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Well, we drove this truck home. Neither of us had ever spent that much for a vehicle before, but it has a 5 year 100,000 mile warranty plus the lifetime engine and transmission warranty.

And it's a really nice truck too, might as well say new, a 2022 with only 14,000 miles on it.

Looked at this one, I drove it around. Used, but only 14,000 miles. I really liked it.

Zina has today off and I'll use some of the PTO that I've built up to go to Lynchburg to look at pickups today. As much as I hate to, because it's such a great car, I'm going to sell my 2016 Impala and we're going to trade her Honda in. It's a 2022 with only 28,000 miles on it. Figured we might get the best deal on it at the Honda place, and they have several used 4 door pickups. A couple of Dodges, an F150, and a couple of Colorados. I really like the Silverado 1500s myself, but if the Colorado has a big enough back seat it might be OK. Anybody have any thoughts, suggestions?

2 minutes ago, Geoff Weeks said:

Nope a few years old than that, not that it matters, once your body decides enough is enough, it doesn't care about the calendar

I didn't plan on stopping this early but sometimes you have to go with the flow.

I talked to a man today who said his wife was going to get the arthritis "scraped from her hands" because she couldn't open her hands completely. I didn't even know they could do that, but mine are the opposite - I don't have any problem opening my hands, but I can't close either one into a fist, not even close. That's why I've dropped so many cameras.

1 hour ago, Hayseed said:

You have nothing to complain about.....LOL

 

The last 10" Mill Barstard File I bought was $35 It was a Crescent though.

 

I know I'm Not comparing Apples with Apples, But ; The last  Delco Remy 39MT starter I bought was $450

Holy mackerel!

Ouch! I thought a starter was about half that much. I thought a file would be a couple of dollars...

13 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

Yes....... i have a triangle file that cuts great..  

I have a flat file, but It's a big one. Probably too big to fit between the teeth. I'll see if they have a small flat file at NAPA when I get the starter. Or Tractor Supply. Better to spend some time doing that than having to pull the transmission. I'd have to pay someone to do that, I couldn't handle that by myself on the ground. I'd pull the transmission out of my Nova and put a clutch in it in an afternoon, by myself. Did it several times, but that was almost 50 years ago!

1 hour ago, Joey Mack said:

Forgive me for not knowing, but do Blue Ovals require shimming the starter like Bow Ties do?

There was no shims on this one. I was happy to find just 2 bolts. When it wouldn't move I was afraid there was a third bolt back there by the engine block that I couldn't see, but nope, just those 2.

33 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

Hey bud,  take a small bastard file and dress up the teeth.. just clean up the leading edges.. the new starter will push the bedix gear deep. If there are no burrs or debris in between the teeth you will be good.. of course there may be other spots on the flywheel that need some love so put a paint mark there and roll it around and look.  Easier than pulliin a tranny in a 4X4...   Jojo

Oh, for sure, I was dreading the thought of possibly having to do that! So, if I took like a three corner file and tried to clean those teeth a bit, is that what you mean? I used to have several three sided files, but I don't know where one is right now. I guess I can find one somewhere though. 

I decided to not be too much of a wimp today and went and took that starter off, on the ground, in the heat. It didn't come off too easy, even with the bolts backed out it didn't want to budge until I pried on it with a large screwdriver and got it to move. I could see the problem when I got if off, the teeths on the flywheel looked pretty chewed up, and I'm pretty sure that's what made the starter hang up. 

I'm going to try a new starter and hope for the best, but it really needs a flywheel. I expected a starter to be about $40, but I'm out of touch with reality apparently. A starter was $90, with exchange. Supposed to be at NAPA in the morning, so I'll go put it on and see what happens.

I sprayed some brake cleaner on it so it looks pretty.

10 hours ago, mowerman said:

Oh my I certainly got a response on this one ha ha.. Bob

I tried to reply to this topic the other day, and it said replies had been cut off. Are replies "cut on" now, or was mine not allowed because I agreed with what Paul said?..hmmm...

