What's up with the intermittent blue smoke, Bill?
That's not usually a good sign. :-\
"Moral of the story, women do not belong behind the wheel, whether they have
been drinking or not..."
AGREED! (Taking some of the heat off of you! :P)
"Bill Day" <billday@otecom.net> wrote in message
news:200507281611.34540.billday@otecom.net...
>
> Tuesday night we decided to take a cooler down to the river and enjoy the
> torrential downpour and the mud tires combined..
>
> Was allg oing good until she asked if she could driver... regretfully I
> said
> yes.. Well, not 5 minutes after she starts driving she is going down a
> fairly steep gravel hill and decided she need to move over more to the
> right
> so someone coming up the hill can pass by easily..
>
> I little to much beer and little to much right turn wound us up in a
> massive
> downhill drainage ditch fill with slop, sand and pea gravel. So i cussed
> yelled and told her to get in the back seat as pull myself back into the
> apssenger seat out of the briars and tried to climb int o the passenger
> seat...
>
> Well to no avail, 4hi didnt want to seem to engage so I went for the
> trusty
> 4lo, that took some work but I finally got it in and still couldnt get
> anywhere, rear pumpkin highcenterd on the edge with body laying against a
> muddy wall all at about a 45 deg. angle to the road...
>
> Fortunately the guy coming up the hill was nice enough to stop, he was
> pulling
> a car on a dolly and said he would be about 15 minutes to town and back
> and
> give mea yank out.
>
> 15 minutes later, he is back and the truck is out with very little effort
> going down hill.
>
> Next day I inspect the damage on the truck, not bad... A little ding in
> the
> passenger door under the handle otherwise looks decent dirty as hell
> inside
> and out but no major damage..
>
> Well I start the truck up about 6p.m. wednesday night to go to her
> grandfathers and it starts and idles bad, real ruff... finally smoothes
> out.
> Get to her grandfathers and as soon as I get in his driveway I see plumes
> of
> blue smoke coming from rear.. oh shit whats wrong... she smokes for a
> couple
> minutes after I shut it off while I chat with her granpa and check under
> hood
> for oil leaks etc., nothing. Start it up to head home after being there
> about 5 minutes and all seems normal, oil pressure stable raises when I
> get
> on the peddle falls when I get off, until I pull back in our driveway,
> smoking hard again.. So she sits until today Go outside to take care of
> the
> chickens, front passenger is flat, fire up truck and get out compressor to
> air it up no smoke all seems good, let it run about 15 minutes. Call my
> tire guy and he says bring it in this afternoon, so I do, about 1 pm I
> head
> out to leave and I will be damned if that tire isnt flat again... so I
> proceed to air it up with the truck running(no smoke good oil pressure)
> and
> head to town, simple fix break bead off clean out the seal area and reseat
> the bead, walla back on the rod.
>
> Moral of the story, women do not belong behind the wheel, whether they
> have
> been drinking or not...
>
> This will surely get me flamed by some of the loayl DAK mistresses....
> --
>
>
> Bill Day
>
> "A rich man isn't always wealthy, he just has all the love he can give and
> ever wanted.."
> http://counter.li.org #384146 284016
>
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