Ezrider

its one of them things i think every car guy has heard someone say fram oil filters are junk. i know i have but my thought was well they are such a large manufacturer surely they have a engineering department and make a product that is just fine for normal use. and they might be, but once you actually see how there made its like do you really want to take a chance? i would suspect there failure rate is much higher than there competition. also it seems to me the stamped steel spring/center cap would be very prone to letting unfiltered oil bypass the filter. i have always avoided fram but i wasn't scared to use one from time to time until i actually saw the insides for myself. i cut open a number of filters both for the big truck and break in filters on engines and stuff like that just to inspect for potential internal problems, i am kinda surprised i had never cut open a fram in the past. i wouldn't be afraid to run the super tech filter but i have no way to test the quality of the filter medium and would still shy away from them in preference to a wix, lubrifiner, or oe filter. givin the choice. before i cut these filters open my preference between the two probably would have been to the big name fram over supertech.

lucas is why my jaguar has a chevy engine.....lol

i thought this was rather interesting maybe you guys will too. walmart brand supertech oil filters vs fram

i told my other half a very similar version of that joke one time. i thought for a second i was going to get a chance to test the theory.

i dunno about you guys but displacement asside i would never consider buying a 425/1,550 engine for a truck that i planned on running at 110k lbs gross

if you don't have a laser thermometer, you should get one. they are not very expensive and has saved me from chasing my tail many times.

a mild 383 would be very nice for a pickup. a 2k stall converter is not going to drive any differently than stock, you shouldn't even notice.

i gotta admit this one was kinda a cop out.....lol i haven't had time to do much of any video the last few weeks and figured this would just be something i could do quickly as far as filming to get a new video out, im am surprisingly pretty happy with the end result though.

if the truck is otherwise in good condition and works good for you i think i would lean re-rail.

we pretty much all got sick around Christmas it was not a lot of fun, im still hacking up junk. i was the last one to get it though.

when i was a teenager, i had a old car had a engine fire about 150 or so miles from home after the fire department came and put my car out and it was a total wreck i called my dad for a ride home and he goes well i guess your have to figure something out.....lol several years later i was around 18 or so had moved over 1000 miles from home, was working paying my rent ect. old pickup i had died for good had been walking back and forth to work around 10 miles each way for a few weeks. found a car i car i wanted to buy but was a couple hundred bucks short. of the lowest the guy would take for it. but seemed like a pretty decent car. called my dad to see if maybe he would be able to help me out. he said, well im sure your figure something out. that is only a couple examples i remember getting upset about it at the time but guess what i know how to take care of myself and get things done and make my own way rather than expect someone else to make it for you. if that makes sense. we were not well off growing up im sure there are many times he would have wanted to help with things but just was not able to. but we always had a roof over our head and food in our stomachs even if it was spaghetti for the 4th night that week. looking back on it now i am grateful for what we had including the hard lessons.

sounds pretty similar to my dad's house. i don't remember a lot of details about it. when they moved there i was living over 1000 miles away. and only went there to visit a hand full of times. everything was still pretty original in the house. some remenates of the old cloth covered wiring secured by ceramic posts was still in the house (no longer in use) but in the basement and and attic it was still in place. i remember having some discussions and looking into a little bit what it costs to move a house, and although i don't remember what exactly the cost was but i know it seemed cheap for what all is involved in moving a house. (i wanna say 30k ish) including building the new foundation and setting the house. obviously depends on how far it needs to move as well

my dad bought a century farm after i was grown and it had a old sears house. the story is it came by train to a near by depot and then by horse drawn waggon to its current location and then assembled by the orrigional familly that farmed that land for more than 100 years. it was a pretty cool house seemed way better biult than the cookie cutter houses now days.

i took the video down for the moment. it had a huge spike in traffic today and the source data is not available to me yet. being that i only want this particular video used in its orrigonal contentext and not as media for seperate things. and the spike in views was so large i decided to temporarly take the video down untill i can determine the source of spike in traffic.

i can't say iv watched a lot of that show but the episodes i have seen were entertaining. many times i feel the us shuts down highways that still remain perfectly passable. there has been a couple times i re-routed on 2 lanes because the big roads were shut down had no problem getting from a-b. but of course you always have some idiot that has never seen a snowflake (or at least drives like they haven't) that will try to set out in a blizzard and cause problems for themselves and everyone else. sometimes experience can be a bad thing too. there is times ill be driving along and think to myself why am i so comfortable with this, i probably shouldn't be. complacency can get people in trouble some times as well.

it was a north dakota based trucking company that was involved just a out of state driver working for that company. the majority of trucking company's including myself working on hauling that material are north dakota based and the rest are south dakota based

ill have to try to do some digging and find some pictures i have of some that were twisted up almost as bad set down and they drove away under there own power. the frames are spring steel so they can twist a long ways and still come back on there own. this particular truck buckled a few cross members and broke one of the spring mounts and broke the shock off on the front. broke some parts in the rear suspension broke the intermediate drive shaft. and who knows what else. it was also doing probably 35-40mph when it wen't over the ones that drove away were all stationary or very slow speeds like under 5mph when they tipped. i would say that pete could probably be put back together but im guessing the insurance will call it a total loss. there was one that went all the way on its side an it was back to work in a few hours. it tipped while it was dumping they put it back on its wheels with a front end loader and a grader with a chain started it up and drove away. it was back hauling dirt later that day after they put a new mirror and air cleaner on it. as far as weather or not that driver still has a job or not. i don't know, if it was my truck the answer would be no. im thinking that particular job won't allow that driver to come back to that job. they were not very happy they gave everyone a lecture today when they got loaded. and basically said anyone caught doing anything other than driving while driving would be removed from the job and not allowed back.

That truck is done for some cross members tweaked 5th wheel partially broke suspension broke but the frames are spring steel if seen them twisted near that much and be fine

i do not plan to publicly disclose what the truck was hauling or where it happened.

for sure. he is lucky he didn't get hurt or worse get someone else hurt.

this happened in front of me today

generally the mack will start as long as there is enough juice in the battery's and the oil isn't to stiff that it turns over at a decent rate. it will cough and gag and complain but it will start. generally anything sub 0 i like to pull it inside or plug it in if its going to be shut down a while if i am able to. my diesel pickup starts amazingly well in the cold as well. it will also complain about it but its never not started, try to plug it in at anything sub 0 as well. i did a cold start video of the pickup and the bobcat a week or so ago when it was -20 ish air temp.

another one about the bobcat. finally made a heater for it. using a few common parts off the shelf parts not used as intended....lol i also learned a new editing tricks on this one. where i separate the audio out of a cut then cut different video in so i can show something while im talking about it and then cut back into the original clip.