Jsdirt

BWAHAHAHA! That's a f'in great analogy!! Just picked mine up from the body shop. I'm diggin the new steprails - didn't think I'd like the oval, but they're growing on me. I like the fact that Westin added an additional support over the old ones. Although both are thinner than the single old one, I think just having a second support is going to make these alot stronger. Let's hope so, because the closeness of them to the body makes me nervous. Any body damage in that area of this truck with the lack of a "B" pillar could be disastrous. But, I'm happy for the moment.

I remember when my OEM wheels looked like that. Was a long, long time ago ... Had a hell of an adventure on the motorcycle today. Tried to get to Laconia with 2 of my buddies. First, my buddy's ignition took a dump, which resulted in backfires that put gunfire to shame, and some nice 3' foot flames shooting out his pipes, HAHAAHAHA! We waited a couple hours for the wife to come get him, helped him load up, and me and my other buddy headed south, giving up on Laconia. Then, I lost EVERYTHING off the back of my bike in the MIDDLE of f'in 495 - tools, jacket, sweatshirt, a BRAND NEW $50 Kryponite lock, my Under Armor, and a backpack that I should have just worn .... ended up getting my tools right where we stopped ... and the Under Armor was tangled in my ratchet strap hanging off my right turn signal, which was millimeters from going into my spokes (that would've ended pretty badly) ... and found the backpack (couldn't believe that one!) ... after looping around on 5 f'ing different highways it seemed .... 10 minutes later I got a roofing nail in my rear tire at 80 MPH in the left lane - what ride that was! Like riding on eels! Then I had to cut across 3 lanes of people who have no clue that any equipment in 2015 could possibly have a failure, and made it to a rest area that just happened to be right where we stopped! As soon as my buddy was pulling in his yard with the Harley in back, he got my call, dumped his bike off, and flew back up to get me. Took a ride home in his pickup truck - what a sad sight. 8 hours after the journey began, I was finally home. First complete tire failure in 24+ years of street riding.

That's friggin' sweet! Nice job!

I think when there's a code thrown, the remote start stops working. This happened to me when the truck was new. Ended up some code that resulted from me starting the truck right after I took it off the charger - had a DIC message about overcharging. Then the remote wouldn't work until I had them wave the magic wand over it under warranty. My truck is still at the body shop. Fine with me - I'm taking my 41 year old 2-stroke motorcycle to Laconia Bike Week tomorrow morning. I won't miss the truck one bit.

I wouldn't have a dealer do anything to my truck unless it's covered by warranty, but that's just me. The warranty ship set sail for me along, long time ago.

Those are purdy! Love ceramic coating - it's the only thing that still looks good on headers after several northeastern winters. Well worth the extra dough.

Yeah they don't want owners under the hood of "their" products. They want to convince everyone that there's magic under there - the car just magically moves by itself with no mechanical help! LOL

My truck is in the body shop as of this morning. Passenger side from the door back is getting redone for the THIRD time since I've owned it. Got sideswiped by some jackass that took it personally that I needed to pass him. He pretty much did it on purpose. Fine with me. Insurance found him at fault 100%. Guy is 67 too - you'd think he'd have grown up by now? WTF ... So out of this, in addition to the paint/body work, I'll have a new passenger side mirror, and brandy spankin' new Westin wheel-to-wheel steprails. The ones I had on there were starting to get pretty dull, and the mounting hardware pretty rusty. They were a different style too. 5" round - seems Westin no longer makes a wheel-to-wheel rail that's round. I was a little disappointed, but the oval-ish ones are growing on me. No choice now - they're going on whether I like them or not, lol. Oh, forgot to detail the first 2 times .... first time was by the lot tech at my dealership when it was in for it's 3rd or 4th warranty brake job, due to pulsation (that continues to this day ...). Second time was my own damn fault - cranked a tiny sapling in my yard at less than walking speed. Was backing into a spot on a hill in my yard while negotiating the front end around my dad's extended cab, long bed D-max & trailer. Was concentrating on not hitting dad's stuff ... and that object in the mirror really was closer than it appeared. Thing spent an hour on the frame machine to get the box straightened out again. Talk about a tin can ...

