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Luckily it didn't trash the bed, left behind a few holes but I'll cut some patch panels off the other bed when the time comesCrazy set up.
I broke a starter bolt coming back from California. Of course the support bracket was long gone. My road side fix was to grab a 2x4 that had been cut with a taper on the end and hammer it up as hard as I could between the starter and the side of the block. It got us home to Oregon.Little bit of excitement today.
Truck started fine all day, got in it to go home at the end of my shift and noticed the starter sounded...weird...sort of a tinny sound?
Thought, eh, it's cold. Probably nothing major.
Got home and my judgement got the better of me, climbed under the truck and checked out the starter.
The all important starter brace? The one that keeps the starter from torquing right off the block and busting the ears off? Gone.
The fancy new ARP starter bolts I got from Quadstar Tuning? Loose.
My pants? ****.
Narrowly avoided disaster, I ordered a new bracket from QS, and went to tighten the bolts up hoping I wouldn't break anything in the next two days while I wait for the new brace.
I found the original one wedged on the arm for the diff, and all the hardware was stuck with it. Praise Jesus. A simple 20 minute job turned into an hour job because I wound up having to chase the threads on the bolt and the block, got it all cleaned up and reinstalled everything with a healthy coat of loctite. Going to keep an eye on it for a few days just to be safe.
So my other 6.5 people, check those starters every once in a while.
It took me a little bit to find that picture.I broke a starter bolt coming back from California. Of course the support bracket was long gone. My road side fix was to grab a 2x4 that had been cut with a taper on the end and hammer it up as hard as I could between the starter and the side of the block. It got us home to Oregon.
The things we come up with to get home.It took me a little bit to find that picture.
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Emergency roadside repairs during a road trip can become exercises in mechanical creativity.It took me a little bit to find that picture.
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Especially if "home" is some distance from where you're at.....The things we come up with to get home.
That was the same trip that we wrapped the PMD in a rag to keep it wet and dump ice on it to keep it cool. That started in Northern California on our way to Southern California. We got a new one in Sacramento that started failing 150 miles later.Especially if "home" is some distance from where you're at.....