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The wheel well inserts you might be thinking of won't cover or protect any of the front suspension as it is installed behind the springs at best. The rear springs and shocks will get their natural gunk coating from the front tires flinging it up under the truck. The wheel well guards in the rear won't gain you anything either. What you have already installed in the front is sufficient. No need to add them to the rear, as there will be no gain from it. Here is what I will tell you though. Before the truck gets too dirty being a nice clean truck now, go to Harbor Frieght and get a gallon jug of WD-40 and a WD-40 hand pump bottle, NAPA also sells these. Liberally spray down the frame area, under the wheel wells, coat the suspension parts, etc. Avoid spraying the brakes and tires as this can hinder their performance. Later down the road when you go to wash the truck, get yourself a hand pump spray bottle and some refills of "LA's Totally Awesome" from the Dollar Tree. Spray the area under the wheel wells that you applied the WD-40 previously. Let it soak while you wash the rest of the truck. When you get done with the truck body and such, just rinse the LA's Totally Awesome back off the wheel well area really well. This will remove the old WD-40, and will float away all the road grime that the WD-40 kept from attaching to your frame bits. Let it drip dry off most of the rinse water, and then recoat the wheel well areas, frame, rear axle, with a new coating of WD-40. The rest of the water will get displaced and float out/off from the cracks and crevices by the WD-40. Again this will eventually evaporate and leave your undercarraige looking brand new again. Now, what this does. The WD-40 will mostly evaporate leaving a nice thin film that will do a few things. 1. It will shed road rain water for quite a while, protect the frame from gunk sticking directly to the frame that can cause rust and corrosion. 2. It will keep that area looking brand new for years.

Go around your truck and test the various panels with a magnet. You will probably see many are aluminum.

As for bed liners. Don't do a drop in. They wear out the bed paint where they vibrate and rub. Just do the rubber mat, and put cardboard down for the totes to scoot on, but not slide around like they are on clean bare paint.

If you are out of warranty, avoid taking your rig to the dealership for anything. Find a smaller local well known ma/pa repair shop. They are not interested in going out of business, and will do a better job and most likely much lower repair bill. As for brakes. Not knowing your method of braking on the downhills, I will just throw this out for you anyway. Pick a speed you are comfortable with going down hill (say 55 mph). Coast up to that speed and then stab the brakes hard to get your speed back down to about 45-48 mph. Basically get in and get back out. Allow the truck to coast back up to the 55 mph, and repeat until you are down the hill and back on flat ground. What this does is quickly slows you down but allows the brakes to cool while you are coasting back up to speed. If you just ride the brakes to maintain the 55 mph, you will cook the brakes as you never give them time to cool. This also reduces the over heating of the trailer brakes with this pulse type braking, vs riding them.

Hey man. It's NOT a towing issue. It's a Ford and user issue. You are well within the weight limit claimed by the factory. Make sure your trailer brakes are working well. If you are heating the brakes on the truck up to much you are not using enough trailer brakes. The brakes on the trailer should be adjusted so they are stopping itself and your truck is stopping itself. Reality should be the truck stops itself the same as it would without a trailer attached. Next towing. The Ford engine is junk. Plagued with problems. Towing won't change that but with that said are you towing like you have a trailer on at 55mph or are you blasting down the road at 70mph and mashing your foot to the floor when you hit a hill to maintain that 70mph? Back out of the throttle. Let the truck pull. It has a happy spot when pulling a hill where it will maintain a certain speed without over heating. There is a certain point when stepping on the throttle even in the new truck where speed doesn't increase but the heat and gas consumption with go way up. Back out of the throttle and find the spot where it pulls well but temps remain great. I have a 1 ton truck and I tow a trailer with quads and a huge Lance camper on top. We go to our favorite camping spot and it's a long pull uphill. Some spots I am down to 30mph. It's pulling hard and that's about half throttle. If I mash it harder the temps climb immediately and gas consumption goes way up I can watch the needle drop. But I only gain about 5mph in speed. That's not good. Overheating and pushing it hard is bad. Back off and let it pull where it's happy. Don't just mash into the throttle when you hit the climbs letting the rpm soar and temps shoot way up. That's the same no matter the rig you own. Back off and treat it a bit easier and you won't be in the shop constantly.

Forever on Repair Dock. Ford. I owned one from the 1970's. Never again.

Those engines are absolute trash. Buddy of mine has the same one. His is now setting in his field and he bought another truck for the cost to fix. Should’ve been a total recall on those. Not to mention the wiring harness issues. I hope you have extended warranty

What do you have mounted to the shaft of your Manticore??? Is that a pin pointer as well?

