Sunday December 11th Derby CT / CHRISTAMS CHEER!!!

[DTroy]

Hey guys, I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.





How about a P7100 conversion? Hmmmm... ... ... ... ...

 

[Signal73]

:-laf

Didnt mean to kick you when your down.

Sorry to hear your trip home was such a Headache. Makes me wish I wasnt online so late saturday night... :{

 

[DTroy]

I was just trying to say that your subliminal message was working. :-laf





I'm not sweating the truck. It's all good. If I can get a pump in time, I will put it on this weekend.



The pump had to go sometime! I'm just glad that I wasn't stuck down in Georgia with no way to fix it and no way home. With a load of gear and motorcycles in the back !



Which would have been the case if I were headed to Bike Week.

 

[therabbittree]

Hey gusy some like a missed a good day. I hear about Dtroys problems. . man if i had gone to the breakfast this may have turned out different. . I live 5 mins from stormville and i have tools and parts,,, i think i may have been able to help him... damn... might have had a mechanical ve rotary pump on it for the ride home ha... oh well hope all is good now. . if you didn't have gauges with fuel pressure in there. . do it wahne you swap to the new pump. How are you doing it any how. . what shop is installining or installed the pump. . cause a tow to georgia would be expensive. . ha

one another note my rabbit pick up still isn't done I'm hopeing it will be done thsi weekend. im doing it out side in the snow as you can imagine its going slow... oh and sat i bought a new ride. . a 1958 Mack Truck a B81SX big ol tractor even has awinch. . hehe needs work on the cab for rot but complete... as you can imagine im trying to see it i can fit a 12v71 in there ha. . as soon as the rabbit pickup is done i will be crruising over for a coffee night later.

Deo

\x/ hillfolk!

 

[DTroy]

Hiya rabbittree,



We had a good day in Derby. Tool Man took a pic with my camera and if it comes out alright I will post it. (the camera is still in my broken truck)



I'm in PA. The truck is in NY. I mentioned Georgia because it could have just as easily quit there on my way to Bike Week. I was driving my old Ferd one year and blew a tire out at 80. I thought that somebody shot the truck with a shotgun. Rubber was flying through the air and I had my hands full trying to get the truck off the road without having a rig flatten me out.



I have to deposit a check this afternoon. When the funds clear I'll be ordering a pump from I. I. And just as soon as the pump arrives I will drive out to NY and put it on. The truck is safe but it's outside. I hope it's not in the single digits when I have to work on it.



Thanks for the offer.



I will be in Fishkill. Maybe after I get the truck running, I will buy you a cup of coffee. ?

 

[DTroy]

Tool_Man_Tim,



As soon as I saw this smiley, I knew that it was for you and your exhaust brake episode. :-laf



Hope it works:

 

[therabbittree]

d troy sure let me know when you are coming back to ny. . i can help you put the pump on if you want. . yesterday it was -3 int he am... today is ice storm argh haha and i was working out side till 1 am in the snow welding my rabbit pickup exhaust and turbo down pipe ha. . gonna love it. . hehe. . were in ny do you have it. . i live literally 5 miles from stormville. were in pa are you?. . i have relatives in the dunmore & clarks summit area. . yeah geogia i was like damn thi sguy had a bad day. . pa is much much closer but still no fun when broken down

looking forward to helping or hearing from ya. give me a ring

(845) 270 3467 cell (845) 2233342 home

Thanks

Deo

therabbittree @ juno.com

 

[DTroy]

Hey Rabbittree,



Thanks for the wrenching offer. I wouldn't put you through that though. I'm only changing the VP while it's in Fishkill NY at Ketcham Motors.

But if I'm done early enough I can swing by your neck of the woods. Otherwise

I'll see you at the January Meet -n- Greet. You're coming right?



I live near Pittston. Highfinance97 lives in Clarks Summit. Did you check out the PATDC thread? He's on there.



And it was 3 below? No thanks.



I'll shoot you an e-mail. I don't want to hijack their thread.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

BTW deo thanxs to you and Rabbitdaddy I am hooked on muscles now :-laf We hit this joint up @ moheegun sun called the crab shack . . Let me tell ya it was an expensive lunch :-laf :-laf

 

[jct8fan]

I am very disapointed, no one took any pics, and it sounds nothing crazy happened like beer rockets from the fire place. Well any way.

