November 01, 2008

The truck lives again!!For those of you who don't know, Joe has been rebuilding a small, diesel pickup (a 1985 Isuzu P'up) for over a year now. This truck is supposed to be Joe's dream truck as well as providing us with a second vehicle, one that can even run on biodiesel or veggie oil. The project has been a huge one, and Joe had gotten bogged down and unenthusiastic about it a while ago. In order to inject some new life into the project, I have been participating in the rebuilding for the past couple of months. (The truck is currently at a friend's place, a scattered genius affectionately known as CarMan, who surprisingly enough has a wireless internet signal somewhere close.) The engine has been reassembled and painted so it is looking almost brand new. However....there were all these wires running around loose and unattached. I know absolutely nothing about cars, but we just started matching things up based on wire color and proximity. There are still a few random wires without a home, but we were pretty sure the main ones were all hooked up, except that we still weren't getting anything when we turned the ignition key. So, with CarMan's help, we traced every wire from the battery to the starter, disconnected and cleaned every connection, resoldered some broken connections, and finally....it worked!!!! Well, we still have to get some fuel and engine oil and try it for real, but at least it is looking like we haven't been wasting our time and money over the last year or so. The guys are on a mission right now to get fuel. This may be a premature posting of jubilance, but I just couldn't help it. :)

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