What’s wrong with my P.O.S. truck now?
I have an old Chevy truck V8 that is driving me crazy. The dang thing is stalling out everytime I drive it. Every stop sign, every red light, in fast food drive throughs, everywhere. I chugged it to a local mechanic and he got to laughing and said I had a bad distributer cap, bad wires, missing vaccuum lines, choked-up carburator, oil leaks, water leaks, and who knows what else. I always carry a couple of gallons of water and a few quarts of oil (it really smokes a lot). The mechanic said he wouldn't bother to work on it and when I tried to leave (of course) it wouldn't start. He sprayed some ether in the carb and she fired right up so I bought some copper tubing and snaked it through the dash and into the carb so i can spray ether into it whenever it stalls. Some of the fumes caught fire when I lit a cigarette the other day so I need to get this FIXED! It does backfire sometimes and gas pours out of the carb for a second when I stop. Help before I blow myself up.
Also, if this helps the mileage on the title shows 186,000 but the odometer has been broken since i bought it. There is a lot more about this situation on my 360 blog. Should I just push it into the ocean and buy another truck?
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January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Man, you’re a scream. You know well and good what’s the problem. The Seat to Steering wheel link is dangerously defective. If you don’t recognize problems you can describe perfectly, you are full of more that one P.O.S.
January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
How can you afford the gas in that thing with it in such bad condition?
January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
try fuel filter
January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
a true redneck
rock on!
January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
That’s pretty good thinking, never heard anybody doing that. I would suggest having a tank of ether under the hood with an electric fuel pump on it that you could turn on using a switch, this would keep fumes out of the cab.
January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
wow…yeah buy another truck before it catches on fire cause from the sounds of it, it will!!!
January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Don’t use the ether any more, it helps on cold starts, maily with diesels, but your asking for trouble. The person who said to put a tank of ether and a pump under the hood has a good idea, but isn’t the first one. Some trucks, maily big rigs, have that, its called an ether start, it it injects a SMALL mist of ether into the intake when the button is pressed. Either way, you are asking for trouble with using that ether like that.
The mechanic is an idot, but played it safe because it was alot of trouble waiting had he taken the job. Replace the dist. cap, the wires and plugs, clean the carb, get you vaccume line back on there (that is what is probably killing your truck at stops), use a fuel syatem cleaner, replace the air fliter and fuel fliter, and get those oil leaks fixed, this should atleast improve your situation.
January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
There’s a loose nut behind the wheel.
As in ……there’s something wrong with you.
If you don’t like detailed answers, (that mechanic) then cease asking for the easy way out, because there is none.
You had your answer…..now, you don’t like it and want to live in denial?
Stay out of the drive-thru lane and learn to cook or someone might throw a lit match at you.
January 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Dear Chevy-
Now that is one heck of a truck!!! I think its safe to call that old dog "Redneck Rampage!"
No, really I like those old trucks, but I truely think is probably about time for either a major rebuild, (meaning the entire power train), or a drive to Arizona and let Dillion Precision have a weekend with their GE 7.62 Mini-Guns and put the old girl out of her misery.
I know several folks though, that hang on to those old trucks. They make great beater vehicles, for when you need to get into pretty ugly mountain territory.
So personally, I would probably get me a new truck as my daily driver, and have that old girl’s drive train rebuilt, and have her hanging around for the trips to the dump, and any other dirty chores that need attention!
Heck you might even give Mike Rowe a call from Dirty Jobs and see if he is willing to purchase that sucker from you, just so he has a great trademark for his program!
Good Luck!