stolen relay.. are you serious?

[Four0Sport]

just thought id share something i thought was funny.. well i thought it was funny a couple mins after the initial shock.

i had a motor put in my sport last fall, and when i got it back home i noticed i kept losing gear oil out of my rear end, i replaced the gasket, filled it back up, checked the rear wheel seals, it was so bad that i thought my axle tube had gotten twisted come apart from the diff housing. well i took it to a friends shop where we put it on a lift, he reaches up and goes "i know what the problem is, your abs sensor is missing" missing meaning that someone had crawled under neath my explorer, unscrewed the sensor, gently pried apart the connector, and walked off with a $15 sensor and the bolt that holds it in.

ok, so i let that slide.. thinking someone must have 'borrowed' it while it was sitting at my house with the blown motor. luckily i did not run the diff dry, everything is fine, no ticks clicks or bearing noise. so i put a new sensor in, reset the comp., turned the truck on.. the abs light is on. that friend i have wanted $30 to hook up to the abs system so i said so long to safe stopping in the rain and hello to wheel slides.

i was adjusting my headlights down farther to compensate for my lift and something told me to open up the relay box under the hood. i lift open the cover and see an empty relay location. you know how when you move something off of a dusty shelf or wall you leave a clean imprint of the object? thats what i saw. and guess what, the empty spot was for the abs pump relay. i walked in the house, grabbed one of the 50 relays ive swiped from yards and popped it in, i now have abs, again.

just thought id share that, it amused me after i made a list in my head of people to ki... well.. not like anymore.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Do you have anybody that you might suspect for these 2 things?

 

[dogfriend]

Well, at least you know what kind of vehicle the thief is driving. :

 

[Four0Sport]

i dont suspect the guy that did the work for me, ive dealt with him for years at work and hes a good guy. i honestly dont know for sure, unless some riff raff in the neighborhood pulled off the stunt.

 

[Blacksheep Josh]

Well, at least you know what kind of vehicle the thief is driving. :

this is true. possibly lifted as well if he got to it real easily.

 

[Four0Sport]

eh, i needed to change the fluid in the rear diff anyway. maybe i should shake their hand. lol

 

[Shen2187]

Wow... I can understand stealing catalytic converters, the platinum can fetch a few Washington's. But relays? There's no way there is enough copper in them to be significantly valuable. It had to be a stunt or prank or something... Or an act of complete desperation. I don't see why someone would need to have ABS that bad...

It is pretty funny though, LOL!

 

[Four0Sport]

i had been driving the vehicle around for almost a year w/out abs. just sucked in the rain, had to get use to driving a vehicle w/out abs but my first few cars were non abs so it wasnt that bad. i honestly think one of my brothers friends needed the parts for one of their trucks and they assumed i was gonna let the thing sit and wrot.

 

[Shen2187]

You think they would ask you at least though lol.

 

[rickcdewitt]

not if they're like my brother

 

[Four0Sport]

rick knows what im talking about. its bad enough i have to buy new socks and t-shirts every couple months but a relay and an abs sensor? come on.

 

[TedJ]

It's gotta be your brother. Could you imagine somebody actually stealing it...

"Look man, I scored big last night!"
"What'd you get"
"A relay and an abs sensor"
"..."

:

 

[Four0Sport]

its WV, stranger things happen all the time.

 

[Shen2187]

I used to have a girlfriend who was from WV, she turned out to be very strange. So in a way I guess that can attest for the strangeness of WV.

At least you're not from OR. People will steal anything around here.

Probably was your brother though, lol. Just like I have half of my brothers DVD's and he has half of mine.

 

[Four0Sport]

monday night during the steelers game my friend and i spotted dixon on the bench for pittsburgh and we were like 'i wonder if he wears his diamond plate ducks jersey under his steelers jersey'. thats the only thing i have to talk about that has to do with oregon.