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Drove my truck to the hospital last night and had appendix removed..... what fun!

 

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I take it that it didnt rupture yet then? Mine ruptured and it was a long and horrible 5 days in the hospital

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Took my wife to labor & delivery. Daughter born.

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I drove across town to pick up my degree since im still waiting on parts

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Took my truck into the back country of Colorado.     Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

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Nope. Caught it early. Got lucky. Checked in about 2 pm. Surgery at 6:30 last night and discharged at 10 am. Now i just have to sit around and do nothin for like a week..... thats gonna suck!

 

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Yea, mine ruptured while I was on the table. i went in at 1 pm after 2 days of pain, surgery at 9 pm, woke up at 12 am with a tube in my waistline to drain. I had that thing for a week. the good thing was I was drugged up enough that I didnt second guess myself about ordering 2 Corsa Sport systems

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Well, I got it in today. Then realized a couple things were missing. Yes the bellhousing but that's how they ship it so they can ship UPS ground. But I didn't realize until after I got it that the 4x4 tails haft coupler is not there, which I can take off my old tranny. But then something important came to mind. MY TORQUE CONVERTER AINT IN THE BOX!!! Called performabuilt and he told me they are shipped from a company in FL. Dammit. Now I can't put it in until at least Monday. Guess I'll do all the prep work this weekend then

 

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SarahsGMC Senior Enthusiast

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Washed and buffed it today my liquid wax turned to water so there's a full 30$ bottle of wax wasted. I forgot to clay bar it. And that stupid polisher I bought is a piece of sh!t. I'm not happy... gonna finish the little details tomorrow.

 

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Parked it for the night

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Washed and buffed it today my liquid wax turned to water so there's a full 30$ bottle of wax wasted. I forgot to clay bar it. And that stupid polisher I bought is a piece of sh!t. I'm not happy... gonna finish the little details tomorrow.epumejeh.jpgsent from my truck in a field

Shake it for a while. And store it indoors from now on. What kind of polisher?

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Haven't driven mine since Sunday.

 

Boohoo... been month and a half for me lol

 

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Washed and buffed it today my liquid wax turned to water so there's a full 30$ bottle of wax wasted. I forgot to clay bar it. And that stupid polisher I bought is a piece of sh!t. I'm not happy... gonna finish the little details tomorrow.sent from my truck in a field

 

Shake it for a while. And store it indoors from now on. What kind of polisher?

 

Shook the hell out of it no good..

 

And this one. The stupid disk won't come off and I bent the wrench all to hell trying to get it off... what a poor design I have no tools narrow enough to take the stupid thing off.

 

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