Hopefully someone can give me some ideals what is not working on my A2. First some up front information, I really haven’t been on the boards at all for some time now.
I dropped dead last Oct. 20 at work and was really sick before that for probably 10 months. Thought my asthma was kicking my butt. That and working 12-hour shifts at night and not sleeping during the day for only 3 hrs, was why I was so tired, that being 63. I had no energy and not getting anything done but trying to sleep, just dead tired all the time.
Turned out I was throwing blood clots all that time, and on the 20th of Oct. I had a massive pulmonary embolism bilaterally; both pulmonary vessels were 100% occlude. I got dizzy and sat down and that was the last thing I remember. Lucky one of my RN friends walked by and found me dead. He threw me on the floor to start CPR and that apparently broke part of the left blood clot free and I just start to get enough blood to the brain. And I came back and they rushed me down the hall to ER. And the short of is they didn’t think I would make at the ER (I work at the East Campus of YRMC and they had to send me to the West Campus hospital for the intensive care ward for the TPE treatment). Spent a week there, didn’t even know I was dead till some the guys I with work with came by a day later and told I was dead.
That will mess with your mind, took a few weeks to work through that, more than once broke down thinking about being dead. Anyway, lost my job over it, still haven’t been released to work yet. I get dizzy and get headaches and almost pass out when I have to bend over or get on my hand knees to work on things. Nose bleeds all time, and another great thing now I am getting some form of sciatica of the right leg, it will go out and I don’t feel my leg at all and it collapses and down I go. Not so great when you are Warfarin and you hit your head when you go down. So the Docs are still running tests and trying this and that and no luck yet. Still I am feeling a 100% better than when I was throwing blood clots being and sick and tired all the time. Of course no job and the long-term disability payment sucks, try living on $880.00 a month. So been trying to get my strength back doing some real light kettle bell work outs, sort of slow going at it as I come up on 64. Got all my projects finally done I can afford to do now, all time I was sick I let stuff go. Doing some paint work on the truck, up-keep it needs and getting some reloading done.
As I mentioned I really haven’t been to the site other I was talking to a couple of the venders here about getting some rear LED tail lights from them, till something broke and had to spend the money I had saved on the repairs. Been hauling 600 gallons water for my fruit trees every week. I live in the high desert and my well only puts out about a gallon and half an hour. Thought the LEDS would be a safer bet going up the hills here so I didn’t get rear-ended while I am doing about 40 on the grades.
So the issue is, I go to start the truck and I have to giggle the shifter around or out of neutral to get the truck to start. It has always did this since I bought it every so often; lately it has been getting a lot worse. Went to get water at the Dewey water station last week, when I turn off the truck when I got there, as there was a line of picks-ups getting water. When it was my turn to move up nothing, when I hit the start lever. Had the battery switch on, tried starting lever and moving the shifter in neutral to moving in out of neutral. Nothing, again then while I am trying to figure what I am going to do as there was other truck’s behind me in line, the power came back on with the starting switch on. I fired her up and keep it running till I got it home. Got my trees watered yesterday, decided I need to get the truck on the pad so I could work on it. I left the transmission in neutral when I shut it off last week and didn’t touch it when I tried to start it today. Same thing again, turned battery switch on, turned the start lever on no power, pushed it to start and again no joy. Giggle everything this time probably spent 2 to 3 minutes trying to start it. So sitting with both levers on thinking I am going have to tear into it where it was parked, the power came back on and I got it started and moved to the shop pad. Again I put the tyranny in neutral while it was running and shut it off. Tried starting it again and it fired up. Shut it off and tried again, nothing. The batteries are brand new and I have a pulse tech on it. When I shut the battery switch off I can hear a sound like a solenoid turning off after turning the switch.
Tore the side panels of the selector housing for the tyranny off, thinking maybe the shifter wasn’t making contact. As you can see from the photos, I can’t see anything in there. In photos circled 2 and 3 I checked the wires and they are connected and not loose. Is there a solenoid elsewhere that may have gone out? Or is the shifter in the photos bad?
I don’t want to start tearing stuff apart before I know where to look. Does anyone have some suggestions where to look? I won’t drive the truck till this gets fixed and I would like get tit fixed fast if possible so I can haul water for my trees, somewhat hot here in AZ right now, it’s 100 degrees plus now. Thanks for any help you can give.
