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Eric Krewson:
The Honda place soaked me for $1400 before they got done. It was all stuff I could have done myself but I learned from putting a master cylinder on my lady friends 88 model F-150 that I am over the hill as an auto mechanic.  For all of the associated brake bleeding, I had to take both front wheels off to get at the bleeder valves, and crawling around under the truck for a couple of hours plus dealing with VERY rusty, frozen parts that hadn't been off since 1988, this just wasn't my thing anymore. I was so stoved up that I could barely get out of my recliner for over a week.

bjrogg:
I have been driving my 2009 Chevy Silverado with over 200,000 miles on it. I hate to say what it cost me to buy a new 2025 HD 2500. Let’s just say $1,400 doesn’t quite make a monthly payment. Crazy. I hope I can make this my last truck and get a lot of years from it and myself yet. The salt and brine dust around here make it hard to keep a body looking good. Talking about the truck body.lol

Eric I was going to suggest hanging a dead crow in the tree, but looks like you already knew that trick

Bjrogg

sleek:
I just had to do a master cylinder der that decided to threaten to exit the chat on my way home from Miami last weekend. I was torn between pushing it, and vivid images of losing brakes in the snow storm in the middle of nowhere in potential white out conditions....

So I spent 2 hours bleeding brakes before I gave up and took it to a shop. They got me settled and I was on my way. Cost me an extra day but I missed closed highways and white out conditions etc... worked out in the end.

Eric Krewson:
The kit to bleed the master cylinder cost $30-$40, instead of buying this, I bench bled it instead but found after I installed it that I didn't get all of the air out of it so I bled the master cylinder by going through the whole system wheel by wheel over and over. I put 2 qts of fluid through the system before I quit seeing air bubbles. I did have my girlfriend to pump the brakes but had to get out from under the truck and add fluid on every attempt (20 or so times) at bleeding the brakes.

Surprisingly, as much mechanic work as I have done through the years this was my first master cylinder change. I kept up all of my cars and trucks for 40 or more years

Eric Krewson:
After a very strange deer hunting year with acorns so thick they were touching on the ground after they fell out of the tree and the deer going nocturnal in mid November, I got a doe in the hollow below my house on Saturday. With 3 days left in the season and two empty shelves in my freezer I went modern and full on Ghillie suit. I am a very experienced deer hunter, in spite of this I hunted hard and had not seen a deer in two months.

The wind was right as was the moon phase for an afternoon hunt so I gave it one more try and got lucky, finally.

I used my new 3K# deer winch and a Craftsman cordless drill for power to pull the deer across the hollow, across the creek and up the hill to an old logging road where I could get to it with my 4 wheeler. This is a very deep, steep hollow. My 88 TRX model two wheel drive Honda couldn't make it up the steepest part of the hill pulling the deer, its turf like tires couldn't get a grip on the powdery forest floor a would just spin. Fortunately my neighbor was home and has a monster 4X4 quad, he came over and helped me get the deer out with his machine.

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