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Re: How to check on old DP's engine, transmission ,radiator & Chassis
Take the VIN to a Monaco dealer and see what they can tell you. Ditto, the engine S/N to that engine’s nearest dealer and have them run it also. A diesel of that nature isn’t the kind of thing a shade tree mechanic whips out of the chassis and does serious wrenching on it himself.622Views1like0CommentsRe: F550 thoughts?
MDKMDK wrote: Does it require an air brakes endorsement to drive? The chassis numbers for GVWR and GCWR will tell the tale on that. LOL. It’s a pickup truck chassis, they have never made one with air brakes, and there is only one F550 chassis so there is only one GVWR and GCWR number, no options. We have several of those chassis (albeit with flatbeds or dry van bodies) and with a cheap plug in tuner they are a very spirited drivetrain, even with a pretty big load on. Even empty they have a very civilized ride. The older one a have here as a farm truck has a *far* nicer ride than my cousins Dodge 350 does.1.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: I'm curious to know what you would do?
4x4ord wrote: JaxDad wrote: 4x4ord wrote: .... 9 months newer and 1/2 the mileage for $4000 difference .... or, for $14,500 (CAD) difference I can pick up a new 2023 high output Platinum that I ordered months ago that has finally come in. Have you considered what’s behind door number 3 also? Assign the sale of your preordered ‘23 for current market price and end up with the ‘22 for free, possibly with cash in hand to boot. I have considered the possibility of a door number 3. It would be similar to what you're suggesting but would likely look more like take delivery of the '23 now and if I'm not happy with it after running it for 6 months or so I could sell it and buy a '22. Yup, same, but different. LOL.1KViews0likes0CommentsRe: I'm curious to know what you would do?
4x4ord wrote: .... 9 months newer and 1/2 the mileage for $4000 difference .... or, for $14,500 (CAD) difference I can pick up a new 2023 high output Platinum that I ordered months ago that has finally come in. Have you considered what’s behind door number 3 also? Assign the sale of your preordered ‘23 for current market price and end up with the ‘22 for free, possibly with cash in hand to boot.913Views0likes0CommentsRe: Side by side towing
valhalla360 wrote: RCMAN46 wrote: TThe Freedom Hauler is not considered a trailer as it is a solid attachment to trailer thus sway is not an issue. Show me that it's "not a trailer"... coming from the officials policing it...not the salesman (same goes for swivel wheel trailers). While I didn’t look up the law for “no particular place” I do know that traffic laws are pretty uniform when it comes to definitions of, and classes of vehicles. A “trailer”, in every definition I’ve seen in the many laws I have looked at is always “a vehicle drawn upon a highway by a motor vehicle” and then goes on to exempt things like farm implements and other motor vehicles, and specifically, motorcycle side-cars which when rigidly affixed (not hitch) to a bike become part of it, not ‘towed’ by it.1.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: RV built with hole in the Floor (Thor/Four Winds/Mandalay)
wa8yxm wrote: On a guess they drilled the hole for the steering in the wrong place. I’d think that’s unlikely, they’d have a template or something so that every unit built is the same. I suspect it’s either one of several used to carry the walls & floor to meet the chassis, or to give access to some component needed during assembly. Still surprising that they’d use an uninsulated steel plate to cover it.1.2KViews0likes0Comments
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