There are drumrolls......and then there are drumrolls.
No doubt we all know what kind this one is.
Super VXer
There are drumrolls......and then there are drumrolls.
No doubt we all know what kind this one is.
Super VXer
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.....
Super VXer
Super VXer
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.......
Super VXer
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.
Super VXer
awesome! glad to hear you got it back... very strange about the o2 sensor... buddy of mine had his front radiator support replaced a couople years ago.. got his car back and they had cut the wires to the electric fan... who knows why people do things
p.s. the magnet bra is holding up great... i emailed bob the other day.. email got bounced back to me saying his inbox was full.. but he still replied a couple of days later so i dunno if that was just a mistake or what.. but if you cant get ahold of him for whatever reason let me know, ive got a second bra in the box i would consider selling (still undecided but pm me and we'll talk if you can't get one from bob)
"Engineers believe if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"
Super VXer
Welcome back to the living Indy.
I thought I was going through withdrawals with my Proton down for the better part of 2 months with bad CVs. Life's great when you're driving a VX.
Super VXer
well, in what i hope is the last installment of this ordeal, i think its REALLY over.
i just got back from the isuzu dealer with my new factory cats installed, so new, they still stink! (gotta burn off for a bit) but they are on there. the dealer also put new 02 sensors, and some gaskets as well.
ALL UNDER WARRANTY
also, this past weekend, took a road trip and got 360 miles on a fill up.
it was pretty much all highway with ac running, going about 65. and at that time only one cat was replaced, so now with both on there, maybe it will get a little better even.
and so, dave, and his beloved vx lived happily ever after.......
also, just to give some more cudos to the guys at bob rhorman isuzu, great bunch, good work, and great to work with. thanks especially to Jim, the service manager. also he told me that there had been 2 other vx's stop in there for work in the month that he had mine. he said one was set up for some "major offroading"! so i gave him some cards to hand out to fellow vxr's.
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