What did you do to your Gen 1 today?
11-04-2017, 08:34 AM
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A move out of PA is in my 5 year plan thanks to high taxes and worthless government.
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11-04-2017, 08:40 AM
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Diesel was $2.77 in VT the other day when I filled up the blue donkey.
11-04-2017, 09:19 AM
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$2.76 a gallon in Ohio
11-04-2017, 11:12 AM
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11-04-2017, 05:31 PM
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11-05-2017, 05:35 AM
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2.50 a gallon here
11-05-2017, 07:59 PM
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Well yesterday I finally broke down and replaced the battery in my truck. Grabbed a g31 battery from tractor supply for 105 bucks. Pleasantly it was a direct swap, so other then busting one of the j hooks for the battery hold down that was a nice easy fix.
today I'm driving to church and suddenly I can't turn my wheel at all. Limp it into church and there are just rainbow puddles in the rain water everywhere. Saw a pretty decent spray from the power steering pressure line. Limped the mile or two to my grandparents where I refilled ps fluid and bled the system the best I could.
Got it up to my dad and I garage from there, went to pick the lines up from the parts store. They had no recollection of me calling about the lines or them saying they were in stock. Ended up ordering them and they should be here tomorrow then sometime this week pull and replace em.
Also would ps fluid level affect braking on a vacuum boost system? After refilling the system for a few miles my brakes felt really touchy, in a good way that is.
today I'm driving to church and suddenly I can't turn my wheel at all. Limp it into church and there are just rainbow puddles in the rain water everywhere. Saw a pretty decent spray from the power steering pressure line. Limped the mile or two to my grandparents where I refilled ps fluid and bled the system the best I could.
Got it up to my dad and I garage from there, went to pick the lines up from the parts store. They had no recollection of me calling about the lines or them saying they were in stock. Ended up ordering them and they should be here tomorrow then sometime this week pull and replace em.
Also would ps fluid level affect braking on a vacuum boost system? After refilling the system for a few miles my brakes felt really touchy, in a good way that is.
11-05-2017, 08:35 PM
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Well yesterday I finally broke down and replaced the battery in my truck. Grabbed a g31 battery from tractor supply for 105 bucks. Pleasantly it was a direct swap, so other then busting one of the j hooks for the battery hold down that was a nice easy fix.
today I'm driving to church and suddenly I can't turn my wheel at all. Limp it into church and there are just rainbow puddles in the rain water everywhere. Saw a pretty decent spray from the power steering pressure line. Limped the mile or two to my grandparents where I refilled ps fluid and bled the system the best I could.
Got it up to my dad and I garage from there, went to pick the lines up from the parts store. They had no recollection of me calling about the lines or them saying they were in stock. Ended up ordering them and they should be here tomorrow then sometime this week pull and replace em.
Also would ps fluid level affect braking on a vacuum boost system? After refilling the system for a few miles my brakes felt really touchy, in a good way that is.
today I'm driving to church and suddenly I can't turn my wheel at all. Limp it into church and there are just rainbow puddles in the rain water everywhere. Saw a pretty decent spray from the power steering pressure line. Limped the mile or two to my grandparents where I refilled ps fluid and bled the system the best I could.
Got it up to my dad and I garage from there, went to pick the lines up from the parts store. They had no recollection of me calling about the lines or them saying they were in stock. Ended up ordering them and they should be here tomorrow then sometime this week pull and replace em.
Also would ps fluid level affect braking on a vacuum boost system? After refilling the system for a few miles my brakes felt really touchy, in a good way that is.
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thrashingcows (11-06-2017)
11-06-2017, 07:03 AM
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Did you change out the flasher? I’ve got LED taillights from LMC Truck (which work awesome, even with the stock flasher), and haven’t swapped the front turn signal bulbs yet... I know when I bought the LED turn signal bulbs, they recommended a flasher with a ground wire attached to it...
I just ordered 2 of them, one for flashers, one for hazards. I'll let you know how they work when I install them, either tomorrow or the following day.
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11-06-2017, 11:06 AM
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I checked out the specs on these, and I also looked at our fuse panels to see how our trucks are wired. If you go to the specifications for that flasher, it's actually wired backwards to what our trucks are wired (or vice, verse, if you will). In the diagram attached, the voltage on our trucks is actually in the " L " position, which mean's that flasher you posted (where the voltage is supposed to be at the " X " location of the flasher), it won't work directly in our trucks.
Now I just need to get off my butt and change out the front lights.
11-06-2017, 01:55 PM
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Interesting, That is almost the exact cost of rug in Mexico, after the exchange rate. Does the price of fuel ever go down in Canada? It never goes down here.Mexico is one of the poorest countries in the world and their government owned petroleum company, Pemex, is a monopoly. I fueled up the other day at a Chevron station in Hermosillo, which would seem to belay that, but not when you find out that they have to buy all of their fuel from Pemex. Optics I say...Mark
11-07-2017, 12:38 PM
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got two new steering tires today before winter sets in. nothing special, another pair of Mastercrafts to match the drive, but I could tell the ride was better.at least on smooth roads.
11-07-2017, 02:46 PM
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Well, since I removed my trans lines, and coolant lines, trans / antifreeze heat exchanger and had them all de rusted and powder coated, boiled out my radiator, put new hoses on, I've been running 100% antifreeze. Must be a month and a half now.
Things that have happened:
Truck runs completely normal, actually a little better than normal, but I can only attribute that to the cooler temps
Things that didn't happen:
Truck didn't blow up
truck didn't catch fire
truck didn't lose power
truck didn't have heat affected
truck didn't break down yet
truck didn't expel all that 100% antifreeze out because it didn't like it.
Oh well...
In two years, I'll dump the antifreeze out, like I do every 2, and see if it made any difference regarding the buildup in the radiator that I seem to get no matter what I do. Distilled h20, regular h20, green standard antifreeze... it still builds up gunk in the radiator. Hopefully it won't get as heavy as last time, requiring another boiling out.
Things that have happened:
Truck runs completely normal, actually a little better than normal, but I can only attribute that to the cooler temps
Things that didn't happen:
Truck didn't blow up
truck didn't catch fire
truck didn't lose power
truck didn't have heat affected
truck didn't break down yet
truck didn't expel all that 100% antifreeze out because it didn't like it.
Oh well...
In two years, I'll dump the antifreeze out, like I do every 2, and see if it made any difference regarding the buildup in the radiator that I seem to get no matter what I do. Distilled h20, regular h20, green standard antifreeze... it still builds up gunk in the radiator. Hopefully it won't get as heavy as last time, requiring another boiling out.
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