Good goin, I'm glad your truck is still alive!! I was worried there for
a while!
I know for sure now that I did take damage in the pit, when I took in
water. I changed my oil today, wow was it burnt. Remember when I
smelled it at the stop outside Buffalo? Well it was REALLY smellin
burnt today.
Anyway - the engine has a sound coming from the belly pan. (pretty close
to that ticking from your engine (before it stopped running hehehe) My
guess is the water/mud might have added a leeetle bit of wear on the
engine internals. No big deal. That ain't gonna stop me from driving it!
I have long term modification plans for that truck. I'm going to keep
pushing with it in the winter - I frankly don't care if the suspension
and engine fall apart. Only thing is that it has to last me one more
year! THEN it can break down!
As for Jon's infamous mud - I removed my front diff. skid plate today
too. As I am sure this will be no suprise to any DML BBQ vets... but
the skid plate was completely filled with mud (read concrete). The self
serve car wash still has chunks of mud in the bay where I pressure
washed the truck. And my carport has chunks of mud all over it. lol
I banged up a front cover plate that bridges a gap between the frame and
the radiator support. Nothing that can't be fixed with a large hammer.
Taking into account how many of the rigs at the BBQ were sent home
bruised and bloody - it seems that most of us got lucky with repairs --
not as bad as we had feared. (auctual damage and cost to repair) Even
Dakota's blown T-case won't cost full price to replace. Tweety Jeep is
getting the trans replaced for a good deal... looks like the Jeep with
the snapped axle - and Jason Yates Dak, were the worst off. I know I'm
counting my blessings.
Mr. Plow wrote:
>
> So i finally got ahold of the guy in service that has been workin on my
> truck up in NY. And they are going to replace the cam, and crank
> sensors. They each run about 30 bucks, no biggie.
> But he said they were trying to get one of those sensors out, and they
> were having a tough time with that.
> I kinda assumed that it is jammed in there with a little bit of Jon's
> clay. hehe
> Probably the same as when i changed the plugs a while back, it took a
> lot of muscle to yank them out because fine particles of dirt had slid
> down beside the plug sleeve or whatever, and had made it really tough to
> pull them out.
>
> Anyway, i'm still guessing that the whole bill is gonna be less than
> $500 US, which is about half of what i originally thought it was going
> to be, so i'm still happy. :)
>
> And the plan is to get a friend to drive me up to Jon's this Thursday
> evening, and then we'll probably change the oil after driving the Dak to
> Jon's place on Friday, just to clean out any little bits of water and
> silt that have hung around in the engine. :)
>
>
> The Adam Blaster
> Two words, figure it out....
>
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Granpa - (Silver89)
1989 Reg Cab, V6, Auto, 8 footer, 4x2 1989 Reg Cab, V6, Auto, 8 footer, 4x4 w plow
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