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Old Feb 19, 2012 | 11:29 PM
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On my way home tonight with the radio on. Got to a stop sign and noticed my battery light was on. Went to go and realized my truck wasn't running. Tried to start it and it barely rolled over and made some pretty gross noises.. 286 thousand km and timing chain finally went
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Old Feb 19, 2012 | 11:34 PM
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Geeze.... Sorry to hear that
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Old Feb 19, 2012 | 11:53 PM
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That sucks. Do the pistons hit the valves in these?
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 01:30 AM
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That's not good man I hope that it's fixable
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That sucks. Do the pistons hit the valves in these?
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Munson
On my way home tonight with the radio on. Got to a stop sign and noticed my battery light was on. Went to go and realized my truck wasn't running. Tried to start it and it barely rolled over and made some pretty gross noises.. 286 thousand km and timing chain finally went
Sorry to hear about your truck.
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Old Feb 21, 2012 | 12:16 AM
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That sucks. Do the pistons hit the valves in these?
Yep.
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Old Feb 21, 2012 | 01:42 PM
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Ouch. Guess that was the "gross noise".
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