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drifter379

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  1. I do not recommend blowing a steer tire on I-10 running nearly 80mph. It will get your heart pumping but it’s not a fun experience. the truck is a loaner while mine is having heart replacement surgery.
  2. I get that. But if I don’t want to do something I can tell them to fuck off. And I REALLY don’t like having to ask if I can go home.
  3. With the new ones you start preparing for an in frame around 500k and hope to get 600-700 out of it.
  4. I had 2 options. Do an in frame or swap motors. The swap was a little more expensive if you don’t figure in lost revenue due to down time. The long block alone was $30k. I’m going to be looking at around $50k out the door.
  5. That’s awesome that you’d even think to do that but it’s really not necessary and I wouldn’t feel comfortable accepting it. I’m lazy and forgetful but I promise to try and post more on here. 7FD139CD-BDBA-46F8-A5DB-AA82470C530F.mov Out with the old.
  6. That’s pretty similar to my reaponse
  7. Anyone in the market for some gently used oil pump bearings? Here’s the story. Had a low oil pressure warning so I shut it down. Was able to get an oil pressure sensor. (With these new motors it’s always a sensor and never actually mechanical) replaced the sensor and it didn’t fix the issue. So I changed the oil filter. It’s rare but filters have been known to collapse. Fired it up after the filter change and everything went back to normal. I drove the truck for another week without incident. Then it happened again. I was in Stephenville. My shop is in Liberty Hill. This might be where I fucked up. I was showing 20-22psi where normal operating range is 24-30psi. Instead of paying for the tow to the shop which would have been a couple of grand I decided to limp it in. The shop pulled the pan and found the bearings were fucked and that the crank was blued. NOT GOOD! here is my current situation 460,000 miles
  8. I am alive and still a slacker. But I did start an Instagram for ole Sparkle Cake if anyone is into that sort of thing. Apparently I’m too dumb to link it. @SPARKLE_CAKE_389
  9. Been getting some of that new Big XII money lately.
  10. the final result sucked but probably the best time I’ve ever had watching a game.
  11. Juice City Lounge in James Cistern on the island of Eleuthera is now officially a Longhorn Bar. Tell Santee and Rodna Russell sent ya.
  12. Does anyone remember the Baylor beer thief story?
  13. Apparently Tech is spending their new tv money. Thankfully they are sharing some of it with me.
  14. La Playa has always been a go to.
  15. On our way down today. I’m not happy about it. Meeting some of the wife’s family and I don’t like any of them. We usually go down in September or October. I’m already pissed about the crowds and I haven’t even left the house yet. We will be alone tonight. So I need a good recommendation for dinner. Probably the only good time I’ll have for the next couple of days. It’s been 3 years since we’ve been down. Where are the good places to eat now? We always enjoyed Shells but they are gone. Is the Venetian hot plate still there? Is Roosevelt still good?
  16. Are you Traces of Texas? I think I remember him being a shaggy/surly poster.
  17. Just a heads up. I’ve switched companies and am back to running mostly in Texas. I’ll be hauling precast concrete for the most part with some oil fuel thrown in for good measure. Last week I pulled 4 loads up to the new Samsung plant being built in Taylor that had me grossed over 100k lbs. so if you see ole Sparkle Cake in your mirror on 35 please kindly get the fuck out of the way. Lol We are also building the new basketball arena for Baylor but our part of that project will probably be done this week.
  18. My camera sits up high in the windshield. I never saw them until they were sideways in front of me.
  19. So this happened last night. I have no idea what caused them to spin. Best I can figure is that it was cell phone related. keep you head on a swivel out there.
  20. That’s the antenna for my internet. I called to have the service turned off and the motherfucker wanted to charge me for the dish. (We been customers for more than 10 years) I told him to come get the damn thing.
  21. First of all me and Ole Sparkle Cake are still out here kicking ass. I kind of quit social media for a little while and got out of the habit of checking in here. I took time off from Thanksgiving through New Years and just as I was ready to get back to work I got the ‘rona. That put me down for two more weeks. Finally got my shit together and hit the road on Jan 14th. I was laid up at the TA in Big Springs on Jan 22 and my phone rang at 2:30am. Any one that makes a living on the road or travels a lot knows that’s never good news on the other end. So I answered it and my wife says “Oliver (our dog) and I are fine but the house is on fire” So as you can imagine I went home to deal with that. So between dealing with insurance, saving what we could and getting my wife into a place to live I was off work again until the end of Feb. We live on 2.5 acres so we were able to get a good size 5th wheel set up next to the house to live in during the rebuild process. Once I got her settled in I hit the road hard. I’ve only been home twice since March.
  22. Hey y’all I’m alive. A lot of life shit going on. I’ll post an update tonight.
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