Drove it to work. And if Elliott is working today it will get washed today too.
What did you do to your truck today?
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Truckguy24
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Installed my custom tune saturday and went out for nice night one state over (Providence RI) with the lady last night 
junior3815
Get 'em, Got 'em, Good
I AM WORKING 
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Bernie
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Yeah, just got notified by Costco that my tires are in, so time to get my butt in gear and head over there to get 'em installed!
Thought about putting a price tag on it, so I can get rid of it & pay off bills faster 
RebelThunder
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Drove it to the bank and to town.
Put some kitty litter in the bed to help absorb the oil that spilt in it the other day.
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Bernie
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Well that didn't work out quite like I planned...
Went over to Costco to have my tires installed, only to find out they only do installs on duallies at 7 AM, and by appointment only, because, according to the tire shop manager, they take up too much room in the shop and "they take two hours to do". WTF?
Ooookay, then just give me my tires, refund the installation and I'll take 'em to another place I know.
Get the tires (which took an hour and a half because they couldn't find them) and head over to a local shop that I know that does a good job on mounting and balancing. A couple of $5 tips and an offer of a case of beer gets me to the head of the line... and then the guys in the shop decide to have some fun. They decided to try for a record, so they used four jacks, six guys, and two tire machines. Had the new ones mounted, balanced and installed in twenty minutes, all six of them.
Then the fun really started... or didn't start... or... no, wait, it was the truck that didn't start...
Anyway, I'm ready to leave so I hop in and crank it over, and it just cranks. No signs of trying to catch at all. Odd, because it was still warm, and a warm diesel usually starts on the first crank. Okay, try it again... and again... and again... NOTHING.
Let it sit for a minute or two because now the dual batteries are getting weak...
Crank it again and it barely cranked...
It was about then that the smoke started... Pouring from under the hood on the passenger side.
Grabbed the fire extinguisher, popped the hood and went looking to see what was cooking. Nothing, just smoke, mostly from down underneath, with that distinctive "scorched electrical" smell of melted insulation.
Crawl underneath and I can't see anything wrong. No melted or burned wires, nothing, but now it won't even try to crank. I'm figuring a bad starter now, and maybe a melted positive cable to the starter, and when I say this one of the guys reaches in to check and burns his hand on it. Yup, melted plastic.
Okay... now what? My g/f works in DC, 50 miles away, but my favorite local shop is less than a 1/4 mile up the road so I gave them a call. Told 'em I needed a tow and they sent a service truck and a rollback.
We had to push my truck back about 50 feet to where the rollback could get to it, and where they could jump it. Put the jumpers on it and waited 15 minutes then tried to crank it and it wouldn't crank. You could see it trying but it barely moved a 1/4 revolution, and the starter was groaning. "Bad starter" says the mechanic, but I'm thinking, no, bad cable, not supplying enough current to crank it. So we decided to tow it to their shop to work on it. First problem, it won't fit on the rollback they brought because it's be too high to get out of the tire place, pass under lights and electrical cables enroute, and get into their shop. And they can't wheel lift it because their straps are too short. Okay, wait here and we'll go back to the shop and get the heavy duty truck.
45 minutes later I call them to ask, "Where the hell are you guys? You coming back or not?" Turns out the big wrecker was out on a call and they couldn't call me because I didn't give them my cell number. Oh, and now they can't pick it up until morning, and I can't leave it at the tire shop. Damn...
Okay, call AAA... After 35 minutes on hold AAA says they don't have anything in the area that can tow it, and because it has a utility back it's not covered under my AAA membership. I explain it has a private registration, not commercial and they still tell me no, and that it's too big for any towtruck they had. WTF?? AAA offers towing on RV's for crying out loud, what the hell kind of bullshit is this? Sorry sir... >click<
Okay, grab the copy of the local phone book I keep in the truck and find another towing company. They try to refer me to the first company "because they're just down the street from you!" Explain to the putz on the phone that yeah, I know that, and that's where I want it towed to, but their truck is out on a call and they can't get to me. "Oh, okay, we'll send our rollback..." Ummm... No! I need a medium duty or better. It has a ten foot box on the back, it's too tall for the rollback. (I must have explained that six times to various people today) Finally I get the owner of the company on the phone and he says, oh, we'll send the big truck, but it'll cost more. Fine, whatever, just get over here and get me to the other shop.
Now, all this time what was really pissing me off is that I can see the other shop from where I am. It's about 1,200 feet down the road. And it's a hill sloping down to them. If I could get a push to the road, and maybe 25 feet to the crest of the hill, I could coast it there in neutral. Except for the stoplight 500 feet down the road. The way my luck was running I'm sure it would have changed on me, so I didn't chance it.
I call the g/f at work and ask her to take off a little early and come pick me up at the repair shop, then wait for the wrecker. An hour and a half later, here it comes... They sent one you could have towed a battleship with. And couldn't lift the truck. ARRRGGGHHH!!!!
They couldn't lift from the front because of the canopy over the tire shop, and when they tried from the rear my bolted on and welded pintle hook was in the way. Finally, after half an hour of fussing and trying different things they just used chains and the two welded on shackles I have back there and lifted it that way. Cost me $125 to have it towed less than a quarter mile.
And the damn shop was CLOSED!!
I had forgotten they close at 4 PM, and it was now well after 6:30. So I put the keys in their mail slot with a note and left it there.
