Steve
Bronco Guru
...in an EB. We headed to Ouray Saturday morning to get away for the weekend. I had corresponded with Dack ("burntfish" here) about maybe meeting up as he has an EB and wanted to go wheeling. Short story; a few miles from Ouray, pulling the EB on the trailer, the lift pump in my Dodge CTD quit working. When that happens, it will still run, but if you drive very far at all it will destroy the injection pump. The lift pump is "only" $450 
but the injection pump is over $2000.
I managed to get the new part (long story) but had no idea how I was going to replace it in the hotel parking lot since the tank was 3/4 full so it weighed close to 200#. We hooked up with Dack Sunday morning and ran a trail with him and a few other friends. All the while I was worrying about how on earth we'd get the Dodge fixed to head home. Turns out Dack works for CDOT and got permission to use their maintenance shop. With the shop, and Dack, Clint and Mike helping, we got it done in less than 2 hours so we made it home late last night.
HUGE thanks to Dack, Clint (another EB owner) and Mike (JP owner) for your help. There are still some great people around willing to help out, even when you've never even met them before.
but the injection pump is over $2000. I managed to get the new part (long story) but had no idea how I was going to replace it in the hotel parking lot since the tank was 3/4 full so it weighed close to 200#. We hooked up with Dack Sunday morning and ran a trail with him and a few other friends. All the while I was worrying about how on earth we'd get the Dodge fixed to head home. Turns out Dack works for CDOT and got permission to use their maintenance shop. With the shop, and Dack, Clint and Mike helping, we got it done in less than 2 hours so we made it home late last night.
HUGE thanks to Dack, Clint (another EB owner) and Mike (JP owner) for your help. There are still some great people around willing to help out, even when you've never even met them before.
