Today’s job to not volunteer for again!

[billinohio]

My Greek friend has two sterling straight trucks. One of them was giving him all sort of problems and he finally decided it was the computer. He got the old one out, but couldn’t get the new back in. He wasted 8 hours trying.
I looked it up on the internet, and they devoted 4 sentences to the task, basically, take it off, put it back on.
well, I am here to tell you it is a very huge PITA! It is buried behind the starter, hoses, wires, the steering shaft and the frame rail. You just can’t see in there, either.
we worked about 4 hours and finally got it in.
of course, it wouldn’t start…………
it was throwing all sorts of codes, some of which we tried to address. We finally went and stared at the other truck, and it sure looked like one of the wire connectors was not all the way inserted. The bolt was tight, but, after installing it a couple more times, I got it wiggled right and the thing started. Halllelujah!
I still don’t 100% trust that connection, the plug might be boogered a bit, but you really can’t hardly see it to inspect it…….

[Erstwhile]

... one of them days.

[rustyfarmall]

Computers in cars and trucks. UGHHH!!!

[billinohio]

My sentiments exactly! We still have model T Fords running around, but it is absolutely unlikely there will be any 2021 cars in the car shows in 2121. It might be a static display in a museum of antiquities.
But, today, I really don’t care because I absolutely hurt all over from wrestling with that stinking truck…….

[504]

I had a customer,great guy just cheap(like me). inway he had a bad ABS sensor on his Caddy,he replaced it and it was still bad. I looked at it,one pin out of four had bent over when he plugged it in,one pair of needle nose pliers and 5 minutes it worked like it should. I fixed it for free. 6 months later he grabbed the wrong wire at a substation,blew him off the ladder into a coffin.

[Erstwhile]

Electricity was not his field of expertise. 

[RedDave]

As someone who has done work in substations, I can state without fear of contradiction, that grabbing the wrong wire rarely, if ever, leads to a good outcome.

We had a guy who, for some inexplicable reason, put a ladder up against a 13kV generator circuit breaker then climbed up and touched an energized lead. It was on an ungrounded "Y" system, the only ground reference to ground was a high impedance PT on the neutral, so he only got about half nominal voltage with almost no amps and it was a fiberglass ladder. Even so, it was enough to knock his dumb ass off the ladder, we found him laying on the ground beside the ladder. He wasn't dead, but only by dumb luck. Nobody knows what he was thinking. He wasn't a rookie either, he was a long time worker and only a few years from retirement. I think he got on the wrong piece of equipment, thinking it was out of service and de-energized. Just a little mistake, but it damn near killed him. That's life (and sometimes death) around high voltage equipment.