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Well, on the way to get Brandizzle's Farfetnugen (that threw the connecting rod through the side of the block) my tow rig (1992 F350 dually 7.3L IDI diesel) decided to start running really bad...needed to change the fuel filter, no biggie, it was time anyways...was stuck on there so I headed to railman's house where we parked the car for the night. Had so much problems "keeping prime" after I changed the filter (or so I thought), turns out the fuel pump went out! Again, no biggie, I got 347,XXX miles on him, I think I got my money's worth out of the pump...So the next morning we get a new pump, and changed it "on side the road" with it being 18* outside 
After about 2 hours or so (stopping evey 5 minutes to jump back into John's truck to thaw out and warm up, I finally get the pump in...Well, couldn't get the filter off to prime it again (tightened too tight from last time of priming) so after the batteries going down from trying to prime I decided to pull start it, I noticed a puddle of oil under the truck, developed a good leak from the oil cooler...After about half a mile of pulling it in gear it finally started up and ran, but had a slight noise in the engine. So we stopped and unhooked the chain, and drove to John's so I can get the trailer and head home...Well, I get about 5 miles down the road (about 2 miles from John's) and it starts to die again 
So at this point I said the hell with it as I knew I'd need to pull the motor, parked the truck and hitched a ride to the house...Started working on Jay's sliders and I got distracted, well now I have a thumb nail in several pieces and cut almost to the bone 
Jay comes over to see whats up and he almost Hurls from the sight of my thumb 
So to end my great day of tragedy, I'll be down for a couple weeks letting my thumb heal
So I will be accepting plenty of
for anesthetics while I heal 
SVT
After about 2 hours or so (stopping evey 5 minutes to jump back into John's truck to thaw out and warm up, I finally get the pump in...Well, couldn't get the filter off to prime it again (tightened too tight from last time of priming) so after the batteries going down from trying to prime I decided to pull start it, I noticed a puddle of oil under the truck, developed a good leak from the oil cooler...After about half a mile of pulling it in gear it finally started up and ran, but had a slight noise in the engine. So we stopped and unhooked the chain, and drove to John's so I can get the trailer and head home...Well, I get about 5 miles down the road (about 2 miles from John's) and it starts to die again So at this point I said the hell with it as I knew I'd need to pull the motor, parked the truck and hitched a ride to the house...Started working on Jay's sliders and I got distracted, well now I have a thumb nail in several pieces and cut almost to the bone Jay comes over to see whats up and he almost Hurls from the sight of my thumb So to end my great day of tragedy, I'll be down for a couple weeks letting my thumb heal So I will be accepting plenty of
for anesthetics while I heal SVT
