PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

My aunt and uncle had a red 1986 Plymouth Voyager exactly like this one from 1986 to 1997, and they only got rid of it because it got old...

 

Thanks for the tip. Mine is a 2004 and I never even thought about motor mounts or a tranny mount causing the slightly rough idle. It makes sense since it's 15 years old. I'll get under there and look at that stuff when I get a chance.

 

Just sit there for 8 hours...

 

Is it idling at OE spec or hunting at all?
Could be a vacuum line or even air leak thru the oil fill cap.

 

Yesterday, I cracked 108K miles on the short drive home from work...

 

I remember where I was and what I was doing when I hit 90K last year...

It was the wee hours of Thanksgiving (probably 2 in the morning), and I’d just worked like 12 hours straight at Puck for Thanksgiving Eve. I drove a drunk friend home on my way home, and I hit 90K shortly before or directly after I dropped him off. That would have been 2am on November 29th, 2018 that I hit 90K. I hit 108K at about 4:30-4:35pm on December 12th, 2019. I probably will not hit 109K before the end of the year, so that amounts to just under 18K for the year, which is way above average!

 

By comparison, I started off January 2018 with just under 79,500 miles on the odometer. I hit 91K miles sometime in December 2018, which means I put less than 12K miles on my truck that entire year...

That’s quite a difference!

 

I got my permit in August 2009 and we bought the Taco at the end September 2009. By the time we got the Taco inspected for the first time in October 2010, it only had a little over 7,500 miles on it. I did not get my license until May 2011 and was not allowed to drive the truck by myself as a result. My mom had the 2004 Honda Odyssey and my dad had the 2008 Acura TL, so they had their own cars and rarely drove the Taco.

By the time the truck got inspected in October 2013, Carfax shows an odometer reading of like 31K.

I hit 50K sometime in July 2015.

The truck had a little over 68K when my dad signed the title over to me in December 2016.

I had about 75K on the clock when I went to the 2017 Carlisle Truck Nationals.

I had 86K when I went to the 2018 Truck Nationals.

I had about 102K when I went to the 2019 Truck Nationals.

 

The biggest factors here are obviously Uber Eats and Door Dash. I did Uber Eats from December 2018 to July 2019, then I started doing DoorDash almost exclusively from July 2019 onward and may have done Uber Eats once or twice between then and the end of the summer.

 

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A couple of guys in the Pennsylvania thread had the gall to accuse me of
thinking I was above the law for fighting the red light ticket and getting annoyed at the LEOs for being unprofessional in January 2019.

 

People fight tickets all the time, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

That’s how it worked for me; $25 fine plus court fees that really ballooned it but no points! That’s all I was after. I admit I was wrong, but now I’ve got these two guys tag-teaming in the Pennsylvania thread and I just clicked ignore for them both. Now I feel better.

 

I support law enforcement, but aren’t I entitled to think that two cops are assholes out of hundreds of thousands of cops nationwide who are good?

 

Is that something you lose when you become a mod?

I’m not the reason you wish it worked, am I?

 

Because sometimes there might an emergency...

Your job is to put out dumpster fires and prevent them from spreading.

 

Right now I am at the home of my former boss and her fiancé popping gummy bears while I attempt to get their dogs to come outside and play...