This is why I like old trucks, I can't even reach the dipstick in my moms truck (2011 F-250, stock ride height). My truck has around 8 fuses in the box and a couple inline, so it's usually easy to find a fuse problem lol.
This brings to mind the time one of my buddies got hung up and he calls me to get him out. He tells me he got hung up turning around off a highway that goes out of my town, but he specifically states not to bring my truck. Well my buddy I'm with at the time or myself have another truck to bring, so we think to ourselves "he was turning around off the highway" he's got to be close to the road we'll just bring a long chain and I can pull him out from the road (keep in mind my truck is a 86 F-250 dually, 2WD, diesel, it sinks in mud like a rock in water).
Well we show up to pull him out and "just off the highway" is 150 yards out in the middle of a swamp... So I call my other buddy and ask if he has something that can pull the stuck buddy out (this is the same guy that has decided the solution to not having to mow his yard is to cover it in auto parts...). So he shows up and hooks up to the stuck truck and starts pulling but his 4WD isn't locked in, so I yell at him and tell him his 4WD didn't lock. (This is the part truck fuses reminded me of) So he says "oh I forgot I have to swap the radio fuse back and forth between the 4WD locker cuz it's blown...". All and all the stuck truck (Dodge) ended up blowing a transmission and the pull truck (Chevy) ended up blowing a motor.
The moral of the story is; don't turn around in a swamp... if you don't have mudgrips, your a redneck if can not have radio or 4wd at the same time; and don't drive a Dodge or a Chevy because they blow motors and trannies
JK BUILT FORD TOUGH!
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