She's Legal!

[Pineyguy]

I got my license plate today, depending on the weather, I'll get the truck inspected Thursday. I'm sure it will pass, but I have I think 30 days to legally drive around without an inspection.



Now that I can take the truck to work, I should have more time to actually work on it

[fng]

Whew, thought you were talking about your newest girlfriend there for a minute.....
nevermind, congrats on the tag's.

[chimesickle]

The truck looks great, I like black too. That's a great idea, using the stoplight for a licence plate light. That way you dont have to mess finding a 24volt license light!

[randygar]

Depending on what kind of driving you do, you might want to relocate it higher up... we smushed ours several times before sticking it off one of the tailgate hinges.

--Randy

[Pineyguy]

The truck looks great, I like black too. That's a great idea, using the stoplight for a licence plate light. That way you dont have to mess finding a 24volt license light!

Yeah, there was only 1 rear blackout light when I got the truck, so I figured I'd use it for something. I just welded bolts to the existing bracket, heated it up and bent it. I cut out another little bracket that slipped over the lower 2 bolts and holds the license plate. I had to take the plastic lens cover out of the blackout light. I was going to put it up higher, but the taillight gets in the way, so I just used the 2 lower existing holes. It ain't much, but I'm no fabricator.

[airborne]

It only has one from the factory. The other side(D) is for the trailer hook-up.

[vacca rabite]

Did you title it as a 5/4 ton truck, or somehting else? PA residents want to know...

Zach

[randyscycle]

Depending on what kind of driving you do, you might want to relocate it higher up... we smushed ours several times before sticking it off one of the tailgate hinges.

--Randy

Ditto....My rear tag looks like a pretzel now. Someday I'll move it, or it'll just get ripped the rest of the way off on a rock.

[Pineyguy]

Did you title it as a 5/4 ton truck, or somehting else? PA residents want to know...

Zach

Well, my notary originally didn't want to do the title transfer because when I bought it it had a NJ title, so I went to the local state rep's office. Even though I filled out the paperwork pretty honestly according to the weight chart in the manual, they screwed it up. I ended up with a title that said the GVWR was 5000#. I guess I could've left it that way, but I got a form from PennDOT and changed it to 5500# vehicle weight, 7000# GVWR. The 5500# already puts you to a class 2 weight rating which is good up to 7000#. Its $81/year. If you put the GVWR above 7001#, its class 3, and the registration is more.

Also- I got the truck inspected today no problem. Coincidentily while I was there, I got served a subpoena because last August while I was at the same service station (which is at the base of a long fairly steep descent) a tractor trailer lost its brakes and didn't use the runaway truck ramp- I witnessed the whole thing- I'll post a link to a write-up about it. I was the guy who put the fire out, but it was a small fire at the back trailer axle, so I didn't actually save anybody's life as the article says.

http://www.geocities.com/nesquehoningfire/page4.htm

[Pineyguy]

Maybe that belongs on the BS board though.