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96DiscoSE7

96DiscoSE7

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going up the highway at a good clip....first came the smell...the sweet smell...then a steam trail billowing ....pulled off the highway and she was bone dry and hot as Hades, filled up with water and drove home another 30 miles....checked oil and trans fluid, perfect, added some coolant and found a seam crack on the tank, switched it out, refilled with coolant and after a little bleeding/purging the level is the same as last night....
after it failed and we were pulling into a parking lot to fill it my wife did look at me and say with a stern look on her face..."we are not fixing this fucking pig anymore....";)
 
Blue

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96DiscoSE7 said:
going up the highway at a good clip....first came the smell...the sweet smell...then a steam trail billowing ....pulled

after it failed and we were pulling into a parking lot to fill it my wife did look at me and say with a stern look on her face..."we are not fixing this fucking pig anymore....";)
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LOL....your wife is in the initial stages of denial. Don't worry, she'll come around. Wash it and wax it (the truck, not your wife) and then take her to a nice dinner. And keep your fingers crossed that the pig doesn't take a dive on the way to dinner....
 
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p m

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Blue said:
Wash it and wax it (the truck, not your wife)
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If one's wife is a native English speaker, referring to her as to "it" would probably have some repercussions...

.. that said, my wife said during our last trip that she's not riding with me in that truck anymore. And she was the one who put at least 100kmi on this truck, out of 218...
 
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If I ever have to fix something on the truck, all I need to do is remind SWMBO that the good lil' Disco carried our belongings and family across this great nation not once, but TWICE without fail (unless you count leaking oil cooler lines), and is more efficient, less expensive, easier to fix, more capable, and most importantly, much, MUCH cooler than the vast majority of other trucks in its class. All of these things make up for its shortcomings in reliability, which, really, aren't all that bad. Hell, everything breaks, even Toyotas.
 
no694terry

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my truck actually turns my wife on, she says "...its such a manly truck" but she sure as hell dont go anywhere far in it with me though. i think she stares at the oil pressure gauge more than i do.
 
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discostew

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My wife loves these things. When her 96 disco took a shit and was to rusted out to put money in she had me go find her a 99sd. I lifted it and fixed all the leaks . Put poly bushings in it and some BF Goodrich comercial ta's on it. Kept the 96 for a parts truck. She drives an LR3 in the summer and her disco in the winter. I've been fixing these things in dealers since the mid 90's so keeping her in this stuff is pretty easy. She cried real tears when I told her the 96 wasnt going to get fixed again.
 
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