6 Beer Curfew.

Random “WTF” pictures from the “Web-r-net”.
Enjoy.

“When I was your age” they didn’t have alternators, they had generators.
Now that’s out of the way…..
Here’s how my brake down played out, and who is to blame.
Lets say you own a truck, a P.O.S. truck too be exact.
It’s getting harder and harder to crank it up.
Sometimes it catches and sometimes the battery almost goes dead trying.
Then one day it fails to crank at all.
At this point most of us would get a jump and take it in to be fixed.
But you’re broke and apparently know a little about cars.
Now that it’s jumped, it runs but it wount come off the half catch (Medium Idle).
FYI that should have been a pretty big sign, but you (And by YOU, I mean ME) go on about your day as usual.
The truck stops and starts a few times, not well, but no epic failure.
Then comes the trip back to the ranch. All goes well until.
Cough, cough, splutter……..Die……

Information side note:
Generally a carburated car/truck can run without a battery, assuming you don’t draw any power for stupid things like a radio, headlights, turn signals. And assuming you don’t have an ELECTRIC FUEL PUMP!.

So what happened? Yes the alternator was bad (As so many people guessed), but that wouldn’t have gotten you off the side of the road (Smart asses).
The external regulator failed taking out the alternator, the constant cranking took out the starter relay and the unregulated voltage took out the battery. So, several hours in a ditch with a set of wrenches, a hammer and a constant flow of high speed traffic later the truck runs as well as it ever did.
Total cost….$125.00
Not bad.

I hurting, tired and smell a little, but like a wise man said “You got to tough to be a rancher”.

Just for Erik.
I’m sure you’ve seen this, but it’s still funny as hell.

A surprise was waiting in the barn today for us.