You know what sux?

you start hearing a funny noise in the engine.... Drive 11 miles watching the temp closel... Never gets hot at all, drain the oil, drop the pan and find metal, lots of metal.... Oil pump failed.

Under every black cloud there's a 5.0 EFI waiting to be installed.

After a week from hell at work you're on your way home after working all day and then helping dan with his truck and you get a flat. A flat in one of your brand new less than 200 mile tires. Now to see if it can be repaired or if I gotta shell out another 250 bucks for one. Also to add to that list the ferd needs new glow plugs. Found 2 bad ones.

buy the bosch glow plugs they burn much hotter , it takes about 45 minutes to do each side .

But, the only direction from here is up...

That is true. We were really looking forward to going on the Chinaman Gulch wheeling trip this weekend, but that is seriously doubtful. It would take a minor miracle for that to happen now... Have to souse the engine, finish pulling the old one, then install the new one... and the PS is leaking like a sieve recently as well.

On the bright side, we will have plenty of room to see where it is leaking from now...

Likely the bottom seal, which with a puller, are pretty easy to R&R

A carb engine swap is only a couple hours of work for 3 or 4 guys. Find the engine and we can make it happen.

That is awesome guys, still looking for the engine. Guy in Longmont and I keep missing eachother. Plumbdr has mentioned that he might have one but I have yet to work out those details either.

If I can get my grimy paws on a functional motor today or tomorrow, we will for sure be having a motor install party here in the shop.

I will let you know how things work out.

Getting jerked around by "The Man." Story over s when I get home...

Not many things suck in my opinion, but I finally found one. When you work really hard to build something unlike anything else out there only to see a fabrication shop copy the design almost to a T! Then when you call them on it they deny every bit of it and claim it is nothing alike. That is pathetic. If he had said: wow, that is extremely similar... I guess great minds think alike. Or something like that I would have been fine with it, but to flat out deny it. Very sad.

Rant off.:)

I know how you feel.You go through all the brain strain and someone else splashes your parts.Not alot of original thinkers out there.

Getting called in to work at midnight 30 on a weekend.

You're ball mount? Seems trailers are easy targets., Lock your ramps up and anything that can be moved. My cousin even had his whole trailer stolen. He saw the perps using it a week later and followed them. Called the cops and got it back, but you can't be too careful. I need to figure out a way to lock my ramps down.

Yes!! Our pumps shut off at $100, but I usually have to swipe it again and proceed to get an additional .5 gallons in! Not even worth my while!

The Love's station on 25, just outside the gate, caters to a lot of big trucks so no issues for me with the 100.00 limit. Diamond Shamrocks are a different story. 100 and it taps out. I think it is station dependent.

As for what sucks...
Last weeks I got new shoes for the Ferd in. 37x12.5x16.5 Goodyear Wrangler MTRs. Same tires as they are putting on the Humvees now. Got them through a military surplus guy in Kansas. Took them in Saturday to have them mounted and balanced as the machines they have at the DIY shop on Carson don't have the ass to get the job done. 10 minutes in to the mount and balance the tire guy tells me "you've got a hole in this tire". 10 minutes later, "there's a hole in this one too". By the time they were done I had 4 of 5 tires with impact punctures or cut sidewalls. ONE TIRE made it on a wheel. Needless to say I was quickly on the phone with the supplier and should have new tires here by the end of the week. Guess I am running slicks for the upcoming snow storm of the week.

That is bad luck on the tires!! Hopefully the news ones are good to go! Post pics!!

sucks to be the students late to class when you have to actually punch a time clock. Sucks even more because its time on your attendance and affects hiring procedures, and sucks if you end up timing out of the block and have to retake the whole block. Glad it has not been me. But sucks to be you!

This sux.50yr. old maple tree did'nt shed its leaves in time.Big ass mess. Have a widow maker hangin over my frt. door, hung up in the crotch of the tree and layin on the roof.Then the power goes out for 10 or so hrs.The limbs keeped falling all day so it was'nt to safe to get in there.I'll get started today.Anybody need some maple wood?