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If your truck catches on fire, you will jump out. So now the only thing the extinguisher is doing is saving property, it's not saving lives. To have a potential 5 lb metal cylinder flying around the interior in an accident presents risk to life. So in my head, increasing the risk to life to...

It looks like those mounts are a combination of black plastic and hose clamps. If they are aluminum, I agree, they are probably fine. The installed fire systems that we installed were mounted much more solidly than what you get with a $50 fire extinguisher.

This has not been my experience in my Gladiator. I had a situation where both rears were on ice and one front was unweighted. Locking the rear diff didn't help. I eventually unlocked the diff, turned all the electronics back on, and applied gradual steady throttle and the BLD did its thing...

Especially if it comes loose in a crash. ;-) Smart man. The photos posted here are kind of terrifying. At least the bottles in race cars used to be mounted in the foot well so in a frontal collision, there was a good chance the most forceful impact would be absorbed by the firewall. Based...

My background includes small airplanes and auto racing. In both of those pursuits fire extinguishers inside the cabin are harshly frowned upon. This is because an accident may involve over 100Gs of force and that 5 lb extinguisher will be ripped from its mount with 500 lbs of force and will...

Yup. I"ve got a Tazer, so hiitting the mute button twice turns on the backup cam even if I"m on the highway.

I don't know what combination will give this. But if I'm driving on the highway in my truck. (35s and 4.10 gears) At 70 mph it can't really maintain speed up even the slightest incline in 8th. I'm turning about 2000 rpm. In 7th, its turning about 2500 rpm and can maintain speed, but is...

You aren't paying for anything. In fact, if you order from someone like Gupton, there's a decent chance you will pay LESS for the new truck than you will for a 20k mile 1 or 2 year old used truck. Back when there were shortages at the end of 2021 I got $6000 off of MSRP on my Gladiator, at a...

The ultimate idiocy would be using oil or NG to make the energy to convert sequestered carbon into e-fuel just to circumvent a stupid mandate.

If you haven't wrestled with leaky finicky chucks then it would just seem to work, and wouldn't seem any different. But most gauges in particular require you to press it against the valve perfectly square or air leaks out. And if you are trying to bleed off a few pounds you need to hold it...

What RPM are you turning at 70? If you don't know, do you have any RPM at any speed? Just curious.

A good friend of mine from back in eastern CT is a hard core. hillbilly. (Hillbilly is like a redneck on steroids) He wheels the crap out of his. He made up his own trusses with some junk yard axles, a truss kit, and a borrowed welder. ha. I have huge respect for this kid.

Well the key factor that I'm curious about as far as your opinion is the chuck. Which that one seems to have. Mine is digital and the gauge is fine. But it's the chuck that blows my mind. Ha.

None. Just like none of them can afford a Gladiator. If you make $40k/yr, you are buying a $10k car. Or at least that's what you SHOULD be buying. Most likely something like a Civic or a Corolla. You can get a decent reliable one of them for $10k. Don't be like my idiot neighbor. He...

Interesting. As long as it's consistent then all is good. I was pretty happy to find that when I inflated my tires to exactly the same pressure, all the TPMS matched pretty well. If one of the TPMS sensors was off from the others it would drive me nuts. Ha. How is your experience with the...

I've been looking for a good tire pressure gauge and recently discovered this inflater. The way it attaches to the valve stem is FLAWLESS. It slides on and doesn't release or leak until you press the release button. I can't even begin to express how happy I am with this system. Then I...

Unfortunately, I didn't take photos on the trail. The conditions aren't that bad. What the photo can't convey is that I was able to safely maintain a pretty good clip because the traction was exceptional. Every so often on a straight section, I'd tap the brakes to just confirm the traction and...

The other thing is the idea of simply doing it "right". This is an intangible, I realize. If you are talking about replacing an entire light housing that claims to be plug and play, I agree, zero worries about heat. In that case, the entire system was engineered to manage the pointless...

This is the holy crap moment. Ha. I drove a neighbor to the airport In his Tesla Model S long range, not even the hot rod version, and after I dropped it off I floored it. All the stuff in the center console flew back and ended up in the rear seat. ha. When I got home, I researched it. 800...

No real significant progress towards a practical BEV was really made until Tesla came on the scene. If it weren't for Tesla, BEVs would still be "in the future" for better or for worse. In my not at all humble opinion, given the current state of the art and the status of most charging...