flareside_thunder
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Heh...some of this is OT but...a bit isn't.........starting a week ago today:
Saturday I got a wild hair and decided to detail the inside of my truck...the bed is still a mess but the interior is clean.I also painted all my interior trim to match my truck and it looks GREAT...got rid of the Grabber Green sorry Travis.I also wanted to fix the littleoil leak where my oil psi gauge goes into the block...I did......I felt something pop but kept tightening it...when I got to the parts store to pick something up and got back home I noticed oil...
Sunday I pulled it apart and check it again...instead of backing the fittings all back out re sealing the stuff I just tightened it down.....that's when the brass fitting going into the block sheared off....at 1/4 to 7.....when to the PS and bought the LAST fitting set while my buddy shoved a 3/8 socket inside the brass fitting and backed it out....so we replaced it and did not use Teflon tape this time...I will NEVER use teflon tape on that kind of stuff again.....
I was going to finish putting my a/cpump ps pump back on when I noticed a freeze plug in my head leaking...too late in the day to get to the only store that has Ford freeze plugs IN STOCK (a race shop)
I missed work Monday fixed the freeze plug and ditched the mechanical fan for an electric I had layin in the geerage.....
Tuesday I messed up my back and lost a bunch of sleep that night because i was having painful back spasms.
Wednesday I missed work because I was a vegetable in bed hopped up on muscle relaxers (thank god for whoever invented those)
Thursday was a bad day.......got out to my truck at lunch which was parked in the General Contractor (Welbro Building Corporation) parking lot and someone poured BRAKE FLUID all over the bed of my truck....they also got my buddy's truck...but he's got a 200 Mazda tribute so that's not real paint and he didn't fare as well.....I got white crap on my tail lenses and a little bit of peeling where the fender flares had rubbed the paint underneath off...plus white streaks on my tailgate...other than that....I caught it in time and my boss payed for me to go to the carwash.....Friday was just long....and I put a whip antenna on my truck.Plus Saturday I had to work to make up for missing one day.....anyways...wow this is long..Later all.
JR
Saturday I got a wild hair and decided to detail the inside of my truck...the bed is still a mess but the interior is clean.I also painted all my interior trim to match my truck and it looks GREAT...got rid of the Grabber Green sorry Travis.I also wanted to fix the littleoil leak where my oil psi gauge goes into the block...I did......I felt something pop but kept tightening it...when I got to the parts store to pick something up and got back home I noticed oil...
Sunday I pulled it apart and check it again...instead of backing the fittings all back out re sealing the stuff I just tightened it down.....that's when the brass fitting going into the block sheared off....at 1/4 to 7.....when to the PS and bought the LAST fitting set while my buddy shoved a 3/8 socket inside the brass fitting and backed it out....so we replaced it and did not use Teflon tape this time...I will NEVER use teflon tape on that kind of stuff again.....
I was going to finish putting my a/cpump ps pump back on when I noticed a freeze plug in my head leaking...too late in the day to get to the only store that has Ford freeze plugs IN STOCK (a race shop)
I missed work Monday fixed the freeze plug and ditched the mechanical fan for an electric I had layin in the geerage.....
Tuesday I messed up my back and lost a bunch of sleep that night because i was having painful back spasms.
Wednesday I missed work because I was a vegetable in bed hopped up on muscle relaxers (thank god for whoever invented those)
Thursday was a bad day.......got out to my truck at lunch which was parked in the General Contractor (Welbro Building Corporation) parking lot and someone poured BRAKE FLUID all over the bed of my truck....they also got my buddy's truck...but he's got a 200 Mazda tribute so that's not real paint and he didn't fare as well.....I got white crap on my tail lenses and a little bit of peeling where the fender flares had rubbed the paint underneath off...plus white streaks on my tailgate...other than that....I caught it in time and my boss payed for me to go to the carwash.....Friday was just long....and I put a whip antenna on my truck.Plus Saturday I had to work to make up for missing one day.....anyways...wow this is long..Later all.
JR