What did you do with your truck/shop today

[Chevyguy85]

My 2013 Impala had TONS of trunk room.

 

Yeah that's where most of his stuff has to go, some goes up front with him though.

[RyanbabZ71]

Had to change my wifes brakes (again, last time was last sept, 16K ish miles ago). So she got to drive my truck around. I did get hourly reports that she was parking way out away from people.

[SnakeEyeSS]

 

 

What have you done to keep the rust away? I see a lot of the 900's around here now with rusted out bed sides.

 

 

Totally agree with this. As far as chips go the paint on my 2006 with 246k miles looks better than the paint on my 2014 Cruze with 50k miles. That's no joke either. This new paint is terrible.

PPF is the answer. A couple of road trips and 11K on the Accord and it still looks brand new. And if you have ever seen a 10 year old Honda, it's usually missing some of the clear coat, they seem to have used the "green" paint at lot longer than others.

[SnakeEyeSS]

Had to change my wifes brakes (again, last time was last sept, 16K ish miles ago). So she got to drive my truck around. I did get hourly reports that she was parking way out away from people.

. You need to follow her around, is she the type than has a foot on the brakes while they are accelerating?

[SuperSierra]

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Not sure if I like this

 

 

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[RyanbabZ71]

. You need to follow her around, is she the type than has a foot on the brakes while they are accelerating?

 

No, but she is hard on them. The van has been in the mountains/hills (to florida and back and to DC and back) which didnt help. The pads are glazed over and the rotors are warp I think probably from the heat. Went cheaper this time (raybestos) we will see how that works out.

[RyanbabZ71]

Loaded up the gear for our first baseball tournament, 7U

 

 

 

Ryan B.

[Jsdirt]

Busy week. Towed my neighbor's '88 Trooper up the hill here with the s10 plow truck. Was first time that thing has gone over 10 mph in many years, and let me tell ya, it was a handful, lol - scared my neighbor at least.

 

So we made it down the hill to his truck - I toss the strap around my bumper in a choker, and threw the other loop on his tow hook. I said, "You ready?" "Yep", he says. So off we go. I didn't get 20 feet up the road when all of a sudden I'm MELTING the rear tires in the middle of the street, and the ass-end of the truck blows out sideways across the entire road! I look in the mirror, and he's GONE! Look over my shoulder and he's off the road! WTF! I jump out, "What the #$@* are you doing!?!?" He says, "I forgot to unlock the steering. Sorry."

 

Anyway, got it to the house, and I diagnosed a bad fuel pump. I had just rewired it 3 months ago, so thought it was my wiring, but ended up being the aftermarket pump we had taken out of the parts truck. Glad we found that out now rather than in February during a 3' blizzard ...

 

Then on to a Husqvarna lawn tractor. Owner had changed a belt, and didn't tighten the center bolt for the clutch/drive pulley enough ... so the $200 clutch shot out the side like a missile, and tore wires right out of it. He got a new bolt, extracted what was left, and bent the tweaked drive pulley back into shape with a block of wood. Well, check out the pic of what happened from THAT fix! One pulley flange busted right off, and SHREDDED his brand new belt! Got that fixed up, plus fixed the hunting carburetor, and gave her a wash.

 

 

Then UPS came - FINALLY got the damn board for my balancer. Was only a 3 week + ordeal!

 

First, they sent the completely wrong board out - not only was it the wrong board, but it wasn't even for my model balancer! Then, they send out the right one - it spends 6 days in Indianapolis before UPS says, "We've incorrectly sorted your package - this may add 1 business day to delivery" ... yeah, try 14 business days!! It gets to MA, and spends almost a week in THEIR terminal. Then ... it gets sent back to Indianapolis!!! ARE YOU FREAKIN' SERIOUS??? Yep!

 

At least Greg Smith Equipment worked with me - they 2nd Day aired this board out Wednesday afternoon. Installed it a couple hours ago, and I'll have to calibrate the machine tomorrow.

 

Too much for one day - I'm going to bed!!

 

Truck was the workbench throughout all of this, yet again.

 

 

 

[Colossus]

 

No, but she is hard on them. The van has been in the mountains/hills (to florida and back and to DC and back) which didnt help. The pads are glazed over and the rotors are warp I think probably from the heat. Went cheaper this time (raybestos) we will see how that works out.

Might try the adaptive one brakes from NAPA next. I've heard good things about them in cars, not so much in trucks though.

 

Replaced the drivers side headlight. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Had to remove 2nd battery, but once it was out it was easy to get to.

[Chris]

Put the GoPro in and ran the wire in the headliner and down the A pillar

[Daryl Z71]

Used the truck to move my brother and his wife's trailer around the yard so we could pull stuff out of it to sell at the yard sale.

 

Edited July 16, 2017 by Daryl Z71

[RyanbabZ71]

Was filling up my truck today and had a guy say nice truck is it a 17. When I told him it was a 2010 his mouth dropped. He didnt believe me.

[Daryl Z71]

Was filling up my truck today and had a guy say nice truck is it a 17. When I told him it was a 2010 his mouth dropped. He didnt believe me.

 

 

That's what happens when you take care of em.

[Jsdirt]

I get that alot with my '07. Been garaged nightly just about every night for 10 years. These days it sits for weeks before it sees the light of day. They stay nice that way.

 

Still have a ton of scratches in that crap GM calls "paint" ...

[NEFisher11]

Cleaned the condenser in my truck with some coil cleaner. AC is working much better now.