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Hi Tracy, Thanks.... Our new neighbors just visited and think we are nutcases to have a Tortoise living in the house with us.... Oh Well....Tito made the decision to move in with us. Best, Phil

Hi Mark, weather has been problematic temp and rain wise, so Tito is a bit confused and sleeping off the colder weather than normal...but he is a dry tortoise...not a wet one as he would be if he chose to live back in the patio instead of with us in the house... Best, Phil

The Easter Tortoise has delivered all children their Easter eggs and is now sleeping after a long night of delivering eggs...only one egg did not make to the delivery... Best, Phil

Hi John, My take is I am delighted to see a Ranger Raptor made it to market...there was a lot of pushback to table the product from what I hear...Glad the Powers Than Be got it to the customer hands. Reviews have been quite positive from what I can tell and it is available for the employee...

Hi Doug, As a long term followup... being a Ford person, both vehicles, a Lincoln Nautilus and the Ranger, have fobs...blinging the Ranger worked well for me...wife...bling 0 mistake 1,000.... I do not know how many times Margie heads to the garage with the wrong fob...So I just bought three...

Hi David, There are good leads in this thread. When I got my 2019 Ranger, I replaced them with chrome one piece lugunts that are available, but caution to make sure they are of the Ford Expanded footprint which many are not. There are threads here that can detail this. I just dropped by...

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Hi Folks, Just to update our Tortoise, Tito's status... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! He went into brumation in mid October and our cleaning lady/Friend could not find him...In our haste to get from Flagstaff to home to our Michigan Condo where our daughter lives, we took the outside pillows and piled them...

Hi Folks, Just checking in....I have been through an exhaustive battery of tests...Blood draws, Full skeleton X Rays and so on... We just got the news do day from the Hematologist that I am cancer free even though the indicators say it was clear I have Multiple Myeloma. The complicating...

Hi Doc, Multiple Myeloma... best, Phil

Hi Folks, It is time...I contribute little to these forums of late and as such my run of reading every post and offering my experiences is on the wane it is with sad heart that I am stepping back from the 5G forums. Moderators can pass on to me but my contributions daily are done. I am on a...

Hi Doc, About time I fold my tent here...I have little to contribute these forums anymore and likely best to fold up my tent and move on. Tito is buried under out door pillows we left behind in Flagstaff, so no Tito pix...ZZZZZZZ Tito is down to the count until next April and as such it may...

We have learned from our Flagstaff owners that the north bound I17 backups of 30 miles is due to the Phoenix folks going North for a color tour. Beautiful Phil

We are home from Michigan tending to our handicapped daughter for two weeks... Ranger sat for the entire time biding its time while the Nautilus sat at a hotel near the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. So we determined the necessary Beer, eggs & bacon were needed so fired up the read and waiting...

Hi Duke, Unless they changed the requirements, torque prevailing nuts are tested to do the job correctly 5 times. That is off and reinstallation 5 times and still function as required. If an adhesive patch is part of the design, the 5 on and off still applied.... So I would reuse these nuts...

Hi D, Around Green Valley it sure has based on the numbers of them on the road in the area.... I call them tortoise killers as they bound across the desert in full cactus smashing mode and crush the tortoise in their burrows. They are supposed to stick to back roads but little enforcement in...

The Illegal boarder crossers have totally trashed portions of our Southwestern desert.... best, Phil

The wheels on the ground is the way testing of lugnut/wheel retention at Ford. Assembly Plant uses mutlispindle nut runner tool on the line for initial torque with wheels in the air. Which by the way, was for many years set at 100 ft-lbs, minimum. Validation is can also be done on a Flat...

Hi Folks, When we got home from Flagstaff, I raided the RV fridge for a couple brewskies. I recalled the outdoor kitchen had ample beer cooled down...So out of beer in the RV fridge I headed to the outdoor kitchen fridge...much to my chagrin, there was one lonely Pacifico, not the full 12...