What is your recoil threshold poll?

[Ol' Red]

MPG'S. get it right ! ,

UH O Brad tirnd inta the spelin poleese

 

[WYO300RUM]

UH O Brad tirnd inta the spelin poleese

Payback for him

 

[Rob L.]

My 2-speed Shimano Triton series Big Game saltwater reels are just as good or better than Penn Internationals.
Instead of recoil, they provide a lot of reverse recoil...pull-coil.
lol, we missed this subject completely...

 

[WYO300RUM]

My 2-speed Shimano Triton series Big Game saltwater reels are just as good or better than Penn Internationals.
Instead of recoil, they provide a lot of reverse recoil...pull-coil.
lol, we missed this subject completely...

Good one ! I only have a couple Penn saltwater reels . Haven't used in 10 years or more I like my Shimano fresh water reels though.

 

[jessej]

Wow ! 27.6 mpg. I've never gotten over 18 mpg.
3.73 rear end. 5 speed auto. 4WD. Was running 285 tires. Switched back to 265.

That is a few mpg's beyond very impressive ! memtb

Yep. 42k miles on this one since September. It continues to surprise me. It gets several mpgs better than all the rest I've had. Still have stock 275-65/20s on it. I'm sure it'll drop some when I wear these out and move up to the Toyo 295s.

It just went through the first regen this week. Dropped my ave a little

 

[Rob L.]

Good one ! I only have a couple Penn saltwater reels . Haven't used in 10 years or more I like my Shimano fresh water reels though.

I gave my custom saltwater rods and reels to my kids who live in So Cal over 20 years ago. I have not use for them up here in North Central Idaho, except a Shimano TLD-5 for Salmon and Steelhead (they don't make them anymore). I have some bait casters and spinners for bass and trout fishing. I even have an old Penn Jigmaster reel, lol.
Many years ago I caught a 55lb Bluefin tuna on that TLD-5 with 20lb test. Talk about forward recoil for a dinky reel.

 

[memtb]

Yep. 42k miles on this one since September. It continues to surprise me. It gets several mpgs better than all the rest I've had. Still have stock 275-65/20s on it. I'm sure it'll drop some when I wear these out and move up to the Toyo 295s.

It just went through the first regen this week. Dropped my ave a little

If it were a Ram…..I'd call BS. As the Ram mileage computer "lies like a rug"…..and always to the high side. That's the reason among Ram aficionados, it's referred to as the "Lie O Meter"!

While on topic……do you put it to paper to verify?

For all of our vehicles, we keep a log book showing all fill-ups ( computer and hand calculated mileage), and all maintenance ( oil changes, tire rotations, all maintenance, ect.) Been doing that since I was a teenager! memtb

 

[jessej]

While on topic……do you put it to paper to verify?

Yep. It's always within 1 mpg. And the "lie o meter" always shows better than actual.

 

[memtb]

Yep. It's always within 1 mpg. And the "lie o meter" always shows better than actual.

Our Ram is usually off between 2 and 3 off….but, has been off as much as 5 or 6. I think I can count on on hand the number of times the computer was correct or wrong in the other direction! memtb

 

[WYO300RUM]

Yep. 42k miles on this one since September. It continues to surprise me. It gets several mpgs better than all the rest I've had. Still have stock 275-65/20s on it. I'm sure it'll drop some when I wear these out and move up to the Toyo 295s.

It just went through the first regen this week. Dropped my ave a little

Toyo ... Chinese

 

[WYO300RUM]

I gave my custom saltwater rods and reels to my kids who live in So Cal over 20 years ago. I have not use for them up here in North Central Idaho, except a Shimano TLD-5 for Salmon and Steelhead (they don't make them anymore). I have some bait casters and spinners for bass and trout fishing. I even have an old Penn Jigmaster reel, lol.
Many years ago I caught a 55lb Bluefin tuna on that TLD-5 with 20lb test. Talk about forward recoil for a dinky reel.

I moved from San Diego area. kinda miss the ocean .I've always liked mountains more.You get spoiled in So Cal. You can drive to the mountains, desert or ocean in a short drive. When I lived in Ocesnside I could walk or ride my bike to the beach . Two other places I lived I could be in Nat. Forest in 10 min. and other 15 min..

 

[WYO300RUM]

They're great in stock form. Just don't put a tuner on them and push fuel, they're already hot rodded compared to the VGT365 specs that International put into school busses.

We had two 2003s, one was traded in at 180k and one at 280k. Still have two 2007s, both around 150k now. I worked on Fords in a shop though, so maybe what I consider "normal" maintenance would make a regular owner themselves.

Ford should have put 4.10s in the SRW trucks instead of 3.73s though. Would have solved a lot of the cylinder pressure issues running by cooler at higher RPMs. 4.10s and the factory 275/65R20s would have been a great pairing. The 4.10s in the duallys with 265/70R17s was perfect. But then the trucks would have driven like diesel pullers and not race cars, and trucks driving like race cars is what sells most diesels these days.


That's the truth. Other than people lying about putting DEF into the fuel tank the 6.7s have been a huge improvement. Rusty HPFP = DEF, I can prove it by pulling the fuel filter out. The biggest thing they did wrong was fuel capacity and putting the DEF tank into the same spot as the diesel tank. They should come with 50 gallon tanks.

I got over that by putting a 100 gallon L-tank/chest combo into the my bed, and running a transfer pump into the main tank. I have an 1800 mile range empty, and 1300 mile range towing up to 10k. I put CAT filters into the transfer line that are each better than the stock filters on the truck, that stuff is CLEAN when it pumps over.


I replaced the alternators early in the 2007s, with Leece-Neville 230A units. The 2003s were fine but the newer ones always went through batteries faster, and one FICM had to get worked on. Ed Stefan at FICMrepair did his magic and it's been fine for 10 years now. I did the STC fittings preventatively, but I was already in there for...... something we can't talk about because the EPA will probably throw me in jail without a trial if I talk about it. Had to do one rail plug so far for a long crank.

The worst that's happened to any of them was one truck blew an intercooler boot on the road and the shop insisted that the unison ring in the turbo was sticking because it had an underboost code. No it had an underboost code, the guy drove it several miles with the turbo disconnected to get it there instead of calling. Could have pulled out an 11mm deep socket and put it back on but nooooooooo he had to pretend he has a functional brain stem and tried to make a decision for himself. I about had a stroke when I found out he authorized the shop to replace the entire turbo with a reman for a cost of ~$1,800 in parts and labor. It's a $160 part and 4 hours of dicking around with the turbo to fix, even IF it was a real problem. Now there's a mystery reman under the hood and someone other than me has touched it. Still mad about that.

Normal Ford BS on all of them though - a brake caliper seized, bearing the in driveshaft rotted, trailer plug wiring is crap and I re-ran it, cab mounts all need to be replaced, yada yada.

Few months ago my heater defaulted to defrost. I kept getting stuck in the snow, mud, etc.. I was turning on auto 4wd. Got stuck trying to go through a drift off road. Buddy got out and said your front wheels aren't turning . WTH ? Got out. Locked hubs in. Boom. Got right out. I kept thinking no wonder I was getting stuck ! Read up on it. No vacume. My vacume pump crapped out. Was nice to have heat on feet again and not get out and lock hubs in let alone get stuck.
I'm Recoiling !

 

[staghunter]

My buddies 300 PRC is pretty much all I want know. Used to be 338 when I was young.

 

[Dusty Bottoms]

I sat down and put 23 rounds through my 458 Lott once, getting it dialed in for a hunt. No brake, it was all I wanted.