What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I saw the Oscar-Meyer Weiner-mobile today, but did not get any pictures. Thought enough weirdness and ugliness had been imposed on TW already.

 

Well worth the money!

 

It’ll be fast, loud, and UGLY….

 

Too late to get George Peppard to drive it ..

 

The ones around here are just plain white trucks towing unmarked trailers. I’m not sure what they’re actually hauling.

 

Well. Nothing exciting.

I'm at 62k now so I've been chipping away at my service. Last week was front/rear differential and xfer case fluid swap. This week was plugging a tire with a nail close to the shoulder....that led to just rotating al l 4 tires and cleaning the brakes, drums, and suspension components.... After that I followed up with finding any bits of rust and shooting them with some paint and using some mavcoat on the frame, suspension, and undercarriage...

Nothing pic-worthy. I will get to the trans drain and fill and an oil change next week.

 

Have you had both?

 

When I was a kid, they had college scholarships for solar powered vehicles students developed, some were cars, some were actually planes. They developed vehicles that required no outside sources of energy except the sun. I seem to recall the plane being airborn for over a day, which at the time was very news worthy. Neither were fast, but only ran by the sun. in the late 90’s Ballard Technology developed and employed hydrogen fuel cell technology, they held so many US fuel cell patents and held contracts with numerous major vehicle manufacturers, Honda, Toyota, Ford, and many more as well as mass transit bus systems, their buses were used in Japan and other countries over seas.. the only byproduct was water… yes H2O..
Then along came ford, who purchased the rights to many of those patents, that all but disappeared for the last 24 years or so..
2 examples of free transportation. Ballard was soon on the OB board, but slowly has seemed to of rebounded in the market. None the less, I felt as if they sold us out for the mighty dollar, and never reinvested with them again.
Hydrogen fuel cell technology may still be a viable energy source, but someone in the middle is going to make sure it’s never free..
It’s about the money, nothing else.

https://www.oxfordsaudia.com/en/blo...anes-the-history-and-future-of-solar-flights/

https://www.ballard.com/about-ballard/our-history

 

I did something very similar in 2020 on my 19, and they too offer some sort of warranty , but only if I return to honor future undercoating schedules.. I instead went with fluid film applications every fall, typically it’s 5 cans living here in Northeast Pennsyltucky..(so far behind the times we are still waiting on Y2K!). A paper suit, drop the spare and go to the yard, spray everything subject to water exposure underneath and around the lower front of the engine, including hose clamps. Let it set up for a day in the yard, then I run dirt roads with dust and no rain exposure for a few days. It leaves a nice uniform coating your front end guy will love..
so here’s 4 years of road salt exposure

 

Yes , I did same thing with mine since they had busy schedule. But thing is that I couldn't lift the truck so I couldn't get it sprayed everywhere my own, so I did what I could and then they did their thing in February. I just didn't want to leave truck without coating all winter so I did it myself, got messy too. It was prob pain in the ass for them to remove all of what I applied

 

48 hours into OTT, moved from KDmax. Went with the mild/mid and am very happy. Was surprised at how the upgrade from stock to KDmax changed the truck and that KDMax to OTT was an even bigger improvement.

 

In Ohio?

 

Arizona. May be headed to the eclipse as far as I know, now.

 

Okay, they must have sent them to a bunch of eclipse area's. Seen one in Ohio too.

 

Which version of the KDMax tune did you have?

 

Can't remember, it was in 2021.

 

All the tunes have gotten a lot better over the last few years.
I got OV 2 back in 2020 then went to KDMax 9.0 at the end of 2023 and it was so much better.

 

Love the custom grille. Hi from about 60 miles down south

 

Just got my windows tinted.
35% up front and 20% in the back, it already had privacy glass so it's around 5-10% in the back.

 

It’s always a royal PITA, I don’t have a lift either, so it’s like 2 hours each fall, typically about the time I’m doing winter prep on everything..