Haha...thanks for the laughs!
I went and inspected my 'Voy today and I dont know where to go from here
The truck looks the same, heck it might even be cleaner - they just had it detailed! BUT there is a very strong raw gas odor from the gas tank area. My bet is its the ominous fuel pump rust. When the truck wasnt running, the smell went away after a few minutes. But when running it was very strong.
Then, I noticed the coolant reservoir was almost empty. I didn't smell it myself, but my friend said they smelled "burning coolant", and they described it as the smell of when coolant is dripping onto a hot engine/exhaust. I was under the hood and checking everything but couldnt see where the coolant was going, didnt see any puddles, or past leakage points. My worst fear is the line that runs along side the back of the cylinder head. I did have some heater hose leakage when I had the truck. I fixed it by changing the plastic connectors that the hoses clip onto at the heater core. I did check those when I was down there and there was no drippage/signs of past leakage so its not leaking there. The water pump (which I replaced a few years ago) still had no play and there were no signs of spray/leakage there either.
The truck is now missing 1 of the wheel's center cap, needs brake pads soon (lifetime warranty on those! lol), and the front driver side wheel inside is wore out a lot more than the rest of the tire. I had Destination A/T's put on 40,000 miles ago or so and replaced the ball joints/tie rods/upper and lower control arms along with an alignment. The rest of the tires are showing normal wear.
I switched it into 4wd and it took a lot longer than I remember. It seems to have taken 10 seconds. Before I remember it being almost instant..maybe 3-4 seconds max.
In the past 12 months and 15,000 miles it seems they changed the oil on time, replaced the power steering lines and probably when they smelled gas and coolant started disappearing they said "eff this" and put it up for sale.
Im not sure where to go from here.... feedback?
Oh! And the A/C no longer blows cold, which I never had a problem with it ever before. It was always ice freaking cold.
She said it needs recharged (To me, thats the generic statement to use when the A/C is no longer operating for whatever reason - which could be expensive).
The compressor doesn't kick on at all when I commanded it to.
With 15,000 more miles and $1500 cheaper than what I sold it to them for. Ha!
