Finally!

We've been without a working truck for about 2 months now. It is a long story that I really don't want to get too far into. The long and the short of it is; I the throttle stuck and I ended up breaking both motor mounts, the trans mount, the radiator and the cooling fan.

It took about 2 months because I just didn't have the time to work on the truck full time. I could order a few parts, then wait on them, then install them, then move on. On more than on occasion, parts I ordered either subsequently broke, or were not right from the get-go. I even got to reuse an old fan I had with a thermostatic clutch. Of course, the thermostatic part of it was broke. We still don't have a fan shroud, but the outside temps finally feel like fall, so, not having a fan shroud should be of little consequence until summer.

One of the biggest problems has been getting the SOB to "cool" properly. Turns out, the truck was cooling just fine. But the old style mechanical voltage regulator built into the fuel gauge that also powers the temp sensor was failing. I finally smoked it trying to fix it. I then hooked up a semiconductor regulator (after much misinformation) and now things are all good.

Yay truck!