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I've got air suspension thankfully, wont get another tow vehicle w/out em honsestly.. however my manual also says no WD hitches, there was a Q5 that put a WD hitch on with a nice sized travel trailer against the user manual.. went over a speed bump in a parking lot and it ripped his receiver off...

In my user manual it states that hitch ball should not be more than like ~6-7in away from the receiver pin.. so I shortened mine to be within spec.. the further you move your trailer pivot back the more leverage it has on the rear axle and the lower your tongue carrying capacity.. but then again...

mebe if I didnt have this stupid panno sunroof, oh well at least it dont squeak anymore going over the curb now that I bolted a frontrunner to the top of it.. but that thing dont get beat on like trucks do, now my Jeep.. well that has been through some redneck olympics before, and thats why its...

Warranty Smwararnty, I void all my warranties.. almost never has it bitten me in the ********.. and when it does its just a (expensive) learning opportunity heh. Its all weasley lawyer doublespeak, if they can find a way out of it they will.. if I break something I just get to replace it with...

something's gone sideways electronically, apparently its a common issue.. was not til I got a TM-281 for my trailer and realized the lil whip sitting on the table I was testing with was beating my giant collinear roof top antenna.. got another TM-281 and hooked it into the roof top antenna and...

ah thanks for the explanation, I'm just a tech so I dont work HF and have not been too terribly interested in it other than mebe HF APRS for middle of nowheres.. CB was my first radio and sometimes at night I could talk to people in towns a couple hundred miles away but it was never anything...

what I usually do is a standard braided strap from transmission to subframe, then one going directly from battery down to the starter bolt.. but since your running a winch off frame try to find the shortest and biggest strap you can get.. going to the starter might be bit too far, so mebe engine...

Tongue Weight needs to be at LEAST 10%, less is very very bad and just going to put you in the ditch if your lucky.. more is fine if vehicle is capable of handling it... my toy hauler is closer to 20% tongue than it is 10%, and personally I shoot for ~15% as that seems to be the sweet spot.

yeah you could use chassis ground, but for that amperage I would suggest redundant ground straps for both engine and battery up front.. big enough to handle that 170A otherwise you could have issues.. I had a ground strap fail on my Westfallia (40 years later just snapped the braided cable), so...

if your using DC wiring chart and grounding to chassis, no.. otherwise you use a DC wiring chart/calculator and account for all wiring combined.. both positive and negative. This is a good reference site: http://circuitwizard.bluesea.com/

Stale Bread?

Wet Sandstone?

No you need to look at the DC wire gauge chart, AC current goes several orders of magnitude further with less losses than DC over the same wiring, and its at least one order of magnitude greater in just voltage alone.

11m is low band VHF? hrmm I mean its close but I thought VHF started at 30Mhz and 11m is lower than that.. abiet slightly so it propagates more like VHF than say 30m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_radio#Working_skip

yeah CB has the capability to bounce off atmosphere, but that dont mean you can rely on it... for example atmospheric conditions are far more favorable for HF use after the sun sets.. CB would also be a crap shoot getting around terrain as environmental conditions change.. for example they might...

he's using a 1# bottle that might make it a bit harder to get steady pressure, I wonder if an adjustable regulator for like a burner stove that you can adjust pressure on fly would make it work in high altitude.. might be a bit fiddly tho. I spend majority of my time between 7-10k, heck I live...

yep you cant transit through earth at these frequencies, line of sight is required as GMRS dont skip off the atmosphere like you can w/CB. You'd have to put a repeater on the peak between the two camps.

here in colorado anything that has any airflow at all dries out completely all on its own... normally I'd agree you want to leave your taps open when tank is not in use, however dont let wasps build a nest in your tank or anything so if your vents are not filtered somehow I'd suggest it.. even a...

well that sucks, guess gonna shelf that idea.. I spend very little time below 5k thanks for the heads up, shoulda known better. Its running too rich w/out the oxygen, wonder if they can have gas output reduced somehow.

just wanted to post this up here because this thread needs gratuitous photos every once and a while.