Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

dstig1 · Oct 3, 2024

Grumpycat said:
What cab do you consider to be "extended"?

SuperCab or
SuperCrew?

Extended would be a supercab (with the pint sized back seat). That is what I have. Crew Cab is the full 4-door style

Too many Kubotas · Oct 3, 2024

I feel so disadvantaged.

Nothing I tow with has a backup camera, and I might hook up four different trailers in a day. Usually with different vehicles.

Yes, it can be tricky when not able to back up in a straight line with the trailer and just use the mirrors. And especially when I'm tired.

But on the positive side, none of the vehicles I normally use has a license plate that could be in harms way...if they even have one.

dstig1 · Oct 3, 2024

Runner said:
Camera is probably best way, I don't have one either. Those little magnetic wires with balls on top that you stick to your hitch and to the trailer would probably work pretty good too.

What I do is backup until I'm close (like within a foot or so), then stop, get out and walk to the back of the truck. Note how far the ball is from the trailer, then get back in the truck and leave the door open. Then, I look straight down and pick a spot on the driveway and use that as a reference point to see how far to back up. Works almost every time (I tend to be conservative and stop a little short sometimes).

Note: It also helps to keep the trailer tongue close to the height of the ball so that it is likely to hit the ball first before getting to some other part of the truck that you don't want to hit (just in case you do back up a little too far).

That is exactly what I did on my old PU...

WinterDeere · Oct 3, 2024

BravoXray said:
OTOH, my '06 F150 with 270K miles still looks pretty much like new except for a little surface rust around the rear wheel openings, that will soon be fixed.

I would still own my '05 Ram 1500 today, with manual transmission, if the tin worm didn't start attacking it. Mechanically, it was the perfect vehicle, and it only had 70k miles on it at 12 years of age.

I started seeing the faint signs of rust inside the corners of the doors just before it's 11th birthday, and by the time it had passed 12 years, it was rusting so fast in the rear fenders that I could see changes almost from one week to the next.

It doesn't help that I mostly drive my trucks in bad weather, then let them sit and stew when it's nice out the next day, rather than driving to dry them out. They're also parked outdoors, and often in shady spots... all the perfect recipe for rust, in a corner of the state that piles salt onto the roads so heavily you'd have to assume the salt vendor is giving them kickbacks.

Renze · Oct 4, 2024

Too many Kubotas said:
That is true, but in this case both are supercharged.

If you keep the drive ratio and compressors identical, cam duration will have the same effect as on a naturally aspirated engine; Long duration cam adds top end, doesnt help much, or even looses bottom end.