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    New Taco; The Good, Bad....Ugly.

    Picked up the new Taco today. 35 minutes later I was sitting at a traffic light being mellowed out listening to Aaron Neville's "Crazy Love," when.... Wham! Chick on the cellphone and diddling with her makeup during rush hour in this: Smacks this: Who in turn smacks happy me: Lemme...
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    Weird, funny, and sad....all at the same time.

    Yesterday, I gave in to the temptation. I'd just driven 140 miles round-trip to show a guy my truck....sounded like he was ready to buy. He was a tire kicker. I got back into town and was at a light on the 46 Bypass when a jacked up '98 F-350 std cab SRW 4x4 turbo PSD pulled up beside me. I...
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    I love my SD, but.....

    Off road has been my real thing for a long time. A buddy just sent me the flick, vids and link. Check 'em out if you like getting off pavement. F-2000 Dyno Run F-2000 Photo Shoot & Road Test F-2000 Linkie
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    Hey, Robert....

    I'm curious about the weight difference between our trucks, '06/'02 generally. With a 380# sleeper, 350#-plus loaded bedbox, full tank and my fat butt onboard....here's my weightslip: In a couple of weeks the sleeper comes off, I'm switching to a below-the-rails bedbox, and my 200# 5er...
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    All you communications folks.....

    Commercial, Amateur, CB, Emergency, lowly civil servants....makes me no nevermind. If you key a microphone....what, where, when and why do you operate? Seems to be some interest here, but I haven't found a lot in my searches (I'm a late arrival to SDD, remember?). I've read several comments...
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    Serious Chickenbanders....

    If you haven't picked up one of these, you need to. No space available to add to my shack, so I ticked the old woman off by clearing off one of my dresser tops.:D
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    Nekkid Crotch Rocket...too funny!

    Ever wonder what these two-wheeled dreamboats look like under that $50 worth of injection molded plastic? I just found out....
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    First sign of a problem with the Big Dog

    Usual drill after work yesterday morning: Started it, proceeded to load my gear, and then took off after fast idle kicked in. Wouldn't accelerate and wasn't initially alarmed....sometimes does that for a few seconds. This time, it wouldn't accelerate beyond 2K rpm and after pulling out on the...
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    Watersports anyone?

    Howsabout it?
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    Auto Diesel vs. Truckstop Diesel Fuels

    I've been wondering and keep forgetting to ask at the stations I fill at. Is auto diesel from gas stations #2 diesel fuel, or is it #1, supreme, premium, et al diesel? Reason I'm wondering is, out of all the times I've drained my fuel/water separator, I've only discovered water after long...
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    Wife says, "....

    ....You're not driving that gashog truck tonight, are you?" with the sternest of no nonsense expressions on her face. I said, "Gasoline is $2.89 per gallon and diesel is $2.54." and returned the look she gave me. "Ohhhhhh....," she says most apologetically. When blonde hair turns gray...
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    Curious ditty about cruise control....

    Never read or heard of this anywhere before. My truck's computer doles out more fuel to cruise control than it does to the accelerator pedal. Next time you're pulling a hill or wanting to blow by someone on the highway, check out the difference.:D
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    Can mechanical ills cure themselves?

    Here's the dealio: Bought this truck in mid-November w/78K miles. For the first month of ownership, my truck appeared to have an oil consumption problem....I took it off the dealer's hands freshly serviced, but dropped 5 quarts in it before the first time I serviced it. It also smoked on...
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    More USA Tour '06

    March 19th Edition through the glass.... Goodyear World Headquarters; Akron, OH Welcome to PA Highest point East of the Mississippi on Interstate 80 Welcome to NY Outside the hotel window this morning; Chester, NY EffTreeFiddy should be back with the '65 Mustang late...
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    HTML anyone?

    For years, I've been wanting to build a decent webpage to replace the grrranimals collection of images I have on a couple of ftp sites. I've got current FrontPage, WebStudio, PageMaker on one ftp site, etc....just don't like all that copy/paste crap and time being what it is, I sure don't like...
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    I just called Jasper Engines....

    They're 50 miles south of me. Before I bought the Super Duty, I considered all possibilities....one was cost of engine replacement. Here's what they said: $5K for complete remanufactured 7.3 $8.4K for complete remanufactured running engine. They'll discount if I deliver the core and...
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    For the computer illiterates....

    Like me. Ever look at that magical box, mystified by how it works. Now you can take a peek inside and see what's really going on while you surf the web. Click Here
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    However, I do admit....

    I miss the Ford, Chevy, Dodge truck discussions/comparisons. There's always something like this going on over here: Chevy Duramax vs. Ford Power Stroke and.... Mileage---->Gas vs. Diesel I'm surprised it ain't got ugly but the night is young.:D Hey, Barret....posted your badge...
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    Love me....love me not....

    Does my truck love me? Am I that lucky? Rather than pull the headliner, I'm just about to drill two 1/8" holes through it to mount a transceiver. Even though I don't have an overhead console, I've checked out the CJB and there are fuses installed for it. In fact, I don't have a lot of...
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    I loved living in Texas....

    Except one March when I had a foot of water in my house in Cloverleaf. It's a whole 'nother place from everywhere else I've been. For all who've never experienced such joys, you need to take some time to go there and spend a while. Big Bend National Park is a good place to start and be sure...
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    What it feels like to be me....

    Oh, hell....it feels so damned good and I'm so selfish I've decided against sharing. Got off work at 0600 hrs after a hell week on the job, jumped in the eff-tree-fiddy, slipped a CD into the stereo and queued up Delbert McClinton....then I let the big dog eat. Beautiful 17 degree morning...
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    Scaled the beast....

    Weights as seen in the first photo; me, full tank (38 gallons), two loaded suitcases, and 850-lbs of tools, maintenance items, and recovery gear in the bedbox. Truck ratings: GVWR: 11,500 Frt GAWR: 5,200 Rr GAWR: 8,250 5-er GCWR: 20,000 Max Trailer Wt: 12,700 Was previously...
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    I need a raw +12V source....

    Other than the batteries. My '95 F-250 has an 0 or 00 lug on the side of the power distribution box....I can't find anything similar underhood in my '02 F-350. I'm wanting to install a bus bar to power communications equipment and need at least a 50A source. Anybody been there and done...
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    7.3, CTD, Banks/Duramax Showdown!

    The deal has been sealed. Sometime in the next month or so, when the weather is fair and we can put a hog on coals in the ground without our parkas....me, my kid brother, and Will are going to do a run-off/pull-off. The entrants: Me/truck in my siggy Kid bro, Billy/'05 QuadCab 2500...
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    Duallies on ice.

    Got one for y'all. Back when my buddy Will borrowed my truck for a weekend and wrote a review article on it, he mentioned it was squirrelly on ice and he had to lock up and shift into 4x4. I've owned the truck for three months today....most fun I've ever had in a vehicle while keeping my...

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