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  1. Turtle

    What Truck Parking Changes Have You Seen With New HOS?

    Satellite positioning alone usually doesn't allow for the precision achieved with the newer system. The old QC was satellite-only, and allowed for anywhere from 3 to 15 meter precision. The MCP2000 uses a combination of WiFi hotspot and cell phone tower data (Hybrid Location Technology) to...
  2. Turtle

    Guitar tuning and memory

    For non-Mac users... WD My Passport Edge 500GB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive - $57.41 and WD My Passport 1TB Portable USB 3.0 External hard Drive - $69.99 I have a couple of the latter that I use in the truck for movies, TV shows, laptop hard drive backups, etc.
  3. Turtle

    The truth about the Zimmerman case!

    Zimmerman wasn't faced with a situation of seeing someone committing a crime, he was faced with seeing someone he didn't know who was walking through the neighborhood while talking on a phone minding his own business. At that point, police protection for people or property wasn't needed at all...
  4. Turtle

    Decisions to be made

    Those who wouldn't do it for one dollar but would for one hundred, we know what you're willing to do, all you're doing is haggling over price. :D
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    Decisions to be made

    I'd grab that out of there even if it was Brisco's toilet.
  6. Turtle

    20 Truths Banned in America

    If that were true, why is The God so jealous of all the other ones?
  7. Turtle

    The truth about the Zimmerman case!

    Death, or at least extreme bodily injury, for sure. Once Zimmerman was down and Martin was on top of him, that alone would justify the use of lethal force. I do believe that in that instant, Zimmerman absolutely shot Martin in self-defense, and it was absolutely justified. I also believe that...
  8. Turtle

    Stand Your Ground under attack!!

    You know who started that petition? Or at least inspired it? Stevie Wonder. He was giving a concert in Canada when the verdict came down, and spent 15 or 20 minutes talking about it on stage, and said he will boycott Florida, and any other state with similar laws, until those laws are...
  9. Turtle

    Ponder Time-2005 Sprinter

    Same thing happened to me. That's now I know. Pressure looked good, just like yours did, but it took on more freon, anyway. Those compressors leak over time, and the drier also has a tendency to leak around the fittings on too. A leak at the drier will be an easy one to see if there is dye in...
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    Ponder Time-2005 Sprinter

    You're almost certainly low on freon. When you are, the dash evaporator coil isn't cold across all the coils, and you get warm air to the left, cold air to the right. Warm driver side A/C air is the first indication, usually, of low freon. As out gets lower, you'll hear the compressor cycling on...
  11. Turtle

    Won't Start ~ Will Start ~ Won't Lock ~ Will Lock???

    A Sprinter only has the one cranking battery.
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    My first 30 minute break

    According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2010 numbers, the most recent), the time of day when most accidents and fatalities occur is the same time when the most vehicles are on the road, between 3PM and 9PM, with the highest percentage of them occurring between 6-9pm -...
  13. Turtle

    E-Trac Placement

    http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/truck-talk/54838-hazmats-ford-terramaxx.html
  14. Turtle

    Boston Bomber makes the cover of Rolling Stone.

    Despite her being somewhat liberal (more MOR moderate, actually), based on her previous work where similar liberal sentiments could have been used, and weren't, I doubt that this story will take that angle, especially since the word "monster" is used here. More likely the story will be more like...
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    Boston Bomber makes the cover of Rolling Stone.

    Oh, OK. The article is written by Janet Reitman, who has written for Rolling Stone several pretty in-depth and comprehensive articles on everything from Bradley Manning to Annonymous to Scientology. I expect this one to be just as thorough and enlightening about this guy. If so, I really don't...
  16. Turtle

    Boston Bomber makes the cover of Rolling Stone.

    Is that a problem of some kind? Until I read the article (which hasn't hit newsstands yet) I can't really comment on it.
  17. Turtle

    Won't Start ~ Will Start ~ Won't Lock ~ Will Lock???

    It could be several things, but I'd start with the CTM (Central Timer Module) and the Ajar switches, most likely the driver Ajar switch. Make sure the wiring to them isn't damaged and are seated properly and the contacts are clean. After that looks at the electrical connections to the SKREEM...
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    E-Trac Placement

    Yeah, thanks. Left out a zero. Sorry about that. Just to make it clear, .038 of an inch is 1/26th of an inch, a little more than 1/32nd, about one-point-two 32nd of an inch (1.2/32). It's not much, but it's just enough. Over time the plywood will be friction-eroded and compressed by sliding...
  19. Turtle

    E-Trac Placement

    E-Track is 5-inches wide. If the outer edges of the E-track are 48-inches apart, then you'll need a piece of plywood that is 38-inches wide to go between them. So, when you buy the plywood have them rip 10 inches off the long ends (or 9-inches if you want 49 inches between the outer edges)...
  20. Turtle

    E-Trac Placement

    A 4x8 sheet of plywood only weighs about 50 pounds, depending on the wood species. This isn't the ideal picture, but at least is gives you a good idea how I've got it done. E-track on the sides right up against the wheel wells, and a sheet of plywood cut to fit in between them. It's actually...
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