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I averaged 22.2 mpg on a 100 mile highway drive (70-80 mph where possible) with local roads to the house at one end and the mountain road to the cabin at the other. Local roads around home I'm averaging around 18. This is a base Sport with stock tires, no tonneau, just over 1000 miles on the...

Modern transmissions are pretty efficient; I imagine most of the heat comes from the work of pumping the fluid through it, and fluid friction around the gears. You only get sliding friction at the moment of downshift, until the bands stop slipping. We have a transmission temperature indicator...

According to the manual, "If a requested downshift would cause the engine to overspeed, that shift will not occur." I will use the autostick to downshift to maintain speed coming down the mountain road from the cabin, but I'm not using it to regularly slow the vehicle down from a higher...

That's the stuff. But Marvel also makes a specific air tool oil; that may be what your boss was using. MMO is reported to help prevent sticking valves from lead deposits when engines designed for 73 or 80 octane fuel are run on the currently available 100 octane.

Lycoming still recommends a mixture of STP and engine oil as assembly lube for their aircraft engines. Of course, even modern aircraft engines are basically 1940s technology; big, slow turning air cooled engines with carburetors and magnetos. The engine in my plane produces only 125HP at...

If the price stays the same as the Gladiator version you might as well order that one. Be interesting to see if there is actually any difference (maybe the clamps are different).

I went ahead and ordered the second of the Amazon options. They should arrive Friday and if I don't like them I can always send them back.

Looks like the price went back up; when I ordered it it was showing as a reduced price. Maybe they were overstocked or made a mistake.

I know this has been discussed before but the other threads are older and maybe it's time for a fresh look... A lot of people have installed Rockblokz, Weathertech, or Mopar mud flaps, but... the prices! Seems absurd for a glorified sheet of rubber; yes, I know there's more to them than that...

One of the reasons I sold my CJ5 (which was my daily driver) 20 years ago was its highway manners... we had just gotten a cabin 100 miles away and the weekly drive to it got to be a real drag, though I loved driving it around town (and on the rocks, of course!). When I test drove the Gladiator...

Note that those BTU ratings for the stove and water heater are BTU/hour. Propane as @MPMB said is 91,000 BTU/gallon. So a 5 gallon tank would run that 28000 B/hr water heater continuously for 16.25 hours, or the 10KBTU Jetboil for 45.5 hours. Algebra to determine combined usage is left as an...

Installed a Curt receiver hitch today. Simple install, except I couldn't find a 1/2" Allen wrench and the 3/4-10 threads in the receiver were messed up. Lacking that size tap to chase the threads, I cut slots in a grade 8 bolt and made my own tap, which cleaned the threads up just fine. Then...

It is a motorhome... just a very small one. It's my wife's toy really, but she lets me come along once in a while. ;)

I installed the Tyger Colorado top this afternoon, it fits fine. The install was very easy Could've been maybe an inch wider which would make the clamps fit straighter, but the pictures on Tyger's website make it look like their Gladiator top is the same width as the Colorado, i.e. it looks...

Not ours... we're rocking that 1980s Breaking Bad theme...

I suppose... though when backpacking I don't even use a tent; just a bivy sack and a tarp if it looks like rain. I always figure, why trek into the wilderness just to zipper yourself into a nylon box? Campgrounds are different, of course, there a tent provides privacy. But then I rarely camp...

That sounds cool, gotta check it out some day. I lived in NJ in the early 1980s and my wife grew up there. I used to explore the sand roads in the Pine Barrens around Lakehurst in my 280Z... not a good idea, but I only got stuck a couple of times and always managed to get out. People think NJ...

I too spent some time looking for the perfect (for me solution). I needed to be able to see the phone as the phone's own interface is superior to the Android Auto, I didn't want it above the dash level blocking my vision, I didn't want to lose the dash tray and I'm not ready to drill holes in...

What do people see as the pros and cons of a vehicle mounted tent, whether bed or rooftop? I can see it would be nice when the ground is wet or uneven, but the downside is that you have to take it down and pack it away if you want to move the truck... we have the same issue with our tiny RV.

Because our camper is small and has limited storage space, we bring a small cheap tent. At a campground we use it to store stuff like chairs, bicycle, other stuff we don't want inside and don't want to get wet. Also if we go out it shows the campsite is still occupied while keeping stuff from...