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RE: discuss towing w/ Cad 500 vs other car
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_1124.jpg
Dramatically thicker!
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_1122.jpg
Enough playing with spring mounts for now, moving on to test-fitting the under-braces. The driver's side looks like it should be fairly easy, but the passenger side is looking problematic at best.
I held one in place with my left hand, while taking pics with my right. First 4 are driver's side:
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whisperide
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07/14/12 01:05pm |
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RE: discuss towing w/ Cad 500 vs other car
BTW, these are 2" x 2" x 0.250", 36" long, and will be bolted at both ends. I cut 4, 2 as seen and 2 more underneath. But the ground is still very wet. So, back to trying this in my asymmetrical-designed car:
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_0839.jpg
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_0840.jpg
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_0843.jpg
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_08431.jpg
I call that a problem. Minor, but needing attention.
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07/14/12 09:16am |
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RE: discuss towing w/ Cad 500 vs other car
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_0833.jpg
Outboard there was the original intent, but I laid the other one inboard:
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_08331.jpg
And liked that better. So how to attach it?
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_0837.jpg
Wait, that can be turned inboard also:
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-14-12_0838.jpg
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07/14/12 09:12am |
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RE: What do you do on a STEEP hill when your TV dies?
OP:
First, a 10-% grade is not the same as a 10 degree slope.
Second, if your Ram's e-brake won't hold the Ram AND the trailer, then something is very badly wrong. My e-brake on my '06 GMC 2500HD can and has held my pickup AND a 14K trailer on a 6% grade.
SueT: Many years ago, when I was young, dumb and feeling invincible I did the same thing with an '89 S-10 2WD automatoc towing a Fiero ( on a U-Haul 2-wheel dolly ) through Flaming Gorge to Vernal.
I discovered my trans had long ago lost it's over-run when I found no engine braking in second gear.
By the time I found a pull-out, my front rotors were literally glowing orange!
Once in Vernal, I discovered my rear brakes hadn't been working! No e-brake either.
I can't blame GM, I should have checked things before setting out.
However, I was successful at keeping my speed below 25 MPH all the way down. It was a week-day in the off-season, so not much traffic. I would have dead-stopped in the lane had the brake fade been any worse, and had I not seen the turn-out.
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07/13/12 07:22pm |
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RE: Anyone have issues with cast aluminum wheels?
I had factory cast aluminum wheels on a Camaro I slid into a curb one wet morning, the wheel broke, instant flat tire.
Plenty of good steel wheels out there. They can be bent, but odds are you can drive the bent steelie to some safer place to swap your spare.
Forged aluminum wheels are for Corvettes and Vipers, not work trucks.
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07/13/12 07:00pm |
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RE: Chevy HHR brake wiring question
That's what multi-meters are for. You can buy your very own brand-new one for about $5.
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07/13/12 08:07am |
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RE: discuss towing w/ Cad 500 vs other car
Here's the stock setup:
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-13-12_0732.jpg
And here are the 2 sets I'm making, one for the Dana 60, one for the GM 10.5":
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-13-12_0714.jpg
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07/13/12 07:45am |
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RE: discuss towing w/ Cad 500 vs other car
Looking at the GM spring support brackets that were transferred from the stock axle to this axle, they are rather thin steel, and I'm feeling concern that they won't hold 3 times their original load.
Looks like I'll be making my own HD replacements today.
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whisperide
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07/13/12 05:24am |
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RE: F-150 Payload Capacity
1755 is a bit low. look here
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07/12/12 05:47pm |
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RE: discuss towing w/ Cad 500 vs other car
My new Firestone airbags arrived yesterday, they are blue, and so is the tubing for the air lines. I'm quite pleased, but pics will wait until the springs arrive.
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07/12/12 05:55am |
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RE: Am I getting in over my head?
Pulling way over my ratings, I've found my pickup's true limits. Only once did I exceed 14k of trailer and load, and for a while I was thinking of how to make it work. But I came to my senses and am back to my practical limit of 14k.
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07/09/12 08:38pm |
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RE: Am I getting in over my head?
Close enough.
New Rancho 9000 shocks front and rear, new LT-rated tires, maybe swap a 4.10:1 axle.
