Turt13
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- Joined
- May 18, 2020
- Posts
- 62
- Reaction score
- 58
- Location
- Wyoming
- First Name
- Travis
- Truck Year
- 1981
- Truck Model
- K20
- Engine Size
- 350
Figure since I'm on this site enough, and am currently working on my truck quite often, I'd introduce myself, and icky vikky.
I'm Travis, and Vikky is my beat up, neglected, charity-case chevy. She's a1981 3/4 k20, with a 70s bed. Her and I have been in this really strange relationship for a little over a year now. I say strange, because when I bought her, I was looking for a reliable, affordable(ish), 3/4-1 ton truck to pull my camper, over filled with tools and my whole life packed into it, halfway across state.And while she may have completed that task, and many others, she has not been to happy about really anything. Except when she finds a couple mud holes.
Anyways, with more then her towing capacity behind her, and plenty of weight on her back, she fought for 7-8hrs of driving. With an out of adjustment carb, water pump leak, brake line leak, oil leak(s), diff leak, bad exhaust leaks, swapped licensed plates, unlicensed and uninsured driver, and etc, we made it. Before we left, right after we got it home, she wouldn't start. So, I put new pluhs, wires, cap, battery, alternator, redid some wiring from the bat to alt, and alt to the truck.
Good to go, right?
Yeah, right. Man you shoulda seen some of the concerned peoples faces watching me pulled over pouring in gallons of water from the rest stop, wrapping coolant lines, covered in grease and grime, just trying to keep the bitch on the road.
See, that's why it's a strange relationship. I throw money at her like she's a stripper, and give her a better life then what she had. And she will oblige me like a stripper would with your *** of cash, and do what she HAD to, flaunt what she's got but just enough to keep you interested. And like a stripper with daddy issues, she masked a whole undercarriage of issues.
She wasn't supposed to be a daily, first off. After the move, she never left our little town of a But 100 people. Nearest gas station was 20 miles, so we used has cans. And used the nearby fields and trails next to the rivers as a personal mud holes and for all kinds of 4x4 hooning. Even my Beemer (rip) had a turn or twenty. But now through the luck of 2020, she is. Our only running daily. And that has caused a whole bunch of issues to surface, or caught attention.
So, with at most 4k miles put on ber(thats with wheel spin) and a list of **** done, she shouldn't be acting the way she does. She's had: plugs, wires, cap, alt, battery, valve adjustment, water pump, belts, heater core, choke hooked up, vacuum leak in the t400s line fixed, fuel filter, diff leak fixed, exhaust leak started to be fixed(which made it worse...-_-), tires and rims, New edelbrok carb (or so I was told when I got her), timming adj, makeshift cigarette foil fuses replaced, and a slew of other mis. Things I can't think of atm. And she's giving me more trouble now then she did when I first drove her home. Ill explain what's going on in a different thread. For now,
Hello from Wyo,
and thank you all that make this site possible. (Pics to come)
I'm Travis, and Vikky is my beat up, neglected, charity-case chevy. She's a1981 3/4 k20, with a 70s bed. Her and I have been in this really strange relationship for a little over a year now. I say strange, because when I bought her, I was looking for a reliable, affordable(ish), 3/4-1 ton truck to pull my camper, over filled with tools and my whole life packed into it, halfway across state.And while she may have completed that task, and many others, she has not been to happy about really anything. Except when she finds a couple mud holes.
Anyways, with more then her towing capacity behind her, and plenty of weight on her back, she fought for 7-8hrs of driving. With an out of adjustment carb, water pump leak, brake line leak, oil leak(s), diff leak, bad exhaust leaks, swapped licensed plates, unlicensed and uninsured driver, and etc, we made it. Before we left, right after we got it home, she wouldn't start. So, I put new pluhs, wires, cap, battery, alternator, redid some wiring from the bat to alt, and alt to the truck.
Good to go, right?
Yeah, right. Man you shoulda seen some of the concerned peoples faces watching me pulled over pouring in gallons of water from the rest stop, wrapping coolant lines, covered in grease and grime, just trying to keep the bitch on the road.
See, that's why it's a strange relationship. I throw money at her like she's a stripper, and give her a better life then what she had. And she will oblige me like a stripper would with your *** of cash, and do what she HAD to, flaunt what she's got but just enough to keep you interested. And like a stripper with daddy issues, she masked a whole undercarriage of issues.
She wasn't supposed to be a daily, first off. After the move, she never left our little town of a But 100 people. Nearest gas station was 20 miles, so we used has cans. And used the nearby fields and trails next to the rivers as a personal mud holes and for all kinds of 4x4 hooning. Even my Beemer (rip) had a turn or twenty. But now through the luck of 2020, she is. Our only running daily. And that has caused a whole bunch of issues to surface, or caught attention.
So, with at most 4k miles put on ber(thats with wheel spin) and a list of **** done, she shouldn't be acting the way she does. She's had: plugs, wires, cap, alt, battery, valve adjustment, water pump, belts, heater core, choke hooked up, vacuum leak in the t400s line fixed, fuel filter, diff leak fixed, exhaust leak started to be fixed(which made it worse...-_-), tires and rims, New edelbrok carb (or so I was told when I got her), timming adj, makeshift cigarette foil fuses replaced, and a slew of other mis. Things I can't think of atm. And she's giving me more trouble now then she did when I first drove her home. Ill explain what's going on in a different thread. For now,
Hello from Wyo,
and thank you all that make this site possible. (Pics to come)
