This is what I came home to work on Sunday

[RBeckman]

After a great time at Frankenmuth Autofest with Hank, Tony, Ray and a visit from the Grumpy clan, I came home to my 16 year old Daughter's truck that would not start. After having it flatbed ed (thanks AAA) home, I figured out that it was a bad fuel pump (and she just filled it up) so instead of siphoning 25 gallons of gas and not having enough containers to put it anyway I decided to pull the bed.

After 8 bolts and and unplugging the tail lights and getting to use my engine hoist it only cost me $250 vs the $600 the local shop wanted to charge me.

[grandsport]

Your daughter has excellent taste in trucks!

[RBeckman]

Thanks, she made me get rit of the Dodge Ram with a 3" lift I had as she had a hard time driving it (she is 5 foot nothing) and we needed a truck that would pull the horse trailer for her to shows. It has the 4.7 V8 that sucks gas just as bad as the Chevelle or it would be my daily driver and I'd give her my Impala.

It was more than I wanted to spend for a teenage driver but the guy I got if from was the original owner (2003) and it never seen a Michigan Winter as he has a home in Florida for the winter so I could not pass it up.

I'm a GM guy, but I do really like the Dodge trucks and would like to get a new RAM if they got better gas mileage, plus Chrysler is TRW (where I work) biggest US customer.

[grandsport]

I'm a GM all the way too,but my cutoff point for ownership is 1970.

[shadowgray396]

Great job. I know on my old suburban I had to pounded on the bottom of the tank up in the woods to get the fuel pump to start to work again when it stop working one time. I had read about it some where and it worked. Save me a tow and I was able to use up the 40 gallons of gas it had in it. Nice looking Chevelle in the back ground.
Ray

[Ms Grumpy]

Just one question. I did happen to notice that your car is parked in the driveway behind the truck. Did the tow truck driver get to your house before you did?

[RBeckman]

Originally Posted by Ms Grumpy

Just one question. I did happen to notice that your car is parked in the driveway behind the truck. Did the tow truck driver get to your house before you did?

Hours before, I was using the Chevelle as a parts car and to dry it out from Sat.

[RBeckman]

Originally Posted by shadowgray396

Great job. I know on my old suburban I had to pounded on the bottom of the tank up in the woods to get the fuel pump to start to work again when it stop working one time. I had read about it some where and it worked. Save me a tow and I was able to use up the 40 gallons of gas it had in it. Nice looking Chevelle in the back ground.
Ray

I tried that.....did not work plus she is real nervous now driving the truck thinking it won't start again and leave her stranded.

[Hank70SS]

Looks like fun Ric. Now that you have the bed off you could make quite a nice motorhome out of it. I'll shoot you a few pics to give you some ideas. I really like the 2 story models. Start with a pickup camper then top it with a travel trailer. You can add a spiral staircase if you want to get really fancy.

[RBeckman]

Originally Posted by Hank70SS

Looks like fun Ric. Now that you have the bed off you could make quite a nice motorhome out of it. I'll shoot you a few pics to give you some ideas. I really like the 2 story models. Start with a pickup camper then top it with a travel trailer. You can add a spiral staircase if you want to get really fancy.

Hank...to late, I had it apart and fixed and back together in about 3 hours. I tried to talk my Daughter into driving it for a couple days without the bed to make sure that was the issue and she would have none of that.