 

[DTroy]

The Saga continues... .



Wednesday evening my new VP arrived. I pick it up at my brother's house and eventually head home. My car never made it. I couldn't make it up the long "driveway". ( It's a private road that has been plowed, but it's icy. )



So I was up late Wed. and up early on Thurs. digging the car out. After that nonsense I head to NY to do the pump.

The pump changeout went well. I needed longer bolts for the gear puller. My new buddy helped me out with that. ( The guy that saved my bacon when the truck first broke down )



BUT after the pump change the truck wouldn't run well at all. It was hard to start, smoked bad all the time. It was missing. Low on power. Idled erratically.



Thursday had come to an end and I still couldn't drive home. Finally found some grub and hit a hotel. As soon as my head hit the pillow I was out.



Friday I met up with the father of " therabbittree" . The man is a class act.

And he was more than willing to help in any way possible.



I left out a lot but here's the summary:

When I was on my way home from CT I had made a fuel stop. I picked up a load of bad fuel. It finished off my tired VP.

After the pump change, adding fuel conditioner, topping off with fresh new fuel, it's looking promising.



I never did bring the truck back. I have to make one more trip to NY to do a fuel line upgrade. I just can't risk any problems with the new VP. The stock lines and fittings are too small for the mods. And maybe the Carter pusher pump is getting tired.



Anyway, I should be back on the road next week.

 

[DTroy]

I know it's blurry, but I was really moving!



'Torque This' let me take a spin in his ride. Check out the stack on that baby.



And that's a Bud in my hand. (It's off road, it's o. k. )



Merry Christmas everybody!

 

[Moose Truck]

Dtroy, Tell me; Was that fuel stop a Citgo in the town of Naugatuck, CT? I started to buy fuel there last summer (2005), Wasted my VP-44. Not making the connection, bought some fuel there lastr week, Gelled fuel Thought the new VP-44 failed, Towed the truck back to the shop, Found out it was gelled fuel. The shop's owner asked were I got the fuel, Told him, and he said that "That Citgo is well know for bad fuel. I must have changed 4-5 VP's because of them. " WTF!!! Moose00

 

[DTroy]

Hiya Moose,



It was the exit just before the Stormville N. Y. reststop going West on I-84. That was the 11th. It wasn't snowing or raining.



Friday the 23rd I was driving the truck. It wasn't running good. Plenty of smoke and low on power. And it was a mild day. Well above freezing.



As soon as I added conditioner it made a difference. I topped the tank off with fresh fuel and that made it even better.



So my guess is water contamination. And since it was a dry day, their hose or tank was at fault. I wonder how many others were affected.

 

[TnLRacing]

Moose been buying fuel there ever since I bought my truck, never had one problem... for what its worth

 

[Moose Truck]

Moose been buying fuel there ever since I bought my truck, never had one problem... for what its worth

Well, I'm done there, for what's it worth Happy New Years!!! Moose00 Oo.

 

[JLEONARD]

FWIW I buy ALL my fuel at either the Citgo in Thomaston or one just up the road from my house on Rt 4 in Torrington.

I never had an issue but then again the VE is not particular what ya try to pump thru it.

Speaking if that I guess it's about time to change the fuel filter... I sort of forgot to do it last year... oops!

Jay

 

[Moose Truck]

Jay, I see in your Sig that you went to CT Emissions The complaint about the Naugatuck Citgo is that the owner maybe adding Junky Diesel to the Citgo shipment. In fact I normally use the Citgo in Shelton. CT. I had just strayed from Shelton in shearch of cheaper fuel. I had put 225K on my First Gen's VE mainly on Citgo, in general and in Shelton mostly Moose00

 

[JLEONARD]

Naugatuck Citgo is that the owner maybe adding Junky Diesel

Oh. That sucks.

 

[vssman]

Naugatuck Citgo on New Haven Road is owned by Berkshire Petrolium. They're the "cheapest" (2. 67 a couple of days ago) around in the mid-valley area - a LOT of over the road trucks get there fuel there. The same company also owns a Birkshire station in North Haven near Costco (if there still there as it's been a while since I've been by that area)...