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So, as some of you know, the wife and I are in the process of moving from Fredericksburg, VA to Anchorage, AK. Part of the preps for that involved me driving up to Buena, NJ Friday night to pick up a new trailer (6x12 SA enclosed) to haul stuff up there in. Going up the truck ran well, but not...

My wife got a job in Anchorage and we're moving up there by September. It's a paid Government move, but they'll only move one vehicle, and mine's too big for them. Got a single quote on uBid for about 3x what it would cost to drive it there so I'm looking to find something better. Bottom line...

So it's 18* outside, the truck has been sitting since I parked it last night. I need to go to a meeting at the Red Cross so I plugged in the block heater two hours before and... it won't crank fast enough to catch. This has been an ongoing problem for the last month or so and I'm tired of it...

It's a long story but I have an old Navy buddy and fellow ham radio operator who lives in Iowa and has a friend in Texas. The friend in Texas has a farm with a lot of goats and when the buddy in Iowa visited the farm he got very attached to one of the goats as a pet. Well, the friend down in...

Okay, it's that time again, time to replace the CDR on my truck, and it really bugs me how expensive these suckers are getting. Hell, it's not much more than some stamped sheet metal and a spring, so why to they list for $90+ and sell in the $40-$55 range? Anyway, this got me to wondering a...

Okay, so it's time to flush the cooling system and refill. Except for one thing... how the heck does that radiator drain plug come out? This is the type I have on the radiator and, as far as I can see, it's not removable. Or if it is then it needs a special tool. I've never seen one like it...

So, I've been looking at getting a new phone... The one I've decided on is the Motorola Photon Q, but if I get it I have to upgrade our cell plan. That's not really a problem since even though the plan is twice what our current plan costs, we won't need most of the extras that we're paying for...

For the past few weeks I've started having difficulty starting my '99 GMC C3500 with the HO 6.5TD. There's a couple of issues involved so let me list those and then we can get on to the speculation. First, about 6 weeks ago I managed to cook my 140amp alternator. The truck is a radio...

Had the alternator on my truck cook itself today. It seems that even a 140a alternator does not like running two lightbars, strobes, an arrowstick, LED strobes, three radios, a laptop, headlights and the A/C, all while creeping along at under 5mph for over 5 hours. Gee... :hihi: I was one of...

I've read elsewhere that GM extended the warranty on the DS4 IP to 11 years or 120k. That same source said the warranty starts from when it's "first put into service", but doesn't specify if they mean the vehicle or the pump itself. Anyone know? This is a semi-critical bit of info for me...

For the past month or two my 1999 GMC C3500 has had me thinking I was going to be rebuilding the diff soon. The typical scenario was, at first, driving at low speed, make a turn and it would "buck" a little. Not every time, more like just once every few days. I started trying to save some...