Greg
I dropped dead last Oct. 20 at work and was really sick before that for probably 10 months. Thought my asthma was kicking my butt. That and working 12-hour shifts at night and not sleeping during the day for only 3 hrs, was why I was so tired, that being 63. I had no energy and not getting anything done but trying to sleep, just dead tired all the time.
Turned out I was throwing blood clots all that time, and on the 20th of Oct. I had a massive pulmonary embolism bilaterally; both pulmonary vessels were 100% occlude. I got dizzy and sat down and that was the last thing I remember. Lucky one of my RN friends walked by and found me dead. He threw me on the floor to start CPR and that apparently broke part of the left blood clot free and I just start to get enough blood to the brain. And I came back and they rushed me down the hall to ER. And the short of is they didn’t think I would make at the ER (I work at the East Campus of YRMC and they had to send me to the West Campus hospital for the intensive care ward for the TPE treatment). Spent a week there, didn’t even know I was dead till some the guys I with work with came by a day later and told I was dead.
That will mess with your mind, took a few weeks to work through that, more than once broke down thinking about being dead. Anyway, lost my job over it, still haven’t been released to work yet. I get dizzy and get headaches and almost pass out when I have to bend over or get on my hand knees to work on things. Nose bleeds all time, and another great thing now I am getting some form of sciatica of the right leg, it will go out and I don’t feel my leg at all and it collapses and down I go. Not so great when you are Warfarin and you hit your head when you go down. So the Docs are still running tests and trying this and that and no luck yet. Still I am feeling a 100% better than when I was throwing blood clots being and sick and tired all the time. Of course no job and the long-term disability payment sucks, try living on $880.00 a month. So been trying to get my strength back doing some real light kettle bell work outs, sort of slow going at it as I come up on 64. Got all my projects finally done I can afford to do now, all time I was sick I let stuff go. Doing some paint work on the truck, up-keep it needs and getting some reloading done.
As I mentioned I really haven’t been to the site other I was talking to a couple of the venders here about getting some rear LED tail lights from them, till something broke and had to spend the money I had saved on the repairs. Been hauling 600 gallons water for my fruit trees every week. I live in the high desert and my well only puts out about a gallon and half an hour. Thought the LEDS would be a safer bet going up the hills here so I didn’t get rear-ended while I am doing about 40 on the grades.
So the issue is, I go to start the truck and I have to giggle the shifter around or out of neutral to get the truck to start. It has always did this since I bought it every so often; lately it has been getting a lot worse. Went to get water at the Dewey water station last week, when I turn off the truck when I got there, as there was a line of picks-ups getting water. When it was my turn to move up nothing, when I hit the start lever. Had the battery switch on, tried starting lever and moving the shifter in neutral to moving in out of neutral. Nothing, again then while I am trying to figure what I am going to do as there was other truck’s behind me in line, the power came back on with the starting switch on. I fired her up and keep it running till I got it home. Got my trees watered yesterday, decided I need to get the truck on the pad so I could work on it. I left the transmission in neutral when I shut it off last week and didn’t touch it when I tried to start it today. Same thing again, turned battery switch on, turned the start lever on no power, pushed it to start and again no joy. Giggle everything this time probably spent 2 to 3 minutes trying to start it. So sitting with both levers on thinking I am going have to tear into it where it was parked, the power came back on and I got it started and moved to the shop pad. Again I put the tyranny in neutral while it was running and shut it off. Tried starting it again and it fired up. Shut it off and tried again, nothing. The batteries are brand new and I have a pulse tech on it. When I shut the battery switch off I can hear a sound like a solenoid turning off after turning the switch.
Tore the side panels of the selector housing for the tyranny off, thinking maybe the shifter wasn’t making contact. As you can see from the photos, I can’t see anything in there. In photos circled 2 and 3 I checked the wires and they are connected and not loose. Is there a solenoid elsewhere that may have gone out? Or is the shifter in the photos bad?
I don’t want to start tearing stuff apart before I know where to look. Does anyone have some suggestions where to look? I won’t drive the truck till this gets fixed and I would like get tit fixed fast if possible so I can haul water for my trees, somewhat hot here in AZ right now, it’s 100 degrees plus now. Thanks for any help you can give.
Greg
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