I'm mechanically inclined, but...

[Golddollar]

My dad had me doing oil changes on our cars when I was a kid, and I kept doing it after I grew up to save a few bucks. Trouble is I'm too darn fat to crawl under cars any more.

 

[Jessie]

I just bought a new truck and decided to keep my old one as a back up mulch hauler, etc.
It's a 94' Chevy 1500 which is worth far more to me than I would get for it.
No rust, 5 speed manual V6 Vortec engine.
It's been idle for a while, so the gas needs to go and belts and fluids changed.
I hope that's it...
I haven't scraped my knuckles in a while. I hope it's going to be fun!

 

[ErnieDeBord]

I'm 63 been a auto tech for many years, on the Jeep problem you have.......I would take a hard look at replacing the crank sensor before i would drop the fuel tank! Crank sensor is a VERY common prob on the jeep/chry products

 

[4barrel]

Once a pump in a FI vehicle goes out that is about the end of the road. I have hit the tank with a hammer to get them cranked. Pumps in foreign cars like Nissan-Toyota-and Honda seem to go a lot more miles before the pump gives up. That is what I see in my area anyway.

 

[Bill Raby]

I used to fix cars back when they were made out of gears and bolts and such. When I open the hood on the car I have now all that is in there is wires and electric things. Maybe the guy at the eye phone store can fix it.

 

[V1 Rotate]

Today I was helping my wife change the spark plugs in her Jeep.



This is the part that got my attention.
Bill S

 

[black1970]

There are no fuel filters to change on most of the new stuff. The fuel filter is attached to the electric fuel pump which is in the fuel tank. The fuel pump will fail before the filter will stop up in most cases. Same on my 2007 Tahoe. You cannot buy the filter without buying the whole fuel pump. Forget it.

 

[Muley Gil]

The only way I work on cars and trucks now days is when there is no immanent necessity to do it right away. The older I get the less I like doing repair work. BTW my first vehicle was a ford F100 with a 223 cu in 6 cylinder engine; you could climb in the between the inner fender and the engine!
Last weekend I changed an alternator pulley on our 03 VW Jetta TDI (diesel). It was so tight that I could barely get my hand in to loosen the pulley with the special tool. I hate it when there is so little room that you can see it and not touch it OR, you can touch it, but not see it at the same time!

I had a '63 F100 with that engine. I bought it for $375 back in '81. The compression was so low I had to scotch the wheels to keep it from rolling away on hilly ground. The steering box was so worn out it had a half turn of play in it. I was driving home from the PD one night and a deputy stopped me, just knowing he had caught a drunk behind the wheel. Nah, I just fighting the wheel to keep it between the ditches.

The funny thing is that a buddy and I went to get some fire wood. He had a '79 F100 with a 302 and automatic transmission. We loaded up his truck and mine with wood, but his wouldn't pull enough to get out off the woods. I had to get my daddy-in-law to pull him out with a tractor. My worn-out old Ford, with the three speed and dry rotted mudgrip tires, just chugged on out by itself.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Back in the day, when we were young and broke, (now old and broke) I bought a Volkswagen from our landlord for 90 bucks. He had started working on it and parked in it the pasture. It needed the rear axle hubs bolted up, or something bolted up, bad memory here, and brakes. A buddy of mine helped me get it running, but we never got the brakes right. We lived about 3 miles from my work, so I would drive it to work and back. It was kinda like Robert Ruark's Grandfather said, you needed both hands, both feet and a tail to drive a T-model, and I needed the same with the Volkswagen, except I was short one. Coming home from work one day, I didn't get it slowed down enough with the hand brake when I turned left off the highway to go home. I rolled it up on two wheels, bounced down in the ditch and back on the road. When I got it stopped in the yard, I started shaking. I sold it a week later.

Have a blessed day,

Leon