As an Oregon detectorist Wheaties still get me excited lol.

yea i been dealing with my mom she had sirgery taking care of her andwhat part of the coast u coming to its been pritty slow on the finds in lincoln city and i love the knife u found should try to clean it up

So you can’t dig with regular shovel, but you can dig with a hand shovel…….that makes a lot of sense. Especially since its easier to keep things nice with the shovel. And digging is digging….,

Nice congrats on the silvers and the wheaties

Metal detecting is a nice way to take a break from the troubles in life. Peace and health to your family 🙏

the shuttle line is sooooo long going up the hill. later in the day that is. you went at a great time.

we did zion in March. st. George is a cool little town

Pretty cool. We are getting our rv in a few more years. For now we travel by car to places. I put a CB in the car just in case there is no cell service. And I metal detect but not in the summer.

Nice outing congrats on the silvers and the token

I wondered how you liked that detector. I still have my Whites XLT I bought in 1996. I'm in Eugene and need it to cool down a bit.

Dude, you spend all that money on a detector, and you have it covered in mud. It's free to clean your stuff.

4:25 he starts talking about setting.

If you want a quick trip to a nervous breakdown try the gold monster 1000 in a park.

Shouldn't forget around the tree's. I was in a park and got a weird series of signals near the base of a tree and pulled out 5 Franklin halves, 3 pre '64 quarters, 4 barber dimes and some wheat's. I think long ago, someone must have sat down against the tree and lost all their change. Sometimes you just get lucky!

let's go let's go treasure and adventure ✌👵

Brookings, Or, park burned ? Was still there when i left in 2001, even have a video of searching it. The RedHeaded Adventures.

We didn't find nothing is of course a double negative, which means you did find something!?

Lesche has it's place but the model 31 Predator digger with his concaved body is a much nicer hand earth mover 🙂

Happy digs Great old area to hunt, grats on the wheats and silver👍👍👍

OH YEAH!!!!!!

I would not get all that hung up over the word “Gold” in the name of your metal detector. It’s just marketing, son. Most better modern metal detectors are discriminators that can tell the difference between trash and precious metals. The best detectors are not cheap and most never pay for themselves. My opinion is that folks should only metal detector for leisure fun and exercise - not because you expect to strike it rich. The folks who have gotten the richest from the metal detecting hobby are the people selling the metal detectors. 😂 99.9999% of all treasure hunters using metal detectors lose money on their hobby, but probably more than half enjoy doing it anyway. 😊

thats a brownie pin

Gold monster 1000 is a gold nugget vlf machine. I would run it along rivers or streams detecting bedrock crevices. Or in the desert in Arizona again hunting bedrock washes. You would not want it for the beach or any kind of general detecting. It is gold nugget specific and makes a zip zip over tiny gold or of course shotgun shot and lead bullets ect. Yes if you where to detect a coin or gold ring along the bedrock of the river it will give a sound. The sound will be the same as a nugget but more of an overload as a coin is much larger than the small gold it's designed to find. It is very specific to nugget hunting on bedrock or old miner tailing piles. To get an idea of what the 1000 would be like put your Manticore in prospect mode. You will hear the threshold and then test some coins or gold rings whatever. This will give you a very good idea of what the 1000 will be like. And the 1000 only has prospect mode. That's what it's designed to do and nothing else. So imagine your Manticore in prospect mode only and you know what the 1000 will be. Have fun!

let's go let's go treasure and adventure ✌👵

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Brass relic thing looks like a speedloader for an m1 garand.

Happy digs. A Great hunt good to see ya out.

Great hunt

If you don’t mind me asking and if you even see this, what park was this because I tried st Helen’s park but the are very different?

I've dug a sterling bracelet under the big tree in the front of that school and the other side and down around back and the old big building in the back next to it. Glad you've found more there with better tech

Do you now roll them all or just find a bank that will put them through their coin counter? How clean do you have to make the coins for them to take them?

My family and I visited the town. I like seeing it. Reminded me of my time in Germany

Yes! 😂

Who needs a house with sweet resorts like this 😅

Very nice 🎉

get in that water where the pelicans were it looks perfect for the toddlers and mothers to play they will be stuff in there,

Really impressive, thanks for the tour!

That is our next weekend trip.

Pretty soon we will be hitting the road in a RV enjoying life.

Gold numbers tend to fluctuate alot between low and medium numbers at least on The Legend. I still just dig everything just in case unless it grunts alot. One ring I found was deep and sounded like iron but after a few bites into the sand it became better sounding and I popped out a 14k amethyst ring.

yeah you need a bigger scoop to compete on beaches. Less time digging is more time to roam. If you're not an avid beach detector it's not worth it, but if you are, then Xtreme scoops makes really good durable sand scoops. It also helps with digging when the water starts to fill your hole.

You're nearing the coast, good luck with the beaches, they're kinda lackluster right now.