(1) What did you and your truck do today?
07-18-2010, 03:22 AM
#1062
Storm Trooper
Drove from Spring, TX to The Woodlands, TX. From the Woodlands to Galveston, TX. Went to the beach for the day. Back to The Woodlands from Galveston. Then back to Spring from The Woodlands. Easily 180+ miles and got her pretty dirty.
07-18-2010, 03:37 AM
#1063
Flippin' burgers
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Location: Idaho
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Well, day started off seemingly enough, went to get lunch with the wife, decided to stop and get gas, kill the engine hop out hear a pressure leak, look under the truck see leaking from the bell housing and say damnit, just replaced the master cylinder and thought the slave bit the dust. Pop the hood after I see steam coming from the passenger side.
Turns out a misc heater line didn't have a hose clamp and needed one. No big deal. Come home after lunch, she takes off for a trip with her mother, I dink around. Refill radiator and resivoir. Flash forward to 10PM; Adventure off to help a friend get wood for a bonfire, stop at a stop sign because my follower car said my tail gate was down... I hop out to close it, get back in RELEASE THE EBRAKE and put it in gear and let off the clutch, truck dies, wont restart.
Walked 10 blocks to a gas station for fuel.... Come back, tinker, no go. Call the wife asking for a google favor. She came back with results suggesting no spark, which I had already checked the dizzy and leads. Disconnect the battery to reset the ECU, come back to the cab to look for any disconnections..... Turns out I, being the impatient person I am, ran the signal line from my new aftermarket tach under the bumpstop of the ebrake. So after disengaging the ebrake at the stop sign, it pinched the line and caused a short....
2 hours for a short....
FORD: 1 Richie:0
Turns out a misc heater line didn't have a hose clamp and needed one. No big deal. Come home after lunch, she takes off for a trip with her mother, I dink around. Refill radiator and resivoir. Flash forward to 10PM; Adventure off to help a friend get wood for a bonfire, stop at a stop sign because my follower car said my tail gate was down... I hop out to close it, get back in RELEASE THE EBRAKE and put it in gear and let off the clutch, truck dies, wont restart.
Walked 10 blocks to a gas station for fuel.... Come back, tinker, no go. Call the wife asking for a google favor. She came back with results suggesting no spark, which I had already checked the dizzy and leads. Disconnect the battery to reset the ECU, come back to the cab to look for any disconnections..... Turns out I, being the impatient person I am, ran the signal line from my new aftermarket tach under the bumpstop of the ebrake. So after disengaging the ebrake at the stop sign, it pinched the line and caused a short....
2 hours for a short....
FORD: 1 Richie:0
07-18-2010, 08:09 PM
#1064
Senior Member
Well my truck sat in the driveway about all day and then I decided to go out and put my edge evolution on extreme. I usualy run it on stock unless I'm towing but rarley put on extreme. Haha anyway my truck was like a jack rabit on steroids compared to stock.
07-18-2010, 09:31 PM
#1065
Senior Member
Mine got washed, clay barred and waxed this afternoon and also got vacuumed and Armor All'ed and had the windows washed.
I finally got a chance to do all that today so I took advantage of a nice day.
I finally got a chance to do all that today so I took advantage of a nice day.
07-18-2010, 09:48 PM
#1067
Flippin' burgers
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Today she and I almost ended our lives together.... Tried going up a steep hill in first gear in 2high and didn't make it to the peak so the tires spun, so I left off and tried breaking nothing worked, started to pitch to the side and was close to rolling.
Recovered, got to the bottom and checked everything. BAD rubbing marks on the suspension arms. All in all, I'm thankful we are still here together.
Recovered, got to the bottom and checked everything. BAD rubbing marks on the suspension arms. All in all, I'm thankful we are still here together.
07-19-2010, 09:31 AM
#1070
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So Friday I took the day off of work to work the truck and get the backyard practically done. First we took the little one to daycare (she loves riding in the "monster truck", so cute at 20 months). Then we went to Lowes:
20 - Retaining wall stones
10 - 16" Walkway blocks
20 - 40lb topsoil
After getting the yard leveled and all "purty", I went and picked up a pallet of sod. I told my buddy (dodge guy) that I went and got the sod myself. He said my truck had to have been screamin w/ that cuz he just saw the other day a f250 w/ a pallet and it was severly squattin.
First 2 pics are of the truck w/ the load in it. It sat almost level, just barely squat. The next pic is of the finished product, minus me cuttin the weird shapes of grass in.
20 - Retaining wall stones
10 - 16" Walkway blocks
20 - 40lb topsoil
After getting the yard leveled and all "purty", I went and picked up a pallet of sod. I told my buddy (dodge guy) that I went and got the sod myself. He said my truck had to have been screamin w/ that cuz he just saw the other day a f250 w/ a pallet and it was severly squattin.
First 2 pics are of the truck w/ the load in it. It sat almost level, just barely squat. The next pic is of the finished product, minus me cuttin the weird shapes of grass in.