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Rytheric posted:The fench doors are going where the current plywood door is. The end will have a screen door. That doesn't answer the question.
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beep-beep car is go posted:If it started, stopped and steered that would be one thing. Currently it won't idle and the suspension is rashed. It can be fixed yes, but in the end he'll have dropped thousands on a truck at AT BEST is worth a couple hundo. Not very Dave Ramsey. There's an either forum where a lot of posters willingly do that with cars. Dumping money into a vehicle worth a pittance is the last thing I'm going to be critical of. At least the RyTrukk is fixable, I dont see anything terminal
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Motronic posted:It's still an unsafe vehicle, being made even less safe as more weight is put on it because the suspension is completely shot based on the pictures provided. He's even removed the front....what does he call it? bouncy bar? (it's a sway bar) to make matters worse. And that's what we can see from the pictures. What he's mentioned is that it runs poorly/stalls at stoplights which smells a lot like a trans problem (TCC solenoid is the absolutely best case dream scenario here, trans coming out is more likely). We know it has exhaust problems. How are the brakes? Tires? Bearings? Cooling system? I will likely have the brakes address at the upcoming safety inspection. The rotors have some groves. Cooling system works surprisingly well after I replaced the radiator other than the control fail point I have where a hose popped off. Tires are brand new and they replaced the radius arm bushings when they did the alignment. I wish they did the other bushings as well. As far as what to ride. My boss will let me use his car if necessary, but I have a beach cruiser as well I can ride. Though I'm a little too heavy for it. Also I typically Uber from the shop to work. That's what I'm doing tomorrow. Rytheric fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 2, 2021 22:23
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Rytheric posted:Cooling system works surprisingly well after I replaced the radiator other than the control fail point I have where a hose popped off. Right, I forgot this thing sounds like it's lunching it's head gasket as well.
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Mar 2, 2021 22:25
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Ardemia posted:I know you're not a big RV fan for *reasons*, but have you considered checking out an RV salvage yard for some conversion parts/pieces? I helped a friend convert a bus to a skoolie, and he saved himself a lot of time by getting some components and pieces from an RV salvage yard. At the very least you might find a cool retractable awning, or something. I actually got my seats and such from the pull a part down the way because the PO had the wrong year seats in and didnt have them bolted down (probably sucked during the accident. The pull a part was pretty cool. They have reassembled/salvaged vehicles lined up for sale there too. I may go back and see what I can find
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Mar 2, 2021 22:26
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Rytheric posted:I actually got my seats and such from the pull a part down the way because the PO had the wrong year seats in and didnt have them bolted down (probably sucked during the accident. The pull a part was pretty cool. They have reassembled/salvaged vehicles lined up for sale there too. I may go back and see what I can find Without joking or lying or exaggerating, I bet if you take your title down there, they'll swap you straight up for one of the runners in the lot.
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Mar 2, 2021 22:27
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Motronic posted:Right, I forgot this thing sounds like it's lunching it's head gasket as well. Lol I was going to say that's par the course. I have a gasket kit for it already. I was going to do the valve covers, but let the pros handle the head gasket.
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The pros are going to have to do the valve covers on their way to the gasket anyways, just let em handle it.
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Mar 2, 2021 22:29
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Rytheric posted:Lol I was going to say that's par the course. I have a gasket kit for it already. I was going to do the valve covers, but let the pros handle the head gasket. HGs on a V8 is not a minor job that costs an insignificant amount of money and takes a trivial amount of time.
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Fermented Tinal posted:HGs on a V8 is not a minor job that costs an insignificant amount of money and takes a trivial amount of time. In a VAN on top of it. Good thing the seats are barely bolted in.
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Rytheric posted:I normally only allow myself $400 a month for food. But if I unlock my cashflow I accidently spend $800-1200 a month on food. I was having trouble working out how exactly you ate the various Bojangles meals you described as your daily diet. Somehow, putting all of your money into your 401(k) is your sole recourse for not "accidently" eating 2-3 of them a day 
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I cook almost exclusively with $400 a month and feed my wife and baby. There's a ton of potential to save money right there. And I guarantee you food is more expensive here in New England than in the south. Grabbing a hot plate and learning to cook is a great way to take direct control of your portion sizes and sodium intake. Plus you get to eat whatever you want literally whenever you want it when you get proficient at it.
