Painted the inside of my Raider Nomad campertop in black

 

Impressive you can weld that back together.....

 

I'd love to see a picture when it's done.

 

Drove out to the country to do some trimming for my grandparents. Ram did good. No noticeable slips or mishaps. I'm nowhere near as heavy into the gas as I have been. MPG's should be up.

 

well after i sandblast things i will no problem welding things back together but this time i thing i am going to paint things.
i will make sure to post them. it will look a lot better after everything has been sandblasted, welded and painted. will almost be too nice to re-install.

 

^You need a glasspack.


I forgot, I also put a bottle of Star Tron in the tank.

 

The Y-pipe for my Pacesetter LT headers turned up today... compared to stock, it looks like sewerage pipe... well, it is 3"Ø, so I guess it is.
I was surprised how thick the wall is... they should last a good while, especially in a no salt zone like south FL.
Next on the list is a new Cat.

 

Towed a trailer with a DitchWitch on it.

Got a little interesting when I loaded it back on the trailer when I was done, parked the truck on the side of the road, didn't think much of the downhill slope and the gravel....

Got the DitchWitch back on the trailer and than I felt the trailer sliding, turned at the looked at the truck and it was sliding down the hill (with the parking brake set) nothing I could do but hold onto the machine and hope for the best.

The truck of course jackknifed into a perfect "L" with the trailer, but it came to a stop with about 2" between the side of the bed and the trailer.... Got lucky...

Didn't grab picks of it like that... But have a few useless picks.






The black marks are were the rear tires slide on the gravel. It probably slide 15' or so....

 

That's the crappy thing about the parking brake, it only locks up two wheels... never unload something heavy on a grade trusting the parking brake because as soon as you break traction you only have two wheels trying to get it back. I've seen guys end up with their trucks in the drink that way trying to solo launch boats. The best thing is always to have someone to lay on the pedal brake to lock up all 4... a nice thing about an auto transmission if you have one is putting it in 4L and putting it in park, then you have the trans parked on all four and the e-brake on the back two... I suppose it's all the same to leave it in gear, but gears rotate and parking pins don't. Still always better to have a helper. Glad you came out unscathed man.

 

drove it to work, nice working close enough to home to drive it again. saw a 03 2500 Cummins at a car lot on the way. I may stop and see about trading mine in for it this afternoon.