Towman2277
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Well fella's, I had an interesting start to the morning....Don't try this at your local Pilot truck stop, please!!!
I pulled up to the pumps in the rear in the ole' 5-ton bridge truck, had to get me some diesel in a 5-gallon can to run a tractor. As I pumped the fuel, several trucks were fueling, each kinda staring over at the truck, and my pretty, young wife sitting up in the cab, brushing her hair. ( I didn't marry her for her cooking ablities!! Yuck!) As I was speaking to a few lookers getting close to take a peek at the truck, and it's cargo in the cab, I asked her to "fire it up"! She has done this thousands of times, and knows the drill. She climbed her fine self over to the drivers seat, and VAROOM!!! My truck was running. She yelled through the front window "It fired!!" I looked at the onlookers, and said "Of course, she runs like a dream!" Then I realized she was screaming something else!! "It's on FIRE!!!!!!" I dove up to the window, to see my gauge cluster blazing!! And I mean it was getting it!!!! I immediatly shut the truck off, and the smoke went away, and I saw no more blaze behind the dash. Now fellas, have you ever seen 12-15 Semi-rigs fire up and spin off of the fuel isle before !?? I have!! That lady in the building at the check-out heard the ruckus, heard the words "a truck is on fire!!", and she was a wailing on that outside PA system "Clear OUT!!! CLEAR OUT!!! The fuel isle will BLOW!!!!!" By this time, i'm sitting in the cab with my hot honey watching the show! Even the fire dept showed up within about 5 minutes. (They were at the waffle house, and heard the pilot was burning to the ground!) So, after all the "fire screamers" calmed down, and the fire dept left back to their cold food next door, I pulled the dash and dicovered that when I switched on my power, the temp gauge wire was obviously shorting, and was sending nasty black smoke upwards. I promptly cut the wire, ended the problem, and drove my beast back to the shop to finish my days work. Of course everyone in town is now talking of the "Pilot-Steve young affair" (thats what they are calling it) and i've had two thousand calls about me burning down the pilot!! Good day to you all!! Steve
I pulled up to the pumps in the rear in the ole' 5-ton bridge truck, had to get me some diesel in a 5-gallon can to run a tractor. As I pumped the fuel, several trucks were fueling, each kinda staring over at the truck, and my pretty, young wife sitting up in the cab, brushing her hair. ( I didn't marry her for her cooking ablities!! Yuck!) As I was speaking to a few lookers getting close to take a peek at the truck, and it's cargo in the cab, I asked her to "fire it up"! She has done this thousands of times, and knows the drill. She climbed her fine self over to the drivers seat, and VAROOM!!! My truck was running. She yelled through the front window "It fired!!" I looked at the onlookers, and said "Of course, she runs like a dream!" Then I realized she was screaming something else!! "It's on FIRE!!!!!!" I dove up to the window, to see my gauge cluster blazing!! And I mean it was getting it!!!! I immediatly shut the truck off, and the smoke went away, and I saw no more blaze behind the dash. Now fellas, have you ever seen 12-15 Semi-rigs fire up and spin off of the fuel isle before !?? I have!! That lady in the building at the check-out heard the ruckus, heard the words "a truck is on fire!!", and she was a wailing on that outside PA system "Clear OUT!!! CLEAR OUT!!! The fuel isle will BLOW!!!!!" By this time, i'm sitting in the cab with my hot honey watching the show! Even the fire dept showed up within about 5 minutes. (They were at the waffle house, and heard the pilot was burning to the ground!) So, after all the "fire screamers" calmed down, and the fire dept left back to their cold food next door, I pulled the dash and dicovered that when I switched on my power, the temp gauge wire was obviously shorting, and was sending nasty black smoke upwards. I promptly cut the wire, ended the problem, and drove my beast back to the shop to finish my days work. Of course everyone in town is now talking of the "Pilot-Steve young affair" (thats what they are calling it) and i've had two thousand calls about me burning down the pilot!! Good day to you all!! Steve
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