Well, the truck has been checked out and the problem found.
Ouch.
Let’s start with some cuteness, first!
There’s 8 cats in the picture; Midnight is well camouflaged in the lower level!
There were a lot of cats round this morning, so I tried for a head out. I think I counted 30. Hard to say for sure, but I think that’s close.
*sigh*
It was starting to snow when I headed out this morning. The incoming storm is south of us, so light snow is all we got. Not a while lot, but enough that we’ll need to do some shoveling, tomorrow.
With the truck in the shop and not really knowing when they would be able to look at it, I messaged the garage this morning. I have a medical appointment on Monday and was wondering if I should reschedule. In response, I was told they were about to hoist it into the garage, and recommended I wait until he got back to me.
I didn’t hear back until past 4pm. The mechanic that worked on my truck today (one of two that live not far from us) was on the phone much of the day, trying to hunt down the part we needed.
It was the differential.
Yes, they just fixed a leak on it, last week.
The problem seems to be more than the leak being missed, with the messy oil leaks we’ve had to deal with over the past while, but it seems that some of the engine oil got into the differential. Whatever the ultimate cause, it was burned out.
As our vehicle is a 2011, it’s no longer available as a new part (which is probably a good thing for our pocket book), and he spent several hours on the phone hunting one down for us. He finally found one, for $500 and ordered it. The only shipping option was courier, and they didn’t even ship to this town. They did ship to the city they have a second location in now, so that’s where it’s going. Hopefully, it will arrive tomorrow afternoon, then they will bring it to the local garage themselves.
He quoted me for $770 for the job – and they discounted me as much as they could.
He was sure I wouldn’t have to reschedule my appointment on Monday, but we do have the problem of how to get the truck back once it’s done, so I went ahead and rescheduled my appointment anyhow. Just in case.
I was expecting something about the $600, just buy guessing on possible causes, so it’s not really too much of a surprise. Thankfully, my older daughter has been able to send some funds to help out with it by a decent decent amount. Still, after the previous work done on the truck (though at least one job was covered by warranty), it’s been a very expensive winter.
*sigh*
If we can just keep it going for a few more months as we pool our resources, we should be able to buy a replacement from my BIL in the summer.
As long as nothing else major breaks down somewhere!!!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 