Recent content by lugbolt

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    RAM 2500 opinions

    correct. At work we have the 6.4 Ram 2500 4x4 and we also have a durmax 2500 4x4. Basically same trucks, but one is gas the other diesel. Ram has about 80,000 mi and the gmc has about 110,000. Look at it per mile. Ram, about $1.09 a mile for this last year, and the gmc is about $1.94...
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    Need your truck interior “detailed”?????

    i've seen that a bunch of times on the ram's just did the wife's acadia, leaking windshield on it. those cars are garbage.
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    Mower blades

    I use an angle grinder. Put blade in vise, grind them at roughly same angle as it was, then balance. Usually only get one sharpening out of them and then it's time to replace. It's getting time again now, so probably early next spring it'll get new blades.
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    Leaking gear boxes on mower decks

    No, the problem is...that it's a GR series mower.
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    Help with L35 leaks and ROPS/Cabin removal

    probably but you'll have to find someone to make it with the correct ends. Likely less $$$ to just buy the OEM pipe and install it. You still have to take the old one off so just get the correct one and have it on hand for when you get the old one off. the hose idea is sound but remember...
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    RAM 2500 opinions

    we have a 23 ram 2500 ext cab 6.4 at work. Shop delivery truck. It doesn't usually move unless there's a trailer behind it. It's got enough power but it's not a diesel. It loves fuel (loaded or not). It is the roughest riding pickup truck I have ever driven in my entire life. I have a 2003...
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    Any fellow bird nerds here?

    never used to pay much attention to the birds but lately I have been. Boy, we have a large diversity of, birds, around here. I will say my favorite is the scissortaill flycatchers. Interesting birds. Wife and I went to the lake earlier and saw several roadrunners too....one of them took off...
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    Zd28 electrical/starting issue

    do a voltage drop test on the starter circuit. You'll find the problem. If you don't know how to do a voltage drop test, youtube search it-it's easy, and saves a TON of time. it's probably a corroded wire or a corroded connection. Possibly a failing relay but you gotta actually FIND the...
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    Grass chute upgrade

    you may have already got it, but the easiest way I know is to start the pin through the flap and deck bracket, put the spring onto the deck, run the pin about halfway through it and twist the end of the spring so it's in the right spot. Then use a small hammer, tap the pin through slowly as you...
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    MotorTrend has lost it !!!

    Maverick truck is a well deserved award. My mom bought one, when they first came out I thought my goodness, what a pile of feces...I hate it. It's ugly! Well after mom bought it, and we realized how versatile it really is, I thought, man I could use one for a daily commuter and it'd do...
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    Four-wheel drive drive shaft l2900

    yes and if the coupling fell off inside the transmission, you're gonna have a time of it getting it back on. BTDT.
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    A truck and trailer thread.

    there is not a trailer tire made that is immune, not even the goodyears that were supposed to be the greatest trailer tires are made differently than car tires, and they will separate like that especially as they get aged out. tire pressure has a lot to do with it too the type of tire the...
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    L6060 + 3rd function + BH92: grapple deadheading “feeds back” into backhoe - dealer says I must disconnect BH hydraulics. True?

    there was a bulletin on this subject a number of years ago. Perhaps one of the dealer techs can shed some light on it. Had to do with how the BH is plumbed with the 3rd function and any other hydraulic accessories on the PB circuit.
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    20 hours on new Machine, Hydraulic Pump Failure, Advice needed.

    yes, it's not uncommon, or wasn't when I was doing it.
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    A new ride

    this is true however the enginerds who designed the motors also know that if you pour 100% available current to the motor from a dead stop, the motor will not last long. Thus, the enginerds program the motor controller such that current is applied however THEY want it to be. So essentially you...