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well ***** happens
Cargo Master
Joined: Oct 2010
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From: Ideeho
Years ago, I had a little hot rod 74 Chev pickup. (Yeah I used to be one of "those guys") I was fixing something simple, (I don't even remember what anymore) and got done with what I had been doing. I got in and fired it up. I had forgot and left a pair of pliers laying on the top of the radiator shroud. I throttled it up and heard the dreaded "FRANG" Shut it off and got out and saw antifreeze running all over the ground. The pliers had vibrated off of the shroud, dropped into the fan and bounced around and somehow the fan spit them back out thru the radiator....................Not a good day since I lived about 40 miles from town and the truck was my only transportation. Had to call my girlfreind to come take me to town to buy a radiator...................
Moderator & parts slinger
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: S/W Missouri, Polk county
Pulled the front clip, pull the motor for a rear main leak/clutch set replacement.
Now it has a new oil pump, water pump, plugs, replaced the bend push rod, intake manifold leak fixed, timing chain set and complete gasket set. Clutch/pressure plate/throw out bearing.
Completed in day and a half with a FTE bud, fire it up sounds great..... then....next day start it to move it and LOUD POP back fire outa the intake, back thru the carb.
WTF......now
So we now are going to do a compression ck and probably end up pulling the head for either a valve job, or its new cam time???? Should of just keep the leak.
Now it has a new oil pump, water pump, plugs, replaced the bend push rod, intake manifold leak fixed, timing chain set and complete gasket set. Clutch/pressure plate/throw out bearing.
Completed in day and a half with a FTE bud, fire it up sounds great..... then....next day start it to move it and LOUD POP back fire outa the intake, back thru the carb.
WTF......now
So we now are going to do a compression ck and probably end up pulling the head for either a valve job, or its new cam time???? Should of just keep the leak.
Posting Guru
Joined: Oct 2007
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i know the feeling well what started out as a "qwik fix" on my 79 bronco just to get it on the road asap last jan when we had 4ft of snow has turned out to be a 5 month project and almost $6000 later but its worth it when i dont have to make payments on a new one that wont get much better fuel economy any ways and somthing that you shut the hood and call a tow truck to take it to the dealer and the other fellows are right if we didnt love these old trucks we woudnt do it right? even afterall the time and money invested this bronco is realy goin to drive and steer as new [can hardly wait]
Elder User
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 600
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From: New Carlisle, Ohio
acutally if you think about it. Even if say you dropped 15,000 in your dent and you still get less mileage then a new truck. You more then make up for it when it comes to insuance. Cause think about it you don't have to carry full coverage and there cheap as dirt to insure.
Freshman User
Joined: May 2011
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From: tucson az
These trucks are like females, the more attention you give the more they expect. Example; If you ever make the mistake of going shoping with your wife/girlfriend at the mall or somthing she is going to expect you to go all the time/everytime.
The same goes for the truck when somthing breaks you have to fix it.... then you either break somthing else in the atempt to fix the first problem or find somthing else broken, leaking or about to break.
Lets take a leaking/broken radiator hose for example. your obviously going to fix it then you notice at the bottom of the radiator some tranmission fluid residue around the trans oil cooler lines......what would you do......youd fix it. then while ur down there you notice it has oily residue in a few other places so you end up fixing/replacing entire cooler lines...... Then you notice there is a leaking output shaft shaft seal......ect ect
I believe this is why we refer to our trucks as (her) or (she) or even give the truck a female name.
The same goes for the truck when somthing breaks you have to fix it.... then you either break somthing else in the atempt to fix the first problem or find somthing else broken, leaking or about to break.
Lets take a leaking/broken radiator hose for example. your obviously going to fix it then you notice at the bottom of the radiator some tranmission fluid residue around the trans oil cooler lines......what would you do......youd fix it. then while ur down there you notice it has oily residue in a few other places so you end up fixing/replacing entire cooler lines...... Then you notice there is a leaking output shaft shaft seal......ect ect
I believe this is why we refer to our trucks as (her) or (she) or even give the truck a female name.
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