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3 years ago I placed an ad on craigslist using my iPhone mobile data while in Flagstaff, AZ. 

google then locked me out of my gmail account citing "suspicious activity" 

There was No Way I could log back in with the iPhone. 

So I called their customer service and got right through and all was resolved in 5 minutes I could access my email account again.

Har har har Juuust kidding I made that up. I wasn't laughing at the time.

Fortunately back at camp I was able to use a PC laptop on a wifi connection through a couple screens I've never seen before and trick google and access my account again. 

Then I could log in ok on the iPhone. 

Anyways - I have been a bit reluctant to place an ad on CL ever again... 

Has anyone experienced this? 

Is there a sure fire prevention? (besides selling through other ways?)

Thanks Glenn - that was a nice install he did.

2 hours ago, Barbaraok said:

And?  Are you saying that it can’t be done?   

Where did I infer it couldn’t be done? 

A power grid was built the first time why couldn’t it be built 1.6 times over again? 

I did a rough calculation a while ago. I used figures from the US government energy agency.

Based on gasoline motor fuel used per day x 30% efficiency for gas engines and converting that quantity to electric kilowatts equivalent at 100% efficiency to favor electricity, the electricity generation capacity of the continental USA would have to approximately double to replace 30% of the gasoline used per day.

In addition the generation in the USA is around 67% fossil fuelled now so that 67% needs to also be replaced and the new doubling cannot be fossil fuelled.

In summary: replace 67% of the grid with zero emission sources then double the grid. That covers the gasoline fleet. 
Then there is the diesel fleet: trucks, busses, railways, coastal and inland marine, aircraft,

and then military.

Here is a 25 ton battery electric truck with 400 km range (“depending”) coming from Mercedes-Benz, the eActros.

Link to a video

Here is a link to a video discussing “zero emission” heavy duty piston engine technology which touches on the challenges with powering heavy duty mobile power applications with batteries. 

Link to a video

Neither of the above can be bought this Monday.

I’m not sure a new won ton diesel piston pickup can be bought on Monday either 🤣🤣

That slide hammer affair the person knocked the valve stem out with is kinda like the bead breaker we used on tube type split rim tires.  Changed and repaired a few hundred of them at our roadside garage. 

A bead axe takes a certain skill around polished aluminum wheels. 

Who knows what a Heidenau K60 tire is? 

Who knows what changing one over at 06:00 hrs for a small group ride meet up on a Saturday day off work with 2 6in tire irons because you were too busy at work so you paid a shop who mounted it backwards on the wheel?

40 minutes ago, Wrknrvr said:

  Yesterday I tried to start the truck. It was about 45 degrees outside so I tried it. Not turning over fast enough. So I plugged it in to the block heater. And then then checked the batteries voltage, 11.9 volts. Not good. The truck sits plugged into the 5thwheel by an umbilical cord. I did not want to check to see if the umbilical cord power was good. I know it would not take long. But I did want to put new spark plugs in the generator on the truck. So with new plugs in the generator I started the generator  and plugged in the on board converter. About 20 minutes later the truck started.

  So this am I will check the batteries for voltage. Now it maybe 6or7 years since there were new batteries installed in this truck. So I am shopping for batteries. I also will see if the inline fuse for the umbilical cord is good.

 

  But batteries would be a good thing to do, I do believe 

Hi Vern - around here best price for heavy truck batteries Grp 31 is at heavy truck dealers. 

2 hours ago, Lloyd said:

I have an actual serious question on EVs. I know there is going to be a range reduction if you're towing with one, but how much? Is there anyone who has hitched up a travel trailer and quantitatively measured a range difference vs. unloaded?

If you use u tube there are videos from CanAm RV and the Truck King channel towing an Airstream with a Tesla Model 3

13 hours ago, Sculptor said:

Cleaned battery terminals, battery disconnect switch terminals, the copper crimped wire ends, and a ground post below the steering column.  I have a “data link hardware failure” message that looks like it’s here to stay.

Sculptor your camp guest accomodations there are cool. 

14 hours ago, palmeris said:

Yes, And the F450 PU would still be within spec for Notevens toyhauler

yes it would 

the old trailer dates from The Time Before 800hp $100grand Pickup Trucks

I bob tailed to the truck and RV warsh and warshed under the hood and exterior. 

