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RE: Truck was totaled, looking at GM 6.6 Gasser
We have 3 HD GM gassers from the business back at the dealer right now for electronics issues. 1-2024 with the 10 speed and they have had it for over a month, they can't seem to figure it out. The other 2 are 2023's. To have one side of the LED front accent/driving light replaced on one of those 2023's that crapped would have been $1500.00 if not under warranty, and now it has ECM or BCM issues.
I would not be concerned with the motor or tranny, that 10 speed Allison is a great transmisson, its proven. It's the rest of the truck you need to be concerned about, especially so for the electronics.
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StonedPanther
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09/21/23 03:14am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: "Laminated Aluminum Floor" Definition?
The top layer in a Forest River laminated floor is 8mm Luan plywood and is sourced from China. Its roughly 5/16" thick. The foam and aluminum tube in the middle of the sandwich are 1-1/2". The bottom layer of luan plywood is 3mm thick, roughly 1/8".
Those floors are great until they're not. They tend to fail at high travel / traffic areas. At the entrance door, in front of the sink, in the bathrooms. The foam compresses and the adhesives fail. If the owner/users are of great bulk, good luck.
Some Forest River brands / divisions stopped using the laminated floors altogether, an example is Rockwood/Flagstaff. They switched to 5/8 tongue and groove plywood floors (not OSB) mid way through the 2017 model year. Laminated floors are garbage.
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StonedPanther
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08/26/23 09:03pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
I put 126K on my 2011 without touching the brakes. 95K
on my 2011 (sold it early to avoid CP4 problems). My dealer has mentioned that they miss the brake job revenue they used to make.
Bottom line: brakes just are not a problem on these trucks
Ok, 126K. That's a longshot off from 260K LOL, and don't believe what your dealer says as he was probably flipping burgers last week at Micky D's LOL.
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StonedPanther
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08/20/23 05:42am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
My goodness. I started this thread to find out if using carbon fiber ceramic pads are compatible with stock rotors. I never, in a million years, thought that it would cause the same stir as Ford v. Chevy v. Ram. Lol
I'll see your Ford/Chevy/Ram and raise you an ST/LT Tire and a tongue weight percentage.
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StonedPanther
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08/20/23 05:29am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
Yeah, you just can't trust all these liars. FWIW the head wrench turner at any dealer was probably flipping burgers at Micky D's yesterday.
Kind of boils down to "You're wrong" vs "All these other people are liars". Hmm, that's a tough one.
Yep, just can't trust em LOL.
"My sons 2004 duramax has 260K miles on it with the OEM pads and I suspect they will go another 50K. And I'm not the only one. 3 others I know with GM 3/4 ton trucks have ALL passed 250K on the original brakes. And even with that miles the rotors show very little wear."
That's 260,000 miles claimed and potentially 310,000 miles from factory OEM brake pads. Undisputed proof I would say. I feel really bad for Aftermarket pad manufacturers and places such as Midas, they're going out of business soon.
https://i.imgur.com/yd98YDbl.jpg
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StonedPanther
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08/20/23 05:22am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Suburban water heater replacement issue
Here's one method:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=969UMd5I0T8
Disclaimer: I'm not a plumber, but I have done pex connections in the last few weeks!
Yeppers, that's one method. The issue might be is doing that on a work bench while having the line clamped in a vise is one thing, in an RV another. Typically there are lots of cheap plastic fittings around and close to the heater they use to get the pex around other items and construction, fittings that probably were not made to be used with pex in the first place, so when you go twisting a pair of dykes around in the limited spaceif you can get them on the clamp at all, bad things happen.
Even if you can get the clamp off you need the room to get the new clamp on. They install the heater before the cabinetry or other construction is around it, usually with absolutely no thought about if the heater ever needed swapped out. Its all about speed on the factory line. I would try to cut the pex somewhere so I could get the heater out through the hole with the rear connections intact, then plumb the new heater the same way outside the rig, slide it back in and connect the lines that were cut with sharkbite couplings.
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StonedPanther
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08/19/23 05:02am |
Tech Issues
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RE: RV Axle Alignment Shop in Buffalo NY area
Can anyone explain what an “Alignment Shop” is gonna do that the OP can’t do with just his eyeballs, a ruler and straight edge or string?
Cash his check or run his credit card? Do I win a cookie?
You’re one of the few people on here that I would expect to “get it.” Which is really sad considering the collective respondents thus far just in this thread probably outnumber you and me together by about 690 more trips around the sun.
