Know what I hate?
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From: utica il
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Know what I hate?
"Friends" who bring me blown up engines or vehicles with blown up engines and then bitch when I tell them how much the parts and machine work is going to cost to get the thing put back together which results in said engine sitting in my shop/yard for months on end until they decide to spend the money. The fubar part is regardless what happens I know I wont get paid for pulling the engine and tearing it down not to mention the time I spent making phone calls to various people to get the parts/machine work/short block/long block quotes
On the legal side of things how long does something have to be in your yard before you can load it up and take it to the scrapper?
btw
I need a 258 I6 for a heep and a 360/390 FE for a 76 F150 in good running condition and damn near free.
"Friends" who bring me blown up engines or vehicles with blown up engines and then bitch when I tell them how much the parts and machine work is going to cost to get the thing put back together which results in said engine sitting in my shop/yard for months on end until they decide to spend the money. The fubar part is regardless what happens I know I wont get paid for pulling the engine and tearing it down not to mention the time I spent making phone calls to various people to get the parts/machine work/short block/long block quotes
On the legal side of things how long does something have to be in your yard before you can load it up and take it to the scrapper?
btw
I need a 258 I6 for a heep and a 360/390 FE for a 76 F150 in good running condition and damn near free.
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From: Springfield, VA
Know what I hate?
"Friends" who bring me blown up engines or vehicles with blown up engines and then bitch when I tell them how much the parts and machine work is going to cost to get the thing put back together which results in said engine sitting in my shop/yard for months on end until they decide to spend the money. The fubar part is regardless what happens I know I wont get paid for pulling the engine and tearing it down not to mention the time I spent making phone calls to various people to get the parts/machine work/short block/long block quotes
On the legal side of things how long does something have to be in your yard before you can load it up and take it to the scrapper?
"Friends" who bring me blown up engines or vehicles with blown up engines and then bitch when I tell them how much the parts and machine work is going to cost to get the thing put back together which results in said engine sitting in my shop/yard for months on end until they decide to spend the money. The fubar part is regardless what happens I know I wont get paid for pulling the engine and tearing it down not to mention the time I spent making phone calls to various people to get the parts/machine work/short block/long block quotes
On the legal side of things how long does something have to be in your yard before you can load it up and take it to the scrapper?
I know the feeling.....
Not sure about SC, but in VA if the vehicle is left for 30 days, you have to notify the titled owner via certified mail to come retrieve the vehicle and the cost of any storage fees must be paid prior to that retrieval or they must surrender the title. After that, you can go get a salvage/abandoned vehicle title and do what you want.
Btw, you missed a good dinner with much alcohol flowing for desert. Hope your bar tab makes up for it....
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What if you dont know where they live anymore and their phone is rarely connected.
The damn waiter made me pay my tab at $168.something. Just to show him whos boss I ran up an additional $50 and staggered my way to the door. I guess he thought $210ish was too much to handle at once.
Damn I was drunk.
The damn waiter made me pay my tab at $168.something. Just to show him whos boss I ran up an additional $50 and staggered my way to the door. I guess he thought $210ish was too much to handle at once.
Damn I was drunk.
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From: utica il
know what i hate? winter, because every goddamn year a heatercore or waterpump or something along those lines takes a **** on me in my daily driver, but it always waits till its re-goddamned-diculously cold out and snowy before it craps out on me. you know, that nice weather where your fingers go numb in less than a minute.
on a second hate, i didn't realize till yesterday that the bronc is full of straight water, so there is a high possibility that it is frozen solid. i just hope the block isn't cracked.
on a third hate, my daughter has some new deal with stripping down to her birthday suit and running around neked like a tard. daddy is not amused.
on a second hate, i didn't realize till yesterday that the bronc is full of straight water, so there is a high possibility that it is frozen solid. i just hope the block isn't cracked.
on a third hate, my daughter has some new deal with stripping down to her birthday suit and running around neked like a tard. daddy is not amused.
i ain't rite
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
know what i hate??
when you put your truck in to a well known business that has been around for 65 years to put front springs in it because you don't have the time to do it yourself.
