At least you have Trump over there. We have Merkel, Macron, May and a bunch of real socialists trying to trample on freedom wherever they can.

 

There are infecting Oregon and Idaho too.

We just had someone come visit Trump to try to talk some stupidity into him.

EDIT: Oh to heck with it if John does not yell at us...

 

A 6.0 in Europe, there is hope for the free world.

 

There's a few of us around, and some Cummins RAMs, not seen a duramax though. Getting parts is not too bad, around a week from rockauto, but taxes/customs/shipping add quite a bit to the bill. Fuel can be expensive at $7-8, but the real killer is the road tax, vehicle duty or whatever you call it. Annual cost in Germany is over $2k and in Holland it's insane at around $10k. One of my Dutch engineers got offered a perfect F350 with the 6.0 psd from a friend and turned it down - even though it was for free!

Politicians here are turning against Diesel after they decided that particulates are worse than CO2, 20 years after going the opposite way of course. VW didn't help, especially as Germany has maybe not done all it could to find out who was responsible.

I'll be flying the flag as long as I can - wife and I both love its abilities and the attention it gets. Also the French are not good at merging and will try to close up. This beast opens a gap every time 😎😎

 

Some thing about being one of the largest things on the road that helps with that.
That is unless you could the fools in the tiny cars here that try to fill any gap and
then stomp the brakes.

 

Look up Belgium car crash Aalter in YouTube to see what they do here. Every time I go back to Germany at least one vehicle will overtake and immediately pull over to exit. After a while you expect it, but it's rare to have to brake - the ones that cause you to brake will get swept up with a brush sooner or later 😀

 

I have watched way too many of the Russian car crashes.

See below.

 

I was watching some of that Youtube video as I was sitting here There was this one loud
crash that startled me wide awake just as i had started to doze off. Nothing like that state of
almost asleep while sitting in a chair.

 

And a train horn can't hurt either

When we bought our used Class A diesel pusher, the fellow selling it to us was in the passenger seat as we headed to the bank - this was only the second time I'd driven anything this large and the 1st time was a couple miles. He told me I needed to move one lane over to the right, but cars kept pulling around me on the right and we were getting close to where the lanes split. The guy said: this is something you need to get used to, just turn on your blinker and give it a second and then start moving over, they WILL get out of your way! It was kind of funny what happened next: turned on signal, car next to me hauls azz to get in front, next idiot starts to try a right side pass and realizes he's about to be pushed into the weeds and slams on brakes...

My Wife takes it horse camping with her friends, I think her total length with trailer is 56 feet. One place she goes to a couple times a year, the highway goes through a city with left and right turns required. Same issue: she has to merge and cars keep pulling around her to jump into the turn lane. Did I mention the rig came with the optional twin air horns?! One car, unfortunately with its windows down was just about to whip around her and she laid into those horns...

The car went a lane further away and almost hit a parked car...

Yeah, I think adding a bigger horn on the truck would be nice...

Scott

Oh and Scott (04badford): thanks for the heads up on who to vote for!

 

I second that statement 100% completely. I have two sets of Klien train horns 230 & 730 one on each outside frame. I blow my horn and heads turn for 500' in every direction. You absolutely get a point across to the vehicles sharing the road in your area. I think 8-1/2 gallon tanks are needed for each horn so your compressor or compressors don't have to run as often because of the horns. Compressor per tank as well or you will kill even a single V446.

Where you put them is the question. Me a spare was pointless with 38" tires so I dropped spare and put air tanks there.


I made up a little for no spare and ran quick connects to each tire of truck and carry 6' coil hose and fitting. Plug kit too. Hope I never need to see how that goes on the road. I have a nail in a back tire right now that I have ben blowing off. Ahhhh

TRAIN HORN Yes Vote

 

Another one of your extremely "clean" and well thought out installations...

well done! And I still wish you were my neighbor....

Scott

 

LOL Thanks for that...Diesel Dan, now if I can just keep out of trouble I'm good. Its actually funny when you see 1/2" brass piping and all the fittings running all around under the truck. Not what is normally used but when you have been a pipe fitter for 30+ years its what I have and know best. Its all in restrained hangers or strapped so no noises from it.

I must give Kuddos to your wife for having the grit to handle a truck and trailer in any size. But over 50' combined length she is awesome, I would only do it as a last resort myself. I don't mind my 15' quad trailer but a full sized trailers of size and weights count me out. I think that's awesome and already know she's one of the few women capable of backing up. My wife is barely able to backup her little X5, not a snowball chance in hell she would even pull the quads in my truck.

 

I like your idea also. If you are not going to have a tire there you may as well put
the space to good use and it looks like it easy to reach in and drain any condensate from the tanks.

 

Thanks Yahiko appreciate it. Having only a wish and a prayer instead of a spare blows. My old Chevy was no different and that went for 24 years. For the first time with any of my own trucks I at least have the ability to plug a tire thats gone flat from a hole in the treads. Then with a on board air system with twin VIAR V446 compressors to 17 gallons of air I can easily refill my own tires anywhere.


I have a Tru-Flate quick connect above every tire.
A 6' coil hose in glove box.
Full on commercial tire plug kit.

In all honesty I pray that this plan never becomes anything more. My luck would be steel hazards on road only going through my sidewalls now.

 

Unless what i did on I215 freeway. Some puts left there tire iron on the side of the freeway and I was pulling off to check something and ran over the stupid thing.
The point went through the tired and the sidewall. Loud bang when it happened and the tire was flat FAST. I got lucky and hd a tire in the back of the van. How ever
the last person to use the jack instead of lowering it just drove off of it and really bent it up and lost the drive handle and the crank shaft. I was sure glad I had some
toold with me because I was able to patch tools together and make the jack work. It was wabble and each BIG truck made the van wobble. Got the tire back on and
then back on the ground with the hope that the spare was good and it was. On top of all of this is was nearing rush hour and it was HOT out there.