battery (Page 4): Yeah. Boyfriend used to work on my 2002 Chevy Impala, now I take my Prius to the dealer for anything besides oil change and tire rotation.

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

Barnacles wrote:

You can't do very much to your car anymore without a fortune in sophisticated specialty equipment and tools. And even then, in order to change the air filter, you have to remove the left rear wheel, open the glove box and the trunk lid, disconnect the battery (there went all of your radio station presets) and drain the gas tank. Then after you change the air filter, you have do go through all those steps in reverse order, in exactly the same sequence.

At least, it seems that way!

Yeah. Boyfriend used to work on my 2002 Chevy Impala, now I take my Prius to the dealer for anything besides oil change and tire rotation.

harleypiker Loc: WA

Fish Dancer wrote:

I had an ‘01. 7.3. Best engine ever. 20 mpg pulling a full load over the grapevine. I miss that truck. 🥲

Oh you poor dears you should own my '63 International 3/4 Ton P/U. You can sit on the front fenders and put your feet down in the open space and change plugs, carb, etc. Carb comes off with 4 nuts and a throttle linkage clip. Just change out the fuel pump, water pump, regulator, alternator, by unbolting off the side of the engine. About $40 apiece several years ago. I hate mechanicing at age 76 also but I still do all that.

Barnacles Loc: Northern California

kandydisbar wrote:

Yeah. Boyfriend used to work on my 2002 Chevy Impala, now I take my Prius to the dealer for anything besides oil change and tire rotation.

Okay, but I'm gonna get skeptical if you ever take a Tesla in for an oil change!

DozerDave Loc: Port Orchard Wa.

harleypiker wrote:

Oh you poor dears you should own my '63 International 3/4 Ton P/U. You can sit on the front fenders and put your feet down in the open space and change plugs, carb, etc. Carb comes off with 4 nuts and a throttle linkage clip. Just change out the fuel pump, water pump, regulator, alternator, by unbolting off the side of the engine. About $40 apiece several years ago. I hate mechanicing at age 76 also but I still do all that.

Real trucks don’t have spark plugs...🐟on

Fish Dancer Loc: Guntersville, Alabama

harleypiker wrote:

Oh you poor dears you should own my '63 International 3/4 Ton P/U. You can sit on the front fenders and put your feet down in the open space and change plugs, carb, etc. Carb comes off with 4 nuts and a throttle linkage clip. Just change out the fuel pump, water pump, regulator, alternator, by unbolting off the side of the engine. About $40 apiece several years ago. I hate mechanicing at age 76 also but I still do all that.

I had an old corn binder in my younger days. I really liked that old truck.

Fish Dancer Loc: Guntersville, Alabama

Barnacles wrote:

Okay, but I'm gonna get skeptical if you ever take a Tesla in for an oil change!

😂🤣

Fish Dancer Loc: Guntersville, Alabama

DozerDave wrote:

Real trucks don’t have spark plugs...🐟on

True dat!

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

Barnacles wrote:

Okay, but I'm gonna get skeptical if you ever take a Tesla in for an oil change!

Ha ha

DozerDave Loc: Port Orchard Wa.

Fish Dancer wrote:

I had an old corn binder in my younger days. I really liked that old truck.

The 6.9 and 7.3’s are international motors. You can actually go to an international dealer and by parts for them...🐟on

GSMJr Loc: SoCal> Pflugerville (Austin), TX

wd4ity wrote:

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Engineers sometimes don't use common sense. We once were installing a machine but we couldn't put the last piece in due to a roof drain pipe being in the way. We called the engineers down and they said they didn't know the pipe was there. I asked "did it ever cross your mind to come down here and look at the site?".

We were installing a radar system on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
The HVAC guys installed their ducts right across where the radar wave guide was to go up to the rooftop antenna.
When they had to move their duct work, they wanted more money. The U. S. Navy told them that the measurements were all on the drawings, move the ducts now. Don’t screw with the U. S. Navy!

FourchonLa. Loc: Fourchon Louisiana, South Louisiana

GSMJr wrote:

We were installing a radar system on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
The HVAC guys installed their ducts right across where the radar wave guide was to go up to the rooftop antenna.
When they had to move their duct work, they wanted more money. The U. S. Navy told them that the measurements were all on the drawings, move the ducts now. Don’t screw with the U. S. Navy!

Or you’ll have to deal with BB. 😁😁😁