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I considered moving the gray and clean water tanks to that area. After a bunch of thought I concluded that this would work better with a flatbed than with a pick-up bed. Mostly because I didn't want to cut those holes in the pick-up bed.

Working on the ground is slow and auto mechanics are paid by the job, not the time. They're paid the same whether your oil change takes them 3 hours or just 30 minutes. I can see the balance of the truck on the lift being a real issue in some cases. Maybe that is insurmountable and maybe they...

My Mom pointed this out to me maybe a year ago. Haven't made it there yet. Don't think they have either. It and Ely are on our lists.

That article linked from NASA indicated that you can indeed alter the drag coefficient of a vehicle with "add-on" devises. You may not be able to make a huge, dramatic change, but you can change it.

Foy, Phelps-Dodge eh? Ever heard the name McHenry Mosier? He was my great-grandfather. I've been told some stories about his exploits......

When I couldn't find their product on the pages of a couple of their supposed dealers I quit looking and went back to designing my own.

IME it's pretty rare that the stock brakes are able to handle more then one panic stop without a significant cool-down period when the truck is at or over GVWR. Factor in the slightly larger to much larger tires we tend to favor and they become hopelessly unable to dissipate the generated heat...

I guess "splitter" is an appropriate term, but whenever I read it with regard to aerodynamic concerns I think of something like this flat plate: I recall in the late 80's to maybe mid 90's there was one COE medium duty truck that had air deflectors on the front corners of the cab. They were...

From my reading on the topic in the past it seems that the route is somewhat fluid. Different map sources may have different routes depending on when they mapped it and how hard they've worked to keep it updated.

"I'd rather have questions that I can't answer than answers that I can't question." -- Richard Feynman

Now that you mention it, I do recall reading that the man who laid it all out did re-route a portion of the trail on the North side the Great Salt Lake to include the Golden Spike. Found this: https://www.transamtrail.com/

Glad that it helps. :)

The problem with drilled rotors is that they are crack initiators. Think about what is going on there. A rotor is where the kinetic energy of the vehicle is converted into heat, they get hot. Sometimes really, really hot. I've seen race cars with them glowing orange-red! I doubt many street...

It is true that going to a higher number gearing does reduce the size of the pinion gear. I put about 150k miles on a set of 4.88's that were already in the truck when I bought it. Sold the truck with them still in it and going strong. Research which mfg of gears people are getting the most...

The only thing that I know about the TAT is what I've seen from RTWDoug's thread on riding it on a bagger with an electrical box sidecar. Epic thread is here: https://advrider.com/f/threads/just-another-tat-ride-report-on-a-harley-dirtbag.910213/

Page 66 of the above link has a paragraph about the vortex generators. Excellent link, thank you!

Buggy doesn't weigh enough to break the bead. Using a Hi-Lift to do this can be done, but it is clumsy and risky to both the operator and the vehicle. What is the vehicle supported by if you're using the jack to break the bead of a tire laying on the ground? Tubes carried in the buggies prior...

If you've had the tube for more than a year the odds are pretty good that it has split in one or more folds. The ESD bags will help them live longer in storage, but they still have a limited shelf life. I recall one sidewall tear in the buggy group, the most extreme one that I can recall that...

There's an intermediate solution, but it requires knowledge, skills and the tools to make it happen. That is an inner tube. With the avatar dune buggy a spare really isn't an option, so we all carried the tools and a tube. I mounted one new set of rear tires with those tools just so that I had...

ckent, if that was one particular DC-8 then I think they later gave those optics their own special windows so they didn't have to open a hole in the aircraft. Who remembers these usually stainless steel side pillar mounted deflectors? Eventually the OEMs offered similar features: And...

This is an often over-looked very large factor. Think about the typical shape of a falling water drop. Water droplets can assume any shape that you can conceive of, but that is their actual shape when free-falling. Why is that? Aerodynamic drag "pulls" that tapered "tail" out from the main body...

On our last camper I routed propane thru the camper wall so that an outside bbq could run off of the camper's tank. I used one of these in brass to go thru the wall: https://www.mcmaster.com/bulkhead-fittings/metal-pipe-and-pipe-fittings/pipe-size~1-4/thread-type~npt/

That's great news!

My tire guy uses those color coded extensions, and I believe them to be pretty accurate. Still, when I get home I break them loose one at a time with whatever it takes and then re-tighten them with the tool that I carry in that vehicle. I want to know that the tool that I carry will break them...

Seems to me that if the whole top, lift-boards and soft-wall assembly were removed then a 4" tall, or whatever is desired, perimeter wall/spacer could be fabricated to raise the top of the walls by that distance. Then the whole top assembly could be put back on. The mechanics of that would be...