Throw some airbags in the back of that half-ton Maxco - makes a HUGE difference. Those are some sweet campers too, both you guys.

Rut Roe ... I see one with their hood up!

That sucks! I miss the days when sheet metal could handle a deer impact without caving in. On the bright side, you got yourself an unexpected supper anyway. My driver's side rear window stopped working yesterday. Chalk that up to the long list of issues I've had with this thing since day 1. I bet that window has been up and down a total of 10 times since I drove it off the dealer's lot.

The oil consumption on my '07 is variable, dependent upon how hard I push it. If I tow on a hilly highway and leave cruise control on so it screams to 5400 RPM on every hill for 10 minutes at a whack, I'll burn a quart in 300 miles. If I keep it mellow and never let it go above 3k, I can go over 6,500 miles and not use a drop.

Ahh gotcha - i thought my computer was acting up again, lol.

Oh, gotcha. My computer isn't seeing any vids ...?? When I click on any of them, they come up as pics. Electronics ...

Nice trophy Sarah LOL - best crash ... that's great! Hope you didn't get hurt bad though. At least the truck didn't get damaged on top of all that ...

I wouldn't be too concerned - I was at 74k or so when I first installed mine. Took me a while to discover the world of catch cans ...

Holy crap! That one's been in there a long time! Up here ball joints hardly get a chance to rust before our roads, and the poor quality metal just destroys them.

I have a section of my yard high enough that it makes a makeshift loading dock - I can get some seriously heavy stuff in & out just rolling it off the tailgate. With a new engine I'd have that sucker wrapped in plastic wrap and tarps before I did so though. If you've got alot of tires and not alot of time, you could pad the landing and just push it out of the back. That's my Yankee-redneck version for today ...

Yikes ... if we ran those pressures up here in the Northeast, it would smash the fillings right out of my teeth, LOL! I miss the smooth roads of the West. I bet exhausts, shocks, and ball joints could last the life of the vehicle out there. Up here those are all 30k miles items ...these days sometimes less than that!

Yeah in the winter months, I'll have to really keep after my Conceptual Polymer unit, since the "can" part of it is glass. The heat of the engine compartment will give me a little wiggle room, but I'll probably have to clean it after every trip, no matter how short.

I don't see any reason why that couldn't be done. Might puke oil out the back all over the place though, seeing how so much ends up in the catch can. But that could be due to engine vacuum pulling it out as well. Hard to say ... My '72 El Camino used to do that on the highway - think it needed rings. Would really puke out on high vacuum instances, like slamming the throttle shut at 3k - 4,500 RPM. Wouldn't know it from the power that thing had, though. Must've been a stout engine when it was new. I cut a hole in a plastic ashtray, and stuck the breather inside that, to keep the oil off my valve covers and the rest of the engine, lol.

I put yet another dent in my tailgate. On the inside, so not a real big deal .. but my roll-up tonneau no longer has a watertight seal to the gate. How did it happen you ask? Lost a lawn tractor straight out the back! My fault - yapping away with everyone while tying down is not good practice. No damage to the tractor, of course.

Every time I do that, it rains.

I remember the spacers on the old throttle-body injected engines didn't do crap. Actually, they made them lose power. Don't know why people still bought them ... I'd imagine the same is true for these new ones, although there's no fuel going through the spacer like the old ones, so maybe that changes things ... I'm sure somebody on here has tried one and can post better info than I.

We're over $3 a gallon for name brand diesel up here. Growing up, diesel & #2 home heating oil was always MUCH cheaper than gasoline by a long shot. They're really putting the screws to us ... whoever "they" are ... We're higher than most of the country to begin with, thanks to state taxes. Thankfully not as bad as CT or CA, but we're getting there it seems. NJ is the cheapest as far as the northeast goes, only because they don't tax fuel. They don't have to, since they violently wallet-rape homeowners there. The board would collectively spit out expensive whiskey if I told them how much they pay. For most, it's 5 figures!! Alot pay well into 5 figures for a modest home with land. Government gone wild .... I have to run 93 (Sunoco has 94) in mine or it'll detonate itself to pieces when towing. I'm actually surprised that hasn't happened yet .. (knocking LOUDLY on wood ).