Column shift went ga-ga on me last week in a parking lot. Got it towed to buddies house and turned out that the shift tube boke clean off...cheap white cast metal. Bought an entire column from a boneyard for 250 which had 160K on it and swapped it out w/ my old one to rebuild later on...so....Tranny shift cable broke in the process, the tranny range sensor crumbled under the wrench and the Ebrake was now sticking. Need to replace the rusted Ebrake cable which I did 5 years ago and never used except for inspection and the drums look and sound (under the hammer)like they need to be replaced after 200K (not bad I guess) and the 3" shoes. Last several weeks just before the shift tube, my waterpump started to leak and I was set to purchase everything necessary to do the IH waterpump swap but now the bucks are tight and the waterpump I replaced 5 years ago w/ a lifetime warranty, needs to be replaced again, so might as well go w/ the freebie and the new clunking turned out to be just the rear Ujoint instead of the diff ( which is the only good news I have) so I'll do both next week as well.....I need a break here and I need some warm weather to boot....One thing is sure enough, while I'm adding the bukeroos up, I'm thinking of my buddy who just bought a gasser silverado for 42K and I am a bit delighted that those payment days are way behind me...that always a plus I guess.

 

I had the bracket that takes the single cable to both rear cables break on me yesterday.

Took it and had it welded back together. I thought that effing cable broke again. I was bout to flip my truck over like a table.

 

I've learned to hate road salt use. The Ebrake spring broke in 3 when trying to free it up. Took 15 min of hammering and prying to get the drum off.

 

Road salt does suck. You're right there for sure!

 

You have the same kind of luck I do! "Fix" one thing and break several others in the process!
Which reminds me, I need to figure out why my dang ABS light won't go out after swapping PCM's and IDM's trying to diagnose my buddies truck... lol.

 

Been there before, lol.

 

Nice joseph.

These graphics just make life fun. haha.