My truck is broke. This might be the big one. Everything sucks.
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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
“Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde”
Beware of the anger of a patient man.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
that sucks. Sorry to hear.
Perfectly concise.
*tits-up is technically a more concise term… but what seems to be the problem… transgender porcupines been dry humpin’ the torque converter? Your Dodge have an illicit night out with a vagabond Gremlin? …. Inquiring minds want to know!
I think the core problem is that it’s a solid heavy duty working truck with a beefy Cummins engine… and some nitwit at Chrysler got involved with the poor thing. Days like today remind me why Detroit is such a prosperous and delightful city.
I’ve owned hefty varieties of Ford, Chevy, and Dodge and none are perfect. They all have issues that tell me they’re protected from foreign competition. If the market offered a big fat diesel Mahindra or Toyota with an eight foot bed and dually rear axle I’d have bought one years ago.
Nothing mechanical is broke permanently, that is reserved for cellular life. Details please.
Transmission had a sudden and catastrophic failure on a flat boring highway. It was not pulling a load. It was not going particularly fast. There was no advance warning anything was amiss. It has a little under 200k miles on the clock. It’s a six speed auto mated to a Cummins. …or rather it was. It even split the bell housing. Crazy!
I like the truck. I’m trying to decide if it’s completely mad to finance a reman tranny & install. Or should I say “fuck it” and get a Ford Model A and never break 50 mph again? (Just kidding, I don’t have the privilege of being that cantankerous yet.)
Being a frugal bastard, I would do two things, one is to check the transmission cooler is not blocked and second, go to the wrecking yard and buy a replacement from any truck that died from a side impact or at least not a head on to the rear impact, then get Sgt. Snuffy’s garage to swap out old for replacement, plumb it all up with fresh fluid and pray.
I read this somewhere recently. Can’t quite remember where:
“Here’s another start. It is spring. It is time to plant. Winter didn’t kill us. Whether the response is wise or unwise / two weeks or a year or forever, you’re reading this. Thus, Covid didn’t kill you. How awesome is that?”
Touché! Yeah, I’m not dead and it’s just a truck. Well played.
Might be concise, but it doesn’t rhyme. You can do better. Waiting for the haiku version.
Truck is broke. Ain’t too stoked.
Tranny gone. Ain’t shifting none.
Bell housing cracked. Options are jack.
Dead on the road. Ain’t pulling a load.
Everything sucks. Out thousands of bucks.
But I’m still alive. The rest is just jive.
I ain’t out of luck. Just missing my truck.
Nice!
Damn! That’s as close to tragic as you can get. My neighbor has LOTS of experience with Cummins powered Dodges. Manual trans good, autos looking for an excuse to die, rebuilds can’t be beefed up enough. Front ends on 4wd, gonna get Death Wobble. At the first hint of DW, he replaces the appropriate parts. I think I recall him saying about 2007 was the cut off year for too stupid, complicated, pooterized, expensive to deal with. He is willing to pay too much for a nice, older stick. Currently he has 2 Cummins Dodges, the auto never tows anything. You should just pull summa that money out of your big pile of extra cash (the one Uncle Sam KNOWS you have for more taxes and fees) to buy a cherry, 20 year old truck .
Easy peasy, right? Glad I could help. (sarc off)
I’m sorry to hear about your truck problems. Good luck fixing the transmission.
My parents owned a GM truck for a few years. We called it the “letdown truck”, because it was constantly failing in various ways. I think its transmission blew up sometime in the first two years of ownership also. My parents have had much better luck with their Ford.
You might hate me but the best truck I’ve had so far is the Toyota Tacoma.
That’s apples and oranges. I needed (wanted) a one ton diesel with dual rear axle. I really like my ultra reliable Honda motorcycle but that doesn’t relate to my currently defunct heavy truck. Both are awesome for what they do but neither a bike nor a Tacoma can do the same thing as a Nimitz class tonnage hauler.