Recent content by 3930dave

I'm curious how that rides. Plow-package up here means w/o a plow and even with the sub-frame/mounts on, you are at risk of knocking-loose tooth filings driving around in the Summer. Rgds, D.

The Doctor, is On-Duty ! :cool: Rgds, D.

Big :):cool:(y) and, from the American company that won @ Lemans, again. Breezy up here 6+mo/yr, and hot down your way, much of the year, but probably wouldn't even notice an Echo Mike Papa.... Rgds, D.

I really can't hide on here... .at least from the long-time TBN'ers :cool: Even with a resto-mod, I'd make sure to get a good-quality recording of the Clampett's truck, and loop it to external speakers...... if modern cars can make "Vroom" sounds through the audio-system to fool the driver, I...

Not hating-on T here..... just saying the mechanical aspects of even modern ICE platforms (seen an engine lately ?) has taken a back-seat to the Computer/Home Theatre-on-Wheels aspect of the marketing..... Edit - with you on modern slushboxes..... I was hoping that if I won a lottery and...

Progress ? :cool: Rgds, D.

Yep, closed channel in flood-the-roads-with-salt country often doesn't end well. Open-channel can be plenty strong.... thinking of video I've seen of a triple-frame Autocar, but that's a bit heavier than most of us need.... Rgds, D.

Great point. I haven't crawled under one lately, but @ 10K# towing, I expect there is still a full-frame under there. My HVAC contractor neighbour had a GM cube-van for a long time, put well over 600k km on it. Other than tires, brakes, tune-up items, and a coil-pack or 2, it basically needed...

I raised the point in some of the EV threads on here, that they are being marketed pretty much like cell-phones. The parallel is a little more blatant in the EV case, but, the points you raise ^ make a good case for saying modern vehicles are pretty much in the same situation. Most...

No accident, that "cast-iron reliability" predates all of us..... most today can't be bothered to season them, but nobody ever wore-out a cast-iron frying pan. High-Specific Output.... sells well @ dealer-demos; if it only makes it 10% past the warranty period, Meh. Transmissions too...

Ultra-quiet gen, loud-dog..... :cool: Good pic, he's kinda got that "You lookin @ Me" going (y) Rgds, D.

Being here, we've haven't had much besides Cummins (< not complaining) for I6 diesels, that I can recall.....(meaning light-vehicles). Just the other night, @ work, I ended up having a long chat with a guy I don't normally talk with much... conversation kicked off about old I6 gas engines. His...

Couldn't take the screenshot I wanted, now stuck in bold..... Towing @ very bottom of clip below (just under 8300#, with a dagger-note - haven't tried a build, perhaps a Tow pkg is avail here for more capacity ?). Mebbe Kanuck # are heavier ? :giggle: 'yoda, was the founding-family's actual...

To get the ext-cab here (my preference, for longer box), looks like I'd have to go Pro4x. Fighting with nissan.ca site.... so can't complete a quote, but should be 4x4, $52.6k plus, CAD. Haven't compared in a while, but it's not been unusual for new vehicles to be 10k higher here (converted...

Pricing online recently (def not basic truck material, sorry for drift).... I was attempting to see if anything was still kicking around for small diesels, just for grins.... not much, but did see that VW old Amarok (sp?) pu, is now a Ranger ? I definitely missed that deal being cut. So...