BIG RED's build thread
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From: Austin, TX
No! You can clean up when you're finished. You're on the home stretch, now get it done! LOL
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From: Southern West Virginia
LOL!! I am gonna mess with the cab lights today maybe. Might even start on replacing the seats or something....I don't know. You guys seem like you're in a hurry for me to get it done or something....
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From: AZ
Oh yeah. We raised our own beef this year (grass fed on my buddies farm since I don't have all mine fenced yet) for the first time - now the freezer's full! Can't beat it. We also raise chickens, both for meat and eggs. Nothing like opening the freezer and seeing it full of good, non-steroid-pumped, wholesome meat. Then add the venison in to the mix...deer sausage, canned deer, etc. Can't beat it! Then the canned green beans, squash and zucchini, and the home grown potatoes and corn. The sad thing is, you can't trust anymore when people market something as "natural"...that can mean a lot of things, not to be confused with "organic." And it's also sad that you have to look high and low for garden seeds that are non-gmo, especially. It should be the other way around. "Would I like to add gmo corn to my order of all natural things? oh...no thank you." Off the soap box now...
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From: Southern West Virginia
LOL!! I'm not putting it off. I had it all out the other day and tried to bench bleed it, which I have done many times, but couldn't get it bled, so I put it all back in the truck and I going to try to bleed it by pumping the pedal......but I need a pedal pumper. My wife is home now, so I'm gonna get her to do it today. The slave doesn't have a bleeder plug in it, just a plug. I hope I can get it bled with that. If not, I'll take it all off and try to bench bleed it again.
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From: Southern West Virginia
Good news! I went out about 6:30 this morning and got the clutch bled. I pulled it all back out and bench bled it again...still nothing, so I pulled it all out again and separated the slave, line and master. I wasn't getting all the air out of the slave. I think I got it bled all the way this time, but I couldn't get in the truck and push the pedal because first thing this morning I was putting wood in the stove in the shop and was down on my knees. I twisted around and picked up a piece of wood and threw my dn back out. I suffered through getting my clutch bled, but by the time I was done crawling in and out from under the truck the last time, I could barely move. So, here I am in my recliner on a heating pad.
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I feel for you Bill! My knee is just starting to get better after a thousand times of getting under the truck and back out putting that exhaust in. I was always getting up with the left knee down, pushing up with the right knee. Right handed, right knee is also dominate, LOL
I thought you were suppose to use ice first, then heat???
I thought you were suppose to use ice first, then heat???
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From: Southern West Virginia
My back feels a lot better. I came in and laid on the heating pad and slept for hours. My truck is pretty much done now. I just gotta put the cab lights on and do some stuff to the dash. It snowed again here last night and has been a rain/sleet mix today, so I don't think I'll bring it out just yet. I may try to fire it up tomorrow, but it probably won't get driven until this week. It's supposed to be 60* next week.
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LOL!! I kinda was up until this morning! But I really did hurt my back this morning.