Considering the seeming necessity for participation trophies in society these days, you win a whole batch of cookies for actually being correct. Rather than the ubiquitous pat in the back for “trying” even though you may be wholly incorrect!
You should check out the Searching For Tires thread…. It’s another Grammy award winning rvnet performance by the same cast of misinformed characters we’ve come to know and love!
And yes the same people who are the leading actors very likely are still writing checks at places like the alignment shop.
Funny story, few years ago, my wife is visiting her parents, who to this day still do not seem to have dementia and are fairly technologically saavy for late Silent Gen/Early Boomer age folks. She goes to the grocery store w/her dad and after the groceries are scanned, he hands the cashier (green hair, piercings, tats, you know definitely VERY trustworthy looking, lol) a blank check to fill out for the total…..still totally inexplicable to this day…and his only reasoning is they offer that “service” to their customers…. Yes they live in a blue hair town in Nevada, of all places. Moved there so they could be close to Vegas….lol.
I don't know what the end result would be if one was to take a come-along, chainfall, or porta power to these axles if they're hanging off a Lippert frame and start tugging on them using the frame as part of the equation LOL. I suppose it would rip the hangers off, which seem to have a hard time staying in place just under normal conditions, or possibly rip the cheapass main rails in half LOL.
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StonedPanther
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08/19/23 04:33am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
Yes, the same with tires, in the Midwest or somewhere with flat land where the roads are mostly straight for miles you'll get more miles than in say north central Pennsylvania. But this is about brakes and has involved into some half assed pissing match about factory OEM brake pad life. I was calling someone out for claiming 145K on OEM pads, now there are claims of a quarter of a million miles, or more.
ROFLMAO.
Perhaps physics are different in the PNW than anywhere else in the country, or the manufacturers ship new vehicles there with some super secret squirrel brake package different than everywhere else?
We have 260K, do I hear 300K, 450K, LOL. You folks with those off the wall claims of 250K must also get twice the tire wear and double the fuel mileage too.Or perhaps you're wrong? When most of the evidence points that way...
Perhaps I am wrong. That's only if I take Internet forum ramblings and claims, basically a lot of BS'ing, as "Evidence".
What I take as evidence is 30+ years of buying personal vehicles and doing my own maintenance for the most part, having two family members who are independent mechanics with their own businesses, one with 45 years under his belt, and indirectly managing a fleet of pickups and vans for the last 12 years or so. But carry on \ having fun with this 260,000 mile brake pad life BS. FWIW I showed this thread to the head wrench turner down at the Ford dealer yesterday and he got a better laugh out of it than I did.
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StonedPanther
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08/19/23 04:27am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: RV Axle Alignment Shop in Buffalo NY area
Can anyone explain what an “Alignment Shop” is gonna do that the OP can’t do with just his eyeballs, a ruler and straight edge or string?
Cash his check or run his credit card? Do I win a cookie?
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StonedPanther
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08/18/23 03:19am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
Like ALL things great and small. Break life depends upon two major factors.
If you do A LOT of stop and go city type drive. lESS miles.
IF you do a high percentage of miles on a freeway interstate not having to hit the brakes a dozen times a mile, more like zero with cruise on....you will get 2-3x the mileage of the city person.
Yes, the same with tires, in the Midwest or somewhere with flat land where the roads are mostly straight for miles you'll get more miles than in say north central Pennsylvania. But this is about brakes and has involved into some half assed pissing match about factory OEM brake pad life. I was calling someone out for claiming 145K on OEM pads, now there are claims of a quarter of a million miles, or more.
ROFLMAO.
Perhaps physics are different in the PNW than anywhere else in the country, or the manufacturers ship new vehicles there with some super secret squirrel brake package different than everywhere else?
We have 260K, do I hear 300K, 450K, LOL. You folks with those off the wall claims of 250K must also get twice the tire wear and double the fuel mileage too.
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StonedPanther
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08/18/23 03:14am |
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RE: Site squatters
Get off my **** lawn LOL.
These boards take the cake LOL.
Ha, the word D A M N gets censored here ROFLMAO.......Are they censoring for 5 yr olds?
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StonedPanther
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08/12/23 09:00am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Financing Rates These Days
Due to the Fed's attempts (Successful it appears) to tone down runaway inflation the interest rates on loans is rather high just now.
Appears is the key word, the issue is the inflated prices for everything are now baked in and are not going to go back the other direction.
