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  1. piper1

    The June Taylor Dancers!

    Wood prefernce?
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    The June Taylor Dancers!

    Good things happen when smoke and meat collide.
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    The June Taylor Dancers!

    I've used a separate special ring for carrier phone calls since....a long time. It's now a Pavlovian response when I hear it. I call the ring "Money". It's an old BlackBerry ring tone I picked when I had one because it was the most grating and cut through most environmental noise. I also...
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    It's just June.....

    Penske Cube coulda handled it.
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    The June Taylor Dancers!

    Was it called "Leave it to Turtle" on TV in western KY?
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    Detroit 50 series idles but no power

    All of your codes have a common theme...voltage. Start by ensuring the engine block is grounded properly. You can temporarily test this by hooking one side of some jumper cables between a good solid engine part and the negative post on one of your batteries. Likewise..check the wiring between...
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    Best truck stop shower rewards for a deisel sprinter?

    Essentially...the shower credit is about 43 cents per gallon of the cost of the fuel at PFJ...so..to save enough to pay for a shower out of pocket...your non PFJ fuel has to be 43 cents a gallon cheaper than the PFJ price you would pay. Is that possible? Yes....especially if you are paying with...
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    For Chevy van fans.

    Ya...me thinks this is a traffic driver kind of web article....and it worked....I read it! I wouldn't put any stock in it. As mentioned...an Opel (GM just sold it) and a Transit are pictured....and the drive train bit of the article is about 7 years old in its information about the current...
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    Uber Freight

    Which is exactly competition...too many trucks around saying yes to whatever rates. Yes...lots of brokers and carriers doing well because there are too many trucks/vans available to say yes that freight. As for having trouble finding trucks....it could be like the "driver shortage...
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    Big Truck Tranny Coolers

    Curious as to bad how? Leaking? Plugged externally with road crud/bugs? Plugged internally with oil thrown from the turbo?
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    Verizon Canadian Travel Pass

    Verizon's "go ahead and use your US plan in Canada&Mexico just like home" now has a LOT of limitations. Data is limited to 3G speeds and 512MB a day..then 2G only...which is completely useless. The speed..or lack thereof on most Canadian 3G networks mean most apps will time out or just plain not...
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    MAY all your dreams come true!

    Well if it turns easy in the air...at least you know it's not mechanical..it's hydraulic. What's a rack worth for that vintage?
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    MAY all your dreams come true!

    Bad rack? Does it turn easy if the front end is jacked up off the ground?
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    Uber Freight

    You sure about that? There have been a couple of Uber cars involved in injury accidents up here...and within weeks the insurance association started an information campaign saying Uber drivers and passengers were not covered...but... thats Ontario...everywhere is different and maybe they will...
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    distance record

    If I'm driving a vehicle with a fuel pump IN the tank (almost all gassers and some diesels) I would never regularly let it get super low. That fuel is the only coolant that pump has. On diesels...most of the newer common rail injection style engines have a fuel cooler on the return line. I know...
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    Uber Freight

    They don't do any verification to insure you have the right insurance to carry passengers for hire...or worry about legalities. For example..technically it is ILLEGAL to carry passengers for pay in Ontario without specific (expensive) insurance and a valid municipal taxi licence (or bus...
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    DEF fluid is dead!

    Therein lies the rub. Just about every world diesel won't meet the US rules for Nox..without SCR/DEF..been this way since 2007. Missing it by 0.01 grams is actually quite a bit when the limit to start with is 0.2g...and the next hurdle (again thanks to California) is 0.02g. Just to give people...
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    DEF fluid is dead!

    Sorry....nope. Mazda's engines do not meet EPA rules without SCR (DEF system that targets Nox). EPA Nox rules are still tighter than the Euro rules...largely thanks to California's meddling. The Sky activ engines also use an internal form of EGR...sort of a Miller cycle principle....CAT tried...
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    Color spectrums for long night runs

    Kitchen table based carriers don't do "regulations"
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    Color spectrums for long night runs

    To emulate my hero Moot...I installed LED headlights that are in the 6000 to 6500k range. After a slight downward adjustment on the low beams I can report that they do make for a more pleasing drive and really light up the reflective paint on the pavement even in rain. The high beams are very...
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