Beefcake's Good Idea....What's Your Best Truck Won't Start Story?

[70cst]

I bought my 70cst about four years ago in Celina Tn which is about a 6-7 hour drive from my home. I found her through the Tradin Times. I had been looking for a mid fifties chevy truck but I had educated myself on the 67-72 trucks also. The ad read...For Sale: 1970cst chevy, 402bb,auto,buckets,ac,tach,etc...that ad got my attention so I went out to check her out. Needless to say I knew this was the truck...so I put down a deposit and went back down about three weeks later to pick her up. My son drove his S10 down and he was going to follow me home. I picked up the "Circuit Rider" and started to drive home with my son following me. I stopped to get my first tank of gas and would you believe it...she would not start. Can we say "Bad starter?" I had to leave the truck with a guy who lived across the road from the Stop-N-Go...He said he could fix her up if I left the truck with him for a few days. Soooooo...Two weeks later I drove back down with my son to pick up the truck...a six hour plus drive. Then on the way home the alternator started to go out. I was able to get home but it really bites when your son says.."Dad...Why didn't you get a real truck like his S10?" Needless to say my Son no longer has his S10 but I still have my 70cst and my son says this ole truck rocks!! (I wonder if the 402BB has anything to do with his conversion?) That makes sense since Chevy Trucks are built like a rock?
The Circuit Rider lives!!!



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[SWEET7T]

I was in my '90 Ford and picked up my girl to go wheeling during a half day at high school. Go back out and climb in and nothing. Everything turned on, but the engine wouldn't crank. I got out and knocked on the starter solenoid, still no crank. WTF? Ok, I get out my trusty little Leatherman Micra and jump the solenoid to start the truck. I didn't have a meter or test light to see if I was getting power from the ignition switch to the solenoid. I was like screw it, we can start it this way, we're going wheeling!!! Come to find out, my ignition switch just pretty much yardsaled inside the column and while I was out fooling around the steering wheel locked up on me!!!

Had to call a friend and have him bring my steering wheel puller so I could get to the lock and rig it so it wouldn't lock so I could get home!

[70cst]

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[Huck]

MY SWB wouldn't start so I changed out the HEI module. No start--no spark---. Bought a new module and when to put that in only to find the screws that hold the HEI module--laying on top of the intake manifold---replaced the screws----->Varoooom!!

[bad 71 chevy]

it was about 1:00 in the morn and i was going home and stoped at a gas station to get gas. when i got done an payed i went back out to start and nothing happend when i turend the key. poped the hood and the wire conecter had broke off the back of the starter well needless to say i puled out a screw driver jumped it and drove home

[lukecp]

Shortly after i bought my '72, on a weeknight in the evening, i was driving through my small hometown after dropping off a friend at his house. I stop at the 4-way intersection in the center of town, give it gas and the truck just died. Tried to crank it back over and it made this god-awful racket. Sat there blocking the intersection for about 5 minutes, then someone i knew happened to show up behind me, and gave me a push with his bumper across the intersection and i parked along the street. Turned out the timing chain slipped. Towed it over to a friends house, put in a new chain with their help (i was younger and didn't know crap back then).

[krue]

My story is PG-13 rated. My old 69 swb Chevy died on me during a date. Pulled into a parking lot under a street light and tinkered for a little while, but no go. Since it was cold my date and I crawled under the blanket I had over the seat. One thing led to another....... Afterwards she went behind some bushes to pee, and I decided to try cranking the truck....it cranked right up. Boy was my girlfriend mad at me. That was a good truck.

[orange72350]

haha. this one really boggled my mind. I went out to start the new engine one day,. Turn key, and i got power to everything, but no crank. SO, me being the genuis i am, i started tearing things apart. It drove me nuts for about an hour.....till i realized that the column shift wasnt quite in park. derrrr. that one went over with my buddies like a lead balloon.

[botboy]

When I sold my '90 Dodge dakota (I've since moved onto bigger, badder and faster things) it went on ebay to some gent in SD. Well we get to the town he lived in, about 430 miles from where we started, and go into a gas station to find out how to get to the local FPO (we had a friends dad pick us up and fly us home). We come out, get back in the truck and crank crank crank...nothin. DAMNIT! I don't want to be stuck here for long! Open the hood, engine was really hot I assume it heated up some fuel lines, let it cool down for 10 minutes and it started right up. Boy that lil red truck gave me a scare tho. I think it might have had something to do with us averaging 95 MPH across the less-than-scenic SD plains and highways...

When I got my '42 Dodge 1.5 Ton flatbed running for the first time, I wanted to move it but was too lazy to hook up the throttle, so I straddled a fender and ran the throttle with my hands while my buddy drove the truck around the yard.

[70cst]

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[bumpster]

A 1971 chevy that a man we used to put up hay for bought new was sitting in his yard. Each year when we went past with our equipment, I would stop and try to buy it. After about 4 or 5 years of this, he told me he had replaced the engine with the 350 out of a 74 or 75 caprice, and had never been able to make it run. I offered for two more years to help him with it, but he was too stubborn to admit he needed help. One day, I guess he had enough, because he called and told me to bring 750 dollars and a trailer. I took a new battery, some fresh gas, turned the distributer back to where I thought it might belong before he bumped it putting engine in, and drove it away. I did offer to let him keep it, but he just shook his head and went back in the house.