April at The Ranch
10-02-2011, 07:47 AM
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Wife is at a scrap book thingy so I will be a single guy that night. Been a while since I wore my Crown, hide the women and the horses.
~Rob
10-05-2011, 08:08 AM
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After my eyes went cross eyed searching within a 500 mile radius for what I wanted, I found it about an hour south of San Antonio. Middle of nowhere, but by far the largest selection of anywhere else on left over 2011s.
2011 Ram 3500 SRW Crew Cab Long Bed 4x4 auto Laramie
Mineral Gray Metallic with light pebble beige interior
AC and Heated buckets with console
Full media- DVD, harddrive, sub, NAV all kinds of crazy crap that will getyou in a wreck if you try to use on the road
Remote start
Factory bedliner
800lb/ft motor
10way seats (worth their weight in gold compared to the 01!
)and all that other stuff...
Picked up my new B&W turn over yesterday... Man they are even more proud of those...
Test drove all of the big 3 to see if there was something I was missing.
Chevy would be the ticket right now if I was a daily driver only... **** things are quick. Towing performance is lacking, used my FILs 2011 for towing the dozer and tractor around for a couple weekends and it pulls fine and is stable (DRW) but man it just likes to scream along. Every gear way up in the RPMS. Exhaust brake is worthless. And even though it is a maintenance nightmare, I still like the straight axle of the Fords and Dodge
Ford was a nice interior, a bit over the top for me. Drove pretty well, motor had an odd power band that I wasn't used to, but nice truck over all. Quick look under the hood and
. Wow that is nuts they can cram all that crap in a small space... Didn't tow with a ford so I cant say anything about that, exhaust brake is lacking as well. Dodge towed with Jasons 07 6.7 a good bit and the power is pretty linear and predicatable, trans shifted smooth even loaded well over gross limits. Exhaust brake perfoms much better (think the 11 is even stronger, love the max safe downshift feature for max braking). Under the hood there is definitely more crap to deal with, but is still very familiar and easy. Dodge edged out the race pretty quick for me. Stick with what I know.
Here are a few phone pics, she is pretty dirty already. And if you notice the plans in the back seat that ought to tell you why I haven't been around much lately. Trying to finish up 15 FWISD school lab remodels (something like 220 labs...
) Also broke ground at my parents new clinic in Corsicana this week.
10-07-2011, 11:07 AM
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I dunno, if I had a 'good' job I'd have more time to tinker on the 01!! with money to spare... Now not so much money to spare and still no time!
Should get better beginning of next year, have another hospital project coming up that will settle me down a bit.
Should get better beginning of next year, have another hospital project coming up that will settle me down a bit.
10-07-2011, 11:13 AM
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Love the color.... outside and in! Congrats! Auto for Amy or have your finally seen the light?
(Auto probably because of daily driving in DFW) SRW was for Amy :laugh:
Crotex: You're getting closer to a 2011 truck. Already have the wheels.
RJ
(Auto probably because of daily driving in DFW) SRW was for Amy :laugh:
Crotex: You're getting closer to a 2011 truck. Already have the wheels.
RJ
10-07-2011, 11:23 AM
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Excellent comparison report. About what I've read....except for high rpm's on the Isuzu. What's that all about?
All I can imagine is the EPA sticking it's noise in (polution control).
What will Rickson's do the the Auto shift pattern??
RJ
All I can imagine is the EPA sticking it's noise in (polution control).
What will Rickson's do the the Auto shift pattern??
RJ