[Texascavers] For your amusement
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[Texascavers] For your amusement
>From David Locklear Please hit delete button now My beloved 2008 Toyota Sequoia left me stranded tonight for the 3rd time. https://photos.app.goo.gl/rFmpUvGUNu23fS2X9 I left work after only 3 hours today, as my plan was to do nothing but relax, as it was my 55th birthday. I decided to go to LOWE's right before they closed and buy an LED headlamp that I had been waiting for weeks to try. They didn"t have it. A customer had ordered a 16 foot ladder online and apparently brought it back. I haggled with the manager and got it half-price. He told me, it would be regular price in the morning. I would not have bought it had it not been birthday. I loaded it in the SUV, and was all alone in the parking lot and apparently the starter gear broke. If you can view the photo, you can see four feet of ladder sticking out the back. This is a podium-ladder, meaning it has a platform at 10 feet off the ground, to safely stand on. Hopefully, the TSC will get this someday and will find a use for it in the barn, or auction it off. I am hoping to use it in my storage unit in Brenham, however, I have already nearly broken it twice. I have no idea how I will get it there now. GEICO came through with a good tow. But now, the Sequoia is parked at my apartments and I have no idea what I am going to do tomorrow. It was a wise choice for me not to drive the Sequoia to the NSS Convention. That would have been devastating, embarrassing, humiliating and a lot less fun than hitch-hiking. You just can not go anywhere anymore without tow-insurance. I will likely have to greet a million Walmart customers - just to pay for my June mistakes. D.L. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] For your amusement
>From David Locklear My beloved Sequoia left me stranded for the second time this week, but this time in the scorching sun, while wearing my fancy work clothes. I have the Sequoia back in the shop now. I assume its just a battery. In my younger days, I would have just gone to the store and put in a new battery, but in the modern cars, it requires additional labor and head-scratching, etc. But they let me use a loaner-car. Being late to work, I had no choice but to pay them an arm and a leg to replace a battery. The Sequoia is hereby renamed, "The Drama-Machine. " It would have never made it to Cookeville, Tennessee and back without devestating me. D L. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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The Sequoia ( Lemon) seems to be lots of good money after bad. Trade it in on a brand new Yugo or Lada or maybe a Fiat? My 1983 Ford Bronco has over 700,000 miles and has never failed. The drive shaft fell off in Mexico once but I just wired it back and went on in two wheel. On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 12:34 AM David wrote: > From David Locklear > Please hit delete button now > > > My beloved 2008 Toyota Sequoia left me stranded tonight for the 3rd time. > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/rFmpUvGUNu23fS2X9 > > I left work after only 3 hours today, as my plan was to do nothing but > relax, as it was my 55th birthday. > > I decided to go to LOWE's right before they closed and buy an LED headlamp > that I had been waiting for weeks to try. They didn"t have it. > > A customer had ordered a 16 foot ladder online and apparently brought it > back. I haggled with the manager and got it half-price. He told me, it > would be regular price in the morning. I would not have bought it had it > not been birthday. > > I loaded it in the SUV, and was all alone in the parking lot and > apparently the starter gear broke. > > If you can view the photo, you can see four feet of ladder sticking out > the back. > > This is a podium-ladder, meaning it has a platform at 10 feet off the > ground, to safely stand on. > > Hopefully, the TSC will get this someday and will find a use for it in the > barn, or auction it off. > > I am hoping to use it in my storage unit in Brenham, however, I have > already nearly broken it twice. I have no idea how I will get it there > now. > > GEICO came through with a good tow. But now, the Sequoia is parked at my > apartments and I have no idea what I am going to do tomorrow. > > It was a wise choice for me not to drive the Sequoia to the NSS > Convention. That would have been devastating, embarrassing, humiliating > and a lot less fun than hitch-hiking. > > You just can not go anywhere anymore without tow-insurance. > > I will likely have to greet a million Walmart customers - just to pay for > my June mistakes. > > D.L. > > ___ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > -- Charlie Loving ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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A similar thing happened to my 4WD school bus coming back from Mexico one time. In the middle of the International Bridge heading into Texas the pinion nut broke or fell off, dropping the rear drive shaft. We took the rear shaft off, locked the hubs and drove back to Austin with the front drive shaft. Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net On Fri, 28 Jun, 2019 at 8:16 AM, Charles Loving wrote: The Sequoia ( Lemon) seems to be lots of good money after bad. Trade it in on a brand new Yugo or Lada or maybe a Fiat? My 1983 Ford Bronco has over 700,000 miles and has never failed. The drive shaft fell off in Mexico once but I just wired it back and went on in two wheel. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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Similar story in Blake's Hog of Steel. Three days after crossing Rio Grande south to north at Big Bend, yes the truck was flooded and died in the river, but a roadgrader pulled us out the next morning. On I - 35 the rear driveshaft slung itself apart and clanged down the road behind us. Front wheel drive got us back to Austin. Ask Blake to tell you this story sometime. Takes several hours. Preston in Browder, KY Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 8:57 AM, Mark Minton wrote: A similar thing happened to my 4WD school bus coming back from Mexico one time. In the middle of the International Bridge heading into Texas the pinion nut broke or fell off, dropping the rear drive shaft. We took the rear shaft off, locked the hubs and drove back to Austin with the front drive shaft. Mark mintonmmin...@caver.net On Fri, 28 Jun, 2019 at 8:16 AM, Charles Loving wrote: The Sequoia ( Lemon) seems to be lots of good money after bad. Trade it in on a brand new Yugo or Lada or maybe a Fiat? My 1983 Ford Bronco has over 700,000 miles and has never failed. The drive shaft fell off in Mexico once but I just wired it back and went on in two wheel. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] For your amusement - part 2
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