3 days later you get the truck back, $125 over the quoted price.
and there is a funny smell in the cab like they were welding in the shop, and left the windows open.
then the batteries will not hold a charge, and you stop at the local alternator shop that just custom built you a brand new 200 amp alternator that has been in the truck for less that 120 miles, and your friend in the shop pops the hood to test the charging system and starts to cry.
the SOB's in the spring shop did something very wrong, and set the alternator on fire, then put it out with a dry chemical extinguisher, and never told me!. the least they could have done was say"we messed up and somehow caught your truck on fire"
i could accept that. but no, they just closed the hood and said nothing.
that brand new custom built $285 alternator is melted, and full of dry chem powder.
when you put your truck in to a well known business that has been around for 65 years to put front springs in it because you don't have the time to do it yourself.
3 days later you get the truck back, $125 over the quoted price.
and there is a funny smell in the cab like they were welding in the shop, and left the windows open.
then the batteries will not hold a charge, and you stop at the local alternator shop that just custom built you a brand new 200 amp alternator that has been in the truck for less that 120 miles, and your friend in the shop pops the hood to test the charging system and starts to cry.
the SOB's in the spring shop did something very wrong, and set the alternator on fire, then put it out with a dry chemical extinguisher, and never told me!. the least they could have done was say"we messed up and somehow caught your truck on fire"
i could accept that. but no, they just closed the hood and said nothing.
that brand new custom built $285 alternator is melted, and full of dry chem powder.
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i ain't rite
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
because they were closed by the time i found out this afternoon.
7 am tomorrow the 75 year old current owner is going to get a piece of my mind.
i have known him for over 35 years, and he also knows i am very well known in the industry, and ticking me off will be an automatic knife in his back if i make a few phone calls to others in the trucking industry.
7 am tomorrow the 75 year old current owner is going to get a piece of my mind.
i have known him for over 35 years, and he also knows i am very well known in the industry, and ticking me off will be an automatic knife in his back if i make a few phone calls to others in the trucking industry.
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From: North Dakota
Ouch....
I hate it when u take a truck in for a service,(oil change and such) and the next day the heat hardly works. Come to find the radiator is only half full
Also hate how you can't drain a water separator on a truck that's outside 24/7. Dam cold frozen separator.
I hate it when u take a truck in for a service,(oil change and such) and the next day the heat hardly works. Come to find the radiator is only half full
Also hate how you can't drain a water separator on a truck that's outside 24/7. Dam cold frozen separator.
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No kidding!!
Let us know how it goes!! full details and possibly surveillance video's
because they were closed by the time i found out this afternoon.
7 am tomorrow the 75 year old current owner is going to get a piece of my mind.
i have known him for over 35 years, and he also knows i am very well known in the industry, and ticking me off will be an automatic knife in his back if i make a few phone calls to others in the trucking industry.
7 am tomorrow the 75 year old current owner is going to get a piece of my mind.
i have known him for over 35 years, and he also knows i am very well known in the industry, and ticking me off will be an automatic knife in his back if i make a few phone calls to others in the trucking industry.
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From: utica il
you know what i hate? not much today. start a new full time 40hr+ a week 2nd shift job, and the car seems to be running ok after a waterpump/new cap/thermostat. lucked out and my buddy mike(the illinois cheeto)stopped by while i was freezing my nads off and said come on over and use his heated shop, WIN!!!!!!
i just hope the car is good. we bled the system, but it still overheated on me once for like 20 seconds and then went back to normal temp. had the head gasket replaced about 35,000 ago and the shop did a ****ty job, still seeps on one end of the head. i hope its not the head gasket again.
i just hope the car is good. we bled the system, but it still overheated on me once for like 20 seconds and then went back to normal temp. had the head gasket replaced about 35,000 ago and the shop did a ****ty job, still seeps on one end of the head. i hope its not the head gasket again.
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From: utica il