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- 1994
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I have a rather funny story for you all. Last week I was testing out a throttle body I rebuild for my 4.0L along with my homemade 1" throttle body spacer. I have only been driving the truck for a short time and have always had a bed full of crap. This particular day was the first time I had a clean bed and the truck was at its lightest. I decided to hop on the highway and see how well my newish throttle body and spacer were working. I stomped on the pedal and began slamming through gears and before I knew it I had burried the needle doing well over the displayed 85mph. Things were going great until out of the corner of my eye I noticed my rear windshield go competely black. Upon further turning of my head I noticed my bed liner was now flying through the air right up near the tree tops. I was moving soo fast that I lost sight of it quickly and I pulled over into the break down lane to assess the situation. As I looked back in aw to see if anyone hit the liner, another truck S-10 stopped behind me and started to back up very fast down the breakdown lane. I didnt know why this guy would be doing this unless he was going to take my liner. So like an idiot I backed up as well. I got all the way back to the liner and saw it laying in the dirt on the side of the highway. It seemed that nobody had hit it. But that wasnt all that was sitting on the side of the highway. There was now a state trooper parked next to my bed liner. The officer was in plain clothes and seemed to be very angry as he stepped out of his cruiser and slammed his door. At this point I also notice the remnats of Duck tape flapping in the breeze where the bed liner meet the top of the bed sides. The officer proceeded to yell at me to stay in my car and to gather the usual licence and registration etc. He took my papers and yelled at me for backing down the highway. He also noticed the lovely duck tape and asked what was up with that. I told him that I had no clue who put it there because I never did. I explained to him that the truck had always had weight in the back and I did not know it wasnt anchored down since I had recently come into ownership of the truck. When asked why I illigally backed down the highway, I told him that I was concerned that this man in his S-10 was backing down to steal my bed liner and that my intention was to get off the highway and come back around to make sure nobody hit it and cause a accident. He proceeded to the S-10 driver and took his papers and went to sit in his cruiser. Eventually he came back and let the S-10 driver go then came to me and seemed a little nicer this time. He told me that he would let me off with a warning and said that I could have been fined and had my truck impounded for my actions. He was nice enough to help me put the liner back in my bed. Luckily I had a ratchet strap in the cab to hold it down until I could fashion something a little more perminent.
Well long story short, the bed liner is extremely secure thanks to some half inch hardware and my rebuilt throttle body and spacer work amazing.
Lesson of the day.....Duck tape has many uses, in this case dont try holding in the bed of your truck and then sell the truck to people with out telling them how dumb you are, if you happen to find a use for it in another type of bed then more power to ya!!! You know, if your into that sorta thang.
Well long story short, the bed liner is extremely secure thanks to some half inch hardware and my rebuilt throttle body and spacer work amazing.
Lesson of the day.....Duck tape has many uses, in this case dont try holding in the bed of your truck and then sell the truck to people with out telling them how dumb you are, if you happen to find a use for it in another type of bed then more power to ya!!! You know, if your into that sorta thang.
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