JDgreen227
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Not sure is the $200 price is for load Range E, but will check. Have always liked BFG tires.
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Not sure is the $200 price is for load Range E, but will check. Have always liked BFG tires.
Patches
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While I don't routinely rotate my tires, I change from the alloy/at tires to my 4steel rim/studded snows and back with the seasons and change their location on the vehicle as per the owners manual.I use my impact to remove and install the wheels snugly and then use the torque wrench to tighten the wheels. The alloys require 97lb/ft and the steels 154lb/ft on my '07 Tundra.I now have 68,000 on the truck and have not had to replace tires as of yet, but of course had to buy the 4 snows initially at a cost of $1150.00 for the 275/65R-18 size required
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In the days when I was putting 40,000 KM on my 1990 F250 4x4, I rotated the tires, lubricated the front brake sliders, and washed the dust from the rear drums every 10,000 KM (6000 miles). These vehicles were supposedly notorious for tire and brake wear. I got good wear from mine and all wore evenly. I'm just too old to have the energy to do it now. I don't use an air impact anymore. I find it more convenient to use a long breaker bar to loosen/tighten the lugs and spin them on/off with a 1/4" drive cordless impact. It doesn't have enough power to damage anything and I find it very much more convenient to move it around.
clemsonfor
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I buy Batteries from Advance Online. I use thier coupon code to get $30 off $75. I try and break orders up at that price to take advantage of the savings the best. If i were to buy 2 batts i would make 2 online purchases. So s $110 battery would be $80 and just do 2 transactions and there ready at the counter when i get there.
clemsonfor
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I am on my second set of those 245/70/16 i think. I only got around 30K miles out of the first set. Its a government truck and thats the tire in thier price so back on it went?
Actually it may have been closer to 20K, i will have to look?
JB4310
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I just did that the other day for a free flat repair at Townfair tire, Was faster than leaving the van there and coming back. Plus I hate to admit it but I don't trust anyone to touch my vehicles. Of course I have to for warranty work etc.
But did you ever look under your vehicle, they don't even pay attention when they lift them, I can see were they put the lift arms, all over the place, even on the floor panels :confused2:
Just had warranty work done to my jeep Grand Cherokee, I can't complain too much cause they actually did $3,000. worth, with the warranty expired
But man, they don't put any of the factory hangers for hoses, fluid lines or wires back right, got all kinds of squeaks and sounds when driving. My wife said it sounds like there's a bird under the hood, I laughed at her til I drove it, sure enough sounds like a bird chirping and squawking!
When ever I make a deal to buy a used vehicle, I want it right then and there. None of this "we're gonna bring it in and go over it" I just went over it I don't want them touching it now.
JB
JDgreen227
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I just did that the other day for a free flat repair at Townfair tire, Was faster than leaving the van there and coming back. Plus I hate to admit it but I don't trust anyone to touch my vehicles. Of course I have to for warranty work etc.
But did you ever look under your vehicle, they don't even pay attention when they lift them, I can see were they put the lift arms, all over the place, even on the floor panels :confused2:
Just had warranty work done to my jeep Grand Cherokee, I can't complain too much cause they actually did $3,000. worth, with the warranty expired
But man, they don't put any of the factory hangers for hoses, fluid lines or wires back right, got all kinds of squeaks and sounds when driving. My wife said it sounds like there's a bird under the hood, I laughed at her til I drove it, sure enough sounds like a bird chirping and squawking!
When ever I make a deal to buy a used vehicle, I want it right then and there. None of this "we're gonna bring it in and go over it" I just went over it I don't want them touching it now.
JB
Know what you mean, last time we took one of our cars to a dealer to have A/C repaired, mechanic left a lot of the firewall/heater plenum hardware loose, or stripped it when he reinstalled it, grille on car was missing half the fasteners, etc. BTW here's one for you guys to ponder...wife told me my Buick Lesabre had a loud whirring noise when heater/ac fan was on, I cannot hear, so asked her to call dealer, they told her "oh it's probably a bad fan, bring it in..." ($$$$$$) well I was remembering when I was back in school, us kids that rode the bus would fold up paper and stick in in the rear heater boxes, then yell at the driver to turn the heaters on, the loud whirring noise as the fan blew the paper around drove the driver nuts....:laughing: :laughing: well I took apart the heater/ac cover under the dash in the engine compartment of the Buick....guess what I found....
