NW WA Meet / BS Thread

i wrecked a 15 sr5 then a month later got my 15 or s/c truck. upgraded for sure. have faith brother.

 

When my taco was totalled from being rolled, I ended up going to PT for my back. My lower back is still screwed up and November will mark 4 years since then. Don't just settle for any PT either. If you go someplace and they don't take care of you like you think you need, go elsewhere.

1. Make sure to not let insurance cut you too little for your truck, pending it is totalled. When they offer $18,000, tell them you can't touch a truck with the same setup for under $25,000.
2. My taco got totalled, then I got into a half ton dodge, and since then sold off that truck and gotten a 96 2500 Cummins. You wouldn't be a first. I still want to get a dedicated wheeling truck too, but money has other places to go for now, and I'm about to have less of it coming in.

I took my 2006 dodge 1500, hemi 5.7 v8 on the line against a coworker with 2011 ecoboost turbo v6 f150. He must have been about 400-425 horsepower. I couldn't take him off the line or from a roll.

I fully understand the needing a truck thing. I live on 10 acres with goats, horses, cats, dogs, and wifey. I also have a fireplace that gets used during the winter, so I'm getting wood often enough. I am also an electrician, and may allegedly do side work, which may entail loading my truck with tools and materials.

From experience, the half ton rides a lot smoother than the 3/4 ton, at least for the years I've had. I also showed up to a TW wheeling trip in my diesel dodge, and that led to me getting 5 new tires and a new rim for my truck.
By fuel economy, my 96 diesel (about 16 regularly) does better than the 06 gasser (16 on the freeway cruising 60 down hill with a tail wind). In going to larger tires in the diesel, I have lost a little fuel economy. Now I'm slightly below 16.

 

Very helpful, sounds exactly like the path I’m headed. Been watching videos of the 3.5 EcoBoost and it’s damn impressive but I’m planning on getting a travel trailer so I’ll probably go diesel.

you do residential or commercial electrical?

 

The ecoboost can handle something like 10000 lbs of trailer. Look for the automatic with the 7 or 8 speed transmission. Fuel economy when not towing and not getting the turbo spooling up. Bigger fuel economy losses from gas than diesel though.

I'm currently a low volt electrician, but getting back into apprenticeship to get my full license for commercial. On the side, I may have done some of everything.

 

Guessing a lot of your work is in the Spokane area..... is construction busy over there for electricians? I want out of Washington and would be willing to commute into Spokane from where I have family in Idaho.....

 

Started the next phase of getting my truck back to being trail ready again. I didn't realize quite how flimsy these things were until I put an air hammer to them.


I've only had a couple hours a night to do it after work so hopefully I can get it done by the end of the week and be back up and running

 

Who else is watching this shitshow?

 

Yo

 

Nat’l embarrassment.

edit: both of them!! Really? One of these? Those are th choices? Were fucked

 

Between the three not sure who’s worse

 

im all for giant meteor

 

Pls, yes.

 

I watched for 20 minutes and had to turn it off when Ol' Joe said "just shut up, man".

 

Grab a beer free comedy

 

Anybody have any ideas where I could pick up a couple COM10T bearings and retaining rings locally? I figure it wouldn't hurt to swap out the ones on the end of my Icons while I have stuff torn apart at the moment but there are none available with Prime and I don't want to wait another week to put things back together.

 

I'm union, but I've worked around several nonunion contractors. Low volt has been definitely slow. When I moved from Lake Stevens to ore here, I had a 6 month vacation. I've heard many people call this local a suitcase local, meaning you travel if you want to work year round. Commercial (01) pays about $37 on the check out here, low volt (06) is a dime shy of $29 for union rates.

I intentionally avoided it

Right? Have you looked into Jo Jorgenson? Legalize drugs federally.

That is scheduled for 2025.

Start high and drink your way through the debate

 

I'm trying to help a friend over here with his truck setup. He is going to put airbags on his half ton chevy for trailer hauling. What onboard air compressors are good ? He was going to get external pump, but I mentioned OBA and he was already interested.

 

can’t go wrong with VIAIR. They should have a pump specifically for trailer airbags. Either that or he could just run air lines and schrader valves to an easily accessible area and air up/down with shop air

 

Maaaaaaaybe Mike for the bearings, and I plan to replace the spiroloc retaining rings with internal eared snap rings when I get to that point again. Ive already replaced them once but sourced all the hardware online.

 

I'll second VIAIR for that application. You see them used a lot in bagged cars/trucks.

But cheaper to just use shop air. Not like he should be changing the psi that often