But DAMN those new tires look GOOD on it sitting there.
Went over to Costco to have my tires installed, only to find out they only do installs on duallies at 7 AM, and by appointment only, because, according to the tire shop manager, they take up too much room in the shop and "they take two hours to do". WTF?
Ooookay, then just give me my tires, refund the installation and I'll take 'em to another place I know.
Get the tires (which took an hour and a half because they couldn't find them) and head over to a local shop that I know that does a good job on mounting and balancing. A couple of $5 tips and an offer of a case of beer gets me to the head of the line... and then the guys in the shop decide to have some fun. They decided to try for a record, so they used four jacks, six guys, and two tire machines. Had the new ones mounted, balanced and installed in twenty minutes, all six of them.
Then the fun really started... or didn't start... or... no, wait, it was the truck that didn't start...
Anyway, I'm ready to leave so I hop in and crank it over, and it just cranks. No signs of trying to catch at all. Odd, because it was still warm, and a warm diesel usually starts on the first crank. Okay, try it again... and again... and again... NOTHING.
Let it sit for a minute or two because now the dual batteries are getting weak...
Crank it again and it barely cranked...
It was about then that the smoke started... Pouring from under the hood on the passenger side.
Grabbed the fire extinguisher, popped the hood and went looking to see what was cooking. Nothing, just smoke, mostly from down underneath, with that distinctive "scorched electrical" smell of melted insulation.
Crawl underneath and I can't see anything wrong. No melted or burned wires, nothing, but now it won't even try to crank. I'm figuring a bad starter now, and maybe a melted positive cable to the starter, and when I say this one of the guys reaches in to check and burns his hand on it. Yup, melted plastic.
Okay... now what? My g/f works in DC, 50 miles away, but my favorite local shop is less than a 1/4 mile up the road so I gave them a call. Told 'em I needed a tow and they sent a service truck and a rollback.
We had to push my truck back about 50 feet to where the rollback could get to it, and where they could jump it. Put the jumpers on it and waited 15 minutes then tried to crank it and it wouldn't crank. You could see it trying but it barely moved a 1/4 revolution, and the starter was groaning. "Bad starter" says the mechanic, but I'm thinking, no, bad cable, not supplying enough current to crank it. So we decided to tow it to their shop to work on it. First problem, it won't fit on the rollback they brought because it's be too high to get out of the tire place, pass under lights and electrical cables enroute, and get into their shop. And they can't wheel lift it because their straps are too short. Okay, wait here and we'll go back to the shop and get the heavy duty truck.
45 minutes later I call them to ask, "Where the hell are you guys? You coming back or not?" Turns out the big wrecker was out on a call and they couldn't call me because I didn't give them my cell number. Oh, and now they can't pick it up until morning, and I can't leave it at the tire shop. Damn...
Okay, call AAA... After 35 minutes on hold AAA says they don't have anything in the area that can tow it, and because it has a utility back it's not covered under my AAA membership. I explain it has a private registration, not commercial and they still tell me no, and that it's too big for any towtruck they had. WTF?? AAA offers towing on RV's for crying out loud, what the hell kind of bullshit is this? Sorry sir... >click<
Okay, grab the copy of the local phone book I keep in the truck and find another towing company. They try to refer me to the first company "because they're just down the street from you!" Explain to the putz on the phone that yeah, I know that, and that's where I want it towed to, but their truck is out on a call and they can't get to me. "Oh, okay, we'll send our rollback..." Ummm... No! I need a medium duty or better. It has a ten foot box on the back, it's too tall for the rollback. (I must have explained that six times to various people today) Finally I get the owner of the company on the phone and he says, oh, we'll send the big truck, but it'll cost more. Fine, whatever, just get over here and get me to the other shop.
Now, all this time what was really pissing me off is that I can see the other shop from where I am. It's about 1,200 feet down the road. And it's a hill sloping down to them. If I could get a push to the road, and maybe 25 feet to the crest of the hill, I could coast it there in neutral. Except for the stoplight 500 feet down the road. The way my luck was running I'm sure it would have changed on me, so I didn't chance it.
I call the g/f at work and ask her to take off a little early and come pick me up at the repair shop, then wait for the wrecker. An hour and a half later, here it comes... They sent one you could have towed a battleship with. And couldn't lift the truck. ARRRGGGHHH!!!!
They couldn't lift from the front because of the canopy over the tire shop, and when they tried from the rear my bolted on and welded pintle hook was in the way. Finally, after half an hour of fussing and trying different things they just used chains and the two welded on shackles I have back there and lifted it that way. Cost me $125 to have it towed less than a quarter mile.
And the damn shop was CLOSED!!
I had forgotten they close at 4 PM, and it was now well after 6:30. So I put the keys in their mail slot with a note and left it there.
But DAMN those new tires look GOOD on it sitting there.
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Bernie
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Oh, and while I was waiting for the g/f I realized that when it wouldn't start at first I never heard the lift pump come on. Usually I can hear it, and the injector pump, but I don't recall hearing them. I suspect that my lift pump died and I just cooked the undersized starter cable cranking it too much. I left a note in their box instructing them to charge the batteries, change the cable (for a nice 2 gauge cable) and try starting it. If it cranks but won't start, check the lift pump and the oil pressure switch (which controls the lift pump) and replace both if needed, but if it won't crank to just call me.
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