09/19/2013
the past few weeks have been crazy and have made a good story.
it all starts about month ago when I was playing on kijiji and found a smoking deal on some 2.5 rocks hahaha. got ahold of the guy and it was real and he had lots of them, some for parts but lots still in crates and some rebuilt ones too. buddy and I went in together and were going to buy 6 axles total between the two of us. so with a hand full of cash and the deck over trailer behind the 79 I headed for Edmonton on Saturday after work (hit the road at 9pm). all was going well truck was running good and not bad on fuel till just before Jasper. about half hour before jasper the trans shifter was making a little gear noise but if I put my finger on it it would go away. after driving half hour the other side of jasper I could not take it anymore.
this was my fix for the shifter gear noise, was able to really hammer my gears after this fix
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was back on the road and looking good till the other side of Edson when every bump I hit the steering wheel would wander a little. didn't think much of it as buy this time it was 2am and I was beat and just wanted to get to Edmonton. the hwy is crazy straight around there so was just rolling along till a corner came up and I had no steering ***, made the corner but was a fight. had to fight the steering for a bit as couldn't pull over but finally found a safe stop. shut the truck off and do a once over and all looks good so pop the hood and take one look and thats when i really started to say the bad words. P/S pump had broken off from the block and was up agains the rad. bolts snapped in the block so new there was no fixing it there so cut the belt off and tied the pump to the inner fender and said F it keep going to Edmonton and fix it there. well cant be that easy now can it, start the truck and the starter says on. so pull the cables and stop the starter and back on the road with arm strong steering. make it into Stony Plains at about 4:30 am and partk at the Canadian tire and start working on the truck to see if i can fix the P/S pump braket to get power steering. was able to steel some bolt from here and there, used the AC bracket flipped and rotated and used the fuel filter brace and had the pump half ass on there.
here is the pump tied to the inner fender and the one bolt busted bolt, was able to get the one out but not the second one
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once i was back on the road after jumping the truck it was almost 9:30am. made it into Edmonton and picked up my buddy and we got back on the road as the Rocks were in Vermilion and thats another 200km out of Edm. got ahold of they guy so see if he had a welder i could use to burn the ghetto P/S set up i made melted together. he did not but his friend across town does so was going to his place first then get diffs. we were about 15km from Vermilion and ripping down the hwy as P/S was holding and truck was running good. then out of no were it sounded and felt like a tire blew out as it was loud and didnt feel good. pulled over and looked around the truck and everything looked fine. said *** and looked at buddy and said F it as were 10 mins from the guys place with the diffs so lets get going. jump the truck again go to pull back out on the hwy and cant shift the truck so just ram into gear as there i a turn of 100 feet ahead. pull over in a parkingn lot and still cant shift so shut it down and start looking to see whats going on. clutch is still working and can see it working as have no inspection cover, put hand on trans and its so hot i cant touch it for more then a second. at this point i call the guy and tell him im not going to make it and will have to hold off on the diffs as my trans **** the bed. adjusted the clutch linkage the best i could and was able to now half ass shift so turned around and started to limp back to Edm. was able to get up to 60km before trans sounded like it was going to blow up and shake the truck apart. lets just say it was a long ass drive back to Edm all 200km.
made it back to Edm and was limping threw traffic at 6pm on my way to Freedom Ford as buddy works there and was going to park truck and trailer there and figure out what to do and how to get home. about half way threw Edm we were talking a left turn and i lost P/S agian. Ghetto mount held up but the main bolt in the block busted agian so just kept going. meet up with his lady friend and got for some food as buy then its Sunday 7:30ish and i havent eaten or sleept. got some food and booze in me and finally called it a night at 10:30. (remember i was up at 6:30 on saturday for work)
monday morning rolled around and went to Freedom with buddy as he was early shift and i wanted to check the truck out. was luck as another friends folks were in Calgary and heading home on monday so they said they would come and pick me up on the way. while i was waiting for them i was looking around the lot and found a nice looking F150. after a little test drive and some number talking we started some paper work hahaha. just after i signed the paper for my new ride i get a call that my other ride is there to pick me up, oops forgot about them. once all the paper work and insurance crap was done i loaded up the new ride and started to head home but was almost 5pm buy then. had to leave the 79 and trailer sitting on the street behind Freedom but buddy said he would check it everyday for me. new truck hauled ass home (140km/h ish) made it home then had the joy of doing the out of prov crap to get my plates and insurance.
so not even a week later the F150 had a set of Timbrans and a Trailer brake controller installed and was on the way back to Edm to get the 79 and trailer. now this trip was just as much of a gong show as the weekend before. buddy Brad was comming with me this time and had a place for us to crash in Fort Sask just north of Edm. roll into Fort Sask at about 2am and turns out buddy is sound asleep and not answering the door or the phone so afer 10 mins we give up and get back in the truck and head for Edm. figured just grab a hotel for the few hours and get some sleep. Well its the long weekend and there are ZERO rooms in Edm so buy now its 4am and im just beat so parked behind the 79 on the street and grab some sleep in the truck. get up when the sun came up and got the day started. did some shopping and meet up with some friends and finally got the 79 loaded up on the trailer and was on the road buy 4:30
poor half ton loaded down
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was one hell of a pull comming home but truck did it, was not fast and was not good on fuel. with the truck backwards on the trailer if made it fun as took nothing for the trailer to start to sway so had to fight it all the way home.
once home the 79 got dropped off out at the farm to sit till spring time as just dont have the time or money to do anything with it right now. plus im not even sure if i want to fix the thing.
oh and just to make it even worse of a day while seing my truck being parked i had to go accros the feild and see this
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