Greetings and Salutations!
Gah!
I hate to let it go as I really enjoy shooting it, but the Ishapore RFI 2A1 is up for grabs!
The Rules:
You have to be over 18 and be able to accept a transfer from a FFL Dealer. No FFL info = No Rifle
This means passing the the FFL background check is called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), SO if you can’t legally own it, don’t enter!
The Raffle will run from Tonight May 12, at the Poasting of this Until Next Friday, May 23rd where the winner will be randomly selected by Sapper from a good old M1 Army Helmet.
Raffle Entries are
$10 for One,
$25 for 3,
$50 for 7, and
$100 for 15.
The $$$ is done thru my Paypal at
theintrepidreporter2019@gmail.com
Make sure you include your Name and Email Addy so I can contact you IF you win, so as to set up the delivery.
The reason for this is we had an unexpected setback here financially at the Casa. This past weekend on Saturday Night on the way back from Pizza and Brewskis, Sapper’s truck shit the bed. The problem is Gretchen is currently ‘out-of-pocket’ on a Secret Squirrel Mission and will be for a few weeks possibly with OUR ride.
We had to sit in the pouring rain for like two exceptionally humid and shitty hours (lost my buzz dammit!) until AAA got a tow truck there and got us back to the crib. I’m renting a wreck tomorrow, and we figured out Sunday that it’s the fuel pump that’s crapped out. That’s going to take a lot of effort and work to do (as we’re going to –try- to do it in the driveway as we both ‘turn our own wrenches’.
Still, the renting of a wreck is going to ding the pocketbook. So hence the raffle. Plus we’re going to need to do a lot of running around methinks, as all projects like this invariably require multiple trips to the pieces-parts houses. Nevermind that I have a bunch of VA appointments this week…
Bad timing for this Aye?
So I’ll update you more on how things go as we putter along here. Good Luck on the raffle and may the odds forever be in your Favor!
More Later
Big Country
Gloom despair and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Gloom despair and agony on me
Yes, I’m old enough to remember HEE HAW
Howabout “Bad-Luck Shleprock” on the Flinstones Kids?
BR 549
Dang. and I killed my Pay Pal account. Almost hate to get it going again as that was getting some really freaky shit.
If I can figure out how to pay that address I’m in for $50.
any other way to send bucks ? I always been a bit on the shy side when it comes to putting my banking info out there in the online world. not that I NEED another rifle, you understand as the damn safe is
kind of full as it is. (small safe, really) and it does seem like Murphy is YOUR best friend. he comes so often.
BUT, it is a nice rifle and you did do a great job on it.
So, sounds like Crufflers need not apply?
Also, fuel pumps are easy; the older the vehicle, the easier.
Electric fuel pumps in the tank aren’t so easy. Step 1 = Drop the tank
Helluva lot easier when you don’t live in the Rust Belt and have to battle crap dropping in your eyes as you snap the studs hanging the tank straps up.
Or the bed bolts snap because you only have 8 of them to take out…
Step Zero, drain all the fuel.
Not so easy.
depends, Toyotas used to have a bolt down plates over the fuel pump. or they did on my 2 old 4runners. check to see if it has power first.
and rock auto has the lowest prices on parts I have found. shipping might cost ya if you needed
like yesterday though.
Fuel pumps aren’t as bad as you think, if you need to drop the tank put the car on jack stands and rent/beg/borrow a motorcycle jack with some tie down straps. Your old neighborhood bikers can probably hook you up. Even RUBs have a bike jack though. A cheap harbor freight hand pump, $5 to $10, will help tremendously if you have another vehicle or gas cans to empty the tank into. An empty tank is much easier to handle. Use a brass drift for the lock ring but a cutoff broom stick and mallet will do in a pinch. Have done 4 of them.
If you’re white trash like me,and the truck is a POS like mine, you take a whizzer wheel on a grinder and cut an access hole in the bed. 3 sides, pry it back, change pump, hammer back into place. 2hr job and no need to lay on the ground.
Will mail a check as I don’t use Paypal. Dude I think you need to sage your house or hire an exorcist.
Just throwing it out there, I’d check the fuel filter before pulling the fuel pump. Maybe you have already thought of that. Wishing you luck.
And the fuel pump relays, just swap them around in the under the hood fuse box.
You know cartoons used to do that gag where the character of focus had an angel sitting on one shoulder, and a devil sitting on the other? W ell, BC has Murphy (shall we just agree to portray him as a really shitty leprechaun?) sitting on both shoulders, and a third one behind him kicking his ass with a size 12 steel toe.
I just recently did a fuel pump, sending unit and some new fuel line on a nearly 40 year old car I have in my collection. It positively sucked flat backing it on the driveway trying to get it all done. Alas, I’m not in a position to go in on the raffle, my wallet just got raped last week with a fun, new crisis that came out of nowhere. Sumbitch.
No Prob bro! All good!
One Benjamin sent for a good cause.
Get it fixed bro. Wish I was not so damn far away seeing as I have a pretty good workshop on hand.
