then you as a fully qualified engineer (even though I;m sure you arent even 16) know full well, you can go one tick off the mark with ohv too. Thats a total bullshit excuse.
Went with a buddy of mine last night to pick up his new trailer. Not sure why it has such wimpy axles, but for the price he couldn't say no.
So that the wheels don't interfere with the load platform, bigger wheels means moving the entire load higher, meaning higher centre of mass making it more likely to tip over.
No, that's not it, Those are only 3,000 lb axles, which give the trailer a max load of 6,000 lbs, which is way, way less than it can fit. A trailer of it's size should have 15-18K lb axles.
Any thoughts on the positions of the axles in terms of weight distribution? Is it considered ideal to have most of the weight resting on the pickup with this style of trailer? For example if it had the 18k lb (8tonne) axles would the pickup be able to cope with having a fair chunk of the weight on its axle?
Let's say it's got the 15K lb axles, so that's 30K lb total legal weight for the trailer, And that would keep it within the warrantied towing weight for the newer one ton dually's. If you haven't got access to a scale, it's a pretty good rule of thumb to get as much of the weight as you can just in front of the trailer axles. It you go too far forward you could overload the truck, which could take weight off the steer axle, giving you loose and float y steering. If you go too far back on the trailer it's even worse, you would have less traction, less steering, and less control overall.
Yes i know, you all know who i am, the infamous 55Buick. i never tried to change my name to conceal who i was, i change Nice! Is it a goosneck? --- Post updated --- I am actually 24.
What is actually classed as a "Fully qualified engineer". Since no engineer is going to be fully trained in all engineering disciplines. Nor is any engineer going to be fully trained in any individual discipline since different schools will have different curriculums. Surely no engineer is going to be accredited by every society running. Does fully trained mean that someone simply made it past an undergraduate course or does it mean they studied to post graduate? I guess its an equivalent to (alternate way of saying) a chartered engineer?
Because of people who make rules think its a good idea to have 10 airbags (exaggeration I think) despite the fact a car might never need them.
Yeah, we should get rid of all the cupholders and cubbyholes too since no one might ever use them. The spare tyre (or can of get you home) as well, what's the point if the user might never need them. Actually, even better idea, lets not bother providing anyone with first aid training, since they might never need it... At the end of the day I would rather the air bags be there for if I do need them, as opposed to being missing because I might not need them.
I'm still not hugely keen on having an explosive device within three feet of my face. I've also found myself wanting a 6.7 Ford again, After riding with my buddy to pick up that trailer, and me and another friend racing to Chicago and back in less than 7 hours with one of his company trucks. This truck is a 2013, mechanically stock, although without DEF, EGR or a DPF, and with a 5 inch straight pipe,it sounds like a jet engine and it can cruise happily at 130 for 2 hours and get 19 MPG while doing it, which of course we didn't do, that's only on closed roads in Mexico. The 6.7 might be the best diesel engine Ford has offered since the 7.3. This one sounds almost exactly like his.
I've always liked the Super Duty trucks, but the 7.3 was pretty much the only engine worth a damn, 6.0's could be built into decent engines, but the cost involved makes that a bit unrealistic. The gas engines, the 5.4 and the V10 are both mod motors, and I refuse to own one. The 6.4's are basically an improved 6.0, but they still didn't work all the bugs out, and In the two that I drove, they were a bit underwhelming on power.
Does anybody know of a radio wire adapter for aftermarket stereos for 1986 GM? I bought and adapter that said it was 1988 and up thinking it would work because it was the only one I could find. I just installed a new antenna and I want to listen to radio stations, but I can't find the right adapter anywhere
Went into Anchorage today, annoyed a couple of locals in lightly-modded? G35s. I was coming up to a stoplight in a left-turn lane. I saw a couple of modded? G35s, probably traveling together, but didn't think I'd be able to engage them because I was between them in the leftmost of the two lanes. Then the light goes red right in front of the lead G35 and the last car ahead of us in the other turn lane just barely makes it through, so I switch right intending to come blasting out of the light with tires squealing, then get blown away because they had nearly or more than twice my horsepower stock for stock, and they have mods (probably) while I have wear and problems. Well, I did go squealing out of the light down the freeway (it ends in an at-grade intersection because Alaska), almost had an unpleasantness because someone turning right from the other direction of the road we were on before decided to turn into the middle lane instead of the (half-snowed-over) right lane, go up to the speed limit and start watching my mirrors. The G35s don't react immediately, but I look again as the speed limit rises from 55 to 65 and one of them is coming up fast, so I drop back into 3rd and floor it a short distance, not that this has any measurable effect on my Sunbird (especially over 4700? RPM where random, massive power cuts are the norm). Check again, see him accelerate again. Again, I drop it into 3rd and stomp on it, intending to put up a feeble, half-hearted fight for the heck of it, but then I see a massive wad of rush-hour traffic ahead, with the hammer lane empty for a significantly longer distance than the two right lanes. I realize that if I can make it into that empty area and get beside the cars in the other lanes, then I'll only have to go slightly faster than the prevailing speed of traffic to stay ahead of them, and that's easy even at the best of times, let alone when no one seems to want to go anywhere. So I keep my foot down and insert myself into the wad of traffic. They keep themselves big in my mirrors for a while, and probably would have passed me if I hadn't been watching the gaps to make sure I was as far forward as anyone could be, but I then lost track of them, and then encountered massive slowdowns because rush hour. Never saw them again. TL;DR I "beat" a pair of much more powerful cars by hiding behind traffic like a complete cheeselord.
I can back up my uncle on this. He is actually Twenty-Four, and he did jump his El Camino, and snapped the front wheel off. --- Post updated --- That wa kinda funny, but i can back up my Half-Uncle on his own age.
