emcvay
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Re: It's 2025 and I need Dually Tires!
Perhaps you misunderstand. The tires are showing wear at about 45k miles on them and 6 years. Could I get another year out of them? Probably, if I were willing to run them to the wear marks all over. They are cupped a bit, poorly worn and well, typical of dually tire wear. The money is set aside now.Re: winter projects
I've got a 2019 AF990 -- I think I could fit my 310AH LiFePo4 in there but I don't have two of them...I could have but I can't lift them suckers much anymore anyway. Two 100AH batteries should be more than enough for us since we lived on 2 84ah Marine batteries for the first 6 years ;) -- which means we really had 84AH of useable power (or if you were careful, 42AH) so today with considerably more useable power we're golden -- heck, I may run the fridge on DC!Re: what trips are you looking forward to this year?
Got a couple on the books now. The first is to Knox Mountain in Kalowna BC for a mini Memorial for my Dad who raced it in 1975 in his MGBGT. A gent with a B will carry a small vial of Dad's ashes up the mountain for me and it will be great being back after all these years. We'll be RV camping this trip. Then, two weeks later we're heading 980 miles north to see grand critters no.6 and 7 :D and their parents of course ;) I looks forward to driving the caribou again and getting in some Northern Pike fishing. Plus, I've upgraded the solar on the camper so it will be fun to see how it's doing!It's 2025 and I need Dually Tires!
It's that time and my experience with Dually tires is they wear out quickly no mattery who, what or where and getting the right tire can make that less painful. At work we ran Les Swabb tires and they did ok under heavy use but I'm trying to see who's got a decent tire that won't cut too deeply into my summer plans (ie. won't cost me an arm and leg). I'm looking at the Firestone Transforce AT2 since it seems many recommend them for a dually and I do have a knarly 3 mile stretch of rocky trail/road I drive to my cabin in the truck now and then and we do some dirt road driving to camping spots when carrying our ArticFox990 which we all know weighs in around 4500lbs fully stocked and ready to go for a couple weeks (maybe slightly less but I figure erroring on the heavy side is smarter). So, $1500 for Firestones either the AT2's or the HT's I've got about 45k miles on my OEM tires and they are not slicks yet (even the boys at Swabby's said "they've got life in them yet" but my wife is looking to retire so we figure, renew the tires now while she's working (we're paying cash but easier to spend bigger chunks now than later). What's your recommendation? Ford F350 Lariat FX4 CC DRW with ArticFox990 pulling a Jeep WranglerRe: winter projects
510AH but it's not in the camper 😉 I put two 100AH Vetarer batteries in the battery box (those are the heated batteries) and my first test was done with a 100AH Redodo battery and a Redodo DC to DC charger hooked up to the aux solar input. Worked like a charm (I can share that video if allowed here?). Next, I looked at the space in front of the wheel well of the truck and realized I could place mu 310AH XZNY battery there if I placed it in a box and tied it down. I could then run the DC charger either to the camper to provide 600w of 'solar charging' off the battery, or to the truck to charge the battery 😉 I suspect what I will settle on is a small 30A MPPT controller at the solar input wired to the battery and the DC charger wired to the truck and charging the battery - this will also allow me to add 600w of solar since the Redodo has a solar input as well (it's an MPPT controller as well as a DC charger -- neat little unit). I'm a youtuber (and long time RV net user though I was gone a couple years -- very busy on YT) and make videos about doing these things.
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