K2500 Maintenance Reactions

[Bob_VT]

Had the first noreaster here and the K2500 and 9' plow worked great.....

I obviously did not heare the screams of the gear reduction starter but it passed away It had a good life but it's gone......

Okay here is the truck parked in the yard and it is a nice 14 degrees out. The starter is 2 simple bolts and 2 wires......

Bolts no problem. The main like from the battery broke off the copper tab... the smaller wire broke off the connector too.

Get it all apart and bench test the starter.... yuo dead.

Trip to Napa pick up starter, new positive cable and junction connector. Napa did not have the starter so had to go cross town and pick one up at the other Napa store.

Start the assembly and the junction connector is the wrong size for the wire.....Hey look at that exhaust clamp? It is rotted away.... Napa trip again.

Assembled and test All bots tight...... working now I go into a tie down mode for the wires and find a huge spot of corrosion in a wire to the "one wire" alternator. Wow what a pretty christmas green color the wire was. Chop oout the corrosion and head to Napa for a weather proof butt connector.

Everything is together, tied down, checked and covered all the exposed connections with LPS.

Hopefully I will be good for the season. Typical multi trip repair

 

[Bondo]

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Okay here is the truck parked in the yard and it is a nice 14 degrees out.

Ayuh,...

Shoulda waited a Day,...

It's danm near 40? here now...

Yesterday, I thought about plowing the yard,...
Today I'm just watching it Melt....

Man,... Wierd, Early winter this year,... Global Warming I guess.....

Btw,..
How'd you fair with the Big Ice storm,..??
This warm up is Just the ticket for those poor ba$*ards...
I've survived a few,.. The 1 where it warmed up a day or so later was Much more livable....

 

[Bob_VT]

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This place is a mess. We got 1 1/2" of ice followed by 4" of snow followed by 1" ice then capped off with 2" of snow. Absolutly everything was frozen shut and getting into the vehicles was no joy. I plowed down to the lowest ice layer and now it is managable.

There are towns 10 minutes away that got 15" of all snow and power is still iffy in parts of the state.

Of course with my location in the valley with a northern exposure we got the drifts too.

Right now it is 31 (the highest it has been all day) with anticipated warming (with flooding) to follow on Mon-Tues

 

[ThumbPkr]

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I did the timing chain on my '83 Dodge 4x4 the day of the Daytona 500.Can't remember which year though but there was a full moon so you know that it was cold and windy.I will probably never have a garage but I sure have had the need for one from time to time)Ron G

 

[Bob_VT]

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Oh never fails ...... there is always a winter repair very close to the coldest days of the season. Did a water pump one year at -10 and ohh wasn't that fun! Yup no garage.

 

[Shizzy]

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I had a thermostat job on a Honda go horribly wrong like that. $8 repair Turned in to a 3 day job with special order Dealer parts....

 

[puddle jumper]

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I did a clutch job on my 4speed K car on Xmas day just so i could go to work on the day after boxing day. I did it out in my car port and it was about -25. I will never do that again.