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So my Dad’s Buick has some issues... Service engine soon light came on and she was running rough intermittently, plugged the code reader in and FORTY codes! Naturally. Anyway, I’ve no idea where to begin. Car is a year 2000 Lesabre with the 3800 v6 engine. Not sure the best way to show you all...

Yeah she’s not going anywhere till that starter is fixed, I’ve read the nightmare stories haha. Safe to say this is not “an otherwise good engine” though, the leaks and blow by are unreal 😂 Boy oh boy I am running out of good vehicles to drive 🤣 The bearing is probably toasted anyway, but...

Ohh boy, good things come in threes or whatever the saying is 🤣 So I pulled my right front tire off to replace the starter cable that melted in half yesterday (that was problem #1) and I discovered my wheel was about to fall off.. axle nut is a bit loose, lots of slop in the hub assembly...

Hmm well, I fried my starter cable in half... Went to start her yesterday and she wasn’t having any of it, which I thought was strange as it wasn’t very cold out. Anyway, thought I heard some crackling sparking noises while cranking it, so I popped the hood to check and found smoke coming from...

This must be a result of the leaky oily diesel power plant eh? I like to refer to my oil leaks as “rust prevention”, makes me feel better about not fixing them. 😂

Wow. Cool! Excited to see some pics!

Looks like I missed out on all the fun lol

Yeah they’re really neat, I would love to find where that one ended up, my parents took it on their honeymoon and also went tree-planting in BC with it before Dad sold it.

Today I rediscovered some photos from a time before I even existed haha. Thought I would share a couple old pictures with you guys, pictures of my Dad’s 1978 Series III long wheel-base Land Rover, a few years before he sold it. Used to be a military communications truck. He sold it in the later...

With the number of runaway diesel stories/videos out there, from sled pull trucks to the school bus that picks your kids up every day, you would think a PAS system would be standard oem equipment on all diesels by now, I mean it’s not like a runaway diesel could ever be a safety issue and kill...

This may be thread-jacking, but what exactly protects the intercooler from road debris and such? Might be just the angle of the pics but it looks like it’s nearly the lowest point on the truck, appears as though a snowbank or piece of tire tread or even a rabbit could end it’s useful existence...

HE351CW (the earlier wastegated version) has that outlet as well

Why do they not have PAS Systems on these trucks? And pulling rigs too. You’d think they would with the amount of runaways you see on YouTube. It’s required on everything out here in oilfield country.

Ha, this is so true most of the time. 🤣 But although I am actually younger than most millennials I cannot stand all that extra crap. Give me something simple and reliable, that *I* can drive, not something that darn near drives itself. My 6.5 is actually the only vehicle I own with an automatic...

Haha that reminds me of a quote from Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist from way back, “You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won’t; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew...

Finished the wiring for the light bar last night, but it didn’t turn on... so I had to trace all my wiring back and check everything, turns out it was a bad crimp or something by the relay. Anyway, it’s good to be able to see at night again! Also, when I was cleaning up tools after that...

I got lucky and scored a K47 at a picknpull for like $20 or less two years ago, was very surprised to find it on that truck as the guys there said that truck had been sitting there for years.

Yesterday I planned to redo the wiring for my light bar on the roof (had it plugged in to run off my DS high beam plug temporarily) as it is that time of year again when most of my back-road commute happens in the dark. Well, one thing led to another and I ended up pulling the grille off and...

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Yeah thats the thing, it’s not bad “yet”, face recognition may not be that advanced here yet, but tech in general is advancing so rapidly it won’t be long. Also, that’s kinda why they make movies like that, it’s called “conditioning”