timing belt jumped

[IndianaVX]

hey cyronman,
can you email it to me??? bucks are tight till i know what truck repairs gonna cost me, gotta re-up my support here, and cant do it yet.....i weeded out old messages, and still not under limit here......
maroonghia@yahoo.com
thanks, ill be watching for it.
david

[Y33TREKker]

Any chance MagnaFlow would have an applicable high-flow aftermarket catalytic converter for the VX? Maybe something from a Trooper, etc. would be close enough in fit to swap in for the time being?

Either that, or just hollow those suckers out.

[IndianaVX]

after a looooong wait, i got a call tonight. it was the dealer asking what time i wanted to pick my vx up in the morning!!!!!!! Honestly, im scared to death. i asked if they found out what was throwning the codes, and he said it wasnt throwing any codes. hmmmm.......it was throwing codes before the cats went out..........man, i just dont know. my stomach is in knots. i even told him, "as much as i want to pick it up in the morning, do you want to keep it till monday, to make sure timings set alright, and no codes are being thrown?" he said no, its not throwing any codes, come and get it, and if it does ruin these cats, isuzu is payin for it.........i am worried about ruining a vx.

he told me also that isuzu is stamping out my replacement factory cats on the 27th of sept.
I am excited, but it is a muffeled excited, im afraid im gonna be driving home, and not be able to go above 50........keep your fingers crossed

[Y33TREKker]

There are drumrolls......and then there are drumrolls.

No doubt we all know what kind this one is.

[IndianaVX]

YUP, ITS TRUE!!! i went and picked up, (man, i have to come up with a name for her..... lol ) my truck!!!!! and it feels gooooooood. i had almost forgotten how good. so yeah, ive already put 100 miles on her, im driving my wife crazy with the "you thirsty, im thirsty, lets go get a drink." and the "do we need bread? ill go get some..... "
so im pretty happy, but down deep in the dark corners of the vx, the computer looms, just wanting to take my happiness away with a P0154......AWW CRAP, I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT......"honney, i gotta go to autozone, ya wanna go?"
P0154 = 02 sensor no activity bank 2 sensor 1
i figure, no problem, they forgot to plug the 02 sensor in. but the truck is running great!! it was raining, so i didnt crawl under there then. so on the drive back home, it quit raining, so i went to roll my window down, and it seems the glue i used (JB KWICK) had given up on keeping the clips and glass together, and my widow comes off track. well i get home, and crawl under there to plug the thing in, and for some reason they put, what i can only asuume is an 02 sensor, and cut the wires off right at the sensor!!??!!
and there sits my female plug above it getting wet, and dirty. so i cut the male plug off my old sensor and plug it into the female to keep stuff outta there. then it starts sprinkling again, so i do my widow fix in the sprinkles, and actually, the glue i used ELMERS ULTIMATE GLUE (gorilla glue knockoff) needs some water to set up, so it was alright.
but why X100, would they do that, cut those wires, and is the truck going to go up in a puff of smoke? only time will tell, no later than monday morning, when i call the dealership.

but even all this couldnt take the simle off my face. since ive picked it up, my mind has been all a twitter on the things i want to do. i even found myself in radio shack, looking at mercury switches, and lights for etls engine compart light. and oh, my hood insert needs work, gotta get that done, oh, and the magnetic bra.......how those holding up???
ahhhh, its good to be back in the vx again.....

[Ldub]

[IndianaVX]

its funny too, i pulled up on the wrong side to get gas, and i dont care how many times ive done it, but ive forgtten how to set the clock, and to set the clock/station mode......gotta look that up AGAIN.......

man, i love this truck.......

[Chopper]

Wow, been waiting a long time for that post. Congrats brother. O2 sensor is no big deal...you won't become a Car-B-Q. Might not have had an O2 wrench, and cut them...then did a crap job of rejoining them...heat, rain etc. Really bad excuse...but I've certainly seen techs do dumber stuff. Again welcome back to the world of the living.