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10-27-2009, 12:04 AM
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The weekend from hell....
Friday I decide i'm going to drive the H2 from NC to Tampa to visit my mother. I also decide that since I'm going down there, I'm going to tow a 6x12 enclosed trailer and pick up a Snap On toolbox in Palm Beach.
I picked up the trailer from a friend of mine Thursday night and on the way home the tranny overheated.
I've been running a tranny cooler with it's own fan mounted under the truck on the ladder bar cage but apparently that wasn't working.
So Friday I installed another tranny cooler behind the intercooler and this time I ran it through the stock radiator. (I hadn't before because of fear of the stock radiator breaking where the tranny cooler lines run)
Anyway, I install the new cooler and the truck won't run worth a damn. I spend the next few hours checking it out and found out that the Xdrive box for the 90mm throttle body had a poor connection.
At 7pm, I drive to Tampa. I can't run over 70 because it'll overheat the tranny. At 65-70, the tranny temps run in the 210 range.... anything more than that, the temps climb into the 230's.
Because I'm driving so slow, and it was getting late and I stopped a couple of times to close my eyes for a few minutes, I don't get to Tampa until 10am. 15 fukkin hours... I can make it to Tampa in the mini cooper in 7 hours.
I averaged 5.7 mpg. NOT GOOD at all.
I stay up all day and go to bed by 10pm. At 6:30am, I'm up and ready to drive the to Palm Beach.
I get about an hour away and the tranny line lets loose and dumps everything on the side of the road. As soon as I see the smoke, I immediately pull over and coast to a stop.
I call my mom and she brings me tools and tranny fluid. I fix the truck on the side of the road and get back on the road. About an hour later, I lost 3rd and 4th gear. I had to drive all the way to Palm Beach in 2nd gear at 60mph at 4K rpms.
I DROVE ALL NIGHT until 6:30am this morning. I averaged less than 6mpg, drove 2200 miles and spent a ton of money on gas.
So today, I've got another toolbox, I'm a thousand dollars poorer from gas and now I need another trans. I've had less than 10 hours sleep since Friday... what a crappy weekend.
Tomorrow is another day....
Mark
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10-27-2009, 12:33 AM
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Re: The weekend from hell....
Man that sux bad brother . I have the same story from Monroe La. back to Dallas tho not nearly as far as your journey. Thank God you can damn near fix anything.
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10-27-2009, 12:48 AM
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Re: The weekend from hell....
Sorry to hear about the weekend Orange, hope all gets fixed and works out well for ya, Ed
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10-27-2009, 01:35 AM
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Re: The weekend from hell....
hi Orange that sounds like it couldn't get much worse. I hope you find a money tree to recoupe some of your lost gas cash. One plus you got to see your Mom. Go get some sleep it will be better when you wake up.
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10-27-2009, 01:54 AM
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Re: The weekend from hell....
IF you need rebuilt 4L65 trannys call my guy 1-800-474-2415 Tell him Jimmy from First Class Limos sent ya. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...=p 2759.l1259 is his ebay store. You can get one with hardened and upgraded for less than $1,000 shipped.
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10-27-2009, 07:18 AM
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Re: The weekend from hell....
Fukk dude, I would have flipped and called a tow truck, you've got a lot more patience than I do that's for sure! ![Smile](images/smilies/smile.gif)
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10-27-2009, 09:51 AM
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Re: The weekend from hell....
I think I would of called at a tow truck........at 5.7mpg the money you paid at the pump for all the gas, could of went to a tow bill.
Listening to a engine 4,000rpms for that long of a time would drive me crazy.
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