Steve O.
04-01-2005, 18:50
If you said "Steve's truck" you win.
Started making a death rattle noise from under the hood while driving on the highway this afternoon. got off the highway immediately. The noise picked up speed in relation to throttle position. It did read good oil pressure though.
It seemed to get louder very quickly, in only the half mile or so before I parked it. Little or no sound at idle, but it was smoking a bit from the tailpipe.
This is a replacement re-man unit from a well known vendor. The original motor only had 120K on it but I know it had a hard life towing a huge horse trailer and was owned by someone who may have ridden the truck hard and put it away wet, if you know what I mean. The first engine I bought last year lasted only two days and less than a couple hundred miles before it grenaded itself. They later told me they apparently installed a bad crank in it. "No kidding" I said. Still waiting for them to reimburse me for the price of the second install.
I baby this truck, and have only towed twice on this engine, both times last spring. Brand new tranny last year and tons of upgrades. Just changed the oil the other day too and put in the Hochkis sway bars. But I'm about at the end of my rope with the truck.
Of course, the motor let go five minutes after I got a call telling me that my young wife, who has Stage 4 breast cancer, has to go back into the hospital for short-notice surgery on Tuesday. At this rate, I expect the next call I get to be my accountant to tell me I'm about to get audited by the IRS or something like that.
We'll see what the mechanic has to say, but I have a feeling I'm about to be looking at engine number four.
Steve
Started making a death rattle noise from under the hood while driving on the highway this afternoon. got off the highway immediately. The noise picked up speed in relation to throttle position. It did read good oil pressure though.
It seemed to get louder very quickly, in only the half mile or so before I parked it. Little or no sound at idle, but it was smoking a bit from the tailpipe.
This is a replacement re-man unit from a well known vendor. The original motor only had 120K on it but I know it had a hard life towing a huge horse trailer and was owned by someone who may have ridden the truck hard and put it away wet, if you know what I mean. The first engine I bought last year lasted only two days and less than a couple hundred miles before it grenaded itself. They later told me they apparently installed a bad crank in it. "No kidding" I said. Still waiting for them to reimburse me for the price of the second install.
I baby this truck, and have only towed twice on this engine, both times last spring. Brand new tranny last year and tons of upgrades. Just changed the oil the other day too and put in the Hochkis sway bars. But I'm about at the end of my rope with the truck.
Of course, the motor let go five minutes after I got a call telling me that my young wife, who has Stage 4 breast cancer, has to go back into the hospital for short-notice surgery on Tuesday. At this rate, I expect the next call I get to be my accountant to tell me I'm about to get audited by the IRS or something like that.
We'll see what the mechanic has to say, but I have a feeling I'm about to be looking at engine number four.
Steve