ClankBang
Internet Excogitator
Really....
Started off ok enough; just lacked up the family went to lunch and started our trip home from the beach.
Usually we head up 331 to Montgomery and 65 home but to day I decided to follow our Gps. I didn't even really pay attention to what roads were were on. The gas light came on just as we were getting out of defuniak springs and I thought Ill stop at the next station (I figured I had a good 25 miles before I was really empty). Well the next one was closed and before we made it to the next we ran plum out.
I found a bit of shade before the truck came to a stop and noted that there was a what looked to be a semi shop just up the road. I hopped out and asked my wife to hang tight, then walked up to the shop luckily it was open. Thanks to Paul who gave me a lift to the next station and let me use his can we were back on the road in about 20 minutes.
Then a 100 yards from our exit the alternator light come on. I think to myself, that's odd, and happen to glance at my scan guage; I notice the temp is at 202. As I come off our exit interview see it go from 202 to 204 then 208 and before I know it its 215, 220 up to 235 by the time I stop at the end of the ramp. I immediately turn for the gas station a half block away and pull into the first spot I see, by now my temp is screaming past 267.... (that's the last reading I saw) I shut the truck down and looked under the hood....... My fan, clutch, and pulley decided to separate from the engine!
So called AAA and got my sister in law to deliver the outback to us.
Really one of the luckiest unlucky days if my life.
First run out of gas in the middle of nowhere but right in front of a shop open on a Sunday. If
Then to have my fan come off at my exit instead of in the middle of nowhere.
Started off ok enough; just lacked up the family went to lunch and started our trip home from the beach.
Usually we head up 331 to Montgomery and 65 home but to day I decided to follow our Gps. I didn't even really pay attention to what roads were were on. The gas light came on just as we were getting out of defuniak springs and I thought Ill stop at the next station (I figured I had a good 25 miles before I was really empty). Well the next one was closed and before we made it to the next we ran plum out.
I found a bit of shade before the truck came to a stop and noted that there was a what looked to be a semi shop just up the road. I hopped out and asked my wife to hang tight, then walked up to the shop luckily it was open. Thanks to Paul who gave me a lift to the next station and let me use his can we were back on the road in about 20 minutes.
Then a 100 yards from our exit the alternator light come on. I think to myself, that's odd, and happen to glance at my scan guage; I notice the temp is at 202. As I come off our exit interview see it go from 202 to 204 then 208 and before I know it its 215, 220 up to 235 by the time I stop at the end of the ramp. I immediately turn for the gas station a half block away and pull into the first spot I see, by now my temp is screaming past 267.... (that's the last reading I saw) I shut the truck down and looked under the hood....... My fan, clutch, and pulley decided to separate from the engine!
So called AAA and got my sister in law to deliver the outback to us.
Really one of the luckiest unlucky days if my life.
First run out of gas in the middle of nowhere but right in front of a shop open on a Sunday. If
Then to have my fan come off at my exit instead of in the middle of nowhere.