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Mar 2, 2021 22:34
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um excuse me posted:The pros are going to have to do the valve covers on their way to the gasket anyways, just let em handle it. Good point. If I recall it's recommend that the engine and transmission get rebuilt in about 50,000 more miles. So we will see how it goes.
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Mar 2, 2021 22:37
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um excuse me posted:I cook almost exclusively with $400 a month and feed my wife and baby. There's a ton of potential to save money right there. And I guarantee you food is more expensive here in New England than in the south. My main problem is that I've generally not had time to cook. I use to cook in college.
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Rytheric posted:My main problem is that I've generally not had time to cook. You got time to post you got time to roast.
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Motronic posted:Important question: was it your only car as well as your only residence? had to deal with this three times working in the shop: First guy's van smelled of alcohol and vomit, we got his alternator replaced and refused to test drive it further due to the condition and well the overpowering smell of vomit. He slept in the parking lot overnight while we ordered the alternator. He also slept in our parking lot that night after he paid for repairs, but left after that. Second guy bought a Westfalia converted Eurovan, that thing was a colossal piece of poo poo. He would get pissed off at me, the service writer, about his stupid house on wheels not being ready despite my constant communication about parts status and repair status. Sorry dude but I didn't tell you to terminate your lease and buy a Eurovan to haul yourself and your KLR650 around with because you read advrider.com too many times. That thing ended up needing a new transmission, new locks, and a shitload of top end engine work. Pretty sure he was fired as a customer after I left, I know the manager couldn't stand dealing with him because he was lying about living in the thing. The Westfalia bits were great though! Third was several crust punks living in a conversion van. It was an old chevy that we replaced the engine in. Those guys were a dream to deal with, they had a camping spot to stay at while we did the engine replacement, and they would hang out under a shade tree out back the last two days we worked on it. They traded me some art for some lunch one of those days lol. We ended up paying for their rental car to and from their campground. Plus, it was rare to be able to discuss which Conflict album was the best one with a customer. I share my silly anecdotes to say Rytheric, be mindful of the repair process while living in the vehicle, get as much taken care of before you're full time in it, and then let the shop know its your house and see what accommodations can be made.
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Rytheric posted:My main problem is that I've generally not had time to cook. I use to cook in college. Priorities, man. I'm sure there is something less important than cooking unless all you do is work and sleep. Edit: also learning to cook is more than making something to eat. It includes budgeting, reducing waste, and balancing your diet. um excuse me fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 2, 2021 22:39
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Danknificent posted:God help me, let me get serious just this once: Thank you.
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Something i've been wondering. Where do you do your laundy and wash/bathe? I assume at your bosses place from what you've written previously. What will you do when you're full time in the truck?
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Concur. This is not a derivative work. lmao
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Rytheric posted:I will likely have the brakes address at the upcoming safety inspection. The rotors have some groves. Cooling system works surprisingly well after I replaced the radiator other than the control fail point I have where a hose popped off. Tires are brand new and they replaced the radius arm bushings when they did the alignment. I wish they did the other bushings as well. Explain this "controlled fail point" because there should be no such thing in a vaguely working car / truck cooling system. If a coolant hose is popping off, then there is likely more than just a head gasket wrong.
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serious gaylord posted:Something i've been wondering. Where do you do your laundy and wash/bathe? I assume at your bosses place from what you've written previously. What will you do when you're full time in the truck? He has four sets of clothes per season and I think that's it.
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serious gaylord posted:Something i've been wondering. Where do you do your laundy and wash/bathe? I assume at your bosses place from what you've written previously. What will you do when you're full time in the truck? Laundromats are still a thing. A gym membership gets you access to a shower but I'm sure there are cheaper, less covid-y, ways to do that as well.
