Well I did it to myself

I will get it fixed, but I have to get back to my regular job on Monday morning. I had planned to be home by Sunday from driving it, but that’s squashed.

 

How bad is this 2nd leak? Check the harness coming out of the valve cover and follow it. If its all gross there, if this truck has an MP8 (D13) or MP10 (D16) it is a common spot and will eventually wick oil down the harness to ecm etc.

 

Blairandgretchen, I am intrigued by your post.

Just out of curiosity, do you own a storage lot for semi-trucks or what?

Do you even know Gumper in real life? If you don't, you sure have a lot of trust in a stranger on a message board on the internet.

 

Why? Just so one can park their truck until they figure something out? I figured they can park it somewhere, I’m about 90 miles from Memphis, but live out in middle if nowhere outside of Newport, AR but it could be parked there on gravel if needed, but no one’s around to give a ride right now, but I’ll be in about 1700-1730 everyone else gone visiting family.
Then just a motel, so I had nothing but parking to offer, no bus/airport nearby, that’d be little rock/memphis

 

Why do you want to have some stranger off the internet on your private property?

 

Why would you be scared to?

 

my nearest neighbor is 1 mile away..
have you not ever helped anyone out before? I gave a driver a ride from Fremont, NE to Joplin, MO about a year ago, dudes engine blew up, I just happened to be at the same shop for repair.

I drove about 120 miles out of route cause he didn’t have anybody to come get him even when I made it to my turn off. Just caused to me to unload the next morning instead of that night, but someone was not stranded 400 miles from home.

 

I was approached by a trucker at a truck stop in Alpine, WY and he asked if I could give him a ride to Rexburg, ID since I was going that way anyway, which I did. It’s just common decency to help another out when they’re having a bad time. Sure he could have been a serial killer, but the odds of two serial killers being at the same spot at the same time are astronomical..

..that last part was a joke.

I will say that everyone in the South has been exceptionally helpful. When I was fixing the turbo line at the parking lot at Oreillys I had another trucker from Oxford volunteer to give me a hand until I was back on the road. Then the guy at the store cleaned up my oil mess for me.

 

Some stranger off the internet might be a serial killer. It could be Jeffrey Dahmer. He might kill me. If I had a wife and children, he might molest my children or rape my wife, or he might kill my wife and children.

He might steal something from me.

He might find documents with my personal information on them while he is on my property and commit identity theft against me.

He might get mad at me about something and vandalize my property.

I am a true crime addict. People get victimized by strangers that they are helping all the time.

I wouldn't dare let some stranger onto my personal property.

 

He might be a new friend or acquaintance
He might leave his teeth all over my driveway
Those are the two extremes. Outside those brackets is fantasy.