Recent content by Bernie

Still here in Fredericksburg

Yeah, like I said, it's never been worth the time or trouble to do it, or hire someone to do it since I'm fully disabled now. As far as I know, and according to the GM history on the truck, the entire fuel system was replaced, under warranty, back about 2002 or so. Everything from the IP back...

Yep, it is.

Well, like I said earlier, it's just never annoyed me enough that I had to fix it. The only time it came close was when it stranded me on the side of the road, out of fuel, with a full rear tank. That was because when I fill both tanks and the gauge goes all the way up, it will sometimes just...

But earlier you said the gas version had different resistance values. I'm confused. Or are you saying that the different values are only on the front unit, not the rear? Hmmm, let me think about this from a different angle for a minute... If such a mistake as putting a different resistance...

Not sure if it's even possible, but it sure looks like a gas sender, or even two, instead of a diesel, would cause exactly this problem.

My 99 had the same work done (both sending units and the module, by the dealer when the truck was new) and has always read about a 1/4 tank over full when full. I average 10 mpg and it takes about 125-35 miles to get it back down to the full mark. I also know, from experience, that when it's...

I had a set of BFG Commercial T/A Traction tires on my GMC that did not impress me at all. Traction in snow and mud was just barely "okay" when they were new, but rapidly went to "ha-ha, you're joking, right?" as they wore down. And they wore fast. I managed to get 30k out of them, but they...

We just recently replaced an 8 year-old set of General Grabber AT2 tires on the wife's truck. They had 72k on them and could probably have gone another 10k but the date code indicated they were 11 years old and I don't like running tires past 10 years. Our final opinion on them that they were...

The current plan is for him to repair as much soft tissue damage as possible in my left knee, then 6 months to a year of physical therapy to strengthen it, then a full replacement on it, then the usual PT after, then replace the right after the left is healed enough to function. Right now the...

My surgeon is currently considered to be one of the top ten in the world for this kind of surgery, and has an outstanding reputation with every OR nurse I've spoken with who have worked with him (and I know an awful lot of nurses after 14 years as an EMT). Definitely not a "small town schmuck"...

I wasn't aware that you were an orthopedic surgeon. So, in your professional opinion there's no need at all to repair and rebuild the destroyed muscles and tendons that would be required to support and stabilize the replacements, and without which a replacement really can't be done...

Yeah, it sure is, but at the same time it's a ton of weight off my shoulders too.

This is stuff we should have been doing all along but which got neglected. For example, a couple of exterior door frames will need to be replaced due to rot at the bottoms because I didn't keep up on the exterior painting the way I should have. Same with the landscaping that's all getting...

Well, when it rains, it pours. It seems the move to Alaska is off and a lot of things just came to a screeching halt today. My orthopedic surgeon wants to do immediate surgery to fix some old soft tissue injuries in my knees so I can then do about a year of physical therapy, then do two full...