Something I’ve never done before.
Handed the keys to the Exploder to someone else, and said “Fix it”.
Well, mostly because the item to be “fixed” was exhaust(all three catalytic converters(- and they could fix it in a couple days, and for the cost of the parts.(plus, I got the good muffler and the OEM parts) So I get someone else to do the labor, and I still get the good parts. Not a spot of rust on the “old” stuff, by the way. I mean, surface rust, but not one thing rusted through.
Unfortunately it means I stay home tomorrow, but i could get some hunting in on Sunday.
At least it was something that could be fixed. Guess I can’t expect that cat to run for 300,000 miles. I expect to drive this for at least another 150,000 miles and at $1500 bucks, that’s about a penny a mile.
I had a slightly bad day today with my F150, rear wheel brake cylinder stuck on one side cooking the the trailing brake shoe. Made it to a Autozone parking lot, found two bricks for blocks and removed wheel and drum and the lining on trailing shoe fell off. What to do? No tools other than the small things I use to fix printers with, so I go into the store and find that they have all the parts I need and loan me a couple of tools. Replace wheel cylinder and shoes, get some customer leaving store to help bleed brakes and drive the thing home. Will have to finish the job tomorrow. I have never replaced the brake fluid(I know, DUMB) so I will replace the other side and bleed the whole system.I have been lucky with this truck, 289k on the clock and very little trouble. This the first time it put me down. Just lucky I caught the problem before it really went to hades.
Like you, I would have had to pay someone to do the exhaust work, way to old to do that on the floor without a lift.
It’s not the lift that lets me down, blind, it’s that the parts cost $1650, and they will do the job for $1540. Hard to convince myself to hurt myself and pay MORE.
I missed the part about “and they could fix it in a couple days, and for the cost of the parts”. That was a nobrainer. Did the converters break up or get blocked?
Got blocked. Damned near stalled the engine.
This stuff is exhausting…
It’s a fair distance from Gwendolyn’s exhaust manifold to her two-stage muffler, and along the way are no fewer than three catalytic converters. Somewhere on the far side of 90,000 miles, I had to replace the front tube, where the……