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There are a bunch of YouTube videos about running camper and motorhome A/C with smallish generators. Seems like lots of people run them with the 2400 and some with the 2000. I don't have A/C, but the extra margin of the 2400 could be handy for power tools. I got a line on a lightly used Yamaha...

I'm right at 10mpg for ten years. But keep in mind that mine has the 4.56 gears, running heavy Toyo 35s, and mine is loaded to north of 8,000 pounds with triple batteries, fridge, OBA, water tanks (plural), camper shell, two big tool boxes and a lot of recovery stuff. The newer PWs with the...

If it's just about being special, that's fine. If it's about getting the best truck for your purposes and budget, you need to dig deeper than that. An AEV Ram is a nice truck, but the buyer is paying an awful lot for the branding. AEV will claim that they have to amortize their development...

There was only one prototype PW with a diesel that I am aware of. Built for Chrysler by Kore and shown at Moab around 2006. The word I heard is that Chrysler decided not to market diesel PWs because of weight and overall length. Diesels are heavy and make the truck less suitable for their...

Depends on the truck. My '05 3G has been on Toyo 35s since shortly after I got it, with zero mods to make them fit, and no clearance issues. Some guys with 3Gs have been successfully running 37s on stock suspension with no mods, others have had to trim the plastic fender lips a bit. Seems...

Yes the truck is stuck in the AZ desert. Water tank is a pair of 6" Sch-40 PVC tubes, connected with strategically placed Ts so that the tank assembly can be slid over the crossbars of my Yakima rack system. The tank assembly is held to my Con-Ferr basket with stainless U-bolts, so it can't...

We just used my 48" this week to pull up some concrete forms that were reluctant to come out. Very versatile tool. I also have a 60" Extreme and if I only kept one, it would be the 60.

There has been a lot of discussion about AEVs on the Power Wagon Forum. Admitting our bias (i.e., we don't own one), the consensus is that the AEV is way overpriced for what you get and a properly equipped AEV Ram is way overkill for most people's needs. AEV seems guilty of adding a lot of...

$17 is no big deal, but the warranty when I bought mine was three years full replacement. Why didn't they give you the full $210? Did they use the sales tax scam to weasel out of the $17?

One of the Yahama dealers has a chart showing what the various Yamaha models will run, and the list is identical for the 2000 and the 2400. More is always better as long as the tradeoffs are not too great.

Might work if everything else is turned off when you start the A/C, turn off the econo mode on the generator so that it is running at full speed for startup, and use a bigger/shorter cable to minimize voltage drop. If using a 12 gauge cord, try a 10 gauge.

If you use PVC, be sure to paint it for UV protection. Home Depot sells a primer called BONDZ (online only now, it seems) that actually sticks to PVC. I have big PVC tanks on my roof rack, primered with white Bondz, and the finish is in perfect condition after thousands of miles of desert...

I had a bad PM1 a few years ago and Sears wouldn't do anything. I was about three days past the three year warranty, but the battery had been bad for weeks and they admitted it had a dead cell. So I called Odyssey to express my displeasure with their Sears dealers and Odyssey made good on the...

If I buy new, I'm zeroed in on the Yamaha EF2000. They make three versions, all designated as the EF2000, but one ends in"iS", one is an "iSH", and the newest is the "iSV2." I spent a couple hours on the phone yesterday trying to figure out the differences, including multiple calls to Yamaha...

Mileage aside, prices in most of CA are that bad. Get out of the city to shop for trucks. You might even want to head over to Reno.

Seems that remote start is available on units at 3000W and higher, but those get real heavy, like 150 pounds. Kills the advantage of the suitcase package for me.

That Champion is only $522 at Amazon, and they stack if you want to parallel them. Claim 1700W continuous output.

I think I'm OK with a 2000W invertor generator because I have a 12CFM OBA system in the truck and a 270amp alternator that puts out about 116amps at idle, so I can run air tools all day from the truck. I have a lot of cordless tools that I can charge from the truck, so small electrics are OK...

If you are in Sac, start looking east or west on I-80. There are better deals when you get out east toward Auburn or even North toward Redding. If you look south toward the San Joaquin, you might also find deals.

Probably because the Raptor is not a real truck and was not designed to haul heavy loads. It's a go-fast toy that happens to have a bed, I currently own three GM half-ton 4WD trucks, 1998, 2000, 2004. One with limited slip, one with G80 locker, and one with electronic AWD. Two are running...