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Took my wife to labor & delivery. Daughter born.

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I drove across town to pick up my degree since im still waiting on parts

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Took my truck into the back country of Colorado.     Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

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Truck survived valet parking from what I can tell. They didnt even put a mile on my truck :)

 

Now it needs a bath :)

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Replaced the voltage regulator on my 4 wheeler yesterday. POS. lol Tonight trying to find a leak in my window a/c unit. Got the tap on, dye in the system and ran for 15 mins, but can't see any leaks yet. Probably need to add freon 1st. Only running 50 psi on low side. Tag says 200 somthing psi.

doverarjim Senior Enthusiast

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Finally got my rental!! The insurance adjuster blamed the car place the car place said "oh you did not come get it Friday so we thought that you did not want it" and they did not call any one to check on it. That was Tuesday, and they did not have any more cars to rent going to have some shipped in. Called me today and said my rental was here I could come get it. When I got there all I saw was a f150 crew cab!! Shocked me that they got me a truck, I will write up my thoughts on the ecoboost after I drive it a day or two. :jester:

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Jim, make sure you run that Furd through the tests, like 0 to 100 to 0, the brake torque test, the mud hole test, the drifting test and any other you can think of, lol. All of this testing will be for product research of coarse :)

 

 

I did drive around with my foot in the gas today to test the new exhaust... Quiet when needed and aggressive under acceleration.

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kstruckcountry Senior Enthusiast

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Well the way "carma" works is once you get one you won't hit anything lol. I haven't hit any deer with this truck, but I have with the one on our work truck. I've managed to stop in time in this truck. One of my friends rolled his car though, so I got to push it around some. :lol:

 

In a rural area, it's not if, it's when. Some you cant avoid. I've had one friend who totaled his truck on a cow, and one almost totaled on a deer. From looking at the design of the bumper it'll take more than the truck can.

Chris Senior Enthusiast

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Today I changed my steering wheel and clockspring

RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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Maybe? Doubt it will change it much if at all. My air raid MIT didn't change the tune at all

 

 

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Chris Senior Enthusiast

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Today I got DIC

 

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Today I got DIC

 

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Easy man, this is a family site! :lol:

 

 

 

 

Day trip to San Francisco or something? :lol:

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No had the doc installed

 

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