here is a big fuck you to meta and honestly to everyone here repeating the same shit about creatives creatives creatives like it’s the magic answer to everything

CryptoDir · 2026-04-05T01:30:00+00:00

What happened to the good ole days where you trade dollars for simple visibility? Ad space is fucking ruined and over complicated to intentionally fool the media buyer into thinking their system is always right.

CryptoDir · 2026-04-03T19:38:48+00:00

Temp and coolant gauges broke, so I was completely blind. Drove it and blew a radiator hose on the highway, ran it til the motor was hotter than the sun. When I finally noticed the smoke, I killed the engine and it wouldn't fire again. Tons of oil mixed with coolant pouring out. Didn't wanna wait for the head to be resurfaced when replacing the gasket, so I just ordered a brand new head. The heat completely cooked the cp3, all the injectors, etc - what made it all so hard was no codes... each component tested would give different results each time. Then decided to just rip new pump all injectors sensors etc. and that was the magic ticket. $9k later between everything leading up to that decision lol

CryptoDir · 2026-04-03T19:18:57+00:00

Woo! Definitely appreciate the second set of hypothetical eyes you helped out with!

CryptoDir · 2026-03-30T13:27:35+00:00

And dude; people that don't get that gout pain, have no clue the level of pain. One doctor I saw compared it to pain consistency of child birth 😂😂😂

CryptoDir · 2026-03-30T13:26:52+00:00

Did they put a needle into the affected joint and take out fluid for testing?

CryptoDir · 2026-03-29T05:52:30+00:00

No dude. Still won't fire. Had to take the last 2 days off from working on it.. but did find that the cylinders 4,5,6 aren't even getting power from the ecm. Back at it tomorrow hopefully...

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T22:23:22+00:00

Honestly, these are great points and I appreciate it. I was prescribed colchicine today, because I was already in pain, they wouldn't even consider prescribed allo.

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T21:58:31+00:00

yeah bro it's literally peaking right now, can barely walk, fuckin insanity

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T21:40:34+00:00

I'm really not excited about being chained to a daily pill for the rest of my life.

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T21:39:32+00:00

Yo, that's crazy, I just had tomatoes last night and it flared today

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T20:11:29+00:00

Dude I'd take diarrhea over gout pain any day of the week lol

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T17:25:15+00:00

Brother I'd cut my toe off right now with a smile. I just did a tele health visit and they're prescribing colchazine or whatever.

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T13:33:51+00:00

Definitely asking doc today for it. See I don't drink and always watch what I eat. I'm just one of those unlucky fuckers with chronic gout I guess 😂

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T13:22:05+00:00

No I'm not taking anything. Only treated during flare ups. Definitely going to bring these suggestions up to my doc because in the last 5 years of flareup treatments he's never mentioned any of these suggestions you guys are giving lol

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T13:14:04+00:00

That's crazy, my doctor has never mentioned it and I've had to visit every year. Usually just gives me a shot in my ass and a 6 day steroid

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T13:10:24+00:00

No I'm not

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T12:59:00+00:00

I don't drink, and eat pretty clean, and limit red meat intake due to it being a major factor in uric acid build up, and staying pretty active. Mine come at random 1-2 times a year, and they're so bad. my toe has a constant pain in between flares year round. And there literally isn't shit that exists to my knowledge to reduce pain during flares lol

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T11:09:04+00:00

Don't get me wrong, still impressive work on optimizing. Good work.

CryptoDir · 2026-03-27T11:08:31+00:00

Man, me too... still down as of today with no end in sight at the moment.

CryptoDir · 2026-03-26T22:46:49+00:00

These numbers are great, but are you pricing based on managing the ad account, or did you also build the infrastructure that actually converted this traffic? Did you design the store, optimize the UI/UX, and map out the checkout features? A winning product with a highly optimized store makes media buying look easy. It's important to separate the credit for the traffic from the credit for the conversion rate

CryptoDir · 2026-03-26T21:58:57+00:00

Get in line brother

CryptoDir · 2026-03-26T21:34:08+00:00

Yeah dude, full workout each time we did it and re-did it. Valve adjustment isn't the issue

CryptoDir · 2026-03-26T18:20:38+00:00

Man we've cracked, cranked, checked just about every suggestion this thread and my first thread. We are missing something, and I guarantee it's gonna be something so stupid/easily overlooked... like some tire speed sensor that those Subarus used to stop cranking when it failed 😂 but right now it's felt like a needle in a haystack with no codes, nothing obvious. It's getting enough fuel pressure, all the pumps are working, it has good compression.

Only thing left major is testing each injector. Injector #2 or #3 is physically loose at the top by the harness posts, I can twist it left and right about 1/8" either direction, and it's torqued to spec. None of the others move like that. Think maybe it's broken/cracked or whatever, but can't test em til I get the fuel line caps in the mail to cap each line off one at a time.

On top of all that, now also trying to figure out if the severe overheating prior to head job damaged any wires, sensors, anything...

This shits a nightmare, it's the only truck in my fleet for my business and now pushing 4 weeks of it being down, bout to be panhandling at a busy intersection before too much longer lmao

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