like he had tried to wrestle a barbed-wire fence. He was covered in scratches, two of which needed stitches and all of which needed to be...

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