Your towing rigs and trailers

woody · Feb 15, 2016

FatTire said:
Not many people go for the extended cab these days, but we sure like 'em.

that's why I'm still driving my 2008 it is an extended and now they don't offer that.

dodge man · Feb 15, 2016

We have three extended cabs at work. I think they are 2015 model year Fords. If by extended cab you mean the kind with the doors that open the wrong way in back.

dieselcrawler · Feb 16, 2016

FatTire said:
Not many people go for the extended cab these days, but we sure like 'em.

I have 2 of them, but superdutys, not f150's. And not new... *grin* My 'new' truck is 16 years old!

Here it is on Sunday, hauled home another horse for the wife.

terryknight · Feb 16, 2016

you must love trouble greg

DK35vince · Feb 16, 2016

I'm still driving my 1991 F-250.

dieselcrawler · Feb 16, 2016

Terry, I married a redhead... yup I love her...

FatTire · Feb 16, 2016

As of 2016 model year, Ford still offers the extended cab for 250's and 350's. I imagine when they come out with the aluminum bodies (2017???) they'll quit doing the extended cab.

woody · Feb 16, 2016

woody said:
that's why I'm still driving my 2008 it is an extended and now they don't offer that.

guess I should of said my GMC

Green Power · Feb 16, 2016

woody said:
guess I should of said my GMC

Lol the big 3 all still offer an extended cab, however Gm and Dodge have moved towards a shortened normal door, handle on outside so that driver / passenger door doesnt have to be open to access them.

94BULLITT · Feb 16, 2016

Green Power said:
Lol the big 3 all still offer an extended cab, however Gm and Dodge have moved towards a shortened normal door, handle on outside so that driver / passenger door doesnt have to be open to access them.

Toyota is the one that started the extended cab that can be opened from the outside. It is a good idea but those trucks cost almost as much as a crewcab.

3930dave · Feb 17, 2016

DK35vince said:
I'm still driving my 1991 F-250.

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A lot of 10 y/o trucks around here don't look anywhere near that good !

Rgds, D.

DK35vince · Feb 17, 2016

3930dave said:
A lot of 10 y/o trucks around here don't look anywhere near that good !

Rgds, D.

Thank you.
I spray under the truck with oil every year (for the past 20 years that I have owned it).
Still in great shape. No rust and it runs in the salt and calcium they put on our roads in the winter.

GreatWhitehunter · Feb 17, 2016

Vince, what type of oil do you use? I've been wanting to have this done on my 2015 3500 but they charge like $700 but the salts here really ruins the underside's of vehicle's too. I guess they'll touch up the underside yearly though if you bring in in for nothing.

Matt

DK35vince · Feb 17, 2016

GreatWhitehunter said:
Vince, what type of oil do you use? I've been wanting to have this done on my 2015 3500 but they charge like $700 but the salts here really ruins the underside's of vehicle's too. I guess they'll touch up the underside yearly though if you bring in in for nothing.

Matt

I have always just used used motor oil.
I'm considering trying some Fluid Film next year when I spray it.
Several places around here that oil vehicles have been using Fluid Film and seem to like it.

DK35vince · Feb 17, 2016

GreatWhitehunter said:
Vince, what type of oil do you use? I've been wanting to have this done on my 2015 3500 but they charge like $700 but the salts here really ruins the underside's of vehicle's too. I guess they'll touch up the underside yearly though if you bring in in for nothing.

Matt

I drilled a hole in the door jam of each door so I can spray inside the doors, then just cap the hole with a plastic plug.
I do the same thing in the jam so I can spray up in the cab corners.
I also drill some holes inside the bed so I can spray in around the beds fender wells.

dieselcrawler · Feb 17, 2016

Hauled this home today. Clearing a lot next to where I work, our guys doing the demo work on 2 old houses, and a couple soft maple trees. Excavator operator didn't mind doing dropping these logs on my trailer instead of in our dump trucks...

Going to my buddies sawmill on Friday!

aeblank · Feb 18, 2016

Great info on the "undercoating" of oil.
I recall Paul Short discussing how he uses fluid film on his 1993 chevy, and it's spotless.
My 1995 chevy was NOT spotless.
I just got a 2014 chevy, so I'm suddenly interested in how to prevent rust again.

Anyway, I was going to dig up that youtube video try to figure out exactly what he was doing. Now, I don't have to.
Do you just put it in a mister bottle? Do you have to thin it out at all? Does the truck end up smelling all the time because of the oil?

I have GOBS of used oil. The new truck is a diesel, so once I change its oil I'll have GOBS and GOBS and GOBS of oil.

DK35vince · Feb 18, 2016

My vehicles will smell for a short time till any oil I got on the exhaust system gets burned off. But they do not smell for long.
I use an undercoat sprayer ( think it was around $60) and air compressor for spraying the oil.
Fluid Film offers a spray gun for spraying their oil, but I'm sure an undercoating sprayer would work fine for that also.
I never thin the oil. My undercoat sprayer sprays anything I put through it very well.

aeblank · Feb 18, 2016

Cool. Thanks for the info! Never heard of an undercoating sprayer.
I read in a truck forum that spraying fluid film on a GM frame harms/softens the coating that GM has on it.
On my truck, 2 years old, the frame has rust (spots) on it....

pondering some POR-15 on the frame.

I suppose I'm wandering way off topic.....................

DK35vince · Feb 18, 2016

aeblank said:
Cool. Thanks for the info! Never heard of an undercoating sprayer.
I read in a truck forum that spraying fluid film on a GM frame harms/softens the coating that GM has on it.
On my truck, 2 years old, the frame has rust (spots) on it.

From what I've seen I'm not convinced the factory coatings work that great anyway.
If it was mine I would spray it.
Oiling makes a huge difference.