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serious gaylord posted:Something i've been wondering. Where do you do your laundy and wash/bathe? I assume at your bosses place from what you've written previously. What will you do when you're full time in the truck? Take it to the laundry mat or do it in a 5 gallon bucket like I use to. Also my work place is about to have showers. Rytheric fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Motronic posted:Right, I forgot this thing sounds like it's lunching it's head gasket as well. jesus christ
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Rytheric posted:The fench doors are going where the current plywood door is. The end will have a screen door. Fermented Tinal posted:That doesn't answer the question. Yeah,  .So now you're parked and all the thieves/jerks have to do is slash through the screen with just about anything, steal your deck chairs and fancy copper fire pit. Then they peek thru the fancy French doors, break them as quietly and leisurely as possible because no one can see/hear them now that they're inside the box, and steal your $2k telescope. I'm not trying to dunk, Ry, I really am not. If anything, I'm way sympathetic because I started following this thread because I'm concerned about break-ins because last year right around this time, he was parked on the street, right in front of our house. Even had a nearby streetlight. The van has panel on the driver's side and the big window on the passenger side. Someone must've peeked in the side window (we've since put some cardboard up), saw all the power tools he'd had in there to work on it, and stole them. Not sure how, no glass was broken and the doors didn't seem forced. I've since learned on these here forums that often fleet vehicles are keyed identically, so maybe they had a bunch of fleet keys and just got in.  Any kind of cargo van/box/fleet truck is gonna be a target for opportunistic thieves, and if they know someone's living there (which would be made both obvious and easy when you see a screened in porch and French doors), they're probably going to be even more likely to target you. I'm not gonna dogpile on the 1783 other things wrong with the Truk, but just concerned for your well-being on this aspect, which I don't think anyone's brought up. JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Rytheric posted:Yeah once I get the floor in I need to caulk it from the outside else water may seep under the sills and get trapped there.  Not doing the inside before you framed and insulated is the kind of 1st year apprentice mistake that leads me to say that you need more experience before you attempt to build a house, buddy.These seemingly minor details compound over the course of a project into big problems. I know that's on hold due to the many issues with the property you wanted, but please don't timber frame a house with ropes when you do get there
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Rytheric posted:I will likely have the brakes address at the upcoming safety inspection. The rotors have some groves. Cooling system works surprisingly well after I replaced the radiator other than the control fail point I have where a hose popped off. Tires are brand new and they replaced the radius arm bushings when they did the alignment. I wish they did the other bushings as well. Put the loving hose back on properly now that you have a new radiator in it. Sure plastic end tank radiators suck and fail every ten years, but that's another ten years from now. Also you better be filling that engine with the proper coolant when the hose comes off. You're an environmental tech, you know ethylene glycol is really bad for the environment. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:There's an either forum where a lot of posters willingly do that with cars. I don't get all the hate, the truck's a known quantity, it's not rusted out, body's in fine shape, no other option is going to be cheaper than doing maintenance on this one, and budgeting for repairs down the line, like he could buy a newish box truck with 75k on it for $10k, and there's no guarantee it hasn't been abused, and the transmission's not one hard launch away from popping. corgski posted:RyTruk: Ryder Die You have the power to change the thread title, and you didn't immediately change it to this ???
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Rytheric posted:Thank you. Ry, I want you to succeed. This thread moves too fast now for me to be able to have time to contribute. I will share one thing. I think your greatest problem is not dreams or attempting to achieve them, I think your greatest impediment to achieving dreams is your impulse control. Another poster said how you're accidentally doing a lot of stuff that is costing you in health, finances, time, etc. I have a similar problem which is why I can spot it. I do a lot of stuff myself, too. The list of stuff I want to accomplish is longer than my arm. If I spend time on each item equally then nothing gets done at all year in year out. I'm trying to focus my time better to get one or two things done and then move onto the next one or two things. This has allowed me to actually get things off my plate and my list smaller. A specific example of how you're hurting yourself is eating that much fast food. Number one, massively unhealthy. Number two, think about what materials that money can be buying you. Saving $10 a day is $50 in a week of work and that's quite a bit of supplies for your real goals. I liked your post about things you're correcting direction/fixing. I'm glad you're considering walking away from the land purchase. There is so much land opportunities out there that you don't need to buy a dud of a deal. Finally, the person who said you're a golden retriever of a human was absolutely right. I'm really enjoying reading about what's going on here. I'm glad you're getting your CO issue fixed because I really don't want you to die. One of these days maybe I'll see a documentary of what you did like the one I showed you of the Alaska dude and his cabin.