Parked him in the heated shop over night. Got going in good time this a.m. before the shop owner needed the bay to change fuel filters, coolant filter, do a careful and complete greasing of the fittings, and clean the windows. 

3 things remained true to the Laws of Maintenance: 

The grease gun was empty when I picked it up. 

Dirt knocked out of a U-joint does not accelerate directly towards the center of the earth. It will bend in trajectory slightly to get on the safety glasses and in the one ear. 

I use a motorsports foot valve siphon hose to fill the fuel filters out of a tank on the truck. Yes, it is made out of chitty plastic tubing. Which invokes the Universal Law: Any fluid transferred inside plastic tubing/garden hose WILL end up on one shoe and sometimes a pant leg ...

3 minutes ago, wlp said:

Thank you 

lessons learned

Always make sure you have your sheet metal lined up when you’re using the 3M tape. Once it touches it stuck. Secondly, make sure you remove the plastic covering film from your panels before you use 3M tape.

Doh!

What Darryl said ^ .

6 minutes ago, Darryl&Rita said:

We'll let you clear up any confusion or miss-steps with border patrol. I hate being the practice dummy. We plan to cross mid-November.

Message received will be in radio contact. Over

Just for information: my little Kenworth has a 160” WB so 8” shorter than my F350 Fordor or the previous Dodge.

The visibility forward is much better and turn radius is smaller. 
 

But - it is a truck not a pickup power to weight ratio wise. It does not have the zoom factor a pickup has.

But you hitch up a 9 to 15 ton trailer and it’s like, “whatever”.

7 hours ago, hemsteadc said:

I'm not familiar with that size spec.

Tires done, crisis averted!  Thanks all.

They are the tubeless version of the old 10:00-20 tire. 
 

11R22.5 and 11R24.5 are the most common tire ever in western Canada, eh?

Metric “low pro’s” can be a bit of a chase to find.

I plan to cross on or about November 8. 
 

As I can make it snow on I15 by traveling by RV any month of the year I would like to extend my apologies in advance for the chit weather we are about to receive. 
 

Howdy Chad congratulations on your retirement. 

Maybe a burger and a beer this winter? 

are 11R22.5 tires available?

18 hours ago, rickeieio said:

Ya, the cardboard likely won't hold up well.  It'll need two or three plies of duct tape.

So, speaking of duct tape. I went to grab it for this project and found it poked full of holes, all going in the same direction.  And, only one side of the roll was affected.  So, I spent some time looking and pondering, and finally digging.  Yup, someone had shot it with some #8.  I think grandson got a new trap gun, likely laid the tape by the target when we was checking his pattern.  Have you ever tried to unroll duct tape that's been shot and has an ounce of lead imbedded in it?

ahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa

rick - my dooley runs off the shelf stainless steel fenders in the wheel openings of the body. But I travel some grabbel roads on occasion. 

Keeps the stones, salty slush, and blow outs somewhat contained. 

11 hours ago, rickeieio said:

My first time driving a tractor/trailer.......  Old International COE with a 903 Cummins and 10 spd. Fuller, pulling a 5,000 gal. unbaffled fertilizer  (10.6 lb/gal.) trailer.  It was about half full.  I had to pull out onto a busy highway going up hill, then go through town with 4 or 5 traffic signals.  I learned a lot in that 2 miles.

Ya it is quite a thing - especially when you are trying to float shift on the jake to impress them pretty girls 

Why is carbon dioxide called “carbon” all the time?

Why don’t CO2 emission tonnes actually weigh 1000kg? Or do they? 

Where can a person look at predictions made by scientists and reputable organizations from 10, 20, 30 years ago and check on their accuracy? Why are these predictions dismissed when they prove to be wrong? 
 

Why do people in agreement with the “crisis, emergency, alarmist” views often revert to name calling and putting down people that question the information? Or fire them or cut their funding? 

Why do certain media outlets now or plan to censor information that questions the “settled” science or shows different information.
 

What science is ever “settled”? Aren’t discoveries still being made in all the sciences? But at the whole planet 40 years in the future climate level we have that down pat? 
 

An ammonia solution is corrosive?
 

Yer kiddin.