Too funny, sad thing is the bass stopped booming about 2 weeks and I don't know why. I haven't had a chance to get in there with a multimeter to see if it's my cabling or what (the box did slide around a few times), but she doesn't go boom-boom anymore and neither does the sub. The joys of being married for 10 years....
Anyway, got the truck running again. I think that's a record for me. Only took me about 3 hours (not counting my supper break) to drop a half-full tank, remove and replace the fuel pump and get her all buttoned up again.
Here's the vast amount of space I had to work with in my garage. This is why I like working on my car more than I like working on her truck. I wish my wife was this dirty...
About 45 minutes later and the tank is dropped. Not so bad this time now that know what I'm doing. That's the stock fuel pump with 110,000 miles on it. I guess it's engineered to die after 100,000 miles and 7 years of service. Piece of GM shit.
I swapped my spare pump assembly in - yes I had a spare fuel pump for my truck - and put everything back together after din-din. She started right up and ran fine. Whew! Glad that problem is solved. Especially since I leave for a 12-day business trip back to Germany tomorrow.
Now here's another reason Altezzas are bad. I've had these lights on the truck for about 2.5 years now. When I was messing around to get the back end of the truck up, I saw this and thought it was condensation at first.
WTF?!
So I look a little closer...
Hmmm. That doesn't look so good. Gonna have to do something about this one. I have never seen tail lights (even cheapo 'tezzas) melt like this before without an external heat source. It's December and I live in England so it's not like they're seeing much direct sunlight.
Melted the freaking bulb right off. Look at this.
So I peek at the other side. Not as bad, but still not good.
The only thing I can figure is that bulbs are much closer on the 'tezzas than on the stockers, so they eventually just melted from the combined heat. Weirdest thing I've ever seen. Going to check the bulbs when I get back from Germany on the 15th to see if they continue to melt.
