Thought I was going to need a blow torch
Got to the gas station after physical therapy on my shoulder. These bad weather/icy road trips in my truck add up. Rehab is 25 miles from my house. I live 10 miles from nowhere, lol.
Hopped out of the truck and walked back to my tank cover. For just a moment I had totally not thought it through. We got about 3/4" of ice. Tank cover was coated in said ice. A blow torch would have been quick in more ways than one. 💥
Tools were in the back of the truck so I got the next best thing. I have a ball hitch lock in the door well. Grabbed the u-shaped part and gently tapped around the cover in a circle until I had removed all the ice.
The tank cover is on the driver side. Here is what the truck looked like before I left home.
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It's a shame you have to leave that pretty truck out in the weather. A pole barn or a shed of some sort would be cheaper than a new truck in a few years.
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Happy to hear you got rolling....we did not get as much ice as you all did, but our gravel road was almost impassable early today. Finally got out late this afternoon.
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Blow torch at the gas pumps would probably get the ice off all right!
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When it got down into the teens on 3rd shift, we'd go out to the parking lot with spray bottles and coat some ones car. Build up an inch of ice & add in a few chunks of snow.
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Keeping a spray bottle of windshield wiper fluid in the truck would’ve solved yer dilemma ,,,,,,, 😉
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We live in Wisc. and have never garaged a vehicle, ever! (Too cheap to build a garage). We did however have remote start installed in the vehicles!!
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agree fill a spray bottle with winter wiper fluid or buy a spray bottle with basic same thing for 3x as much in any automotive store or big box store to thaw and melt ice on windows basic is some mix of alcohol
will add in wipe down the rubber seals around your doors with wd40 or similar it will keep the doors from freezing to the seals and freezing the doors closed
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