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Elviscat posted:and the transmission's not one hard launch away from popping. Without knowing more, the fact that it stalls in gear at idle tells me this one kind of is.
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quote:You have the power to change the thread title, and you didn't immediately change it to this ??? Doing anything mod related from a phone is misery. And Jeff and Astral are more focused on things like "fixing radium's load bearing slurs so the forum doesn't vanish" than "making mod tools that are slightly more usable from a phone." 
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Elviscat posted:I don't get all the hate, the truck's a known quantity, it's not rusted out, body's in fine shape, no other option is going to be cheaper than doing maintenance on this one This is the problem: it's overwhelmingly likely that you are wrong about that. People have posted examples in this very thread of better sorted vans with a total purchase price of less than my mental tally of the amount of work this one needs. And the scope and type of work that needs to be performed is only further complicated by him living in it.
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Danknificent posted:God help me, let me get serious just this once: This is a very good post and aligns with my experiences of being "house mom" in a series of punk houses when I was younger, where everyone has untreated mental health issues and the biggest concern is making sure you don't wake up to cops and/or a corpse in the morning.
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Motronic posted:This is the problem: it's overwhelmingly likely that you are wrong about that. People have posted examples in this very thread of better sorted vans with a total purchase price of less than my mental tally of the amount of work this one needs. I have a room in my boss's house I can live in while it gets worked on. I pull all my bedding and such out of it when I'm ready to do major work to it. Then put it back in when I'm done.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Explain this "controlled fail point" because there should be no such thing in a vaguely working car / truck cooling system. Please enlighten me on the above please Ryth. I want this controlled fail point explained
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Alright, this thread is a lot to digest --- much like Ry's diet of 18 loving pieces of fried chicken a day, plus mac & cheese, plus all the biscuits that come with those buckets. So I'm a little confused as to the design here, after Spooky here mentioned NO PROPER REAR DOOR. The French doors are like 2/3rds into the box, as entry to the closet thing he’s sleeping in behind the cab He’s said that he is going to buy a gun and if anyone tries to enter his unsecured abandoned vehicle he will murder them. I think he might have cooled off on the idea, but he didn’t include it on his list of learning so I dunno
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Explain this "controlled fail point" because there should be no such thing in a vaguely working car / truck cooling system. That's the failure point one of the coolant lines will break / pop before something else fails, it's very confusing if you ask me. It's also really not cool for the environment to be dumping glycol and other chemicals all over it but know what.. at least when the engine is off / breaks it wont make noise.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:There's an either forum where a lot of posters willingly do that with cars. AI posters: "Uhhh, yeah. We'll tell you that..."
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AdmiralViscen posted:The French doors are like 2/3rds into the box, as entry to the closet thing he’s sleeping in behind the cab Wow wow wow. I never said a thing about murdering someone.
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Rytheric posted:I have a room in my boss's house I can live in while it gets worked on. I pull all my bedding and such out of it when I'm ready to do major work to it. Then put it back in when I'm done. If you can't be talked out of this you NEED to get this thing mechanically sorted FIRST. While you have somewhere to live. Then you should buy appropriate-climate camping gear and consider that to be your home. Then and only then should you start "upfitting" the interior. FYI, I'm mentally tallying $8k in repairs minimum. This is not maintenance. REPAIRS. That leaves you with suspension, exhaust, transmission, cooling system and engine in "eh, it will probably make it another 10k miles without a 4 figure repair" condition. Speaking of suspension problems, since you have planning problems you're going to overload this thing. You've already got the wring kind of framing in there, and a residential door that you want to install. Keep going like that and this thing is going to be permanently stationary right quick. Any good upfit begins with a weight budget and a materials plan to meet it and allow enough overhead for provisions and passengers.
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