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I was friggin' freezing in the Panhandle! Just north of Panama City. Was in the upper 40's my first night there. Next day was much better at 76° - I could really get used to that! Love it down there. Was 26° back home the following morning. Both Mazda and Subaru have some sweet looking equipment out there now! Impressive. I could be seen in either one of those.

Party at NEFisher11's house!

Just hauled this to the FL panhandle for my buddy. Only casualty on this trip was a busted rear running lamp assembly on the trailer. Last trip to FL resulted in having to spend 10 hours welding the trailer back together again, mostly due to the short trip through MA, CT, NY, and NJ, brake wiring replacement, bearing replacement, and brake assembly replacement. No problems with the truck, surprisingly. Used 1 quart over 2800 miles total.

Hard to say. Most of it is still there from over a year ago on my Silverado, but there are a few dry patches here and there. Could have been that I just didn't go heavy enough with it. Our '89 S10 Blazer has gone through 5 hard MA winters on 100% salted main roads, and the undercarriage looks better than the body does. Back in the day, my grandfather had quite a business doing this. Long, long before Fluid Film or LPS3 (or their inventors) were even a thought.

Looks great Ryan. I rolled through Panama City Beach, FL this weekend - they had a HUGE car show going on there. Never saw so many classics, rest-mods, and customs in my life ... and I was there after the show was over! While trying to make a U-turn to check out a '88 Cutlass someone wanted WAY too much money for, I had to wait for a line of about 20 brand new 'Vettes to pass. Back home, everyone's cars and motorcycles are stored away for the next 5-6 months.

My neighbor bought a lift last year, and started doing this as a side business. He hosed down my coal stove with the stuff to try and slow the severe corrosion that had already started from sitting idle in my damp basement (coal ash + moisture = sulphuric acid). It smells nasty, but the stuff is GREAT. I highly recommend it. I prefer used motor oil because I'm a cheapskate - it's free but it's messy, and you have to check some areas where it will wash off over time. The Fluid Film seems to stick better. Just got back from a 6 day excursion down to FL and back, hauling a '67 Belvedere down for my buddy. 1.5 days down, stayed 2 days, and 1.5 days back. Just got home a few hours ago. Had enough of the road to last a lifetime - 2 trips down there in 2 months, 1,380 miles one way. I don't envy you, Chevor! The Silverado didn't break, so I'm a happy man. Got his giant 220v Ingersoll-Rand compressor into his garage from the front of his house using my trailer, then offloaded the Belvedere into the garage. Wired the compressor in for him while I was there. FL is an interesting place, having lived in MA most of my life.

When I start peeling out in the rain at very light throttle, I know it's time to sh**can my tires.

Looks like I've made the right choice on steering clear of any DI engines. I'll just run & rebuild my old junk until I stop breathing. An interesting carbon story ... I had someone bring me a generator they thought was seized one time. I could rotate the engine 350° in each direction, but it would not reach TDC. I figured someone dropped something in the combustion chamber when they had the plug out. Was a side valve, so no chance of a valve dropping inside. When I got the head off, I found deposits all the way around the edge of the piston crown nearly 1/4" thick! First time I'd ever seen that happen. Guess the guy rarely ran it, and when he did, it ran on stale, cheap fuel. Lesson learned!

As long as it doesn't feel hard as a brick pinching the tread with your fingernails, I'd run them to the last minute. Hard tires get scary in inclement weather. Definitely wouldn't run those in the snow, though.

I'd run those in summer, but not for long. This time of year I'd be watching the weather very closely.

$52 friggin LARGE - holy crapper ...

A big THANK YOU to all our Veterans, today and always. We owe you all a debt of gratitude for this Great Nation.

For the first time in my life, I like the looks of every single Ford car model all the way down to the Fiesta. They've got their sh** together in the design department over there ... at least as far as cars go. Their trucks I'm not crazy about. If I was to spend 5 figures on a mode of transportation, it sure as hell isn't going to be a car ...

Lots of fun when they run away! Go to 1:50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M1o2rpO_JY&spfreload=10

Yeah these northern states really put it to ya when your pulling a trailer. You should see the toll - one way - for towing across the George Washington Bridge! It'll make your eyes bleed. Gotta fund their communist ways somehow, I suppose ...

Loaded and ready for a trip where the weather stays warm.

Got plenty of choices - all using a carburetor.

Friggin emissions ... I think your talking about the spark plug defoulers - find one that the sensor threads into, then thread that into the bung on the pipe. I haven't tried it personally since MA doesn't do emissions on vehicles 15 or older (and haven't had the need to on the Silverado ... yet ...), but I hear it works great.

I agree that you'll never get 100% of the mist out of the system, but 15k intervals seem excessive to me. Yet another reason I'll never own a DI engine.

Exact reasons I'll never buy a new diesel. More crap to leave you dead on the side of the road, and cost $$$$$$$$$.

You'll always get soot in the exhaust. Carbon is a byproduct of combustion - no way around that, no matter how clean they make these engines run.

Everything is junk today. You can't win! Best course of action is to buy something built 40 years ago, and install modern components on it yourself. Wish I had taken my own advice. I was an idiot, and bought an '07 Silverado back in '07. I've done just as much repair work to this thing as I have to cars 4 decades older!

That's a good thing. I was supposed to be in FL by now with a '67 Belvedere. Never left, due to huge volumes of work that were dropped in my lap at the last minute. ATV's, generators, snowblowers, and leaf blowers are needed yesterday, lol. That time of year again! Shooting for next week ... and of course, I see gas prices headed upward again. Can't friggin win ...