grumble grumble

[tommag]

Got home last night for a day and a half to find a flat tire on the pickup. After putting on the spare, I find I have no water, plumbing is froze.
This morning, the pickup won't start. The good news is Napa is running a 45 percent off sale, (the point spread on the superbowl)

Not much room for a fat man under the pickup, and the snow is just warm enough to be wet. Oh well, better quit whining and crawl back under there and put the starter on.

[Bullshop Junior]

I have had many many days like that. If I was closer I would come give you a hand with the starter.

[tommag]

Thanks, Daniel. I'm sure you would. It's not that hard, just awkward as heck.

[Garyshome]

Just remember It could ALWAYS be worse!

[CastingFool]

I don't drive my pickup much anymore, so my battery was weak and it froze during the cold weather we had. Went and got a new battery, hooked it up, and the truck wouldn't start, wouldn't even turn over, so obviously I have a poor connection somewhere. I'm just waiting for little better weather before I crawl underneath it, to check out the connections on the starter. It was -3 below this morning.

[parson48]

There's a great country song in there somewhere.

[waynem34]

Murphys Law."Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

[Bullshop Junior]

Murphys Law."Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

My life is living proove of that lol.

I shouldnt say that. Things are getting much better.

[Bad Water Bill]

You are fortunate that you can even find your battery.

My Beamer was hidden under the back seat.

I forget which one you had to pull out the washer solvent tank to see the battery wedged into the fender well.

Where is Henry Ford when you need him?

[tommag]

There's a great country song in there somewhere.
Actually, I'm in a trailer ark, but not a double wide. Mine is a 24 ' travel trailer, for the time being.
Also, I don't have a dog or a mama, so not a complete country song, yet. I could write something about prison, as I'm not far from one, although I've only delivered fish there and have not been an inmate (yet).

[tommag]

You are fortunate that you can even find your battery.

My Beamer was hidden under the back seat.

I forget which one you had to pull out the wasolvent tank to see the battery wedged into the fender well.

Where is Henry Ford when you need him?

Girty gots a beamer?

[starmac]

LOL Sometimes engineers just see if they can out do themselves I think. I worked on the Camel pro racing bus twice. It broke down on the same stretch of I 40 ten years apart. lol The first time, it was the water pump. I walked around the bus twice, just looking for a possible place to hide the engine. lol It turned out to be a mid engine 671 detroit laying on it's side between the frame rails. Yup the water pump was on the topside, and I had to drop the motor down to get to it. lol

[Bad Water Bill]

Nope Girty ain got no bmer. I givd id ta a hoosier dat din no no bedder.

Id now sids in a barn in indi aner.

[tommag]

LOL Sometimes engineers just see if they can out do themselves I think. I worked on the Camel pro racing bus twice. It broke down on the same stretch of I 40 ten years apart. lol The first time, it was the water pump. I walked around the bus twice, just looking for a possible place to hide the engine. lol It turned out to be a mid engine 671 detroit laying on it's side between the frame rails. Yup the water pump was on the topside, and I had to drop the motor down to get to it. lol
671---- you're dating yourself,lol. Weren't those old jimmys something?! Easy to rebuild, but you had to do it every year or so!

[starmac]

LOL It was a major luxory when we graduated to the all powerful 318. lol That bus was a 69 model that the camel pro bunch had refurbished with a complete new body. I don't know if the original had some kind of floor panel access or not. The one I worked on did have a removable floor panel after about a dozen screws you could access the emergency kill lever on the blower only. lol

I did a little grumbling the other day of my own, when I went to the parts house. I needed a fuel shutoff solenoid for my pickup, and O'reillys wanted 740 some odd dollars for it.
I about lost my religion over that one. lol

Talk about dating myself, I still have a running truck with a 453 jimmy in it. lol

[CastingFool]

I used to have a '68 Mustang fastback. One day, my wife and I were car shopping in another town, when the water pump started leaking. We were at a dealership, and the salesman told me to just drive it around the back and they would take care of it. I said thanks but no thanks, but I need to use your phone. Called a parts store, they had the pump, drove over, told the guy what I needed to do, and went to work in their parking lot. I had my tools with me, so I replaced the pump, got some water to refill the radiator, thanked them profusely and took my wife and son back home. I had to hurry because I still had to go to work, as I was working 2nd shift at the time.

[blackthorn]

On the plus side--- they say bad luck runs in threes --- so seems like you got yours all in one day!

[richhodg66]

There's a great country song in there somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pujenWy-rM

[Bullshop Junior]

I liked that last clip lol