10,000 mile check up

i have to drive about 100 miles round trip to dealer,, 15 bucks in gas,,,,,, 3 or 4 hours of my time, plus extra miles on my truck, so how are they free ??????????

 

This would have been sufficient justification to me...

 

not free for you. The dealer I bought from is right off the IH on the way home from work. I used for the free changes because they are convenient. I would never say that going to a dealer or any where else for an oil change saves time.

 

The snippet from the FSM provided by JimmyH mentions a screwdriver - nothing else. A dealership with no screwdrivers. No wonder they can't fix cars.

 

You can check the brake shoes without removing the wheel, or the drum. Just so you know, there is a port in the backing plate just for checking the brakes.

 

I looked under it and didn't see anything other than the port the get to the adjuster

 

Without looking I think it is in the front at 90 degrees.

 

See if this helps.

 

I'll check it out tomorrow. Thanks

 

Just pull the drums once a year, verify good, a dab of antisieze and you should be fine

 

I think they were referring to some type of alignment tool. Of course, the guys who actually did the adjustment just parked it up against the wall and adjusted it that way. Hell, you don't even need a screwdriver. You can do it by hand.

 

Not to defend the dealership, there is a tool that mounts to the headlight with a suction cup. Each of the legs goes to the nubs on the headlight. The letters/numbers next to each nubs tells the setting of the length of the legs on the tool. There is then a horizontal and vertical bubble to set the correct aim of the headlight. The only one I have ever seen was in auto tech school. I have always used the wall method.