A HUGE, full oak leaf stuck in the fan blower wheel !!! How it got there I have no idea...we have no oak trees here !! I removed the leaf, and the noise was gone. Made me wonder what the dealership would have done, removed the leaf and been honest enough to tell us the truth, or screw us over and told us they replaced the fan motor? Your guess is as good as mine !!
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A girl I dated had the same thing on her Toyota. Ended up being a set of Mardi Gras Beads. Now the question is just how did she get, earn, them beads.:thumbsup:
They charged her nothing to take care of it. Now that I think of it maybe she showed the service tech and service dept manager just how she got them. She was cute, about 5-4, 130#, and a solid D-cup.
:licking:By the way, if your Lasabre was anything like a old college buddies Chevy Corsica with a 3100 V6 its a pain to change. I did it and remember having to remove about half the passengers side of the engine, alternator, serpentine belt, brackets, motor mounts, then jack the motor and tilt it to get the $20 fan out and install the new one that took all of about 3 minutes. Then put it all back together. Total time for the job was about 1/2 a day.
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JDgreen227
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A girl I dated had the same thing on her Toyota. Ended up being a set of Mardi Gras Beads. Now the question is just how did she get, earn, them beads.:thumbsup:
They charged her nothing to take care of it. Now that I think of it maybe she showed the service tech and service dept manager just how she got them. She was cute, about 5-4, 130#, and a solid D-cup.
By the way, if your Lasabre was anything like a old college buddies Chevy Corsica with a 3100 V6 its a pain to change. I did it and remember having to remove about half the passengers side of the engine, alternator, serpentine belt, brackets, motor mounts, then jack the motor and tilt it to get the $20 fan out and install the new one that took all of about 3 minutes. Then put it all back together. Total time for the job was about 1/2 a day.
Chris
Nah, the Lesabre has the tried and true GM 3800 V6. Wish our summer driver ('93 Olds Cutlass Supreme) had the 3100 V6---nope, it has the DOHC 3.4 V6. Alternator is under the glovebox, when the regulator goes bad, pull the exhaust system, some of the front suspension and loosen the motormounts, then jack up the engine to replace the alternator....what a huge PIB that was. Really brilliant engineering !!!
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This is one of the reasons I am not a GM man. My uncle was a die hard GM man until he bought a chain of service stations with real bays that fix cars. He went through mechanics school and that turned him to Ford also.
I know its not just GM but they seem to be king of making them hard to work on. He contributes this to them having very few drive trains but then hanging as many as a dozen different cars over it under as many as 5 different brands. Just too hard to make them easy to work on when that is your business model. He always jokes that just to figure out which oil filter it needs you must know the day it was built, color, interior type, ect.
By the way if you think that is tough try working on a Corvette. I have replace the power antenna and in tank fuel pump on my fathers and it was a major pain. Had to remove 1/2 the rear of the car to do both.
That Corsica once broke the serpentine belt once again had to remove the motor mount and jack the engine to get in the new one. I put a spare in at that time and zip tied it up out of the way.
Chris
JB4310
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I just got back from the dealer, I'm bringing my 3500 ram in for an alternator tomorrow morning. Only 25,000 miles/ five years old.
Got 1 month left on an up to now unused extended service plan. So I will lose a little on that one. But we'll see what the total amount of the repair would be, they said the part is ~$400. Looks like an easy swap, just the air box needs to come out.
I told them I want a certain mechanic I know to work on it, since I trust him.
He's a tranny tech, but is capable of any mechanical work. He does work on the side for me, for out of warranty repairs. He's got a good deal with the owners of the dealership, as they let him do side jobs in their 50 bay shop. That's not something you see very often.
JB.
