My wife and I took the old truck to HD this morniing to pick up some plants for the garden.
On the way back I stopped for gas and then couldn't get her to turn over. Dead battery again.
I called my son who, when he stopped laughing, came up to give us a jump. It was a little tricky with the 12 volt jump but everything seems to be ok now.
There were 2 things that puzzled me
1 The directionals stopped working but then started again later with no intervention from me.
2 When I pushed her away from the pumps I could hardly get her to move. A guy came and helpd me but even with the slight decline we could only move her just enough to get out of the way.
When I got home I cleaned the battery terminal which was all oxidized and made a felt washer coated with petroleum jelly and covered the terminal with the same after installing the cable. I have started and re started several times with no trouble.
I had to re adjust the brakes because they were so tight I could barely move the wheels when I jacked her up. The brake pedal was hard as a rock.
I have never heard of brakes getting tighter after a first ride only looser. There are no self adjusters on these brakes. Anyone have this issue ever??
Oh and my new passenger side window has a crack from front to back that looks like a graph of the economic down turn. I chipped it when I installed it. Didn't take long to come back and bite me. :mad:
