jfz80
Cruisin’
so to explain a little about the classified post and generally vent about the traveling saga of catastrophes that was my smunday heres a little story for your entertainment
background info is that ive been working in NY for 27 days straight on a pretty killer poolside bluestone patio project. We didnt recieve our coping till saturday at 1:00 pm and worked till 1:00am till the last piece was in. Got up sunday at 5, finished our cuts and caulking, packed our bags, got paid and got the hell outta there. Everyone was ready to get home but the adventure was only beginning.....
10:45 am sunday leave Gardiner NY
11:15 flat tire in the dumptruck
12:45 fixed up side of road for $268
3:45 finally leave NY! 3hrs for 24miles and cost 13.50 in tolls
-- made some good time incident free for a while --
9:45 BOOM dumptruck goes down 295 in richmond
12:45 Crowley bros towing shows up OMG
but $500 for a ride to rdu; SIGN ME UP
1:00 stop for diesel, ring up 200 and go out and cpu sys crashes, no fuel and no refund. Call the store owner to remedy. hour wait
2:00 leave vagina, va pissed off like never before, at least im awake
4:00 am rouse the gang o tinos to sing to their coyote so he doesnt fall asleep and kill them all. Pandora latino should do it, and did.
5:15 double blowout on the rollback, bout flipped it, I went around to the left, the guy behind me went around to the right. NOW im really awake. these guys are SOL and were 20 miles from home. Im out
5:45 19 hour trip from NY to RDU ugh took 10.5 on the way up
dropped the guys off to a flat tire at the shop and unloaded the truck to head back to the dump for all the $$$ stuff
6:45 back at dumptruck, guys have like a 5 hr wait on odd tire
7:45 arrive at my truck, shuffle tools and clothes adn DEAD BATTERY courtesy of my courtesy ring lamp
8:45 $111 new battery, oreilly's wouldnt warranty a second time but im off for greensboro finally!!!
10:30;10:45, 11:15 80 cuts off in mid stride, no warning just off
replaced the EFI main the first time and thought I had it. Each time just needed a pause it seemed. Fuel sock is clean this time.
1:00 finally home to my dog, a shower and some lunch at Pop's place
5:00 leave for the beer and pet store, head home 80 cuts off 3 more times
5:45 80 cuts off approaching a red light and no power assist or steering and no luck avoiding the explorer at the light. Guess ill have to quit calling it exploder cause this one was more like built ford tough. didnt look like my truck had just hit it and my ARB was into the DS tire hood and fender. impact was all outside frame rail though.
6:45 home with a sweet new ticket and mucked up 80
37 hrs without sleep and 31 on the road, managed a few beers and then managed to sleep till 3 the next day.
couple immediate thoughts were why is this thing cutting off?
It has run great here recently.
and why did I not have boost for the brakes? bad check valve?
thought it was supposed to retain pressure for just this scenario?
and a casual reminder/warning to all really. Your not stopping a built and perhaps stockish truck with manual brakes! I had no time for the Ebrake which in my case would be no help but will be working soon and the steering was so stiff and slow I didnt have the room to turn out of the way.
background info is that ive been working in NY for 27 days straight on a pretty killer poolside bluestone patio project. We didnt recieve our coping till saturday at 1:00 pm and worked till 1:00am till the last piece was in. Got up sunday at 5, finished our cuts and caulking, packed our bags, got paid and got the hell outta there. Everyone was ready to get home but the adventure was only beginning.....
10:45 am sunday leave Gardiner NY
11:15 flat tire in the dumptruck
12:45 fixed up side of road for $268
3:45 finally leave NY! 3hrs for 24miles and cost 13.50 in tolls
-- made some good time incident free for a while --
9:45 BOOM dumptruck goes down 295 in richmond
12:45 Crowley bros towing shows up OMG
but $500 for a ride to rdu; SIGN ME UP1:00 stop for diesel, ring up 200 and go out and cpu sys crashes, no fuel and no refund. Call the store owner to remedy. hour wait
2:00 leave vagina, va pissed off like never before, at least im awake
4:00 am rouse the gang o tinos to sing to their coyote so he doesnt fall asleep and kill them all. Pandora latino should do it, and did.
5:15 double blowout on the rollback, bout flipped it, I went around to the left, the guy behind me went around to the right. NOW im really awake. these guys are SOL and were 20 miles from home. Im out
5:45 19 hour trip from NY to RDU ugh took 10.5 on the way up
dropped the guys off to a flat tire at the shop and unloaded the truck to head back to the dump for all the $$$ stuff
6:45 back at dumptruck, guys have like a 5 hr wait on odd tire
7:45 arrive at my truck, shuffle tools and clothes adn DEAD BATTERY courtesy of my courtesy ring lamp
8:45 $111 new battery, oreilly's wouldnt warranty a second time but im off for greensboro finally!!!
10:30;10:45, 11:15 80 cuts off in mid stride, no warning just off
replaced the EFI main the first time and thought I had it. Each time just needed a pause it seemed. Fuel sock is clean this time.
1:00 finally home to my dog, a shower and some lunch at Pop's place
5:00 leave for the beer and pet store, head home 80 cuts off 3 more times
5:45 80 cuts off approaching a red light and no power assist or steering and no luck avoiding the explorer at the light. Guess ill have to quit calling it exploder cause this one was more like built ford tough. didnt look like my truck had just hit it and my ARB was into the DS tire hood and fender. impact was all outside frame rail though.
6:45 home with a sweet new ticket and mucked up 80
37 hrs without sleep and 31 on the road, managed a few beers and then managed to sleep till 3 the next day.
couple immediate thoughts were why is this thing cutting off?
It has run great here recently.
and why did I not have boost for the brakes? bad check valve?
thought it was supposed to retain pressure for just this scenario?
and a casual reminder/warning to all really. Your not stopping a built and perhaps stockish truck with manual brakes! I had no time for the Ebrake which in my case would be no help but will be working soon and the steering was so stiff and slow I didnt have the room to turn out of the way.
That's an epic story man! I want to hear the long version over some beers in the near future
