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Somebody has to do it, and nobody else volunteers: the fixing saga

skyking1

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Today I fired up the hyster forklift to set up my bucket for some big torch and hammer partying.
As I spotted it on top of the other bucket, I noticed that it really sounded like ass warmed over. Lots of bad rattling sounds coming from under my seat as it were.
The parts guy concurred that it was a bad sound. I grabbed a piece of pipe for a stethoscope but it was hardly needed. The bearings were out on the alternator. Once I took the belt off it was all rattly and bad.
It is a 4 banger chev like a Cavalier engine. It started coming out OK then the stud spun and the wire was way too tight to fight. I lopped it off and went to a real parts house, a auto parts with a machine shop and guys who know what they are doing.
The young guy looked up 1989 Cavalier at my suggestion but the picture was not quite right. The older fella holds it up and says "1991 pickup truck".
Bingo!
I got some #8 wire and connectors to extend it to a sane place to bolt on the wire, as it is tucked under the intake when installed.
That took all the fight out of it. I got it back together and tested good to go.
 

JLarson

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I hate working on regular fork trucks just slightly less then the devil spawn telehandlers :mad:

Hyster still has a thing for the chevys too.
 

skyking1

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yeah, you didn't really think anyone else was going to tackle that did you?
I don't think they have had a fixer of things for years. The old office toilet was buggered up. You know, one of the toilets the service plumbers use? I finally took the lid off the tank as a hint.
 

JLarson

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Plumbers would **** down an open floor flange then fix a toilet they didn't absolutely have too
 

Muffler Bearing

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Mar 26, 2009
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Colorful Colorado
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Truck Mechanic
It's more than being a fixer, it's kind a of a life philosophy. I was thinking about this a minute ago when I reached for the Cherry Bomb shop soap and found it had been empty for a while. I replaced it with a full one, And thought about how long it had been empty, and the idea that every other mech had been given a chance to replace the soap and they chose against it.
Being the guy who does the thing means two things. 1, you're a schmuck for being that guy
and 2, the world won't function without you
 

ianjoub

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Jun 22, 2018
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Homosassa, FL USA
I very purposefully do not return my shopping carts. I shop at Publix here in FL. They are more expensive than Walmart or Winn Dixie. I knowingly pay more money for the friendly faces and clean store. I leave my cart in the parking lot because it creates work for low paying positions that young people (high school kids) and old folks (should be retired but need income) can fill.
 

sfrs4

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Jul 22, 2013
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Great Britian
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parts admin
In the UK we no longer get the choice, each cart is chained to the next, the only way to get a cart is to place a £1 coin in the release mechanism, therefor if you want your £1 back you have to return it to where you got it to lock it to the next cart and release your £1.
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DIYDAVE

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MD
Aldi, here also has the coin carts. When I go there, if I see an abandoned cart, I see a quarter, a piece, in my pocket. So I grab as many as convenient, and pocket the quarters, as soon as I return them. I think it is the best system, be a slob, lose your quarter!:D
 

56wrench

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Ya we have the chained carts here too but there is still the odd store that doesn't have them. Some panhandlers prowl the parking lot and offer to return your cart for you and then they pocket the quarter:rolleyes:
 

Birken Vogt

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Grass Valley, Ca
I hook my cart over a nearby curb to keep it from rolling. I know when I was a kid working in a grocery store I appreciated the occasional stroll around the parking lot to round up carts, over staying in the store with demanding customers and managers.
 
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