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I must be the luckiest guy on here. I have owned well over 20 cars and trucks and about 10 boats and have never had a single alternator or starter go bad on my stuff, mostly Fords but also some GM, Dodge, Honda, BMW, Nissan, Toyota, ect. I have changed dozens on others stuff but just never mine.
I do change my batteries before they go bad. I just have learned it money ahead to do it a 36 months or 60 months depending on the application. It saves frustration and my uncle the mechanic swears it saves wear and tear on starters and alternators. Maybe it does or maybe it does not but its worked for us.
Chris
I do change my batteries before they go bad. I just have learned it money ahead to do it a 36 months or 60 months depending on the application. It saves frustration and my uncle the mechanic swears it saves wear and tear on starters and alternators. Maybe it does or maybe it does not but its worked for us.
Chris
jeffsw6
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Almost all my miles are towing actually, but I think you are talking about more tongue weight than me since my tongue is probably around 1000#.
Either way I do not see any advantage to rotating my tires. It's not like it would take me all day to do it, but .. why bother? I think it is just make-work. I would only do it if I was rotating my spare to put wear on it.
JB4310
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My first in a long, long time. Since my old wyllis overland (pick up) Jeep's generator had to be rebuilt. put it in a back pack and rode my bicycle 5 files to an auto electric shop to have it repaired while I waited.
On this 07 3500, an idiot light came on saying "check gauges" for the last week intermittently. All the gauges were good, just the alt gauge was low but still in the green.
Sunday all I got was click when I went to start the truck, OK 5 years on the Bats, figured that's why the light was coming on. But even with the new batteries the light was still coming on. I did have the bats checked at Napa and they said 1 was good but the other looked like 1 cell was probably bad.
So maybe your uncle is right, the bad battery may of done damage to the alternator/regulator.
JB
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I guess I've had one of each on my own vehicles. I replaced the alternator on a 1975 Chrysler Town & Country Station Wayon (400 engine) and I replaced the starter on a 1970 Olds 88 Sedan (350 engine). But like you, I've replaced a few for others.
I was working in my Dad's service station and auto parts store when the first cars came out with alternators instead of generators. Dad invited all the mechanics in town for a little barbecue and to hear the factory rep for our line of rebuilt starters, genrators, alternators, etc. I never forgot him saying that he knew a lot of people take a screwdriver and short across the contacts on a gnerator to see if it's putting out at all. And he said, you can do that with an alternator, too. He said if you get sparks you know it was working until you did that.:laughing:
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last alt I replaced was about 10 yrs ago on a 1988 ford bronco & it was the original alt.
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1000# of tongue weight is nothing to balk at. My trailers range from about 800# to 1,800# of tongue weight. You must just be tire lucky. I am not. If there is a way to get a flat I have done it. Had a dogs tooth, table fork (4 holes in a row), rail road spike, trailer hitch ball, nails, screws, pieces of metal, thorns, tread separation, broken belts, ect. I keep the tire companies in business. I have bought 3 sets this year alone.
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Just bought 2 load range E's...200 each...I think they were Uniroyals or Firestones..Don't remember..Had them put on an drove it straight to storage.
Edit:..They're Firestones..Had them installed by a local guy with a mobile tire service, he came to the motorhome...Might be the way I buy tires in the future..Very convenient, fast and know his tires..
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JDgreen227
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Had to replace the alternator on my '92 Olds 98 at about 8 years old and 85,000 miles, Cutlass barely had 17,000 on it when the regulator went bad. Gm is notorious for bad regulators, especially when the alt is buried under the engine and gets hot all the time. Our 2004 Lesabre and Saturn L-300 both have OEM batteries, going to replace them next spring.
2000 GMC is on it's third right now....big engine, requires lots of cranking power in winter.
clemsonfor
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Looger i have right now just had to put a new tire on his Tigercat skidder. The big one they make. Tire cost him $6K! They got 3000 hours out of the last one. The other back is peeled all the way on the outside and inside so its hours from going out. Fronts look to have about 6 months or so left. This tractor is not quite 2 yrs old i think.
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