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I had my Thursday BOGO again today. Buy one get one at BK. The original chicken sandwich has been BOGO for the past month. Two meals for $5.30. Can't beat that. Stopped by the shop and they said the truck should be done tomorrow. Can't wait.
Yes indeed, they (the VA) do that every year so we can take advantage of it. I usually only go to three places though. Only so much food I want to eat in one day. However, it is nice to have a list of places to choose from. And quite a few places give veterans discounts all year long. Like Burger King, Carl's Jr. Home Depot, Autozone, and O'Reilly auto parts. The last two are close to me and pretty close to each other in prices, but sometimes one has something I need and the other one doesn't, or one may have a higher price for the same item, so I go to the lower price one.
Dine in only. Besides, I would not want to take advantage of their generous offer.
Today is the day. My truck is supposed to be ready. I hope they get it done early enough that I can get it smog tested and get the disabled plates from the DMV, but I doubt it. It will probably be done by business closing. I can take it to Red Carpet tomorrow for a Veteran's Day good free wash, and then pay for the smog test, but will have to wait until Monday to go to the DMV. Then I will rest easy for a while and pray no major repairs are needed for a while so I can recover financially from this fiasco.
Thanks Tim. I am tired of waiting on it. LOL Can't wait to put some gas in it and put some miles on it. If a rebuilt engine doesn't pass the smog test then there is something wrong here. LOL Already bought a Nakamichi DVD multimedia receiver for it. The one that came with the truck is not big enough to fill the opening. And it is some no name brand. The PO says it works, but I couldn't get anything out of it. Of course, with no antenna, that might be the reason. LOL. Anyway, the new one should be here by Thursday of next week. I bought it at Walmart using the Affirm "make monthly payments" option.
Jim
And the saga continues. Just came back from the repair shop and they are not done. They have the engine out of the donor but haven't taken the engine out of the keeper yet. And they had me look at the engine, and it does not look like it was rebuilt. That is what I get for buying the cheapest truck(s) out there. The plan has not changed as I don't have the money to pay for a good used engine. So, they will have it completed by Monday and take it out for a test drive. I will pray it is at least better than the engine that is in it, but the mechanic says the donor engine looks to be in worse shape than the one in it now. Maybe I should buy a high-volume oil pump and have them install that while the engine is out. Since that is how the cam chain tensioners are held against the chain.
Oh jeeze, that sucks Jim. You sure haven't been delt a good deck of cards lately.
So, if the mechanic says the engine is in worse shape then the original are sure its worth spending the money to have them proceed? It seems you are getting deeper and deeper into this truck and not making any progress.
I would call the guy you got the doner truck from and get some answer. It sounds like he really took advantage of you.
I forgot the reason they couldn't fix the old one, maybe they can mix and match and make one good engine out of the two of them.
Right now, I have a total of $5,052 invested in both trucks. That includes the $375 it cost to tow the donor down here. It also includes the $1,419 the repair shop is charging me, since they charged me a month ago when I dropped off the two trucks. It does NOT include the $1,500 extra interest on the $1,200 SNAP loan I got because I will try and pay it off early and save some of that interest. The mechanic asked me how the engine ran in mine, and I told him it ran fine most of the time, but then would cough and sputter until I turned it off. Then after restarting it, it would run fine again until it would randomly cough and sputter again. Then he said he should have just done the timing chains on it... That is a moot point now. I can't afford to have him replace the timing chains and sprockets, cam phasers tensioners etc. If the donor engine turns out to be worse than the one I had, I will be totally screwed as I have no money left to fix anything. The money I got from the GoFundMe account was used to buy the donor truck. I will just pray that it runs better than the one I have. Considering how little I paid for the donor, it is not all lost. I mean I am getting a better hood, front bumper, and wheels from it, but the main reason for buying it was the so called "rebuilt engine." It was bought "as is" from someone on Craigslist. Same with the first F150. Hindsight is 20/20. What I should have done was continue to save my money until I could find a truck on a dealer lot that already ran and would pass smog. My impatience got the better of me, as it usually does when buying vehicles. After the conversation with the mechanic I thought maybe buying a high-volume oil pump and having it installed in the original engine would cure the issue, but what if the tensioners are so worn that they act up anyway? Then I am going to need to replace those, that is another $1,400 job. I guess I'll find out Monday.
Don't forget the $150 you just spent on the new radio. I can't believe that it doesn't have Android Auto & Apple Car Play. That should be on every radio these days.
Do you have the Ford wiring harness adapter which bridges the radio to the truck? Sometimes you will also need an antenna adapter.
They have a more expensive model ($20 more IIRC) that has both, but I don't care about either one. I bought it mainly to play my own music on a USB stick, and for the backup camera. I doubt I will ever use the DVD player, it was cheap and does what I want.
In New York, Chinatown is next to Little Italy. In San Francisco, Chinatown is next to North Beach. The Italians were on Ellis Island. The Chinese went through Angel Island. A lot of similarities in the two cultures. Both were undesirable by American standards of that time, and cast aside to live in ghettos next to each other.
One of the things that I learned in my youth was how to make a pasta meal. It sounds simple enough, and it is.
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Can't wait.
That is what I get for buying the cheapest truck(s) out there. The plan has not changed as I don't have the money to pay for a good used engine. So, they will have it completed by Monday and take it out for a test drive. I will pray it is at least better than the engine that is in it, but the mechanic says the donor engine looks to be in worse shape than the one in it now. Maybe I should buy a high-volume oil pump and have them install that while the engine is out. Since that is how the cam chain tensioners are held against the chain.
