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I have an Antigravity XP-10 in the CTD and it started the diesel when 45 mins of high idle jumped off another vehicle would not. This after sitting for about 4 months since it's last charge. Bought another one for the FSB. Was given an off-brand that I carry in the 4rnnr. I hope to never need...

I don't recall why now, but I went with the SE+ instead of the Mini about a year ago. My mother looks forward to our pings so that she can follow along.

One of our favorite Rest Areas is Grass Lake on 97 to the North of Mt. Shasta. I found the Old State Highway off 97 from Northeast of Grass Lake to the community of MacDoel to be an unexpectedly scenic and nice drive. Can find it on google maps and the DeLorme atlas (where I found it), but I'm...

A rubber bed mat should come with every camper regardless of any spacing considerations.

From ADV: "So when I was in grade school, one kid's grandpa came and told a story about when he was in the war. Anywhos, this old guy had a funny accent and was talking about these Fawkers flying over and doing this, and these Fawkers coming out of the clouds and doing that. A lot of us were...

The length of the circuit is a huge factor with low voltage. If you work the calculator or set up the formula in a spreadsheet it's pretty easy to see this. The NEC doesn't worry too much about circuit length in residential or industrial circuits, but then it is constructed so that the wires...

The std Ancor chart for 3% voltage drop (found here: https://www.ancorproducts.com/Resources/Three-percent-voltage-drop ) also says 6 ga, but the shortest circuit length is 10 feet. FWIW I keep their main Resources page where I can easily find it in my bookmarks...

Have a look here: http://circuitwizard.bluesea.com/ Plugging your numbers I get a 12 ga. recommendation. If I guess that length is the plus side only length and double it to include the ground side to get the total circuit length it is still only recommending 10 ga. .

What will the total length of the battery charging circuit be? Same for the battery to fuse block circuit length? 6 ga. seems rather large even with keeping the voltage drop to a minimum. I ran 6 ga. for the truck to camper charging circuit to keep the voltage drop less than 3% at an estimated...

I would consider moving the 30A breaker between the buss bar and the fuse block to be between the battery and the buss bar. I'm in the camp of having some sort of protection as close to the battery as possible, putting the fuse or breaker between the battery and everything else. Depending on...

"Project Farm" on Youtube did a electric chainsaw comparison in two segments. 14"- 16" bars, so definitely home owner sized saws. Might be worth looking at. We had a freeze (rare here) followed by very high winds that took out a large bush in the front yard. To get it into the yard waste bin I...

Maybe telling my wife that one before her first coffee dose of the day wasn't the best of ideas.......

I have been told that the Energy Suspension silicone grease is the best for use on urethane bushings. Dielectric silicone grease is a viable, but poor second, and anything petroleum based is a bad idea because the petroleum chemically attacks the urethane. Used to be that Baker Precision sold a...

Toyota 4WD's are well known to creak when the suspension moves at full lock in one or both directions. More common with the IFS trucks prior to the Tacoma's, but I understand that all vintages of Tacomas will do this occasionally. I am suspecting that is not the source of your noise. The OME...

+ eleventeen! Can add that I've had a set in gravel-mud and sloppy mud and was pleasantly surprised at how well they worked in the sloppy mud. The gravel-mud may as well have been pavement for all that those tires cared.

mcmaster.com is also a good source for 80/20 type stuff. As usual their web page is one of the easiest to navigate and find what you're looking for or even find a solution to your problem without knowing what that solution looked like before the search. There are other brands out there and I've...

I'm not quite sure how I've managed to live this long, I'd have thought that my adolescent self would have kilt me dead by now. "Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone" --ntsqd household's fridge magnet, quotee unknown. It's right above: "My therapist has a wet nose." I'm figuring that...

I was tired last night, I meant to include that once you have located the CG it will tell you a lot of things, but still won't tell you exactly how the vehicle will behave in a dynamic situation. As has been pointed out, there are too many other variables involved. Depending on the driver...

Determining CG location isn't terribly difficult, but you do need a scale with good resolution. Weigh F/R and L/R, determine track width and wheel base. Say the rear axle has 60% of the total weight on it. The CG's fore/aft location (X) is 60% of the wheel base. Say that the L/R is evenly split...

^^^ Practitioners of which are referred to as "hoonigans" from what I gather. So is "hoon" pronounced "who*n"? or "ooh*n"? Clearly I've been doing it wrong. :) Back on track; If the height and lateral location of the CG of the combined vehicle were carefully determined then one could fairly...

Wouldn't that have been more social than anti-social? Maybe I've been doing it wrong. :unsure:

JaSAn and I are using the same, highly accurate and easily calibrated measuring instrument. It works!

Our Chucara XL was ever so close to fitting, so I've got two sheets of pressure treated plywood under it. I think one is 1/2" thick and the other is 3/4" thick.

Worst thing that I ever did was give "My Infamous Scout Friend" one of those little bb in a curved tube inclinometers. He now drives paved mtn roads seeing how long he can keep the bb stuck at the end of the tube........ I use a much simpler inclinometer. When I no longer need a seat-belt to...

My rule is that I tighten the lug nuts with the tool that I am carrying in that vehicle for loosening them to change a tire. That has me out in the driveway right after every visit to the tire shop loosening and then tightening all of the lug nuts. I've used anti-seize on lug stud threads for...