Comments on: Living Simply means Getting Your Hands Dirty http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/ Living on a Boat. Voluntary Simplicity. Economic Freedom. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:04:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: big cheese http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-635 big cheese Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:55:30 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-635 Thanks for the referrals! JC Thanks for the referrals!

JC

]]> By: Jack http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Jack Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:11:25 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-632 I use www.rockauto.com amd powerstrokeshop.com The first for my 1988 GMC Suburban 350 and the second for my F350 PowerStroke Turbo Diesel for parts. Both companies have been good to me. I use http://www.rockauto.com amd powerstrokeshop.com
The first for my 1988 GMC Suburban 350 and the second for
my F350 PowerStroke Turbo Diesel for parts.
Both companies have been good to me.

]]> By: big cheese http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-630 big cheese Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:52:16 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-630 Lucky for us it was just in Brunswick and not in the middle of No-where-ville, Texas at three in the morning! Thanks for all your help! JC Lucky for us it was just in Brunswick and not in the middle of No-where-ville, Texas at three in the morning! Thanks for all your help!

JC

]]> By: big cheese http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-629 big cheese Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:51:11 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-629 You can't know everything, but I like being as self sufficient as I can. Besides, you can never stop learning. Regards, JC You can’t know everything, but I like being as self sufficient as I can. Besides, you can never stop learning.

Regards,

JC

]]> By: big cheese http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-628 big cheese Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:44:02 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-628 Yeah- We're not selling anytime soon. Besides it's the perfect Mexico vehicle. Outside a little beat up, paint peeling, but the engine runs good and it's 4 wheel drive. Ironically, in Tucson and in Mexico they don't have junk yards as we know it in the south. I'm used to wandering through a pull-a-part junk yard with some tools and pulling parts for a few bucks a piece. Old cars run forever in the dry Arizona and Mexican climate. We went out to find some misc. plastic knobs and trim pieces and they wanted near retail for them! I'm hitting pull-a-part in Atlanta when we pass through! Yeah- We’re not selling anytime soon. Besides it’s the perfect Mexico vehicle. Outside a little beat up, paint peeling, but the engine runs good and it’s 4 wheel drive.

Ironically, in Tucson and in Mexico they don’t have junk yards as we know it in the south. I’m used to wandering through a pull-a-part junk yard with some tools and pulling parts for a few bucks a piece. Old cars run forever in the dry Arizona and Mexican climate. We went out to find some misc. plastic knobs and trim pieces and they wanted near retail for them!

I’m hitting pull-a-part in Atlanta when we pass through!

]]> By: Damon B http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Damon B Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:30:55 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-627 If you sell it, what else are you going to buy? At this point, I say you should at least ride out the repairs you've done. Maybe you can find a good junk yard near the boat in Mexico and stop paying retail. If you sell it, what else are you going to buy? At this point, I say you should at least ride out the repairs you’ve done. Maybe you can find a good junk yard near the boat in Mexico and stop paying retail.

]]> By: joey presnell http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-626 joey presnell Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:44:31 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-626 Your truck sounds like my boat. When I went to Galveston, Tx to buy it i knew there would be lots of work to do to the boat to get it ready to cross the gulf and bring it back to Georgetown, Sc. Four days after staying on the boat I kept smelling diesel. I traced it to the front fuel tank. I fired up the engine turned the fuel valve to the back tank for the engine to return fuel to it because the front was full. Three and half hours later engine was over heating. The inspection hole on the front was leaking fuel. Later I figured out there was no return line from the front tank to the engine. It went through 2 1/2 gallons of coolant in the 3 1/2 hours. I was mad. It was a freshly rebuilt perkins 4107. I had it out with the owner and told him I would fix the engine myself at cost and take it off the purchase price. That worked out fine but like your truck it needed a lot more attention in the greasy and texas heat. Us boat people are a special breed. You have to know or learn how to work on everything. I'm glad y'all have had a safe trip and hope you like your new boat. That suburban sounds like its ready for lots of miles. I wish I was over there. Maybe next year. Great fishing enjoy, joey Your truck sounds like my boat. When I went to Galveston, Tx to buy it i knew there would be lots of work to do to the boat to get it ready to cross the gulf and bring it back to Georgetown, Sc. Four days after staying on the boat I kept smelling diesel. I traced it to the front fuel tank. I fired up the engine turned the fuel valve to the back tank for the engine to return fuel to it because the front was full.
Three and half hours later engine was over heating. The inspection hole on the front was leaking fuel. Later I figured out there was no return line from the front tank to the engine. It went through 2 1/2 gallons of coolant in the 3 1/2 hours. I was mad. It was a freshly rebuilt perkins 4107.
I had it out with the owner and told him I would fix the engine myself at cost and take it off the purchase price. That worked out fine but like your truck it needed a lot more attention in the greasy and texas heat.
Us boat people are a special breed. You have to know or learn how to work on everything. I’m glad y’all have had a safe trip and hope you like your new boat. That suburban sounds like its ready for lots of miles. I wish I was over there. Maybe next year. Great fishing
enjoy,
joey

]]> By: mk http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-625 mk Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:46:18 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-625 "The good news, the Suburban has yet to strand us anywhere" Did you forget the day at the post office in Brunswick??? : > ) Take care, mk “The good news, the Suburban has yet to strand us anywhere” Did you forget the day at the post office in Brunswick??? : > ) Take care, mk

]]> By: big cheese http://jcmcdowell.com/living-simply-means-getting-your-hands-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-624 big cheese Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:51:43 +0000 http://jcmcdowell.com/?p=521#comment-624 Wouldn't you know it, the same day I post this I have to replace the air filter! Add it to the list... Wouldn’t you know it, the same day I post this I have to replace the air filter!

Add it to the list…

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