timothyr1014
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while 99% of the time I love my 86, the other 1% she quickly earns the nickname "stupid little b!#*%"...
Normally she gets a fuel filter with every oil change, but this last time the strap wrench was crushing the filter and I couldnt get it off...so it got to live another day. When I started it this morning and notice its idling about 100 rpm low, and it hesitated to pick up rpms when I would hit the gas....clearly acting like lack of fuel or air, no big deal, this will deal with it when I get home. Well I get home and the wife wants to go shopping....fine, we all jump in the truck and it is downright slugish, to the point that when I hit the end of the block I decided to tell the wife I need to go back home and change the filter- should take me 15 mins....and the 3 hour fuel filter change begins.
After removing the first 2 pieces of the fuel filter I accepted the fact that there was nothing wrong with running my largest flathead through the strap wrench and filter with a 4lb sledge....new filter removal tool.
And my wifes remark when I finsihed was "want to get rid of it yet" to which I (without thinking) asked if she was "f--ing stupid, I am keeping this thing forever because it so easy to fix". She apologized and stated she thought I would be upset that I had "cut up my hands and spent 3 hours doing such a simple task of changing a filter on the top of the motor"...she totally missed the point that the truck just didnt want to go shopping.
Normally she gets a fuel filter with every oil change, but this last time the strap wrench was crushing the filter and I couldnt get it off...so it got to live another day. When I started it this morning and notice its idling about 100 rpm low, and it hesitated to pick up rpms when I would hit the gas....clearly acting like lack of fuel or air, no big deal, this will deal with it when I get home. Well I get home and the wife wants to go shopping....fine, we all jump in the truck and it is downright slugish, to the point that when I hit the end of the block I decided to tell the wife I need to go back home and change the filter- should take me 15 mins....and the 3 hour fuel filter change begins.
After removing the first 2 pieces of the fuel filter I accepted the fact that there was nothing wrong with running my largest flathead through the strap wrench and filter with a 4lb sledge....new filter removal tool.
And my wifes remark when I finsihed was "want to get rid of it yet" to which I (without thinking) asked if she was "f--ing stupid, I am keeping this thing forever because it so easy to fix". She apologized and stated she thought I would be upset that I had "cut up my hands and spent 3 hours doing such a simple task of changing a filter on the top of the motor"...she totally missed the point that the truck just didnt want to go shopping.
but, every time I get frustrated with my truck, I get this song stuck in my head 
, wanna borrow them for your next filter removal???
