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[Simple_serf]

hahaha...

In NY you have to trailer the trailer to an official inpection location...Not a inspection station... and they have to fully inspect it. Same thing if you rebuild a salvage vehilce...they say they are looking for stolen parts... I call bullshit.

Bring in a picture....

I wish.

 

[Loanranger]

Title swapping is a felony. I don't know how you would get caught, but it can't be worth the risk. I don't know where you live but in Indiana it's extremely simple to get a homemade trailer titled. You just bring a picture of it and they send in the title app. Then you get the metal tag, call the sheriff and a deputy comes out and makes sure you affixed the tag to the trailer. Then you go back down and get the plates.

Title swapping and plate swapping are two different things.
I know this because I had two Datsuns pickups, one that didn't run and had good tags, and the second I aquired from a friend who lost the title. I couldn't get tags till I transfered the title, so I stuck the plate from the non running one onto the running one. Got pulled over one day for not having a rear bumper, and the cop didn't even look twice at the plate or truck. A week later, I got hit head on by a 16 year old in a honda, and when the sherrif arrived, he asked about the color on the registration, which said yellow, and the truck was blue, and obviously original paint. I told him the story, and he gave me a ticket for $171 for "altered vehicle license", and also gave me a ticket for $171 for expired tags on the plates I wasn't running (the whole reason I had the other plates on it). I went to court and the judge dropped the expired tags ticket on the account of "redundancy" and I gladly paid the $171 for the other ticket and was done with it, aside from the ticket being on my record.

So basically, if you can afford the ticket, go for it.

 

[AllanD]

or better yet, make your own biodiesel, thats what me and jacob are gonna be doin for his jetta, bio diesel and 50mpg will be sweet

Bio-Diesel is a pointless gimmick

a)It wastes a considerable portion of the base oil stock it's made from in the process.

b)It CANNOT be made without alcohol (usually methanol) and other refined chemicals.

c)The oil MUST come from somewhere and while all the enviro-morons point to biuo-diesel it's a LIE, because there isn't ane never wll be enough veggie oil to replace dino diesel unless EVERYONE is willing to STARVE to allow fields to grow oil-fuel crops instead of FOOD.

Reality is that the numbers don't add up.

Used ATF can be burned As-Is with only filtering required.

My Scheme for running used ATF falls apart of anyone local to
me gets the same idea.

Because like with used fry oil there is an extreemly limited supply.

Though if there is a large proportion of synthetic ATF mixed in
it smells like burning plastic that is easily fixed... turn up the boost.

Increasing the boost on a diesel does NOT increase power.
It makes the engine cleaner.
to make more power you need to inject more fuel.
If you inject more fuel without adding more air you melt the engine.

IF I can aquire a 4BT engine and afford the kit to allow it to be bolted to a ZF trans I'd still need to "turn it up" to ~150hp to make it tolerable.
And even then I'd be in the marked for a set of 3.27 gears, because the 4BT is usually governed to 2800rpm....

Title swapping is a felony. I don't know how you would get caught, but it can't be worth the risk. I don't know where you live but in Indiana it's extremely simple to get a homemade trailer titled. You just bring a picture of it and they send in the title app. Then you get the metal tag, call the sheriff and a deputy comes out and makes sure you affixed the tag to the trailer. Then you go back down and get the plates.

It's only a felony if one of the vehicles is stolen.

In PA we can replace the frame as part of a "Repair" and we can replace the cab as part of a "rust repair"
On three seperate occasions I or my brother have replaced BOTH.

Who's to say what was replaced when?

But I can tell you that nobody gives a rat's butt hole when the vehicle in question is a 20year old light truck.

Last fall I had a state trooper come here at my request
to do a VIN verification on a vehicle that was here in PA
but was being titled and registered in another state (Wyoming)
and He kinda giggled when he noticed that the VIN tag
wasn't even riveted in place on the cab
He "suggested" that fastening it down would probably be
a good idea... He smiled when I grabbed a pack of JB-Weld, but commented that he had seen body emblem tape used for that application (basically black "superduty" double stick foam tape.)

But he signed the forms before I even had the caps off the tubes.

This is not to say that you won't run into an officious asshole at some point in your life, this is far more likely in NewYork, NewJersey, Illinois or California... but chances are nobody will care.



On a trailer? on two commercially built trailers I've owned the "VIN Tag" is an ADHESIVE label that has literally fallen off
Ditto for my Tow Dolly, I have the cirtificate of Origin for it
but as I explained to a Connecticut trooper when he asked where my plate was, Dollies don't get tagged in PA or for that matter New York, the NY bridges consider it a "Trailer" for tolls
the NewYork thruway does not...

On a HOMEBUILT trailer? again, even though trailers are required to undergo annual inspection No PA state trooper has EVER asked me for my trailer registration.

Even when my log splitter broke and dropped the beam in the middle of I-81 they never asked, even though the sticker on the plate was CLEARLY expired (they probably figuired I was aleady having a "Bad day") the two troopers that showed up DID help me lift the beam and ram into a friend's truck.
(the pieces of a 30ton log splitter tend to be big and heavy)
Probably because they wanted the "incident" cleared out of that busy section of I-81 before their shift ended.

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[Will]

IC 9-17-4-6
Violation of chapter; Class C infraction; Class C felony
Sec. 6. (a) Except as provided under subsection (b), a person who violates this chapter commits a Class C infraction.


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(b) A person who knowingly damages, removes, covers, or alters an identification number commits a Class C felony.

Obviously, one or the other vehicle has had some alteration or destruction of the VIN if you have moved the title from one vehicle to the other. That's Indiana code. Pennsylvania, I don't follow. That same chapter covers assembling vehicles and salvaging them and it's specific about what consitutes an assemby or a salvage. Yes, it's easy to get away with. You aren't going to get charged with a felony without contributing factors, more than likely.

It's important to reiterate that no turbo gives more power--just air. Fuel is also needed. Both the 6.9/7.3 & 6.2/6.5 are limited to the same 250hp/450ft# because they have the same Standyne DB2 pump that won't give enough fuel to get the engine hot with a turbo on it.

You don't want a diesel without a turbo on it in a truck with a load on it. At least with a gas motor you can grab some rpms and find that extra 50hp you need. With a diesel and no turbo--there's no rpms. It's just flat dead and there's no helping it. With an EFI 350 and a naturally aspirated 6.2--the 6.2 did better on hills and with gas mileage while towing. But when you get onto the beltway and need to accelerate into traffic with a 7,000# trailer--the 350 whips the 6.2s butt because it has another 1,500+ rpm to use to accelerate where-as the 6.2 falls on it's butt after 3,000rpm. But add a turbo and turn the fuel up and it's no contest.

 

[mkpecor]

i have a harbour trailer 4x8 deck non tilt. and it works good, tung hasent bent or any thing. just towed a 4x4 500cc 4-wheeler and some other stuff on it all the way to idaho and back 6 1/2 HR one way. had no probs with it. they arent the best but works.