{"id":22,"date":"2006-02-01T00:07:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T07:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/wordpress\/?p=3"},"modified":"2006-02-01T00:07:18","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T07:07:18","slug":"ford-f150-and-the-motor-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/2006\/02\/01\/ford-f150-and-the-motor-mounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford F150 and the motor mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you read this story, you really need to read the story about the camper for a good description of what was involved in this story! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Mom and Dad had lent me the truck and I was driving around with my friends (I can&#8217;t remember why I had borrowed the truck and where I was going)  I was over by Brian Dereden&#8217;s  house when I decided it would be fun to burn some rubber and show off for my friends.  Note: This is where you need to stop and read the story about the camper.  So I stop the truck, rev it up to about 4 or 5000 RPMs and then pop the clutch and instead of burning rubber the truck goes CHA-CHUNK! and doesn&#8217;t move.  To make matters worse, no matter what I tried the truck wasn&#8217;t moving!  After about 10-15 minutes of sitting in the middle of the road Dad shows up looking for me.  I told him the story of what happened and somehow (I don&#8217;t remember how, Mom may have to fill in that part) Dad got the truck home.  After taking a look at it the next day, it turns out that I broke the motor mounts on the truck.  I guess that is what I get for trying to do a burn out with a 2 ton camper on the back of the truck!<\/p>\n<p>Well, for punishment Dad tells me that I can&#8217;t drive the truck until I pay for the parts to get the truck fixed.  (He probably should have charged me for labor also, but he didn&#8217;t)  If I remember correctly, it was like $125 for the new motor mounts.  I&#8217;m sure with my current employment status Dad thought he had stopped me from borrowing the truck for some time.  As luck would have it, about 2 or 3 days later, what should I get in the mail?  Yep, I got my income tax refund.  I think it was about $300, so I paid Mom the money for the truck and asked to borrow the truck.  As I was driving off to where ever I was going, I passed Dad on his way home from work in the company truck.  We both stop and Dad says &#8220;I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU YOU WEREN&#8217;T SUPPOSE TO DRIVE THE TRUCK UNTIL YOU PAID FOR THE PARTS TO GET IT FIXED!!&#8221;  I told him that I had gotten my income tax refund and had given the money to mom for the parts.  He got kind of a mad look on his face, but mostly it was more like &#8220;Dang, that didn&#8217;t quite work out as I had hoped&#8221;.  He said, &#8220;OK&#8221; and off I went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you read this story, you really need to read the story about the camper for a good description of what was involved in this story! \ud83d\ude42 Mom and Dad had lent me the truck and I was driving around with my friends (I can&#8217;t remember why I had borrowed the truck and where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}