Car ?'s

BrutulTM said:

UTV prices are totally out of hand, especially since the reliability is crap on all of them. They're really handy though. When ours are in the shop (which they are often) you should hear people crying about not being able to use them.

I'm curious about the electric bikes too. I've had some hunters bring them out and they seem pretty cool for running around. Of course the downside is that you can't carry anything or bring your dog.

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Retired Coastie in the neighborhood has an electric 3 wheel bike. Hauls ass all around town in it. Much faster than I would have thought.

There are a bunch of options like this around:

Seems like the usual price checking a few US dealers.

So uncle of my wife was at her brothers birthday a month or so ago. He mentioned he had his moms (Wifes grandmas, RIP) old 2002 ford Tarus he wanted to get rid of. The battery was dead and he just didnt want to deal with it anymore since he didnt need 2 vehicles anyway. So im thinking cool car for one of my kids. No rust on body, gartage kept, interior clean as a whistle and 85K miles on it. He wanted $400 for it, lol.

Anyway we go to his house to pick it up, do the deal, get a new battery in it and it starts up but sputtering and idling kinda rough. He said the thing had not driven in about a year and change. So we take off and about 2 miles down the road, I go to pass someone, step on the gas and the thing literally dies. I just had enough momentum to pull in a parking lot, thank god. Got it towed the next day to my house for $170.

So im thinking fuel pump, fuel filter? Something along those lines. He also mentioned the gas tank had a leak in it. So I ordered a new tank along with a new fuel pump sender unit, straps, all that jazz, about $250.
Bolts holding the tank straps were corroded to all hells, one came off with a bolt removal tool, the other one we had to grind off. But got the tank out. Turns out the leak was in the seam. 20 something years in MI winters I guess will do that.

Took all the BS off the old tank (sensors and shit) and installed it on the new one and just waiting for a new connector hose from tank to filler tube. Im thinking for $20 why not change it out, the old one was ratty as hell.

So thats where were at right now. Will update with progress maybe next week when we put the new tank on. All in all it was pretty simple job aside the stupid bolts holding the strap. Prob would cost about $1500-$2000 to get the shit fixed in a shop.

Update: new gas tank all populated…

LOL its brand new. Only older parts on there are the cleaned up tubes and sensors. I took it out of the box and it was just a convenient well lit place to do it.

Getting my Tundra this month. Paying cash. Feels good.