When I think of the "What have you done to your truck today?" thread, I think of positive things like getting a truck running or upgrading something you have wanted to do for a while, or even just going off-roading. And today as I thought about it more, this qualifies as well...I busted my fan (somehow).

 

put a new starter on oscar and put in rear driveshaft, getting ready to bleed all the brakes

 

Swapped stereo's out again....Went from 3-10" subs, back to my Kicker Comp 10"....

Been cleaning the interior some...It's been needing it a LOT..

But I've had a lot of personal issues lately, and they've frankly sapped the desire to even touch the truck, out of me...

 

Cleaned the interior out finally....Getting ready to pull all my tools out...

Hopefully will get to pick up some needed parts, and get my infernal seats mounted....

 

Replaced the rear U-joint, (origional) and repaired the wheel studs I screwed up last week

 

Put 400 miles on it, then calculated the fuel mileage: 17.6 MPG. I'm pretty happy with that!

 

Replaced fuel filter today. 1995 F150 Dual Tanks. I have never been so fustrated trying to perform a routine maintence task. Took me a solid 4 hours. The position of the fuel filter could not be in a worse place. It took three trips to auto parts store to get a descent quick disconnect tool and that just barely worked on the rear connect. Real disappointed with Ford today.

 

Got very LITTLE done this weekend.

Got the new fenders, rad support and tailgate sandblasted and sanded smooth. Ready for some dents to be fixed and POR15

 

If you're gonna commit a foul, don't go half-a$$, right?

After I got the water pump off, I saw this and laughed...

 

is that a piece of the front cover? and how would that break?

 

My best guess is that when I was installing the motor, I caught the water pump pulley on the front of the engine compartment and made the pulley mounting bracket on the water pump (that is pressed on) come out of alignment. When that happened, the pulley was rotating off balance when the motor was running and slowly started to come off. As it did, it weakened the top of the back part of the water pump cover (also the front part of the timing cover). On the top, where it broke, there isn't much in terms of support on the back part of the broken piece. When the fan was rotating off balance, this weak area cracked.

I am thankful this didn't completely break when the motor was running as there would be the potential for water getting inside the timing cover and mixing with oil.

I'll be switching to electric fans after this so there is less of a potential for this happening again. I was just making a list and I think if I can get a 160 amp alternator (to support the electric fans) shipped to me this week, I can have it up and running by next weekend.

 

Same here. Ford blows for making me so frustrated on that one

 

^^ I tried a couple times and give up. The shop up the road said $30 to change it. So it was in his driveway within the next half hour lol something's just aren't worth the fight

 

Same here on the fuel filter. I took me and a buddy several hours of: "Ok, I'll twist this while you push here and gently tap it in the other direction" type nonsense interspersed with checking several manuals and the internet because we figured we had to be doing something wrong but couldn't figure out what.

 

Got my new infinity door speakers in the mail today. Installed them this afternoon, sounding pretty good!