On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:07:47 -0400, micky
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In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 11 Jun 2021 23:12:07 -0400, Clare Snyder
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:07:44 -0400, micky
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In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 11 Jun 2021 04:44:25 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:46:17 -0500, Jim Joyce
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:14:21 -0400, micky wrote:

I borrowed a pickup to take junk to the dump, and it's been working fine
for 2 days. Today, on my second trip to recycling, on the Xway, it lost
power, and I was slowing down. I pulled to the shoulder and let it idle.

My first thought, reading this so far, is that it's a fuel issue. Clogged
fuel filter, contaminated fuel, plugged fuel line, water in the fuel,
something like that. The fuel pump isn't ruled out yet, either.

Maybe.

An engine that starts and idles without any issues, but runs out of power
at higher RPM, screams fuel to me.

Automatic transmission, I noticed that I'd probably been in 2nd for 5
miles. Is that likely to cause this problem? (FWIW I couldn't see the
gear indicator from where I was sitting, and it was tricky to get it to
engage in any gear.)

I don't fully understand that. If the Xway is the freeway,

Yes. They don't call them freeways here. They're all free except there
is one toll on I-95 in Cecil County.

I assume you'd
have noticed that the engine was running at a higher RPM than normal. Even

The truck makes a lot of noise. It might have been making more than
usual, but I didn't notice.


so, I wouldn't expect 2nd gear (with an auto trans) would cause any lasting
issues. If the engine was starved for fuel, the higher RPM caused by
running in 2nd gear might have made things more noticeable.

The engine temp, oil pressure were normal. I followed the shoulder to
the exit, about 4 miles before I would have gotten off, and I was able
to go 30mph but probably no more. Stopped at a 7-11 and bought
transmission fluid,

Transmission fluid for THIS vehicle? Why?

Because that's the only thing I'm competent to do to fix a transmission

Is this related to the cryptic
statement above about it being tricky to get it into gear? I assumed that

Tricky to get into gear just relates to the shift lever. I had to put
it in exactly the right spot. Sometimes it seemed right according to my
arm, but I'd have to push it just a little higher** to go into Drive.
Reverse too was like that. **Shift is on the steering column. I had to
lean forward to see the indicator.


was because you had the cab area full of crap to be recycled.

I only had 5 lightbulbs, old batteries, and a cell phone in the cab. ;-)


but I coudln't find the under-hood release (only the

I had found the right under-hood release. Just had to push the hood
down a bit to be able to push it. Hood stays up on its own, but was
hard to push shut. The corners near the windshield are bent before
I got the truck. I don't know how that could happen.

My friend uses it to haul things including loads of dirt, plus I think
he has or borrows a horse trailer that he pulls sometimes. I think he
transports rescue horses occasionally.

in-car release.) I also couldn't find the 4-way flasher or the
windshield washer!!

Found them!

Sounds like a "no inspection" state - and a Junker truck. Must have
looked right "at home" at the scrapyard - - -

In Maryland cars only have to be inspected when sold. Although if a cop
notices a violation of the inspection rules, he can order it to get
repaired. You get maybe 2 weeks to appear at a police station and show
that indeed you've repaired it.

If it's a minor issue here you get a week or so - Major they pull the
plates and call a tow truck - AND write you up.

I'm not sure getting the shift lever right is even in the list when
there is an inspection.
Yes it is - at least here in Ontario

Plus I opened the hood (not easy) and coudln't shut it on one side.
Turns out of of the hinge links was broken off and had moved into the
way of the other. I put it where it shoudl be and used WD-40 and the
hood worked fine after that. (another thing that woudln't get noticed
by a cop, or listed in the inspection checklist)

Hood latches and hinges ARE part of inspection, generally. Definitely
are in Ontario.. Trucks are targetted by "blitzes" every year looking
for unsafe trucks - commercial or not

The rear corners of the hood were bent. I can't imagine how that
happened, and it may have been that way when he bought the car.

The latch let go at speed anf the hood went up.

But he tells me he uses regular gasoline, and only uses ethyl when he
pulls the horse trailer, especially when he goes uphill to the Catoctin
Mountains.

Trucks towing 2 axle trailers ALL require inspection twice a year here
and the inspections are THOROUGH

He has another newer pickup too, but I woudln't want to borrow that. And
a Lincoln Continental. And I think he still has the 65 Buick
convertible. His wife, who can from an upper-middle-income family and
who is an M.D. herself, said she knew when she married him that she'd
never own another new car. And she doesn't.

He has and uses a John Deere tractor with a hydraulic bucket from the
1950's.

Truck ran fine after limp-in mode was reset.