I feel like you didnt fully explain to the girlfriend the limited chance of success on this trip lol

 

What I didn't explain is the tree lot only being a few hundred yards from my house. The truck has to earn my trust first. Then real trips.

 

Hey that’s a start. Everything go ok?

 

That's a nice looking tree!
I was expecting a Charlie Brown sized Christmas tree in that 5' foot bed

 

Small tree, big price. Honestly I dunno how $200 a pop is remotely reasonable lol.

Mechanically, yeah. The intake manifold is giving me worse issues than I expected though. Fueling goes dead lean on any tip-ins. For some reason Holley oriented the injector mounts so that it sprays straight down instead of on-axis with the port. The LSA problems are back to haunt me. I should be able to calibrate around it this time, but that's a hell of an oversight...

 

$200 Wow

Got married in 1979 being young and money was tight... first Christmas me and the wife went out in the woods and she watched as I dropped a ceder tree. Now that indeed was a Charlie Brown Christmas tree! She thought it was "romantic" and I saved some dough so it was a win win

 

Soon as I got it on the road, it was off the road again. Since I found I can't get a lot of the GM/supplier parts I need, like a power steering fluid reservoir, I had to outsource a lot of new parts. Picked up a Tuff Stuff pump to hook to a nice reservoir and AN lines and the pump sounds like it's got one foot in the grave already after like 4 miles of driving. Which is basically what every 2000s F150 sounds like. I'd have made some steam tonight if I didn't expect the pump to turn into an oil bomb in my engine bay. Gotta find a new pump tomorrow, hopefully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rYx-8Gklpc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-A11v98Ao

 

holy crap!! we also paid that much for a tree... but this is its 3rd year of use, and it has built-in lights & pine cones.
with how much we work & moving every few years, a fake one just made sense for us.

 

This truck makes me smile! My tree was 120 and they grow them less than 3 hours from my house I can understand if they have to ship them a long distance but dam. Still had to pony up and buy one for wife and my little boy, next year we go fake and stop the nonsense...

 

Haha yeah, can't fake that evergreen smell though.