On 7/23/2023 at 4:23 PM, mrsmackpaul said:

Geoff your a bully because your trying to to tell others how to think and or write

 

You mentioned tolerance, your the only person on this thread been not been tolerant

As long as we agree with you all is okay, be buggered 

And why does the amount of time someone is here make a difference ?

The difference is if you were here longer you would know that this page/thread/topic is in the forum labled "odds and ends"

And if you actually read what it is for you learn something about the forum

 

This forum is for non truck related topics

Now you mentioned only a few posts ago that "our common interest in greast old things" is the reason you are here 

So if you are here to share our common interest on greasy old things, well and good and enjoy yourself 

If your here to exactly what you are doing, bullying everyone else into your way of thinking well we are gunna have a problem 

Unlike some, I come here to enjoy myself, laugh at myself with what is mostly very like minded people from all corners of the world, I don't come here to watch some upstart cause trouble in a place that none of us has to be in, we are all here by choice 

But I'll be blowed if I'll let someone turn up and upset a happy place and at least not try and raise my concerns

After all as I mentioned, I don't have to be here, to me it's meant to be fun, and when this rubbish happens I can see the fun fading pretty quick

 

Paul

 

Well said, I agree 100%.

I'm glad y'all said that- I'm the same way! I told Zina I'd rather pay somebody else to work on that truck than be up there laying on the ground taking the starter off. But I might though, just to see if the starter is even the problem.

3 hours ago, Vladislav said:

I see you didn't surrender without a fight. Self fixing is not only a money save but a huge time save in many cases. Not always though and we can't go beyound our possibilities.

I guess the issue was the starter. Or even just the control power supply to it. If the engine was stuck and the starter was trying to force it to spin you would hear a click and observe extreme drop of voltage in the instrumen cluster. 

Well, I hope it's the starter, but... I tried to turn the crank pulley with an adjustable wrench a while ago and it would not budge. At all. I'm going up there tomorrow with some tools and a breaker bar and see if it'll come unstuck.

17 hours ago, Vladislav said:

I have done a bit more complicated job in the past. I didn't want to rest my old posts with illustrations removed completely. But got to the limit on the attachments. So I copied those files on my computer, re-sized down to some tiny size (50-100kb) and uploaded them back deleting the originals. But I didn't post really great amount of pics during the times.

Starting from that point I try upload already resized images. But can't smallarize pics in a phone, probably need some software I don't have.

That's what I do on the computer, I always smallerize the pictures before I post them, but I don't know how to do it on the phone, or if you can. I can crop them, but they still seem to be just as big. I kind of hate to delete pictures too, but when it's a picture of a goat that I posted in 2014 I figure nobody is going to look at it now anyway, so off it goes. The only ones I haven't been deleting are the "a girl in a car" pictures 😂.

16 hours ago, Vladislav said:

Sorry for the starter fail. I guess the truck is automatic. Could be push started if it's a stick. And even driven for a few days that way just by parking on a grade.

Also nice to see the progress over the new place. The BBQ shed looks well built. And I really like the squirrel. It's seldom to see one with a water hose.

It has a four speed in it, but I couldn't get up enough speed to push start it. The parking lot was too flat, I only managed to get it from one parking spot to the next. I thought maybe that might at least unstick the starter, but it didn't. Neither did tapping it with a hammer. Come to think of it, I better check to see if the engine locked up, maybe the starter is good. But the starter acted like it was hanging up once before though, then it finally started, and it hasn't happened since, until yesterday.

Stuff happens. Could have been worse though, it could have been yesterday when it was sweltering hot. We went to the Home Depot store to pick up a freezer that we got last night and the starter locked up on the truck. Now we're waiting on a ride because there was no room in the rollback truck.

$120 to tow it from Lynchburg to Concord.

10 hours ago, Brocky said:

Unusual stack thru the hood in that last picture!!!

That's just one of my poorly photo-chopped pictures. The grill in the back is real though, that's when I took it home and before I painted it and put the chrome stack on it. I used it for a grill before, but I had taken it down to Moore's Machine and had a lid put on it. They put the offset fire box on it too, but it's only good for a shelf. It's way too small and placed too high to actually work as a smoker. It's still my favorite grill though.