Well last night sure was interesting. I started off the afternoon by looking at the buggy shifter that was all bound up..well the exhaust roasted the artcarr cable. So onto Facebook and one of my local friends across town has a new shifter and I made it mine.
I get that project fixed but had to finally finish my exhaust to solve the issue. I had header wrap hear and a muffler. So I take off the y pipe, weld up the rest, make a mount add a hanger and she is nice and quiet again. Yay
Now it's time to put the speakers and panel backing buty biddy is there and talks me into a test drive, so we lock in the hubs and go down to the river wash near my house. All goes well, give a lady friend a fun ride and it climbs anything I want.
Well then we decide to leave. On the way out there is small ditch that has become a trench from rain run off, nothing crazy but it's is a big tire swallowing crack with a few feet of hill to climb past it..I'll be damned. The buggy is climbing up and out then starts running like hell and dies. I think it's my fuel system is at a crazy angle and decide to pull to flat ground to figure it out.
Well buddies truck was 2wd and no can do and the yanking was getting crazy.
Tried the winch off the buggy.. No solid anchor and his truck just moved around.
Next up is the big white turd..we go back to my place and grab it, no granted it was missing over drive and reverse was a fond memory at this point.. We get it there an the front wheels drop in and then the son of a bitch had no forward movement. So now I had the buggy and the truck stuck in the same damn ditch.
Plan 3 now.. The truck had been leaking trans fluid while on the trailer ..well we had plenty on the buggy and truck so we grab the funnel and toss in a couple quarts and she drives out of the ditch ..yay.
Back to the buggy..hook up a chain and the buggy just didn't move. The truck is now facing down hill again and yet again won't freaking move under its own power..so it's stuck in place with a chain on the buggy and under tension. Fawwwk.
We painfully add more fluid with that damn wrong funnel for the job..truck moves.. This time I am agitated and running out of options and I yank a bit harder on the buggy. Um to hard Id say. And the buggy goes flying sideways and half way end over end before landing into a fence post.
Back to the truck.. So I go down the hill now to turn the truck around to pull the buggy over..but the trucks trans ****s on me again and it won't move. Wtf. Very intermitiant this issue was.
So we now take his 2wd back and I drop the trailer and grab the duramax..at this point the last trucks I have left at the house are the blazer, bronco ii and the duramax..I'm running out of options.
Duramax pull the buggy over, pulls the truck up the hill then I hop in and the trans is happy again, wtf?
We then after a few minutes of trying to fire it decide to pull thuggy back but the full hydro is a real treat. Honking it was low on gas we pull it to the station right by us..no dice and the steering made it a nightmare to get it through the parking lot.
We drop it off at the house, back in the d max and we hook up to the white turd, tow It back and in the middle of my street it was now dead. About to grab the blazer and force it in the back yard it started moving its self again, and I toss it back there.
Back to the trailer..while grabbing the trailer the single center jack over extends and it's teathering dangerous, twenty minutes later it's back together and in the back yard too.
Now..it's 1:10am.. I had plans Ith a friend to go dancing at 8pm.. I make it the by 1:30 lol
All this rambling and hilarity said.. It's 4:30 i just got home and I am supposed to leave in three hours to go wheeling. I need to load up, tear the fuel system apart "pre filter seems clogged" .
Truck officially pissed me off tonight, has. Few check engine codes related to electrical, the torque converter lock up, and the shift solinoid b electrical...guessing the harness or a plug is fubar.
Yay I love this stuff..
