I haven't felt this stupid in many many years!

Don't matter, it's fixed and $300 is cheaper than 5 or 6 the shop would have charged and you only would have gotten half the new parts.

 

Should have one of the Amish guys up there fix it. They won't drive one but some of them are pretty good mechanics!

 

300.00 no biggie....try 3000.00 lol

 

Look at the other side of the coin. You’re learning.

 

You get no Degree from the "College of Hard Knocks."
Welcome.
You're now a Member in good standing.
I once had a brake caliper freeze up on my Tow-truck, and tore it all down to change the rotor,
and caliper, on 19.5 Wheels - the seal looked like new, so put it back together; 2 hour job.
You guessed it, it leaked. *New Rule - new seal every time; (I had gotten away with it before.)
That's 4 hours of my life I'll never get back.

 

Now I'm not really sure what the problem was in the first place.

glad you fixed it, but you also threw parts at it. that'll cost you in the long run, especially when you are low on cash and NEED a repair, that you cannot afford.

i have said it many times, (others have as well), it's a "'good idea" to have "some mechanical knowledge" to do some repairs. but then comes a time to let the professionals do it too.

 

Nothing lost except some time.

It surely would have cost you more at a shop.

Now you know that part of your truck inside out.

Little by little you will get to know the whole thing... And what repairs you will do and what you will send out.

 

Cheaper to change parts at home, than to pay someone on the road.

Time (spent) invested, parts (probably) would have to be changed eventually.

Knowledge acquired, priceless.