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My truck is back!

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SlicksInRain

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The truck is back. I got a call yesterday around 4pm saying it was at an impound lot and the city actually towed it away because it was parked in a street cleaning area. I got there and had to deal with some B.S. for quite a few hours: I needed my insurance card, proof of ownership (which was still in the truck that I could not view) drivers license and a cop had to show up to take the truck off the hot sheet. The cop was pretty much a jerk to say the least, but he did the paperwork and got it out... while I was waiting outside his car in the rain for 30 minutes.

When I got to the truck I was very surprized. No body damage at all except for the drivers door because they popped the lock off to get in. The key wouldn't start it anymore and the battery was dead, but all was there except for my radio, CD changer and CD's. They even left my Marauder jacket in it. All the seats, wheels, tools... all still there. They didn't even bother to put the header plugs back on. So I had to call a tow truck to tow it out of the lot just to work on it in the parking lot because work cannot be done in the pound. The guy towed it out and jumped it... but we had to ask another guy how to start it because it wasn't just putting a screw driver in the ignition.

The guy put a screw driver by my turning siginal and fired it up, but he wouldn't tell me how he did it unless I have him ten bucks... so I did because I couldn't even turn it off. So now my new key is a flat head screw driver just like Al Bundy's.

When I got back to my area I gunned the engine a few times and some people walked by and said "Ooh you got your truck back!" it was my trucks way of saying "I'm back."
 
The chitty part is that, like around here, you get towed for being parked in a street cleaning area and then they never come by to clean the street after the truck is towed.

Glad you got her back though.
 
Glad to hear you got it back. Too bad your trucks not like the car Christine in the movie, it would have killed the theif.:haha:
 
:laugh:that is awesome! You're very lucky! :bow:Congrats and I'm sure you were excited, to say the least, when you got that phone call
 
Thanks everyone, nothing like listening to those open headers bounce the sound off the city's buildings. :D I missed that sound.
 
whats the screwdriver trick? lol i couldnt imagine not having my k5 around, definatley glad you two are happy again!
 
The screwdriver trick...

First of mine is a 1990 fuel injection so yours maybe different, but here's how they did mine:

You bust open all the plastic on the left side of the stearing colum right by the turning siginal. When you have that off you will see a steal square with linkage attached to it on both ends, towards the firewall and towards the stearing wheel. To start the truck take a screw driver (easiest to use) and move that square towards the wheel and it'll fire right up, to turn off move it back towards the firewall.

The ignition doesn't turn at all nor do I need it anymore, but I will have this fixed because it simply needs to be done so no one steals it from me again. I think I'm getting a kill switch too. ;)
 
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