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

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Builds (2005-2015)' started by PennSilverTaco, Jul 15, 2014.

  1. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:12 PM
    wilcam47

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    Thats quite a feat of engineering. Looks like it would push the limit on weight with full crew and supplies
     
  2. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:39 PM
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    The museum, which I didn't have much time to explore because we got there kind of late; I cared more about the ship though...

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  3. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:40 PM
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  5. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:45 PM
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  6. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:47 PM
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  7. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:50 PM
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  8. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:52 PM
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  9. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:57 PM
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  10. Oct 2, 2022 at 6:58 PM
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  11. Oct 2, 2022 at 7:01 PM
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    Heading back to the car...

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    The only reason I'm posting these now is because I accidentally left my external hard drive at home and didn't have the opportunity to upload them while I was in Massachusetts. We were supposed to leave for Massachusetts on Sunday morning (September 18th, 2022), but my truck overheated in the parking lot of a Wawa in Hatfield (about 10 miles from my house; I am glad that I impulsively drove to Centralia after the van show.

    Why?

    Because if I hadn't gone to Centralia and just driven back home, the thermostat issue wouldn't have manifested itself so close to home. We were originally supposed to to leave for Massachusetts on Saturday (September 17th), but we moved that back to Sunday so my cousin could join us for a long weekend at the end of the trip. We were originally going to stay from the 17th through the 25th, but that was changed to the 18th through the 26th. My cousin ended up not being able to come because of work, and we drove back home to Pennsylvania on the 25th. My truck was finally ready on the 27th; I do not even want to think about what might have happened if we'd gone up to Massachusetts on Saturday as originally planned, or even if I just drove home from the van show instead of driving further North to Centralia.

    We stopped at a rest stop in Connecticut at another one in Massachusetts, the latter of which was an hour or two from the house we rented. The truck would have made it to Rockport for sure, but not wanting to drive it all the way back home, I probably would have brought it to a stealership in Massachusetts and paid a fortune to get it fixed. Also, I wouldn't have even bothered to have the brakes look at since it passed inspection less than a week before and aside from the pads needing to be replaced in roughly 5,000 miles, the brakes were fine. One of my calipers seized at some point between passing PA state inspection on September 12th, and sometime during the week I was in Massachusetts while my mechanic was test driving it following the thermostat replacement. Never again will I buy brake calipers from Rock Auto, even if they are red. Pete (my mechanic for those of you who do not know) talked me out of buying the caliper covers. So, I likely would have been driving home from Massachusetts on at least one seized caliper and a second one that wasn't far behind, even if my truck hadn't overheated.
     
  13. Oct 2, 2022 at 7:23 PM
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    Centralia is barely an hour from the Schuylkill County Fairgrounds where the van show is held, and this was the first time I'd been able to drive my truck up there since the damage from the scrapyard incident was repaired. I went up there with two friends on Memorial Day, but I left my truck at my friend Dave's house in Emmaus and the two of us went with my friend John in his Hyundai Santa Fe. I wanted some pictures of my once again undamaged truck in the famous ghost town, so I drove up there. Once again, these Centralia pictures were all taken on September 17th, 2022...

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  17. Oct 2, 2022 at 7:44 PM
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  20. Oct 2, 2022 at 7:48 PM
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