Feed Your Addiction: Tacomaholics "Anonymous" Support Group

I thought you knew that I don't have patience.

 

I'm waiting for another video. But I bet it'll be a while hopefully some footage I sent worked out this time @boogie3478

 

Hey Lass's and Lads,
Just wanted to say I am sorry for not being on here lately. Shit generally gets crazy around the homestead as summer hits with mowing, weed eating, pruning, and yard waste runs to the landfill, and then there is the pool (20' x 40' inground) and even though we contract out to have it opened and closed we still have to clean the decking, the tiki bar and all the crap we have out there like the chairs, not to mention all the bric-a-brac and chotzkies we set up to make the area more party friendly, etc. Needless to say, it's very time consuming. It typically only takes up a couple weekends and we are done. This year we were greeted with the need to have 4k gallons of water delivered ($300) to make opening the pool possible. This after all the water from the closing last year from rain and snow was being pumped off the cover into it. This Wednesday our pool contractor will be "diving" the pool at a rate of $525 an hour to search for the leak. My thought is the light niche conduit is the culprit. I hope. If not, it could be the main drain. The main drain fix might require draining the entire pool (34k gals).

I know I know, first world problems and all that. Boo hoo. Yes, I would like a little whine with that cheese.

But and this is why I have been so depressed about it. My wife invested a lot of a small inheritance on having the liner replaced about 5 years ago. A lot of money. The pool is her baby and when she is out there all her cares and worries disappear. She works as hard as I do and her job is more stressful than mine. The pool is literally her oasis. Growing up, her best friend has been my cousin. Since like the 3rd grade. She had planned on coming over to spend time with my wife with my aunt and nieces. Basically a all girls weekend. I was going to use those opportunities to go wheeling on long weekends.

Now I know it kinda sounds selfish of me to be bummed out because of that but here's the thing. We've known each other since forever, been together since 83' and married since 87'. Except for when I hunted before we moved in together in 83', we've never spent a night alone away from each other. Yes, we are adults, yes, we have a security system, and security cameras, everything is monitored and can be remotely accessed. But that doesn't change the fact that she will be there alone, and without her pool. I know she can handle it. She is stronger willed than I am, and has been on her own before we became a thing. But I don't care. We are soul mates and best friends. She has told to me to go and she will be fine but I know she is just saying that. She asks every night what's going on in here. "What are the boys up to?" she says.

So I have been racking my brain trying to come up with a resolution to try to save some money to get this problem fixed. Obviously the truck and any mods are out. I have to do my 30k mile maintenance soon but other than that no more toys for me for a while. We are planning a trip to Florida in October and are locked into that. I hope this pool doesn't eat into those funds and ruin it. Don't get me wrong. We were poor when we first got together so we know how to survive. It's just at this time of our lives we should be enjoying life more and not dealing with this kind of shit.

So we'll handle this like we do all that life throws at us and when I have the time I will be on here again, more often. I promise. Until then I appreciate all the thoughts and well wishes, but please, no pity and no sympathy. Life has been throwing lemons at us since the 80's and we are masters at making lemon drops. Lemonade is for kids.

 

Dang bro, you and I must be brothers from another mother. My wife and I have been together since '82, married since '85. We have an 18 x 36 inground pool that we just replaced the liner on last year. I totally understand the time, energy, and expense that goes along with having a pool/party backyard. It is and was always meant to be my wife's oasis too.
Our only difference is that I WISH my taco only had 30k on it
You're so right that this time in our lives should be spent on enjoying it more and maintaining it less. Kudos to both of you for still being soulmates too. Glad you have such a good attitude towards tackling your problems together.

btw, I've been opening and closing my own pool now for years. Opening is SO easy. Basically it's just pulling all the plugs, turn on the pump, clean, and chlorinate. Closing is a little more complicated but still not worth paying someone $400+ to do it. All it takes is a wet/dry vac, a small air compressor and one day.

 

Morning

 

Mornin Bill. It's uncanny, the similarities! Yea, I was doing ours for a couple of years (we've been here 17) but the damn solid cover became a beast to remove/replace, clean, & store. But trust me, I hate wasting money so it makes me insane to pay someone.

 

I know I know . Friggen rain.

 

We'll be here buddy!

 

Rough idle after disconnecting your battery? Easily fixed. Big thanks to @Jckdnls for providing the outro pic!

Watch the video HERE.

 

damn I need to catch up. I had your last video saved in my browser to remind me to watch it on the big screen .

 

Sounds like a marathon is in order.

 

Had a new carrier bearing installed and now I’m getting a thunk thunk thunk at take off Any ideas . Sound is coming from behind the cab . Crawled under there and things look normal

 

Pics?

 

No,not yet . It’s dark now . Bringing it back to the shop that did the CB install tomorrow morning. The only reason I had it done was because it looked really rusty . It’s definitely got to be something from when the shaft was torn down during the install.

 

Not happy about it ​

 

Looks like the flange on rear of-front shaft in front of CB is rubbing at take off . OME CB shim going in tomorrow. I had one from my Dakar package I bought .

 

My mechanic said the “wings” on Carrier bearing were the bolts go through could be a little different than the OEM that was in there so the CB sits a little higher . I purchased through Amazon.