No fun
Coming home from work Fri, lost oil pressure evidently but the light never came on so I didn’t know until I heard engine noise and it started losing power. Gauge said no oil pressure and about that time it stalled and the truck’s sitting at the entrance to a neighbor’s field. Had 35 lbs when I left work.
Gonna retrieve it tomorrow now that work week is done. Never overheated and never heard a rod knock. All top end rattling so the engine might be savable. It’s not normal for an oil pump to go from 35 to 0 lbs. They usually get lower over time. I had a neighbor years ago with the same truck/engine and lost oil pressure suddenly with no knocking. Ended up being the center camshaft bearing had spun.
For now, I might just buy something else for Winter. The truck still needs a lot of front end work.
I hear your vehicle woes.
A few weeks ago, our son came for a visit. He mentioned that the car was driving poorly, but he had it serviced in April and they said he should be good to go for “quite a while”. He began to have problems on occasion right away, but he was working so much he just didn’t have free time to take it back in.
So anyway, he was here, but flew out a day later for a 9 day trip to Europe, a badly needed vacation that he had been saving up for.
On a hunch, we decided to take his car to our dealer and have them look at. Well, it turns out he had been driving without transmission fluid, and we don’t know how long. They couldn’t find a leak, so it was either a slow leak, OR the other mechanic never filled his fluid. It was BONE DRY.
At any rate, the car was safe again, so when he got back, he felt better about driving it again. He called the manager of the dealership where he had it serviced. We had been customers of theirs for over 20 years, probably longer. The manager said he couldn’t help him out with an explanation. So THAT formerly good relationship is now OVER.
Somebody screwed up and won’t fess up, but our mechanic here is aghast at the condition his car was in, and how he was treated. No one knows how long he was driving without TF, but it’s a concern. How much damage did that do to his car?
Moved my cloud online because the self hosted version was tying up a PC meant for another purpose. Need to update the links on my profile page but for now, here's the link to the Agriculture folder and everything in it-
https://cloud.farmwp.com/index.php/s/LJCZKQEbCMBtG2b
The link is also on my profile page above all the other links that need updating. To update links, I have to create a public share link for each folder within nextcloud which is a lot of clicking busy work. Will do tonight probably or early am tomorrow.
Not a necessity since it's all in Agriculture but it's handy to go directly to a subfolder with one click.
Nextcloud is a lot more than just a files server. It's also Groupware, work collaboration, messaging etc. The chat function isn't too dissimilar to posting here. Might set up a chat as a backup for when FR goes down.