Taking the day off from firewood tomorrow...

[Whitespider]

...because the old '94 Ford F150 4x4 is in need of some work. Damn miserable repairs too. The left Radius Arm bracket rotted through and the right is near rotted out, isolators are shot on the right also... haft'a hold the steering wheel 25[sup]o[/sup] to the left in order to keep her headed straight. Not that that matters much, 'cause the left bracket is so rotted I've been afraid to drive her since July. Everything is rusted tight... probably will need the old fire-wrench to blow everything off.

Need to replace the Throttle Position Sensor also... darn thing when whack-o earlier this summer and caused the Idle Air Bypass to stay open. 3000 RPM idle just ain't right so I unplugged the idle motor and cranked up the base idle... but, of course, now she won't stay runnin' cold. I would have replaced the TPS at the time but Ford, in their infinite wisdom, mounted the thing on the bottom of the Throttle Body... I wonder how much they paid the idiot that designed that?

Left rear shock rusted through last spring and all the oil ran out of it... so I guess a new set of rear shocks also, but that shouldn't be too bad of a job.

And if'n I haven't completely lost my sanity after those repairs, the front fuel tank started leaking a year or so back. I've had the new tank just sittin' there waiting for me to get in the mood.

Every one of them are damn miserable repairs... but winter is a commin' and I might just need it to haul home the milk.

 

[Garmins dad]

:hmm3grin2orange: sounds like you know how to ruin a weekend :msp_sneaky:

 

[zogger]

What, you don't like working on steel so frozen solid that your fingers lose contact reality with your brain after two seconds? Err, make that rusy *and* frozen solid...

I don't miss working on equipment from the rusty cold belt...not a bit.

Good luck man! Motivation is half of it, the other half is running an extension cord and working with an infra red heat lamp aimed at whatever you are working on, so you and fingers can keep working together as a team. That's the onliest winter trick I got that I used to use a lot when I had to do repairs in the cold winter up north on rusty stuff. Down here, neither is that bad, not much rust on things when they never spread any salt, and so many nice days you really don't have to work on the nasty ones unless it is a dire emergency.

I skip dead hot heat of summer and like january/february, rest of the year is OK for working outside on stuff usually. Primo time is like right now, mid to late fall, then late spring/early summer. Goldilocks time, not too hot, not too cold.

 

[cheeves]

...because the old '94 Ford F150 4x4 is in need of some work. Damn miserable repairs too. The left Radius Arm bracket rotted through and the right is near rotted out, isolators are shot on the right also... haft'a hold the steering wheel 25[sup]o[/sup] to the left in order to keep her headed straight. Not that that matters much, 'cause the left bracket is so rotted I've been afraid to drive her since July. Everything is rusted tight... probably will need the old fire-wrench to blow everything off.

Need to replace the Throttle Position Sensor also... darn thing when whack-o earlier this summer and caused the Idle Air Bypass to stay open. 3000 RPM idle just ain't right so I unplugged the idle motor and cranked up the base idle... but, of course, now she won't stay runnin' cold. I would have replaced the TPS at the time but Ford, in their infinite wisdom, mounted the thing on the bottom of the Throttle Body... I wonder how much they paid the idiot that designed that?

Left rear shock rusted through last spring and all the oil ran out of it... so I guess a new set of rear shocks also, but that shouldn't be too bad of a job.

And if'n I haven't completely lost my sanity after those repairs, the front fuel tank started leaking a year or so back. I've had the new tank just sittin' there waiting for me to get in the mood.

Every one of them are damn miserable repairs... but winter is a commin' and I might just need it to haul home the milk.

Same here but not so bad by the sound of it. Wifes Tacoma has an emission problem. Parts are on back order. My '94 Chevy needs a brake line(front). Replaced the rear this time last year. Also muffler pipe and cv joint. It never ends! Good luck with yours!

 

[Circle B MN]

It is a hard thing to balance cutting and repairs. I do try my best to cut when the sun shines and repair when it rains, but some times it just piles all up in the wrong way. Best of luck, and better you than me.......Least they circled the problem...


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[stevejr33]

It is a hard thing to balance cutting and repairs. I do try my best to cut when the sun shines and repair when it rains, but some times it just piles all up in the wrong way. Best of luck, and better you than me.......Least they circled the problem...


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:looser: you got that right. have to pull mant on my truck to. good luck and keep your cool.

 

[Iska3]

Yep! Best to get it done this weekend.