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Rock solid and super basic. Been running it for 8 years now. SunKeeper SK6. Almost no dark current (night time battery draw). Just about the only charge controller that will actually publish a dark current number. No displays, no alarms, no internal switching. It's just a battery charger for...

Save money and skip the solar. Put that extra money into a bigger (better) house battery. Solar only works when the sun is shining. The bulk of what I see of your expected loads are at night. Being you are a weekender you won't be parked long enough to use solar. Now if you start using an...

So you have 26" now and only 2" of extension left. So ride height of a 24"? How much uptravel do you have. If the suspension bottoms out what will that distance be? If it is 16" it is going to take a lot of fab work to get a new upper shock mount for a long body shock to get the travel you...

I have a Warn receiver hitch mount sitting in the garage. Got the setup, changed to a bumper mounted winch, got rid of the rig. Backed off my travels and am not a winch person that much. Over 10 years since I did any winching, mostly because I don't own anything with a winch anymore nor am I...

It's not a ratio adjustment. it's how much of the snail shape is exposed to the lifter bucket compared to how much of the base circle. At low lift, mostly on the base circle and only the first bit of the snail is used. At max lift, less of the base circle and more of the snail is used. If...

I don't think you understand how the VVEL system works. There is no traditional style camshaft. Don't know about the 56, but the VQ37 I have heard of tuners adjusting the max lift limit screw. Combined with a tune. My understanding is these engines tend to throttle the engine via the amount...

VD but most of it applies back to the first gen. Except the VVEL system First gen had two different variable cam. Early years were single adjustable and after 08(?) went do dual variable cam. There is even early and late VD. Early has a traditional thermostat and a single variable cam...

Dig into the VK56 and it gets even better. I have one in the living room as a lamp. I was really impressed taking it apart to build the lamp. I'm sure I will miss some of the design elements, but here we go... Deep skirt block with cross bolted 6-bolt main caps, all 5 of them. Steel caps...

Have many miles on them as a company truck. Love them. They eat miles on the highway. That long hood pushes the engine forward and you have footroom. I will say it actually drives better than most full size trucks. Way better than the old Econoline (those were always all over the place even...

Budget and location. I could point you at a half dozen local shops here in AZ that can do the job. Keep in mind that paying a shop to do the work you will be looking at a 5-figure job if you want it done right. Tires and wheels, a lift for the rear to match the front, sourcing a front axle...

As above, if you are trying to measure what is going in and out of the battery, you can't bypass that measurement device. If anything is connected directly to the negative post, that is a path to bypass the measurements. Second, loose the wire nuts. They fall off from vibrations. They are...

You might have the polarity wrong. Yea, this idiot thinks I got the polarity and an AC generator backwards? What an idiot! But many ABS sensors are not simple AC wave form generators. They are a square wave powered sensor. Why did the auto makers go to this? The AC generators are fine at...

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Get a 4WD version of a 4R70W. You rob the output shaft and tail housing off it. Output shaft change requires a complete teardown of your 4R75W. The output shaft is literally the first part installed in the case when you start rebuilding it. The part that sticks out the back and is installed...

Free, go for it. Biggest issue I have is when one cell goes that battery drops. All the other batteries discharge into that one bad battery trying to equalize. Turns into a self destruct sequence. Generally no more than 2 batteries are run in parallel.

If you look back at the 1980 MGM Grand disaster, many of the people who were killed were in there rooms with no smoke damage. The filters generally discussed here are particulate (generally the PM2.5), the stuff that makes smoke difficult to see through. The other gasses pass right through...

There are a lot of people getting into the older classic trucks. Stuff that wasn't a classic that long ago. Bedliner in the bed has a negative value. Nobody wants it after it is old. I've knows several deals that fell through once the bedliner was spotted. Not the long term value that it...

If there is a vent up there, regardless if it is powered or not, don't do it. The vent needs to think of airflow. If it is powered you will be changing the flow pattern. If natural, choke the flow. Also the heat off the A/C will heat the solar. Solar output drops as it heats. Probably get...

Braided does not protect against heat. Braided is for abrasion protection. The liner core will still melt. Copper is great for heat, but can't take vibration and will crack.

Fast for a 1500 pound bike. If that Kawi weighed what the Harley did you wouldn't move.