Duck Pond Redneckery

[Hillbilly Canuck]

I regret getting into trucking in the first place but it got me out of the warehouses.

I was pretty much a limp noodle with no direction until then, making zero progress in life.

Looking forward to getting out of it at some point, but really can't think of anything I would want to spend education money on to replace it with.

Feeling like I need to have my mortgage paid off before I'm comfortable switching to anything else.

Amen.

Then some days they leave you alone and it's just gravy

 

[Electric Chicken]

Amen.

Then some days they leave you alone and it's just gravy View attachment 89575

You're just being elitist.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

You're just being elitist.

Nope. I just mean it's nice when one long easy one takes my entire day instead of the desk jockeys fucking me over and over again or God forbid going anywhere near Toronto.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Nope. I just mean it's nice when one long easy one takes my entire day instead of the desk jockeys fucking me over and over again or God forbid going anywhere near Toronto.

Elitist.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Elitist.

Ok then.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Ok then.

I'm just practicing for when I become a fleet owner.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

I'm just practicing for when I become a fleet owner.

And I'm the elitist?

I see what ya did there with the gaslighting and what not.

 

[GAnthony]

I regret getting into trucking in the first place but it got me out of the warehouses.

I was pretty much a limp noodle with no direction until then, making zero progress in life.

Looking forward to getting out of it at some point, but really can't think of anything I would want to spend education money on to replace it with.

Feeling like I need to have my mortgage paid off before I'm comfortable switching to anything else.

go to diesel school..you'll make more money, be home daily, maybe even have weekends off, and be paid quite well, with full benefits.

 

[Electric Chicken]

go to diesel school..you'll make more money, be home daily, maybe even have weekends off, and be paid quite well, with full benefits.

But then I'd have to get into gross slob trucks to move them into and out of the shop.

 

[GAnthony]

But then I'd have to get into gross slob trucks to move them into and out of the shop.

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they call that hazard pay, to go along with your hazmat endorsement.

 

[389 Hood]

I can't even begin to imagine what some of those trucks look like inside.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I can't even begin to imagine what some of those trucks look like inside.

Slip seating was gross enough. Some of these guys who live in it months on end are straight up foul.

 

[Duck]

So yesterday, near the Duck Pond, a 53 year old woman in a Honda Civic, with her 9 year old granddaughter blew a stop sign on a county road and got t-boned by a southbound F-150. Both the woman and the 9 year old died.

This is like the 3rd fatal crash at that intersection so far just this year. I've lost track of how many non-injury crashes.. I stopped & checked on someone there just a few weeks ago.



I should go there just to make sure they spell it correctly.

 

[Duck]

My Goldwing blew up yesterday.

My dad called from a park ten miles away where he was flying kites, needing me to bring him water and his arthritis medicine.

So I took the motorcycle. My friend Ron was here with his bike.

Halfway there, mine started running on 3 cylinders. At 55-60 mph, it would run on all 4 though.

Ron was following & he said it was making lots of smoke.


At the park, we helped him with his 180 foot long coral snake kite and then we were going to come back here and get Sarah and go ride somewhere.



Then mine wouldn't start. It wouldn't even crank. I quickly realized that at least one cylinder was hydro-locked.

Oil was overfull. I figured gas leaked in through a stuck carb float. I leaned the bike over with the dipstick out and poured about a quart onto some weeds.

I shifted it into 6th gear and pulled it backwards, and felt the engine turn over. Put it back in neutral and hit the starter and it cranked forward one turn & stopped.


No tools.

My dad is old and he needed his truck's tailgate to sit on, so I ended up taking Ron's badass Indian home (that thing hits 70 in 2nd gear) to get tools and I returned with the van.

I removed the left rear spark plug (it's a 4 cylinder boxer) and hit the starter and it fired right up.

Didn't blow any liquid out of the spark plug hole.

So I put the spark plug back in & it was still doing the 3 cylinders thing. I figured it's just a bad spark plug.

But it was running hot, just below the red, and I could smell antifreeze and it was blowing smoke continuously the whole way home while Ron followed in the van, except for when I was going fast and all 4 cylinders were firing.


I'm thinking blown head gasket.

 

[Electric Chicken]

My Goldwing blew up yesterday.

My dad called from a park ten miles away where he was flying kites, needing me to bring him water and his arthritis medicine.

So I took the motorcycle. My friend Ron was here with his bike.

Halfway there, mine started running on 3 cylinders. At 55-60 mph, it would run on all 4 though.

Ron was following & he said it was making lots of smoke.


At the park, we helped him with his 180 foot long coral snake kite and then we were going to come back here and get Sarah and go ride somewhere.

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Then mine wouldn't start. It wouldn't even crank. I quickly realized that at least one cylinder was hydro-locked.

Oil was overfull. I figured gas leaked in through a stuck carb float. I leaned the bike over with the dipstick out and poured about a quart onto some weeds.

I shifted it into 6th gear and pulled it backwards, and felt the engine turn over. Put it back in neutral and hit the starter and it cranked forward one turn & stopped.


No tools.

My dad is old and he needed his truck's tailgate to sit on, so I ended up taking Ron's badass Indian home (that thing hits 70 in 2nd gear) to get tools and I returned with the van.

I removed the left rear spark plug (it's a 4 cylinder boxer) and hit the starter and it fired right up.

Didn't blow any liquid out of the spark plug hole.

So I put the spark plug back in & it was still doing the 3 cylinders thing. I figured it's just a bad spark plug.

But it was running hot, just below the red, and I could smell antifreeze and it was blowing smoke continuously the whole way home while Ron followed in the van, except for when I was going fast and all 4 cylinders were firing.


I'm thinking blown head gasket.

Man that sucks.

 

[Duck]

Man that sucks.

I might fix myself.

It's blue book value is too low to justify paying a shop to do it.

And I can post 50 pictures of the process to annoy the @Ravioli Monster

 

[Electric Chicken]

I might fix myself.

It's blue book value is too low to justify paying a shop to do it.

And I can post 50 pictures of the process to annoy the @Ravioli Monster

'Bout damned time.

 

[Electric Chicken]

You should Livestream yourself doing the repair. Like leave the camera on 24/7 until it's finished. Even when you walk away from it and don't come back for like 6 days.

 

[GAnthony]

I might fix myself.

It's blue book value is too low to justify paying a shop to do it.

And I can post 50 pictures of the process to annoy the @Ravioli Monster

oh goody for all of us....

pages upon pages of useless data wasted on this site

we ALL look forward of the pictures (sic/sarcasm) of your arduous task of working on that scooter.

 

[Duck]

You should Livestream yourself doing the repair. Like leave the camera on 24/7 until it's finished. Even when you walk away from it and don't come back for like 6 days.

And force the @Ravioli Monster to watch every minute of it.