All one has to do is look at their grocery and utility / energy bills, or look at new vehicle prices, RV prices, or just about anything else.
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StonedPanther
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08/12/23 08:55am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
I have been on this Forum much longer than you so I will cut you some slack. Ask any longtimers on here they will tell you I don't lie or exaggerate as I have no reason to do so.
I am sure you will say the same about me getting 65k with plenty of tread on my DRW Michelin's with tread left. That's towing 1/2 the miles with full RAWR load. I also used to get 120k easily with 3rd gen Michelin's on my 98 12V 4x4.
Whatever ROFLMAO. I get 140,000 miles out of brakes and 120,000 miles out of tires too. Every year when I take my annual trip to Fantasy Mountain.
https://i.imgur.com/lEgm4I0l.jpg
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StonedPanther
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08/06/23 06:55am |
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
"You get 145,000 miles out of the OEM brakes? LOL"
You obviously don't own a modern diesel with an exhaust brake.
I also obviously live in the real world. There is no way in hell you are getting 145,000 miles, or anything even close, out of OEM brakes. Or aftermarket either. Not even if you have half a dozen exhaust brakes on the truck and 3 on the trailer.
Internet forum BS.
https://i.imgur.com/JEaAof8l.jpg
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StonedPanther
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08/05/23 04:17am |
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RE: Selling an RV/payment
Fun to speculate as to why OP is trying to avoid banks. IRS? Ex? Debt collectors?
Perhaps saving a nickel by spending a dollar?
Throwing dimes like they're manhole covers?
Who knows LOL.
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StonedPanther
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07/30/23 07:59am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
The ONLY reason, and I do mean ONLY reason for slotted and drilled rotors on race cars is weight reduction. That's it. Weight reduction.
BS to put it simply.
Tell me why it's BS? Lets hear it. I find it strange that you come on here asking a simple question about brakes that you don't know the answer too and then when I give you the answer and more, you act like you have all of this knowledge about brakes. :h
You need to read the thread again from the beginning. I did not ask any questions about anything, that was Scootsk. I find it strange that you dispute about 92% of what anyone else posts based on reading through your past posts on what essentially amounts to a dead board locked in 1972. I'm not about to argue with some Knucklehead when others in a thread get it and the knucklehead doesn't. You did not give me an answer about anything as I never asked a question LOL.
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StonedPanther
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07/30/23 05:51am |
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
a regular brake job should fix the problem without getting exotic.
There is nothing exotic about Powerstop Z36 kits with drilled and slotted rotors. The Powerstop kit per axle is lower in price than going down to Autovance and buying the "regular" off the shelf generic garbage pads and crapola no name rotors that warp the first time you heat them up.
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StonedPanther
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07/29/23 06:26am |
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
I just don't understand this tricked out brake stuff. My truck has 145,000 on it and the brakes were inspected at 115,00 and the mechanic said the brakes looked like brand new. And this is with 40% towing.
You get 145,000 miles out of the OEM brakes? LOL. Good for you. I bet you also get 35 mpg out of a V8 pickup LOL.
The ONLY reason, and I do mean ONLY reason for slotted and drilled rotors on race cars is weight reduction. That's it. Weight reduction.
BS to put it simply.
And then you have people that want slotted and drilled rotors. WTH? Do you really want to reduce the thermal load your rotors can absorb?
Yes, exactly the point. You contradict yourself. I thought the only thing they accomplish is "weight reduction"? BTW there is a big difference between "Absorption" and "Dissipation".
they know little to nothing about.
Well you said it, Obviously.
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StonedPanther
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07/29/23 06:20am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
First question...why do you feel the need?
Perhaps he's down to 15%- 20% on the pads and does not get into listening and feeling to metal grind against metal would be my guess.
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StonedPanther
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07/28/23 03:36am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
They'll be fine with the stock rotors although if I was going with the Z36 Powerstop pads, why not just drop a few hundred $ and get the whole kit? On a 2014 you probably need to replace the rotors anyway just from rust damage if you are driving that rig in NY during the winter. Swap the stock rotors out with Z36 drilled and slotted rotors. The Powerstop Z36 stuff is miles above and beyond anything OEM or sold at the rip off auto part store such as regular ol brake pads like Duracrap in quality, and is specifically made for towing and hauling. The only way you could go better is go with EBC and then you'll really pay out the butt lol.
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StonedPanther
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07/28/23 03:34am |
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