From: Convoy Magazine (convoymagazine@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Dec 24 2005 - 19:58:09 PST
asked? or "strongly advised" teehee
Im off to indulge in the champers...
Monty ending transmission.
--- Sonny Heath <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:
> You been talking to my wife? Thats exactly what she
> asked me. lol
>
> Sonny
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Convoy Magazine" <convoymagazine@yahoo.com>
> To: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>; "Military
> Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:31 PM
> Subject: [BULK] Re: [MV] hey guys
>
>
> > What are we doing online???? get off the computer
> its
> > Christmas!!
> > see you in a day or two.
> > cheers
> > Merry Christmas!
> > Marc
> > Convoy- Canada's No1 HMV hobby magazine
> >
> >
> > --- Sonny Heath <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm sending this for any and all comments but
> >> primarily to get the opinion
> >> of TJ Smith. I wrote to TJ privately but he
> somehow
> >> has not been able to get
> >> an email through to me.
> >>
> >> Three years ago I turned my 1996 Freightliner
> Condo
> >> in to a recreational
> >> vehicle by stretching the frame slightly to
> accept
> >> an eight foot by fourteen
> >> foot aluminum box that I had on an old GMC cube
> van.
> >> My state, Florida, did
> >> a new title and etched a new vin number on the
> >> windshield and door glasses
> >> plus they put a data plate on the driver door
> post
> >> and gave me a title for a
> >> 2003 ASPT, which means, they say, that its
> assembled
> >> from parts.
> >>
> >> I somehow got lucky enough to turn out an RV
> Toter
> >> which makes the ones
> >> manufactured up around Elkhart, In. and some
> other
> >> places including Texas
> >> look less than finished, IMHO.
> >>
> >> I have a two and five sixteenth inch ball for my
> >> gooseneck trailer under a
> >> closed plate when not in use. I also have a
> class
> >> three hitch mounted under
> >> the rear of it.
> >>
> >> I'm strictly a collector of motorscooters,
> >> motorcycles, old farm tractors,
> >> and military vehicles among other things too
> >> numerous to go in to. I do not
> >> sell anything at the shows I attend, I only
> exibit
> >> for free. I do not ask
> >> for nor would I accept donations just to make
> myself
> >> clear on that.
> >>
> >> My RV is thirty eight foot long from bumper to
> >> bumper and my longest trailer
> >> is a thirty two foot gooseneck. Sometimes I drag
> a
> >> sixteen foot closed in
> >> trailer if I go to a scooter meet for example,
> but
> >> usually I have either no
> >> trailer or I have the gooseneck with maybe a
> deuce
> >> and a half or a HMMWV and
> >> a tractor.
> >>
> >> My trailer is rated at 25000 pound with two axles
> >> and eight tires, four on
> >> each axle. I have never hauled, to my knowledge,
> >> more than 25000 pound
> >> including the trailer weight. The trailer has
> >> electric, 12 volt DC, brakes
> >> activated by a Techonsha (sp) brake controller
> >> operated through the cold
> >> side of the brake light switch on the RV. Both
> >> trailers are 2003 as well as
> >> the truck.
> >>
> >> Now TJ, am I mandated to stop at weigh stations
> in
> >> your state of Texas and
> >> if not, would you if this was your set up? I
> have
> >> nothing to hide, consider
> >> myself to be totally safe and hold a class A CDL.
> I
> >> do not get an annual
> >> DOT medical check, and my health is good, so far
> >> anyway. I have stenciled on
> >> the side of the original sleeper "Recreational
> >> Vehicle, Not for Hire" on
> >> both sides. I do keep my truck in "ready for the
> >> road" condition since I've
> >> been in that field basically all my life. I
> retired
> >> from the Army in 1982
> >> as a Chief Warrant Officer, Automotive
> Maintenance
> >> Technician so I just
> >> don't trust my maintenance to anyone and will not
> as
> >> long as I'm physically
> >> able to do it myself, although I'll admit that
> some
> >> things are cheaper to
> >> have hired as I did last week getting an inner
> wheel
> >> seal put in but I was
> >> right there helping the mechanic as he is a good
> >> friend. I also let him do
> >> my brakes simply because it makes me feel better
> but
> >> some things I do the
> >> second time after I get my OJT from him. I never
> >> had full air brakes when I
> >> was in the "machine". They were always air over
> >> hydralic so I don't have
> >> much experience with full air. My truck has the
> >> newer, so I'm told, brake
> >> chambers that adjust automatically but when I
> >> replaced the shoes and springs
> >> last week he adjusted them initially or else it
> >> would take the automatic
> >> adjusters too long to get them adjusted. Is this
> >> normal?
> >>
> >> Sorry for rambling on fellers,
> >>
> >> TJ, tell me if I need to change anything I'm
> doing
> >> please.
> >>
> >> Sonny
> >>
> >>
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