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They're normal. You can find them, or equivalents, anywhere that carries heavy duty truck parts. There are a few other part numbers to try in my spreadsheet.
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Thanks. I really just need an end cap.They're normal. You can find them, or equivalents, anywhere that carries heavy duty truck parts. There are a few other part numbers to try in my spreadsheet.
Yeah I already figured so. I am just trying to get through one problem at a time haha.I don't think you can get just an end cap, or at least I've never seen one separately. The u-joints are under $50/ea.
Man! If it weren't for bad luck you wouldn't have any luck at all, it seems from where I'm sitting, about to pull my HMMWV outta the garage for a spin with my dog as I've been promising for a week (headcold, work, haven't done much of anything else).Big day yesterday!
So ran into overtime on Friday but they got me out the door. We did go with a 8" SAE bolt that was kind of close and they managed to get the bolts out, although I think one of them is M10 now They loc-tited everything and I got on the road about 7. I thought for sure it was going to break down but with each passing hour my confidence grew until I was sure this was going to be fine.
I made into Richland but just past when I pulled over to check things out and the engine was making a lot of steam. I smelled coolant and noticed some dripping and thought - you know - this is a problem for the morning. So I grab a sleeping back and rack out. The next morning I tip the cab and water is dripping pretty quick from somewhere in the front of the engine. Great. I'm nowhere but Prosser is 10 miles on so I refill the coolant and get out there. Get into a NAPA, buy an armful more coolant, and then go over to the love's.
The service center guy and I take a look at it and it looks pretty squarely like the waterpump. Only problem is they have a policy against engine work and there was nobody in town who does cat stuff anyways. So I either had to continue on to Yakima (about 45 miles) or back about the same to Richland. The shops in Yak were all closed through Tuesday it seemed, but I figured if I had to tow, it wouldn't make a difference if I towed from the love's or from the side of the road.
So I figured lets go, and poured coolant through it all the way to Yakima. I was going through about 4-5 gallons every 20 miles, but it ran fine. I'd just go until the heater cut out, pull over and fill it again. So I get into Yak and it went well, relatively. I thought about leaving it there, but ... there's the walmart. So I bought 30 jugs of water and got back on the road. I figured if I could make the pass into Ellensburg it would forecast the pass. Got in fine to Eburg and just went for it. It held pretty steady at 5g per 20 and I got it over the pass.
North Bend (home turf!) TA is open, and the guys are chomping at the bit to fix the truck, but no pump in stock. They spent about 20 minutes trying to x-ref it from the handful of parts numbers I gave them but no dice. I was ultimately trying to get through to Bellingham and things had gone well since Yakima so I figured what's another 100 miles (other than 25 gallons of water). Things were going swimmingly until about I-405 and 165th when I heard a bang. Gauges are good but heat cut out ahead of schedule (I had been watching the ODO like a hawk to time the water stops).
Pull over and it's just streaming out. I fill it and make it maybe 4-5 miles and have to fill it again. Luckily at this point I was near my friends shop so I got it over there, and we parked it in his yard. Tip the cab and look around and my brand new fan, installed the day before by the mechanics, had thrown a blade into the radiator. Sigh.
The fan I bought NOS from a vendor known to the site, but I am not going to say who because I don't think they are in any way responsible. It came well shipped, factory packaging, etc. I want to raise the issue though that maybe these things have a shelf life, I don't know. My previous fan had also thrown a blade (was that way when I got the truck). So I don't know what the deal is here.
But the truck is safe, and I can work on it there. I'm going to the Seahawks game today and I am going to try to not think about it at all, and then I'll get to ordering parts on Monday I guess. The radiator I think we'll try to repair but we haven't seen the hole yet - they are all brass right? Looked that way at a glance anyways.
Just carry spares. Like an entire spare drivetrain/ECMs/radiator/tires. Isn't that what flatbeds are for?And you wanted to take this truck deep into Mexico??? I love my LMTV but the days of these being "ultra reliable" are long over.
No, I didn't, not in the state it was in (even before these problems). I feel like that thread got out of control. I also wouldn't have taken a trip without a sure way to recover it, either a commercial service or more likely going with a pack of vehicles, which is what I was always contemplating, even though nobody asked.And you wanted to take this truck deep into Mexico??? I love my LMTV but the days of these being "ultra reliable" are long over.