Monty
Group Buy Coordinator
This was not the way I planned the day.
Heading to my last planned show until the fall. Look at the dash and the red light says check gauges. I look them over and see my temp gauge shows I'm overheating. PANIC… well, not really, it's just you can never find a store with water when you need one in 288/59 area in Houston. For those of you that know Houston, this in the area off 59 north around the George R Brown Convention Center. Pulled to the service roads and found one. I was able to open the radiator cap with a very thick towel I had and add water. It cooled it down to about 220 so I put the cap back on and headed on to my show.
Got about a mile down the road and the light comes back on and I start losing power going up the interchange from 59 to I-10. Just make it to the top doing about 45 when the motor dies.
$%^&.
I make it off I-10 to a side street and call Jan to bring me some water. I'm thinking I can still make my show. She arrives shortly with 6 gallons of water. I put in 4 gallons and try to start the truck….battery is dead. Try jumping it and it won't start, acts like the distributor got wet but it's dry as can be. Only thing I can think of now is the timing chain slipped.
Well #$%&. There goes today's show.
While I had Jan go on to the show in her truck to tell them I wouldn't be able to make it, I called my daughter to see if her husband is home and can bring my tow chains to me home. When he got there, we jumped it again and got it started but it ran very rough, like the timing is slightly off. Finally made it home about 12:30.
Now before anyone asks, the truck is a 98 Dodge Ram with a 5.9l V-8 and about 204K miles. I've had it about 3 years and put about 3K of those on it. I don't know if the timing chain/belt has ever been replaced on it or not. Looks that this will be one of my first priorities after I retire next month.
Sorry for the long post but I had to rant.
Heading to my last planned show until the fall. Look at the dash and the red light says check gauges. I look them over and see my temp gauge shows I'm overheating. PANIC… well, not really, it's just you can never find a store with water when you need one in 288/59 area in Houston. For those of you that know Houston, this in the area off 59 north around the George R Brown Convention Center. Pulled to the service roads and found one. I was able to open the radiator cap with a very thick towel I had and add water. It cooled it down to about 220 so I put the cap back on and headed on to my show.
Got about a mile down the road and the light comes back on and I start losing power going up the interchange from 59 to I-10. Just make it to the top doing about 45 when the motor dies.
$%^&.
I make it off I-10 to a side street and call Jan to bring me some water. I'm thinking I can still make my show. She arrives shortly with 6 gallons of water. I put in 4 gallons and try to start the truck….battery is dead. Try jumping it and it won't start, acts like the distributor got wet but it's dry as can be. Only thing I can think of now is the timing chain slipped.
Well #$%&. There goes today's show.
While I had Jan go on to the show in her truck to tell them I wouldn't be able to make it, I called my daughter to see if her husband is home and can bring my tow chains to me home. When he got there, we jumped it again and got it started but it ran very rough, like the timing is slightly off. Finally made it home about 12:30.
Now before anyone asks, the truck is a 98 Dodge Ram with a 5.9l V-8 and about 204K miles. I've had it about 3 years and put about 3K of those on it. I don't know if the timing chain/belt has ever been replaced on it or not. Looks that this will be one of my first priorities after I retire next month.
Sorry for the long post but I had to rant.