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07/09/12 07:48pm |
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RE: Increase tow rating?
OEM ratings aren't law.
My '06 2500HD isn't rated for anything like the 14K I tow on a regular basis. But I know exactly what I'm doing.
Your rig can handle 15K no problem. The real issue is: can you? Since you're worrying about the advertised numbers, that tells me you can't.
Thanks for the factless input, Mr. Eastwood
Factless? Me towing 14K on a regular basis is a fact. His rig being capable of 15k is a fact. You being un-civil? definite fact.
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07/09/12 05:30pm |
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RE: "A modest proposal"...half ton trucks and SUVs...
How the heck can you "people" worry about 8 lug and FF / SF without mentioning the most important difference of all? Why do y'all keep neglecting the frames? Maybe the GM twins are the only ones to use different thicknesses of steel, but the others use different boxing, or different vertical section, or other differentiators.
In NO year will you find any F150 frame to be identical spec to the dame year F350 frame, and likewise with Dodge.
Fitting the 8-lug FF axles to a half-ton is no challenge. These days half tons come with bigger brakes than 1 tons, because the halfs can use 17" wheels and a 17" spare, while the tons and duallies still have to be able to take 16s. Even the ones that come on 17+.
Put 6k of payload on a 1500 frame with an 8-lug FF axle, you're gonna rip the spring hangers loose.
Crash both trucks, empty, into Fort Knox at 85 MPH, any 1-ton is gonna have less damage to the passenger area than the same year / brand of half ton.
The frame is primary. ALL else is secondary.
If we're gonna fix this mess, the first step is to make ALL new pickups be 1-tons. No exceptions. Same for the big SUVs.
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whisperide
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07/09/12 04:40pm |
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RE: discuss towing w/ Cad 500 vs other car
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-09-12_11471.jpg
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k392/Atilla_the_Fun/P07-09-12_1147.jpg
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07/09/12 11:59am |
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RE: Increase tow rating?
OEM ratings aren't law.
My '06 2500HD isn't rated for anything like the 14K I tow on a regular basis. But I know exactly what I'm doing.
Your rig can handle 15K no problem. The real issue is: can you? Since you're worrying about the advertised numbers, that tells me you can't.
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07/09/12 11:36am |
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RE: 09 Ram 1500 over payload
We have laws against self-incrimination. Thus such evidence is inadmissable in court. So if they try that, sue them for at least a full million.
Besides, trying it over 200 #? Only Ford is that stupid.
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07/08/12 07:19pm |
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RE: GMC 6L Spark Plug change
What do you mean, you got "the right ones"?
No point in touching them if you're not gonna upgrade to MSD.
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07/08/12 05:48pm |
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RE: Better breathing Gasser at Altitudes
The amount of air coming into the engine isn't the problem with towing at high altitudes. The problem is that there is less oxygen in that air. I don't think the computers in these things can detect the lack of oxygen to adjust the air intake.
Having said that... Living in Washington State I can go from sea level to 5000 Ft in the course of a couple of hours and never have noticed this proposed (x)% loss in power per 1000 feet that was mentioned earlier. And I tow a pretty big trailer with a gas motor.
Physics fail and perception fail.
Oxygen makes up the same 22% of the atmosphere at 6000 feet as it does at sea level. The air is less dense at higher elevation, so there's less nitrogen as well as less oxygen, but the nitrogen is still 78% whether at sea level or at 6000 feet.
As for noticing the difference, your perception really lacks. I had no problem noticing the difference in my stock-5.0 Mustang, but I wasn't towing anything.
Go fit your ride with an in-vehicle accelerometer, such as a G-Tech Pro, then do a full-throttle acceleration run at elevation, then repeat at sea level at the same ambient temperature. You'll run a quicker time at sea level.
Stop posting such blatantly wrong posts, noone appreciates being misled.
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07/08/12 05:45pm |
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RE: 09 Ram 1500 over payload
200 pounds is within the factory's safety factor. They're all under-rating by at least 500#. Your real concern is if you have rear coil springs. If so, get some airbags inside those coils, or get some Timbrens. Be sure that the rear is not lower than the front at maximum load. That's most important.
That Australian thing pictured is IRS, not solid-axle.
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07/08/12 08:55am |
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