Wow!!! The ever present and allmighty Larry Ellis has paid us another visit. What do we owe this aperance to? I suppose this is attributed to the post a cople months ago and yoou need to keep an eye on us more (lol!) .

I will be the 1st to say that Larry is fair in his judgement most of the time and, even if you feel he's not, usually a simple pm or three or a call can do wonders to clear things up. Now, if I can just get him to forgive Dizlpower and reinstate his membership??? I know it's asking alot, but he was only defending me from what he thought was a directed personal attack on me from you Larry and didn't know what was going on between us thru the back channels.

 

I completely understand where you are coming from Lary.

 

Wow, That was some good reading there. I think after talking to Diezel that he will NOT be on here again. I think he took his defending a little far in my opinion.

 

No it was because I didn't want Happy to go on thinking we were mad at him...

Reinstate who?

 

Hey guys have any of you gotten a DTR sticker. I payed for it on the 27th and still have not gotten it. I dont want to bother TOP if it is usually a long wait.

 

You should have gotten it by now, I sent one to Guam and it got there quicker than this I will look into it and send you another if need be

Edit: It was mailed to you, my guess is you will get it Tomorrow or Monday .

Let me know if it doesn't show up.

 

Thanks TOP you never know it might have come in today after i left for work. One good thing about it taking a little while is, that I get a pass on washing my truck until it gets here.

 

At least we knw Larry does have a sense of humor, contrary to the popular thought around here!!!

By the way guys, remeber that our next meeting is the joint MSDTR #31 and TNDTR #34 meeting and dyno day next month. Just a little FYI

 

I thought it was obvious...after all I let YOU be a Chapter President!

 

ROFLMAO

 

ooohhh.....

Hey John, so how are things going with the SMARTY? Have you packed it up and stuck it under the seat, or is it growing on you??

 

There I was, just backing out of a tight parking space, trying to get away from the planter on my right side and avoid the cars parked behind me - when I felt & heard this "pop" and my brakes and steeing went away.

I haven't even looked under the hood yet, but I searched DTR & TDR forums, and the closest match to my symptoms seems to be that I may have sheared off the drive-coupler between the power steering pump and the vacuum pump. But until I investigate further, that is just a guess.

Anyhow, I called my wife and had her meet me at the hanger, where I left the truck. Baskin Robins folks forgot to give her a spoon, and her ice cream was melting, so I didn't have time to check *anything* under the hood of my truck.

 

Man prospector all that extra power had to go somewhere. Hopefully it will be an easy fix.

 

What extra power? I have the Smarty set on "1" to see if it really does get better fuel economy!

 

Just thinking out loud but if you lost the drive coupler between the power steering and the vacuum pump, wouldn't you still have your power steering? Maybe you just lost the belt or tensioner. Fingers crossed here.