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Sadboys and their Sadtoys
3 years ago
Had someone watch me awhile ago and their profile bio literally held the phrase "fuck your truck."
I get it, in the context that you said it. But if you happen to read this, sorry bro, this is about a truck.
Been absolutely choking on 4 engines in my basement lately. One smack in the middle of the garage where Moses has parted valleys of trash, where I can park and work on a vehicle. So I need to break the engines down into good parts and bad parts and hope I can get one together and get rid of unusable junk, sell the rest. The particular engines I'm tearing down are extremely prone to cracking, so you can easily see the issues but takes hours to get to that point. Especially to separate the aluminum from the cast to get better scrap price. And because using the cracked parts is asking for trouble. I still haven't finished one yet. Started 3 years ago.
So here's about the most unsexy thing in the entire world. Taking apart a chunk of trash, getting covered in diesel oil, for little to no benefit whatsoever. Diesel oil is nasty. So you use rubber gloves. Everything becomes a shade of fingerprinted black anyways. Everything you take off is black and everything it is set on it leaks on/turns black..
Meanwhile my truck begins to show signs of a blown head gasket. Which means i should technically be building an engine anyways. But, I lose my one roadworthy vehicle. Nice. All while dealing with crippling anxiety, limited space, the potential that the truck isn't worth fixing in the first place.
So I'm busy, to say at the least. Going to be a financially and temporally intensive couple months.
I get it, in the context that you said it. But if you happen to read this, sorry bro, this is about a truck.
Been absolutely choking on 4 engines in my basement lately. One smack in the middle of the garage where Moses has parted valleys of trash, where I can park and work on a vehicle. So I need to break the engines down into good parts and bad parts and hope I can get one together and get rid of unusable junk, sell the rest. The particular engines I'm tearing down are extremely prone to cracking, so you can easily see the issues but takes hours to get to that point. Especially to separate the aluminum from the cast to get better scrap price. And because using the cracked parts is asking for trouble. I still haven't finished one yet. Started 3 years ago.
So here's about the most unsexy thing in the entire world. Taking apart a chunk of trash, getting covered in diesel oil, for little to no benefit whatsoever. Diesel oil is nasty. So you use rubber gloves. Everything becomes a shade of fingerprinted black anyways. Everything you take off is black and everything it is set on it leaks on/turns black..
Meanwhile my truck begins to show signs of a blown head gasket. Which means i should technically be building an engine anyways. But, I lose my one roadworthy vehicle. Nice. All while dealing with crippling anxiety, limited space, the potential that the truck isn't worth fixing in the first place.
So I'm busy, to say at the least. Going to be a financially and temporally intensive couple months.
Thanks for the kind words and the vote of sexy. I'll have to loop my shirt bottom through the neck and like a little bikini top while I'm down there by myself lol
The engines, assembled, weigh 800 lbs and are hard to move, leak and most of them are no good anyway. The good parts can be sold or kept in an easier to access/move format. The broken worn or undesirable parts can just be scrapped.
V.
What did it happen to you on?
V.
Ah the olds diesel. What eventually killed it? I'm working on 6.5s, the grandchild of the Olds 350 diesel. They still suck lol.
Sounds like you had your fair share of disaster. I have many stories too, but before I can do much mechanical work stuff just rusts in half. There's actually a chance if the front frame horns are bad on my truck I'll just part it out.
The Olds was waiting on another head gasket change and we bought the caravan in the mean time. Hurricane Andrew polished it off and I gave it to a junk dealer. That engine was never good. I even installed the upgraded head bolts, and the torque on them was so huge I was barely able to get it with my old swing bar torque wrench. I think I also went through five injector fuel pumps on that one.
Cheers,
V.
So far out of 4 engines 3 are bad. One left to check. One had a bad internal coolant leak and there is not much grosser than whipped coolant and diesel oil for making a mess. It doesn't stain as bad but it clings to stuff instead of running to the bottom where it can be dumped/wiped normally.
V.
What kind of neurological issues do you have?