Crisis averted!

[squonk 43,731]

May is truck maintenance month with the big trip to PA in June. I knew I had a rear axle seal starting to leak on my 2013 GMC so I had it in the shop for the state inspection and got the seals done.

 

I have been seeing posts on FB of burned up belt idler and tension pulleys. Plastic pulleys all melted. I remember from my Napa days of Ford Taurus' being towed off the Thruway with blown idlers. I decided to check mine. The metal idler pulley was fine but the plastic tensioner pulley rattled like a cold Detroit Diesel. So I installed a new Napa Gates tensioner with a metal pulley and a new belt. Popped the seal out of the old pulley and lets just say the grease had left the building!

 

[Pullstart 66,612]

You got enough room in that half ton for all the crap you sold me?

[clueless 3,226]

You should of keep the Yota, but nooooo you had to have a GMC vehicle.

[squonk 43,731]

37 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

You got enough room in that half ton for all the crap you sold me?

Gonna have some stuff of Randy's as well. May have to utilize the glove box and center console! 

[squonk 43,731]

1 minute ago, clueless said:

You should of keep the Yota, but nooooo you had to have a GMC vehicle.

The Tojo would have had close to 300,000 miles by now if I kept it. Would have been time to change the air filter. But I doubt my back would have been able make the trip. Those rice burner seats were killers. GMC has a Barcalounger! 

[CCW 1,376]

58 minutes ago, squonk said:

The Tojo would have had close to 300,000 miles by now if I kept it. Would have been time to change the air filter. But I doubt my back would have been able make the trip. Those rice burner seats were killers. GMC has a Barcalounger! 

 

Yeah, we are getting a bit older and fussier about comfort.

[ebinmaine 72,422]

1 hour ago, squonk said:

Gonna have some stuff of Randy's as well. May have to utilize the glove box and center console! 

Got an engine for the BBT too!

 

Nice catch on that pulley Mike! 

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,362]

If you run out of space tie Randy to a front fender.

[squonk 43,731]

35 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Got an engine for the BBT too!

 

Nice catch on that pulley Mike! 

Have you decided who's picking up that engine for you?

[ebinmaine 72,422]

1 minute ago, squonk said:

Have you decided who's picking up that engine for you?

@wallfish has volunteered.  

 

If for any reason that doesn't pan out I believe @PWL216 would also be willing.  

 

 

 

[clueless 3,226]

4 hours ago, squonk said:

The Tojo would have had close to 300,000 miles by now if I kept it. Would have been time to change the air filter. But I doubt my back would have been able make the trip. Those rice burner seats were killers. GMC has a Barcalounger! 

Yep, like most of us, comfort over quality. Let us know how comfortable that Barcalounger is at 275,000 miles, if it makes it that far

[Beap52 1,393]

Good catch on the tensioner.  

 

The fellow who was responsible for engineering early 90's GM pickups rear differential brackets must have went fishing instead of attending class.  The U bolts pass through a cup that catches and holds road debris including dirt and salt resulting in the U bolts rusting and potentially breaking allowing the rear axle to be left behind.  I discovered this on a '94 Chevrolet pickup and the '92 GMC that I am currently driving needed the U bolts replaced.  I saw an early 90's pickup in a ditch with the rear axle kittywampus.  No doubt he wasn't aware of rusted U bolts.