That's kind of how I met good friend. He had parked his dualie in the paid parking lot at A-Basin but pulled in a touch too far. His front wheels were in the ditch. Even in 4WD low, he couldn't get himself out. I'm sure his truck being a diesel didn't help; so much weight forward. I hooked up to him with a tow strap and my Taco and got him out. Friends ever since. Taco Taco! (I'll forego posting the SP video)
Please explain the blue paint on the truck, and what is that blue on the yellow car?
I am reminded of a few incidents my dad had. He used to drive a VW bug as a travelling salesman. He once had to take the ditch on his way to a remote sawmill (his customer) to avoid a log truck barrelling downhill at 80 mph in a snow storm. The bug didn't even get stuck in the ditch. Another time someone in front of him stopped in the driving lane on the Metropolitan Expressway (an elevated freeway that crosses Montreal). He was able to stop, but the guy behind him in a big American car hit his bug doing about 70 mph. My dad, instead of breaking his face on the steering wheel, gripped it tightly and bent the steering wheel into a figure 8.
The blue is from the Chevron stripes on the fender. He got the ticket, here is where the Maita was when he hit it, I really couldn't have been more "on my side" than I was.
Speaking of motorcycling in Toronto, I once stopped for a red (not yellow, not even pink) light heading east on Eglington, about to make a left turn onto Don Mills (IIRC there were two left turning lanes there and we were in one of them). Good thing I left it in gear, because my shoulder check after stopping revealed the guy behind me still had it floored to make the yellow that had died a full second ago. Yes, I went through the red (with him going through behind me), and I didn't spare the horses doing it.
Yup. You know it. I once did a cross-lane check as my light turned green, saw a car sailing through a full red at about 80kmh in a 60...guy behind me is just hammering the horn...coulda been killed.. You can't be too safe man. Bikes are gone. Kids took precedence.
4lo is used to get you places you shouldnt be going, or to get you out of places you shouldnt have been
Indeed. There is also only a slight cornering advantage if you know how to use it, but if you're driving such that you need to access that advantage on a public road, you are being very naughty.
^^^Is this a typo? Putting weight over the drive wheels of a PU is a good idea; SUVs have the weight of the roof, glass windows, and rear seat, so extra weight is less of a requirement.
No typo. The back end MUST be built light the lighter the better. The lighter it is the more you can actually carry. If you built a PU that weighed 4500lb and has a gross weight rating of 5500 it isnt much good. That is different than you adding weight. You have to add weight for traction, that doesnt mean it is a good idea to build a truck that has a lot of weight in the rear, thus, all trucks are built light in the back end and should be. Adding the weight behing the rear axle works better. Levers and all that.
I get it now. The don't BUILD them heavy in the rear. But putting weight in the rear in the winter is not bad.
And it's old enough that you could actually run it on heating oil, in a pinch.This truck and camper, loaded up with me and all my ski gear is 8,800lbs.; almost 300lbs. over the GVWR. I need to go on a diet and bring fewer skis.
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With stuff in the under bed overhang storage and a 1000lb Cummins diesel, there is more weight on the front axle than rear axle. Good thing I have an air bag suspension on both axles. Oh, goes thru the snow like a tank but tends to want to go in the direction that it is pointed.
The only differance in driving the 07 F250 with the bed filled to the top with sheetrock was that it rode nicer.
It probably handled better too. Empty pickups often want to lead with the wrong end through turns especially if the road is slick.