Borrow q pressure gauge and check the fuel pressure at the engine manifold before you assume it is the pump.
Use the OBD scanner 😉
Fair winds.
Appreciated and that’s how we figured it out LOL!
Does a C and R FFL qualify
Not interested in the rifle, I want to offer you for free, 2001 Chevy camper van, it’s got the vortex 350 with around 50 k. I’ve been chatting with one of these vet groups were a guy donates their vehicle for vets. It’s a bullshit scam, so I’m looking to give the van to a fellow vet.
This isn’t perfect , it has a vacuum leak, only noticeable with the AC on. This vans a sleeper, outsides ok, the inside tits! Got the electric bed in the back with four captains seats. New tires, runs smooth. The Van has the factory tow package.
It’s yours if you’re willing to come get it. WTF nice road trip this time of year.
This is what my grand kids call “ The Shaggin Wagon”, I had one in high school, 350, headers dual pipes long bed, diamond tuck n roll, sunroof, Krieger rims, shag carpet, and a monster stereo. And three on the tree! Yea, I know!
We bought it from the neighbors, runs well. It will require due diligence. It’s in so Oregon. Yea that’s along ways. Vans valued at 7/8 k.
It’s free. No worries if you’re not interested. Eventually this van will go to a fellow 100% disabled vet, who is down on their luck.
Dirk
Secret to “easy” fuel pump replacement on pickup trucks is to unbolt the entire bed and temove it6-8 bolts and they lift right off. Them the fuel pump access is right out in the open and you go at it from above, no messing with draining the tank and all the trouble of removing it.
Another test for the fuel pump is to punch the bottom of the tank while cranking it over, the sudden bump in pressure will cause the engine to kick over eliminating possible filter and elevtronic problems.
This is the way to do it. And while you have the bed off, you have access to clean and remove rust, too…
So there I was in Western Australia, 70 miles from the nearest pavement rebuilding the fuel pump on my Land Cruiser. I placed the small return spring into it’s recess in the pump housing when ‘ping’ the spring disappeared into the Spinifex grass leaving me marooned. An hour later I had found a replacement in a dark corner of my tool box. It took some stretching but the spring worked for the next 6 months.
That’s funny, I’m currently rebuilding my 1979 Toyota Land Cruiser fuel system, and I might drop the pan put a new oil pressure sending unit and oils slinger. We purchased in 83 post Navy.
Surgery after surgery after surgery has kept my ability to work on these things. Way down.
Dirk
Did the fuel tank in my Dodge 1500 in a couple hours. Looks scarier than it is. Having a good floor-jack or transmission jack will greatly assist in raising and lowering the tank!
On the plus side, snap a few pics of the action, you got yourself a new poast!
Sounds awesome, can’t beat a raffle for a good cause. I’m in for sure.
Driving buzzed is driving drunk. Maybe God was trying to tell you something ?
Sapper was driving. It’s his truck so yeah, I had a buzz. Your point? Know the facts jack.
Gawd, ewe sure are a judgemental fudd aren’t you? I read the same words you did in his post and nowhere did I get the impression that he was driving. Ewe seam really, really vaxxed.
Done, sent raffle money.
Best of luck to you & Sapper.
Thanks Fren!
I sent you a Benjamin. Accidently also sent you an invoice for 100 fedbux so ignore that. If I win I’ll make arrangements at my local FFL for it to be shipped to.
Ahhhh K… I was all confus-ed like WTF???
lol I’m old. Technology boggles my mind sometimes
don’t do paypal. send a mailing addy and I’ll send some loot. thanx.
I used to see port guards (guards, heh) in India carrying rifles similar to this one. This was back in the early 2000s, at our various portcalls, refueling stops, crewchanges, etc. None of those rifles looked as good as your refinished one, most were one or two steps above the donor rifles you started with, minus all the cosmoline.
Not sure whether they were .303 or .308.
How about Zelle? All the cool kids are using it these dayz. An email or phone and banks that talk to each other . Sure you’ve heard of it?
before you drop the fuel tank, make sure it is not simple bad electrical connection.
Check all the wire harness grounds to chassis, underneath. You know, the bottom of the car?
I had this experience. Jeep kept doing random stall. I forget what lead me to the fuel pump, but I spent about a grand for a new pump, skinned a knuckle or three dropping the tank and and re-installing it.
With pump out of the car, I sh$trigged it to 12V and it purred like a kitten. F&ck. a short time later the dang thing stalled in a station while I was filling up. I explained my trials and tribulations to the nice proprietor (this was one of the few remaining stations that had not gone “big oil” or rooshan or venezuelan) and he used his little tow motor to put the car on the lift, poked around underneath with a trouble light – wiggled wires and then shazam! he had a wire pulled off of somewhere, and he did not have to pull hard to get it loose. He put a new crimp connector on it and that was that.
So – try to be sure you do not have an electrical connection problem before you knock yourselves out replacing the pump, because maybe the pump does not need replacing.
GREATLY Appreciated!