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I can see it now! lol :watching:

Somehow all your text is white...

Welcome! I'm from MN as well, my mom grew up about 20 miles from Winona. Might try uship.com?

Any buddies who'd let you use their garage for a 6-pack? lol I got my carbide from Speedway Motors, and it lasted 2 cast manifolds, a set of heads and other stuff and is still going strong.

If you have a die-grinder with a carbide bit, I bet you could clean up the casting flash and open up the ports a little bit for some gain... Just don't go too crazy, and keep the flat bottom.

Good to know. No worries about towing, got a lift gate in the back that gets in the way, lol. And yeah, I could put a couple tractors on a trailer, farm vehicle or not, and as long as it's for personal use and not for-hire, you can do what ever you want, lol.

I was going to say, pure distilled water might not work so well between Oct. and late-March in MN...

So I need to have a health card and a US DOT #, but not a CDL. Good to know. I've been lucky so far, knock on wood...

The plates certify it at 15,000#. Idk, I've been told that if I cross state lines (occasionally skirt into WI) I should at least have a health-card.

Yeah. And my local DOT inspector would pass me no worries, but I'm already skirting the lines running non-commercial plates and not having a CDL...

LOL. Yeah, if it was a pickup, I'd have had no qualms about throwing an aftermarket turbo back setup on there and letting 'er rip. This one is a little different though...

Honestly, you'd then be better off getting some sort of project car, even if it's just a shell that contains an engine to tinker on. Then you can bolt it back in and test your work!

Don't engine swap the ranger. Just upgrade the whole truck when you're ready for more power...

It'd be a 9mm Glock and a 12 ga, but yeah, the sentiment is there...

Welp, got it back, fixed up with a brand new shiney DPF bolted back on and reset and retuned. Ended up having to cover the insurance deductible, thankfully nothing else. Hope this doesn't happen again....

I don't think you're going to find any. They are designed to disconnect inside the diff, not on the outside. I think it'd take a lot of miles to make it pay off in fuel savings...

Turbo is going to make the grunt problem worse, not better. You're gonna want to keep it in lower gears towing, keep the revs up, etc. For towing, and grunt, a roots or screw-type S/C is the way to go. Makes max boost almost immediately, which makes great torque. Even a centrifugal S/C can't...

So, the quote came in at $3315, so not as bad as I originally thought. Gotta coordinate with insurance, etc. However, they found that the oil level sensor in the pan is leaking ($5xx) and the kingpins are "plum worn out", and they want $3k plus for those! I find it hard to believe the kingpins...

Apparently the local PD arrested a guy whose van was full of "catalytic converters". We'll see if I get my DPF back. Not holding my breath...

Farking ridiculous. Any thoughts on how to prevent it again? Besides an AR15 and a Glock? lol