Mos Edit: This is the first post of a thread merged here so it can stay in the 7.3L forum

Being very sincere when I say this that this is the best place for info for all things truck / trailer / real world related so I have a question. I have a wood deck car trailer that I haul my 94 Jeep Cherokee trail rig on. What does everybody do to maintain their wood deck trailer decks? I have heard a multitude of solutions and what not to do. I need really world experience here. Deck sealer, deck water proof, used ATF , used motor oil, new ATF, new motor oil, nothing at all? Any ideas, suggestions, would be most appreciated. I want to protect the wood, but not have a slippery surface if and when it gets wet. Thanks in advance.

 

Pork looks great! Skin looks perfectly crunchy, kudos! What a fun project.

Around here it's called fo yuk, get it at the Chinese markets. Point to the part of the pig you want (I like neck/shoulder) hold up fingers to show how many pounds, and say "Jaam" if you want it chopped up or "Njaam" if you want it left whole. My wife is ABC and one of her uncles cooks pigs for a living. Softest hand I ever shook, due to the daily fat immersion. Gloves can only do so much I guess.

Reading all the sophisticated BBQ recipes has me bashful, but here goes; cut beef ribs into pairs. Cover with water, bring to boil then reduce heat and simmer an hour. Remove to a dish, let cool 10 min or so then slather on BBQ sauce. When fully cool place on Weber grill with indirect heat, covered. Small-ish pile of coals off to one side, ribs on the other side, lid vent over the ribs. Don't add more coals unless you have "used" ones from a prior BBQ. Turn and baste with more sauce a couple times. As the bones show baste them too so the dogs get the full effect later. I like my ribs on the sweet side with a little zing but no heat. Absolute pansy when it comes to spicy food. The sauce cooks on like a candy apple. About 30 minutes to get a bit of char on there.

Wife's BBQ Sauce, blend to taste:
Ketchup
Soy Sauce
Brown Sugar
Garlic Powder
Ginger Powder
Salt n Pepper

Edit: ABC is American Born Chinese, in her case born in Delano and grew up in Salinas.

 

CWF (UV). No rolling, brush it in really really good.

 

Hehe I actually understood what you said when you wrote fo yuk, jaam and mjamm. I speak a little Cantonese.

 

Well...tomatos are starting to come in so for me it's roast beef club sammich for dinner. There's only a short period of time where we can get good tomatos so I make the best of it, I'll probably eat a couple of the world's best sammich this week to make up for lost time.

 

Yeah growing up in CA (aside from the foray to TN which gave me aawl) Cantonese was the language of all Chinese people, been here since the railroad, up in the mountains and down here in the flats. But in the last 15 years we're hearing a lot more Mandarin, even in SF Chinatown. Dam foreigners!

 

Boiled linseed oil is what I've always heard people using.

 

Have you noticed any cultural differences between the Cantonese and Mandarin speakers?

 

From the small sample of people I've met, Cantonese speakers are from small towns and villages while Mandarin speakers are from cities. Same kind of differences you see here between city and country folks. Historically most of the immigration from China to work in "Gold Mountain" was from the south, Canton, and now it's pretty much coming from everywhere. Funny how Silicon Valley has replaced Gold Mountain.

How did you come to know some Cantonese?

 

As with any language I can speak a little of, it all starts with learning how to order food......

 

My foreign language expertise revolves around ordering beer. Priorities...

 

Noch einmal!

 

Overseas on deployment we would find a restaurant with a picture menu. Kept it very easy...point and eat.

 

Back from a 132 mile trip. Truck did well towing the heavy 5er. Debating doing some things to it tho. EGTs were around 800 in 6th on the flats couldn't get it above 1100 on the hills. Granted it was only 92* out. May try a 7+7, but i really don't wanna pull the turbo just to replace the wheel. Maybe if i were doing billet plenums.... but mine don't leak. Probably need to plan on traction bars tho, could feel it on acceleration and expansion joints. Helwig bigwig definately fixed my side to side sway in cross winds, rained buckets on the way up, had to slow to 40 and wipers still couldn't keep up

 

Nicely done!

I installed the Helwig early in our towing adventures so I never really had a swaying problem.