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Friday, July 13, 2012

My Rig


So a few months ago we started having issues with our rig.. Occassional bucking and loss of power.. Well we just kinda dealt with it.. Then a few weeks ago I went to leave and it wouldn't start.. The battery was dead.. Tim got it charged later, but then that weekend I went to head out again and the same thing.. Tyrel got it charged and so we were able to leave.. On the way home one day Tim stopped and had it tested.. the results came back that the battery and alternater were fine.. So Tim started googling possible reasons for that.. Looked like something was draining the battery so he tried all different things, unplugging this and that.. Still would be dead when we would try to start it.. I had to cancel a few things because of it, so I have been getting very frustrated!! Plus the bucking etc. was getting worse and worse.. So on Wednesday Tim got home from work early so he decided to bring it in to get a full diagnostics of it.. Weeelllllll...... they said the battery was completely gone (goes to show you can't always trust a first opinion) and it needed a tune up.. Tim bought the parts and changed them that evening.. Thursday we were able to pull the boat to the water and it was nice!! Such a relief to have it fixed (knock on wood..gonna take awhile for me to fully believe it's fine) and with 193,000 miles on it, it is sure nice that all that was wrong was the need for a tune up!

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