See, quickpickup was right. You might also want to check the timing belt in the future. I can personally attest to the fact that quickpickups van had 650k on it when it was totaled out. But he did change the timing chain at 350k. These vans are workhorses. I bet that van I ditched in Utah in 09 probably had just a minor problem and could have been salvaged. But it's too late to go back and change what happened in the past. Good luck with your reborn van!
A Death In The Family
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Veteran Expediter
Glad to hear it Moot...my 05 is over 410,000 now and its good to know that it should continue on down the road...
And a big AMEN to you Brother Fastman. Thanks.
Hooray for the American Slop Bucket and the Cubist that runs the parts back and forth across the border.
Yeah the O-ring was part of the problem. When I saw the oil pressure drop I did the panic thing and thought the worst. Pending disaster gave me an acute sense of sound. I heard normal engine and exhaust noise but thought I heard ticking as in lifters, which may have had do to low oil pressure at idle, but I still thought catastrophic event was in the works.
I agree! Another hooray for the Great American Slop Bucket!
I was beginning to buy into your theory but then...well, Ban The Van.
RLENT
Veteran Expediter
With the art of diagnosis of the actual sources of problems rapidly being lost to the vast legions from "Let's-try-this-and-see-what-happens" school of parts changers, I'm glad to see you have a competent tech to save you from having your money wasted and pizzed away on unnecessary "repairs".
I'm glad to hear that the reports of the death were greatly exagerated. While my truck isn't dead, I will be dropping in the neighborhood of 3k on it next week thanks to our friends at the EPA. (Insert profanity laced, graphic rant here!)
Wow, I hadn't even thought of a wheel chock floral funeral arrangement. That would have been a new challenge. Oh well, but there's still your upcoming birthday.
Artists never cover the same ground twice - you need new projects to keep the creative juices flowing. If you could figure out how to do some ittybitty ones, I think a line of wheel chock Christmas tree ornaments would have legs. [And arms, heads, horns - whatever.]
The Moot Mobile shall now be known as Phoenix. Slop buckets cannot be killed!
You know you're witnessing a tad bit of bias when an oil cooler seal failure is somehow equated to slop bucket immortality.
It counterracts the Sprinter driven agenda