Am I Crazy
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From: Amarillo, TEXAS!
I'm updating my engine compartment. With a late '99 engine. Yesterday wasn't bad at 46F, but today started out about 35 degrees colder. The propane heater helps, but it still isn't quite like being in the tropics. It's still better than doing this in 110F in the shade.
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From: Hampton, Maryland.
That's a double edged sword there Dan. You live in SoCal, but you also live in SoCal...I know I live in Maryland, so I have the California Liberal mentality without the California view.
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From: SoCal/Wyoming
If I had the choice I would move out of here but the wife makes too much money to just up and leave. Lets just say I "planned" on doing some stuff today but instead, I spent 10 hours at the dealership while they slowly screwed up my truck (still there by the way) so I am not a happy man tonight.
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Ive decided..I only work on the truck if its above 50*,,,So I build up a list this time of year. Unless its a major can't make till spring repair- then only do as much as it takes to keep it running. When I was younger I changed crank bearings from undernieth a 4x4 in the barn. No heater, single didgets all day, wearing snow suit & boots. It was so cold the wrenches would get iced up from the condensation of my hands they froze to the toolbox tray, had to break them loose with a screwdriver. the nuts and bolts froze to my fingers while trying to put them in. That was all so I could go out horsing around.
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Ive decided..I only work on the truck if its above 50*,,,So I build up a list this time of year. Unless its a major can't make till spring repair- then only do as much as it takes to keep it running. When I was younger I changed crank bearings from undernieth a 4x4 in the barn. No heater, single didgets all day, wearing snow suit & boots. It was so cold the wrenches would get iced up from the condensation of my hands they froze to the toolbox tray, had to break them loose with a screwdriver. the nuts and bolts froze to my fingers while trying to put them in. That was all so I could go out horsing around.
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From: Temperance, MI
I did glow plugs a couple weeks ago. Wood burner blazing with a tarp wrapped around the front of my truck garage door open with the tarp wrapped up in the garage door. It was hillbilly but I stayed as warm as one can stay with the truck parked outside still. It doesn't fit in the garage obviously. The high temp that day was in the single digit negatives.
Hopefully that makes sense... I'm tired.
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Hopefully that makes sense... I'm tired.
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From: N. Va.
Ive decided..I only work on the truck if its above 50*,,,So I build up a list this time of year. Unless its a major can't make till spring repair- then only do as much as it takes to keep it running. When I was younger I changed crank bearings from underneath a 4x4 in the barn. No heater, single didgets all day, wearing snow suit & boots. It was so cold the wrenches would get iced up from the condensation of my hands they froze to the toolbox tray, had to break them loose with a screwdriver. the nuts and bolts froze to my fingers while trying to put them in. That was all so I could go out horsing around.
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