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  1. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Last week I reported this incident to the sheriff's department back in Colobraska. A few minutes later I got a call back from the local PD. (It seems the hotel is within the city limits). The officer I spoke to was very interested in this incident and wanted pictures of...
  2. MarkB_MI

    Ford 4600 Small bubbles in Coolant

    A cooling system pressure tester will reveal the truth.
  3. MarkB_MI

    Vom recommendations

    I've been very happy with the Klein meter I picked up at HD that I keep in my RV. For around a hundred bucks it will do anything a three hundred dollar Fluke will. My main meter is a Fluke 77 from the early nineties; it's pretty much bulletproof but very dated in its capabilities. I recommend...
  4. MarkB_MI

    Flame paint job on new JD combine

    I'll add that in the case of Amazon, you don't need to include the full URL. Everything after the alphanumeric listing ID is tracking information that tells Amazon how you got to the listing. Just copy the first part of the URL, but drop everything after the listing ID. Not only is the URL...
  5. MarkB_MI

    Chard Coffee grounds in concrete

    I know you can make coffee from chicory, but chard coffee is new to me. Where can I get some?
  6. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    The tailgate was locked, and it would have taken too long to steal the spare, considering an old tire mounted on a steel rim isn't worth much. It seems the intent was to strand me 1200 miles from home someplace where it would be difficult to get my vehicle repaired. Yeah, I think they knew...
  7. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    SECOND UPDATE: My truck had a check engine light for most of the trip home, so last Monday I dropped it off at the shop where I usually have it worked on. It's an Isuzu truck dealership owned by the nearby Chevy dealer, so pretty much all they work on is Duramax-powered trucks. I told the...
  8. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    You think so? Let's do the math: Emissions system repair: $630 Backup camera: $125 (This is buying it off Amazon and replacing it myself; list price is $186 and labor would be another hundred bucks or so.) Valve stem replacement: $25 Car rental: $250 Three extra hotel nights: $400 Added...
  9. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    Not to my knowledge, and I stayed there two more days.
  10. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    UPDATE: I got a call from my sister last night. It seems her ex-lessee is IN JAIL. We don't know what the charges are, but the scuttlebutt around town was that he was under investigation for insurance fraud. He had a reputation for cashing insurance company checks without bothering to...
  11. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    Hard to prove vandalism caused the limp mode problem. And I never filed a police report. I suppose the total repair cost will exceed my deductible, but not by much.
  12. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    I don't think the ex-tenants draw much of a distinction between me and my sister. For one thing, I inspected the property a couple of times last year and I'm sure they know I didn't give a positive report to my sister (who lives in Arizona). My truck was easily identifiable due to the Michigan...
  13. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    Few if any squirrels around my sister's place or the hotel where I stayed. (Now packrats, on the other hand...) The dozens of squirrels at our place in Michigan have had almost ten years to chew up my truck, but so far have left it alone.
  14. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    That did occur to me. One would think a potential thief would check to see if the tailgate was unlocked before trying to steal it, but maybe not. If the other two issues hadn't occurred at about the same time, I'd be inclined to think it was a botched theft attempt. But three separate...
  15. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    If you think I was gouged on the price, I'd say that's far from the case. Six hundred bucks to find and repair a wiring problem in a modern vehicle is a pretty fair price, in my opinion. Their original estimate was $1300, including a new sensor. They could have told me they replaced the...
  16. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    I'll add that I'm not 100 percent certain that the repair was made to the particulate matter sensor harness, since I can't find any evidence of repair there. Coupled with the technician's initial diagnosis that the problem was an EGT sensor, he might have mistakenly identified the wrong sensor...
  17. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    No I didn't. Which one would expect. And although it wouldn't be unusual to hit debris on a 1200 mile trip, I'm pretty sure I didn't. The ex-tenants paid a local wrecker company to haul their junk cars to their new location. They sold the scrap metal and auto parts to people who came and got...
  18. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    The broken conductor was between the particulate matter sensor and the fuel pump controller. The sensor is the last one in the exhaust pipe, near the rear axle, while the controller is above the spare tire. I'm unsure where the actual repair was made. The harness was cut right behind the...
  19. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    Had someone slashed a tire or busted my windshield I would have gone straight to the sheriff's office and filed a complaint with the same deputies who had served a writ of restitution three days earlier. And they would have immediately identified two prime suspects.
  20. MarkB_MI

    Sabotage?!

    Two weeks ago I loaded up my 2017 Silverado 2500HD Duramax with tools and headed out to Colobraska to help my sister with an eviction. She was renting her property and commercial building to a body repairman/shade-tree mechanic, but he wasn't paying rent, refused to get insurance and had turned...
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