Recent content by MLRey

About 18 months ago my daughter, early 20's, ran over some large debris on the highway with her VW Beetle. It did a surprising amount of damage and the car was in the shop for almost two months getting repaired because some of the parts took a while to come in. She's a timid driver and I...

I noticed some cracks in mine a few weeks ago. I'll see about getting it replaced sometime this year. If it cracks again outside of the warranty I'll just live with it.

Yes, that was a pain finding and tapping into. Should be much easier now.

I went with the RCI steel plates for the fuel tank, transmission and transfer case. Already had the factory plates for the engine. If you're concerned about weight go with the aluminum ones.

I went with the 10 year 125,000 mile premium care from Granger Ford. Was about $3,000. Part of the reason is not having to worry about big expenses, if any, in the future. On my 2007 Ram 2500 I had a 7 year 85,000 plan and at 7.5 years the ECU died costing me $2,000 and then a year later the...

Billings, wife's sister lives there, brother outside Bozeman and father north of Great Falls. We've been going to Billings for a long time and like it. One of our daughters went to college at MSU Billings.

Headed out tomorrow from CA to our new house in MT. Sign the paperwork to close on the house and then start unloading. We bought the lot 4 years ago and started the build last year. Moving back to where my wife grew up and where there's family. I'll be working here for another year so we'll...

Ordered mine yesterday, probably won't have time to install until later this month.

That's interesting. Mixing regular and premium would be hard to notice. Where do the additives get put in the fuel? At the Air Force base where I used to work they started buying Jet-A and then putting in the additives to make it the same as JP-8. It was cheaper than buying JP-8 from the...

I would be very skeptical of the dealerships claim. If the station had put the wrong fuel in it's tank that you pumped from there would be a lot of people with engine issues. Many stations don't even have diesel so check that first. Demand to get your own sample of the fuel and have it...

It's not that they fail, they're just practically useless. Just search for some test videos. Stick with a real fire extinguisher. A fire can quickly get out of control and the time wasted trying to get the stick to do something useful could be the difference between minor damage and a...

As RHeinz noted the fridge uses about 35-40 watt-hours of energy. So the size of the power pack is just a matter of how long you expect to run the fridge on the pack. I have 300 whr and 900 whr packs. The small one works when I just need to keep it running when stopped during the day. If I...

I’ve gotten two sizes of Jackery power packs. They work well but if I were buying now I’d go with Ecoflow. I really like what they have for complete systems.

Mine works very well. Has a good amount of insulation but I use a small power pack for when the Bronco is off. It uses very little power to keep it cold.

I go with the Pennzoil Ultra Platinum. Get the three 5 quart case from Amazon for between $80 and $90 which is a good price. Use it for all but my daughters VW. In all the reviews I've seen it's one of the best. Doubt you can go too wrong with any of the synthetics mentioned. I have used...