Craziness

"JMKarstetter" (jmkarstetter) 08/14/2020 at 22:46 • Filed to: None

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So my weekend started off to a trip to Denver to visit my sister, she hasn’t met my 6 month old yet and if anything Colorado is safer than Oklahoma right now with their new cases lower than ours. We made sure to wear our masks everywhere we went in public unless we weren’t around people, and social distanced.

We get to Denver early in the morning Sunday after driving straight through, woke up and did some sight seeing, had a good day. Drove my Land Cruiser and decided to go up into the mountains and up to Grand Lake since my significant other wanted to see more of the mountains and lakes, she loves scenery and photography.

Drove back into Denver for the night and got some rest. The next morning we stopped by the store so I could get a new shirt for myself and a harness for our dog because we left hers at home. Once we are out of the store and in the Land Cruiser it dies about 2 minutes after starting it. Had my insurance send out someone to jump it, dies again right after he leaves and right before we pull out of the parking spot. My sister comes to jump me and follow me to an Advance Auto Parts right around the corner, diagnosis was a bad battery. Get the replacement installed and the alternator tested. Alternator read a little low, but figured it would be ok, lol.

We proceed to head up to the Red Rocks Amphitheater, which was awesome. Right as we get to the lower parking lot by the gift shop, engine starts to die, pulled into the closest open parking spot and it died. Dang it.

We decided to wait and call a tow truck until after we did the site seeing we wanted to do. Finally got a tow a little after 8 after waiting 2 hours for the tow truck, got towed to another Advance Auto Parts because they had an alternator in stock. Ended up replacing it there in the parking lot the next morning as they had closed the night before after I realized I didn’t have my deep socket set with me, and needed one so I went back to the hotel where my s/o and kids were. The next morning it took about 2 hours and the new alternator was in and I was back on the road. Made for an entertaining way to end the trip, also for a vehicle with 291k miles on it, it did just fine.

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Also, none of us had ever been to an IKEA before, so we stopped by one after I got the alternator replaced, cool place, I will have to go to the one in Dallas sometime soon.

Now I’m looking at purchasing something possibly silly and supercharging it, what does Oppo think, it’s a 2007 Cadillac Escalade ESV with the 6.2L and AWD (loooongboi) with around 390k miles. New trans and flywheel 30k miles ago, new battery sway bar bushings, transfer chain and tires this year. Trying to get it for cheap, around $4k. If I got this, I would be paying cash and would be keeping my Land Cruiser.

jminer > JMKarstetter 08/14/2020 at 23:49

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Oof, that definitely adds some stress to a trip. You’re making me jealous of a trip to Denver, I haven’t been  in a year and very much miss it.

After an incident while camping 4 years ago where I ended up with a dead battery and had to get creative and borrow a vehicle from a unstaffed ranger station 5 miles from my camp to jump it I always put a jump pack in my car when I take a trip.

Jim Spanfeller > JMKarstetter 08/15/2020 at 00:08

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Do it, but only if the supercharger sticks out of the hood. Anything and everything is automatically cool if it has a supercharger sticking out of the hood. Otherwise, I’m afraid you’re doing it wrong.

JMKarstetter > jminer 08/15/2020 at 00:17

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New portable jump pack came in the mail today.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > JMKarstetter 08/15/2020 at 01:44

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I'd make a joke about Toyota reliability, but I've got to count on Land Rover reliability for the next three weeks so... Oh man that sucks good job you got it sorted.

JMKarstetter > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/15/2020 at 02:47

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I feel it did ok for it having 291k on it. Not sure if the alternator has ever been replaced or not.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > JMKarstetter 08/15/2020 at 08:38

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Are parts usually easy to find? I know it’s a GM designed engine so all the parts should be something you can pick up at any auto store like, like that alternator. Being able to just go get the part  definitely makes a break down like this a lot less of a hassle.

Taylor Martin > JMKarstetter 08/15/2020 at 12:09

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Glad you got it diagnosed and fixed, but that is a whole lot of craziness. Entertaining isn’t the word I’d use for fixing a car in a parking lot, eventful might me better.   IKEAs are a real trip, it’s like entering a whole different dimension.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > JMKarstetter 08/15/2020 at 14:28

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Haha for sure. Also the difference being you were able to find the parts you needed locally not have them overnighted or find someone who can rebuild it.

JMKarstetter > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/15/2020 at 15:50

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That’s the nice part of it sharing a decent amount of parts with the Tundra and Sequoia from that era as well. I think even some of the parts are shared with the V8 4Runner from around that era too.

JMKarstetter > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 08/15/2020 at 15:51

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It has the 6.2L LS, so there are quite a few vehicles that use it, and a huge aftermarket for them, so it should be.

JMKarstetter > Taylor Martin 08/15/2020 at 15:54

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Haha eventful would probably be a better way to describe it now that you say that. And yeah, it was definitely weird going into a store that is broken up like IKEA is. Having to follow a path through different sections of the store is really weird to me and felt highly inefficient as a shopping experience, but maybe that’s because I am so used to the normal store layout.