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08-05-2011, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by melvonnar
Guys; you all got it wrong;
Really simple; big tires on back of motorhome, small on front, your always going down hill, just put it in nutral and coast down the road.
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If we do that we also have to install the really small chain steering wheel and Neon lights under the coach
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08-05-2011, 05:56 PM
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Here's a training video you might consider...
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08-05-2011, 06:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by salvagediver
Here's a training video you might consider...
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Too funny
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08-05-2011, 07:52 PM
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salvagediver You can dive on my salvage any time. That was way funny..........ronspradley
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08-05-2011, 08:46 PM
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"partially linear" right there is your problem. The linear and series phases are not in alignment. Re-post after correcting this mismatched co-phasing. Your expenses will probably off-set any benefit though. BTW, post your actual weights, then we can see if you will realize any actual benefit from your efforts.
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08-05-2011, 10:16 PM
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If we could convert this BS to methane, we would have the solution to the worlds energy crises
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08-08-2011, 04:12 AM
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WD 40 should fix you right up. Then you can get to where no man has gone before. Don't forget to make reservations it is getting crowded.
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08-09-2011, 08:09 PM
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It's always the simple basic stuff that gets overlooked. You need to add water to the batteries. That always happens when the battery water get low.
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08-10-2011, 08:09 AM
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Back on topic: A light foot is your best gas saver.
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08-10-2011, 08:21 AM
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There is a very simple ''fix'' I am suprised you guys havent though of before now.
First. You are attacking it from the wrong prospective.
Two. You want to put attachments on the vehicles to improve milage
Three. WRONG...
Four.. Here is the simple solution........ (you ready????)
CHANGE ALL THE ROADS SO THEY GO DOWN HILL AND WE CAN JUST COAST TO WHERE WE WANT TO GO.
Of course this will put extra wear and tear on our breaking systems on our cars and MH's but this can be overcome by using a long cable from the top of the mountains to the bottom and when you are going downhill you simply hook on to the cable at the top and you pull a vehicle up the ''uphill'' side of the mountain so that the vehicle can then coast down the downhill side of the road while pulling the cable ''uphill'' with another vehicle attached and so forth........ (if this is too complicated for some of you, I can explain in a privet PM)
I am very angry over the recent loss of so many of our Youngest and Finest........... Lets bring our people home now and fight this war with drone aircraft and ''whispering death from above''........JMHO.....
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08-10-2011, 08:34 AM
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Heyya! It's all ball bearings nowadays. Now you prepare that Fetzer valve with some 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads, and I'm gonna need 'bout ten quarts of anti-freeze, preferably Prestone. No, no make that Quaker State. "Fletch"
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08-10-2011, 10:08 AM
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Does this problem only occur at Walmart?
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08-11-2011, 08:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Norm4015
I bought some of those magnets to place on each side of the fuel line to double my mpg. I think they line up the ions so the fuel burns better. Well, my first trip out my mileage dropped to 3.8 mpg and then I figured out the problem. Magnets have poles - a north and a south. And I had installed them backwards. After turning the magnets around my mileage jumped up to 17.4 mpg.
So my warning is to be sure to install them the correct way.
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If you are heading north to Canada, you have to face the magnets south, and vice versa if you are heading south to Florida.
Now if you are heading east to Washington DC, or west to California, you'll need to place one magnet north, and the other south.
I found this out the hard way by prematurely running out of fuel molecules in Kansas (the 1/2 way point of the continent).
After 2-3 years you will have to replace the magnets, as they will run out of magnetism.
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08-11-2011, 08:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by melvonnar
Guys; you all got it wrong;
Really simple; big tires on back of motorhome, small on front, your always going down hill, just put it in nutral and coast down the road.
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I took your advice and tried it. Well I musta used the wrong sizes, because my front bumper drags on the ground and slows me down.
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