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Shesh! Driving forward in reverse, mufflers in gas tanks, and grenades in radiators. You guys are tough on vehicles.
Hope the fuel pump isn't as bad as you think Larry. It takes longer to remove the back seat and rear interior to change my wife's fuel pump. (Twice in 170k miles)
And Josh, I don't even know what happened to your radiator. Maybe a really poor factory seam weld. Like Bob said, the cap should have flown the coop with that much pressure. You ought to take it to sapps welding and ask them how much to fix.
Well you know. I like to do things right when i do them. Why get a leaky radiator when you can grenade it.
hopefully I will be putting a new radiator and radiator cap on it this weekend, then I'll pressure test. But my suspicion is the head gasket is shot. But considering i've had the jeep for 10 years or more, and I do run it through mud, rocks and on the highway, it was bound to have something fail.
I've been driving my dad's 93 Ranger for the last couple weeks. Partially why i've not been very active on here, as I hit a pot hole at about 20mph on my Merc and the passenger side lower ball joint decided to separate from its cup, putting the tire in the fender and the fender in the door. So my car's been sitting on jack stand for weeks. Got it stripped down to where I could start replacing things, but ain't had a chance to get to it to replace them, as I've been working so damn much it ain't been funny. Good note, I got a new pitman arm, ineer and outer tie rod ends, sway bar end links, upper and lower ball joints, and rear sway bar end links, for both sides, all for $150 shipped.
Dang Matt, that was a big pot hole. Glad you got the parts at a good price. Hope you get it back together soon. I'm sure you are missing having your pursuit car.
I think we should should start a thread titled "What I broke today."
Actually it wasn't, it's one I've hit multiple times before that and hardly think of it as dangerous. Pretty sure it was just the fact that the ball joints were probably the originals, and needed replacing way worse than I had thought lol
Pulled the fuel filler neck off the F-350, getting ready to pull the old tank today, and yet another broken piece. I believe it has something to do with the vapor recovery system or the back pressure to cut off the fill pump when you fill it up.
So who would like me to touch their truck this week, I'm I've broke 2 out of 3 so far...
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Instructions said to vent the regulator to the ground in case of failure.. i didnt like the idea of dumping Diesel on the ground when i dont see fuel prices ever dropping to .10 a gallon again.. itd be one thing if they were.. but not when it takes 300 month to fill the dern thing...
1/8" line connected to the Purge dump port...
routed to the line just behind the front tire next to the shock..
11' to the rear of the truck...
little drilling to the top of the filler neck
thought i was back further.. got kinda lucky here...
Some parts from the local Lowes plumbing section...
Shesh! Driving forward in reverse, mufflers in gas tanks, and grenades in radiators. You guys are tough on vehicles.
Hope the fuel pump isn't as bad as you think Larry. It takes longer to remove the back seat and rear interior to change my wife's fuel pump. (Twice in 170k miles)
And Josh, I don't even know what happened to your radiator. Maybe a really poor factory seam weld. Like Bob said, the cap should have flown the coop with that much pressure. You ought to take it to sapps welding and ask them how much to fix.
man it's sure quiet around the house. Tim is out of town helping a friend in Morehead, sounds like he's gonna hang around there for a week or so. Shari is at work, and just Rocky and I here.
But I've been able to get more work done on my Christmas light programming, and more needed practice on the guitar.
The fuel pump finally came in for the wife's car, hope it'll be done tomorrow afternoon so I can have my truck back. Not that I really ever drive it, I just like to have that option...
Dang! I thought I have been beet down at work, but you guys are haveing a fit out of your personal vehicles. I hope everyone gets their problems fixed. Have a great weekend guys.
Wish I could say mine was. Might get a chance to start ripping parts off tomorrow, but I ain't holding my breath. Still gotta get around to pulling that fender, but I might wait on that until I can get back to driving the thing. Still need to replace the heater core too, and dadgum winter ain't far off now.
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