I feel relieved!!!

[steved]

OK, so I stopped today to get fuel...



Sat idling for about 15 minutes while the guy with the PowerStroke got $105 worth of fuel... he must have been dry.



Pulled ahead and dumped $75 in mine, took about 10 minutes. Moved ahead, to get out of the way. Then I get ready to leave...



I normally start in third getting into highway traffic because the thing has the grunt and the gearing. So I pull out... nothing, barely moving... I'm redlined, clutch is out, and I'm barely moving... I yank fourth and same deal, redline and barely moving.



As I try to get a bite (at this point I think I have clutch issues), the engine starts to lug down and we start rolling like nothing ever happened?? I pull off in the next road, and ease through the gears... everything is normal????



I take some backroads home thinking the worst... so I limp along and decide I'm GOING to make it slip again. Place her in 5th, jacked the brakes and the go pedal at the same time... no slip???



Get home, power brake in both 1st and reverse (at idle, hold brakes and releasing the clutch)... spin the tires without even trying??? At this point the clutch is plenty HOT: hot enough to smell, not hot enough to smoke.



Crawl under the truck... I have the typical seepage from the back of the engine (looks like my dad's 99 with 260k and no issues), so I assume there is no leakage issues. I have 113k on the clock right now, so it isn't a new truck anymore...



I decide to take a drive and see what happened... go back to the station to retrace my steps. I had a hunch... and I find they had a fuel spill. I had left posi-marks for better than 300 feet!!! I rolled through their lot and sure enough, slippery enough I can get a little spin even rolling easy...



So now I'm relieved... no clutch issues! It makes you really paranoid when something like this happens.



Cooking the clutch seems to have made it grab better... almost wonder if I had a glazing issue??



Just thought someone would find this humorous and get a laugh out my stupidity...



steved

 

[MattMonroe]

That is some funny stuff... it took me a good long while to get used to driving my CTD and i still am. This sounds like something i might have done... haha.

 

[Nate]

That's from people that can't fill a tank without shooting diesel all over the ground and the attendents are too lazy to clean it up.



I was filling up the truck one day. It had rained and the ground was wet. Someone had spilled diesel all over the ground too.



Without thinking, I climbed on the back tire to put my oil back in the toolbox, and my foot slipped off the tire (keep in mind this is a 35" so it's up there a bit) I landed on my back in the diesel puddle and against the curb of the island. The guy pumping gas on other side didn't even stop pumping while I'm moaning on the ground.



I already have a bad back and this didn't help out at all. I'm still on pain meds because of it.

 

[steved]

It had just stopped raining... and there was a sizeable puddle they had oildry on. I figured I had been worried about the guy behind me and not looking at the ground in front of me...

Like I said, in hind sight it is quite funny. But at the time, your rolling the $$$ signs through your head and the resultant downtime! And there is nothing like the feeling of your heart dropping...

steved

 

[JFlagg]

There was a tractor trailer that jackknifed here in STL this winter and punctured a tank that leaked across all 4 lanes when I came through moments later, I was in 5th at near idle just putt putting by and just tapped the throttle to change lanes and almost got my truck sideways! Diesel all over cold asphalt is pretty slick, I was making no boost and was in 5th doing about 40-45! Still kinda slick there when it rains, and that was a few months ago...

 

[SBall]

Hey steved,
Let me guess ... the Hess station at Moselem Springs?

 

[steved]

Hey steved,

Let me guess ... the Hess station at Moselem Springs?

No, the BP in Hamburg on Rt61.



My truck doesn't like that Hess fuel (at least from that station)... they changed it a little over a year ago, and now it sucks.



steved

 

[HOBrian]

Same thing happened to me at the airport when I was picking up the rents. I thought the clutch was shot, it turned out to be wet road from the garbage truck. The second time around I tried to see how far I could spin em.

 

[steved]

There was a tractor trailer that jackknifed here in STL this winter and punctured a tank that leaked across all 4 lanes when I came through moments later, I was in 5th at near idle just putt putting by and just tapped the throttle to change lanes and almost got my truck sideways! Diesel all over cold asphalt is pretty slick, I was making no boost and was in 5th doing about 40-45! Still kinda slick there when it rains, and that was a few months ago...

Yeah, I got into a similar situation on I80... a car clipped a truck and gashed his tank... about 100 gallons of diesel on the road. I was through right after it happened and couldn't figure out why all these cars were in the ditch. I did the same thing, eased into it (a 1500 gasser, shortbed/standard cab, locker in rear) and was immediately lock to lock trying to get back under control... it isn't fun at 50mph.



There is also a turn on a hill where there was a diesel spill... it was slick for a long time, right up to when they repaved. Within a week of the new pavement, it happened again... everytime it rains, someone piles it up in that spot.



steved

 

[steved]

Well, just went for a ride (everything cold since it sat overnight)... everything is normal... :-laf



I sorta wish I would have looked in the rearview to see if there was any smoke last night...



steved