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We have a suburban here at work for travelling outside of town and it gets pretty decent mileage. Not great but certainly 8MPG. We get about very close to 20MPG on the highway with it and somewhere around 15 in the city. Not bad for a 5.3L V8 with 310HP in a heavy truck like this.

You are wise beyond your years Obie Wan!!!

Thanks!!! That made me all warm and tingly inside.

My dad uses the Bell version "Turbo Hub" and it's pretty decent too. http://www.bell.ca/Bell_Internet/Internet_access

That was expensive. When I watched that I was thinking about this video the whole time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGWsQbyOwM&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

I guess you could mount them so they throw snow into the fan of an air cooled sled for Bill so he can be cool too.

There you go. Once you get em figured out ya can send me a couple of sets for Arctic testing. As I said the set I have are drilled and tapped for a carbide track stud. They hold up well and are cheap and easy to replace.

Yeah they work very well. I'll try and get some video on the weekend if I remember. I'm old and don't remember things too good any more. They are carving up the deck on my sled trailer pretty good if that gives you any idea.

I have a pair of Tric Ice Scratchers and they are light years ahead of any of the hard spring steel scratchers out there. They ain't cheap but the first time you accidentally back up with the regular scratchers deployed and trash them you will wish you payed the few extra $$$ for them. I have had the spring steel scratchers and they do work quite well but they become pretzels if you back up with them deployed and need to be replaced while these are made of heavy stainless cable with a replaceable stud as the point that does the scratching.

Me too. I had '96,2000 and 2004 Civics and all were good cars. The '96 and 2004 were better than the 2000 though. Me thinks that one fell off the truck. My '05 Pilot is a great vehicle too.

I've been wishing for years that they would bring the diesel Landcruiser over here.

Radio World has them for $950 plus you get a $200 mail in rebate. I gather this is probably a Lowrance offer and is available from all dealers.

True but have you seen our roads? Starting in late October until April they are snow and ice covered. It's always kicking in the rears. I wish they were rear wheel drive with selectable 4X4. The fact that they are FWD first creates a lot of wear on the front tires as even on dry pavement if you give 'er a little too much gas the fronts slip just a bit until the rears kick in. It's a minor annoyance but an area I think they can improve on. It does however have a center locking diff which will equally sperad the power to all four wheels but it's not the same as real front and rear locking diffs. It does work pretty good though but it only works in 1,2 or R and only up to 30kmh. When I got my new tires a couple of springs ago I wanted to see how they were so I drove to my friends place on the ice and put 'er in low locked and crawled up the granite outcrop in front of their cabin. I would have easily made it except my trailer hitch hung up on the ice because I did not have a big enough departure angle. I was pretty impressed as it's pretty much a soccer mom mobile. It would be nice if Honda made a "real" truck.

Get yourself some Mobil 1 10W40 full synthetic oil about $11 a liter. It is so superior to regular $4 liter dino oil that the extra $$$$ are well worth the cost. I put that stuff in everything!!!!! I became a believer in synthetics when I switched from regular with my 2004 Honda Civic. It was my third in 12 years (leases) and I noticed with the first 2 when I hit about 70,000km I got some valve train noise on cold start up. With my 2004 vehicle I immediately went with Mobil1 and the noise that showed in the first two civics never showed on the newest one even when it had 250,000kms on it. Even my 2 strokes get synthetic oils now as well as the other fluids on my 2005 Honda Pilot. Synthetic power steering fluid makes a big difference here in the iquid nitrogen cold of winter North of 60*.

I won't deny that the fuel mileage could be better on the Honda's. The full time all wheel drive knocks it down a bit. I will also say that the new Sierra's are nice and get excellent mileage. And as an added bonus the seats are really comfortable.

An easy fix for that is a Magnaflow cat back exhaust system. A couple of hours of your time and your anemic sounding F150 will sound like a manly real truck.

Regular fuel. 365 hp @ 5,000 rpm. 420 #ft of torque at 2,500 rpm. Direct injected twin turbo. Mileage is the same as the V8. Seats are still uncomfortable.

The only problem with it is it's excruciatingly painful on long trips as the seats are about as comfortable as old wooden bleachers.

My buddy is 6'7" 350#'s and he drives one of them caddy suv things like whut da gangstas drive. He has ridden as a passenger in my Pilot and did not look wholey unconfortable even with the seat forward due to there being 3 more peeps in the back seat (all dressed in wading gear I might add). The Mitsubihi's are nice but I find them a little lacking in overall quality of components. The guy that works for me had an '08 Outlander and I found that it was hollow sounding when closing the doors (like they really should have dynamatted them to make it more solid sounding). The Endevour may be different and they do have an excellent warranty.

Can't go wrong with any of the Japanese vehicles. IMHO I really like my Honda Pilot. Tons of room and it pulls my 18' Fisher and popup camper fine. It even gets pretty decent mileage.

I tend to hold my rod tip low and swing with the current and find I get more fish this way than running my tip high. I will only run the tip high when trying to steer my offering through pocket water. I run 15# Power Pro with 8# flouro leader and my weights are 3/16" or 1/4" pencil lead in a rubber dropper rig. See HERE I find this weight setup really enables you to tell the difference between rocks and fish hits.

You are getting very sleepy!!!! LOL

Yeah I saw it and was surprised that Backstrom was still fully clothed after being so badly undressed!!!

Yep, there have been a bunch of conversions based on campers. If it were me I would do it right and replace the axle with a drop down axle so you can drop the trailer right on the ice. You can get some ideas and costing HERE.

Gigantic bar of West Coast Chrome!! Don't know who the dude is but