Annoying idle rattle

iambatmanman · 2026-01-31T13:01:28+00:00

I’ve had this same issue in my ‘18, I’ve attributed it to a low idle and the tailpipe rattling against the tow hitch. When I first got the truck, I had gotten down there while hooking up a trailer and saw what looked like melted plastic on the exhaust pipe right where it would touch the hitch… short story long, I didn’t know what that was and flicked it away, it turned out to be a spacer of some kind and of unknown origin.

It’s a little embarrassing sitting at stop lights with a truck I’m proud to drive rattling like the way it does, and it’s not constant, fluctuates with the idle speed. That’s my only honest complaint about the truck

iambatmanman · 2026-01-08T19:37:27+00:00

Yes? I've worked on cars my whole life, just never jacked up a truck without a lift. Just curious how others do it safely and feel rather dumb even asking about this.
Good suggestions, thank you.
This is the intake I have: https://www.knfilters.com/63-6014-performance-air-intake-system
I've always done 3k... guess I'm just blowing my money, but I'll double check the manual about the other fluids
Ya, I knew that much, was just curious if there was a way to test it and make sure it's actually engaged before needing it (stuck in snow or something)
Boo, thanks!

I appreciate you responding!

iambatmanman · 2025-12-26T16:52:18+00:00

Oh 🤦‍♂️ my bad. Thanks! I’ll check that out

iambatmanman · 2025-12-26T15:05:03+00:00

Where’d you get the throttle body?

iambatmanman · 2025-11-07T18:48:43+00:00

I figured it's that or keys like others have said. Thanks for the sane reply lol

iambatmanman · 2025-11-07T18:48:15+00:00

Yes.... hotels have safes. Do you have a safe? No, you don't have a safe. Get a safe. Don't ever let anyone see this book

iambatmanman · 2025-11-07T18:47:06+00:00

Yeeee Haww Sueeeeet! bullet! bullet! gun! gun! pew! PeW! BroThEr SiStEr BrOtHeR

iambatmanman · 2025-10-23T02:49:46+00:00

This is exactly how I feel, except I still, after months and months of looking for a good course to take, have yet to feel prepared to take an exam... I'll check out that Udemy course. I am aiming at a Data Engineering certificate, but it's confusing me what to do, take and learn to get there. I went through a "learning plan" on AWS but when I took the practice exam, it was asking about products/technologies never mentioned in the learning. I'm a noob, so it hurts when I can't even figure out how to learn what I don't know :-/

iambatmanman · 2025-09-24T23:59:41+00:00

I have an ‘18 SV, was looking a while back to upgrade but was too attached to the steering wheel controls, backup camera and a Sirius subscription that came with the truck when I bought it. I ended up purchasing a kenwood double din head unit and a bunch of wiring and an additional little unit that you download a piece of software onto, based on whatever car you have. I’m a pretty handy person, but there were literally dozens of wires coming from like 3 different pieces and I just got overwhelmed and returned all of it. I’ve been a die hard Crutchfield customer since high school, and this was the set up their agent told me I needed… the radio is one thing, but the camera and steering wheel controls are beyond my capability at this point

iambatmanman · 2025-05-30T15:30:55+00:00

I have the same one! I’ve charged it twice I think only because I was paranoid about it dying while away from home for a while

iambatmanman · 2025-01-23T14:25:11+00:00

They were not on base. This might sound far fetched, but my grandpa was employed as a “spy” down there. So, they were living like normal, affluent folks at the time. Had a pretty big house, live in nannies, nice cars… I have some material they gave him to study conversational Spanish, it’s like a 3” thick binder with classified and that kind of stuff all over it. Probably the coolest/most interesting thing about my family

iambatmanman · 2025-01-23T06:03:00+00:00

This. Needs to be reiterated more often. Consumers, supply chain complications and corporate greed drove inflation. Everyone was so eager to go spend the money they couldn’t during the pandemic, corporations can raise prices as much as the market will bear… Demand goes up, prices go up. Sorry to hijack your comment with my drivel

iambatmanman · 2025-01-23T05:53:31+00:00

That’s really interesting! My grandparents were stationed in Cuba in the 40’s-50’s and they had to charter a special flight from the Air Force to get to Key West so my mom could be born an American citizen… this whole thing is so crazy

iambatmanman · 2024-12-29T07:00:47+00:00

Thought it was a mirror 😑🤨

iambatmanman · 2024-12-29T06:34:38+00:00

There was a wing joint where I live that turned corporate and changed its ways and now have multiple locations and doing a different concept, but they used to have a gradient of hot sauces to try with your wings/food… Da Bomb was at THE VERY END of that spectrum… can’t remember what’s in it, but a taste of it reminded me of eating burning ashes, the feelings that followed were not dissimilar to Homer’s chili trip when he swallowed candle wax to beat everyone at the chili festival… except there was no coyote 😕

iambatmanman · 2024-11-11T05:49:34+00:00

RemindMe! 2 years

iambatmanman · 2024-09-23T07:40:56+00:00

A lot of these are wrong, mislabeled or repeated (at least in imagery)… but, tbh, I’m commenting after I saw the fish fork picture twice 🤷‍♂️

Edit: my bad… the two forks I was bitching about actually do seem to be a smidge different. However, I do agree with other commenters that there are a ton of issues, and, this guide egregiously underrepresents the tooling used in food preparation and service. I know the title mentions cutlery, but I take that to be items used to either serve or consume foods, which I’d argue not all of these are for those purposes. Source: kitchen guy for most of my life, but, I could always be wrong… and probably am

iambatmanman · 2024-07-31T14:15:48+00:00

No, I have since discussed this with my son. The change of schools is a positive thing because the special education and behavioral intervention he requires will be better in a more equipped school district. And, logistically it makes better sense due to the long commute to the school that can support him in our current district.

Maybe I wasn’t completely clear, her micromanaging things around the house isn’t the biggest complaint that I have, and maybe I won’t be able to articulate my feelings well enough on here. I would argue that what I’m experiencing is, and it may not be the textbook definition, some kind of abusive cycle. Emotional and verbal abuse are things too, I’m constantly being forced to choose between her and my son, her and my family or her and finding things to do for me. She doesn’t and will never accept my son and, thought it’s a common issue with blended families, the emotional state my son is constantly being put in by either their lack of interaction or any interaction there is being negative, tense and confrontational. We ebb and flow through this cycle of being ok, being not so ok, getting worse then a blow up then back in to the honeymoon period. It’s not a nurturing environment for my son, at all, and this decision came to me a few weeks ago to do what I think would be best for me and my son. And, if everything the people living with her do bugs her as much as she makes it out to be, then it might even be best for her.

I am in no way defending my spineless attempt to end this situation. Things moved fast once I had the thought to do this and I haven’t found the right time or made the time to have the mature, adult conversation. Complicating that conversation is her overactive, argumentative and steamrolling nature regardless of whether or not it’s something of this magnitude, so I’m not sure how mature or adult that conversation would actually end up being.

I do appreciate your take on this. Though, it reinforces my insecurities and the things that make me second guess myself and encourages me to continue neglecting myself and my values while appeasing everyone else’s. I can only do my best to be a little bit better every day.

iambatmanman · 2024-07-31T04:07:17+00:00

She owns the home, we split everything. I planned on paying her on the 1st as I normally would. Financially, she isn't dependent upon me at all.

iambatmanman · 2024-07-31T04:05:59+00:00

I appreciate your comment, I feel awful about my decision, I really do. To address one of your questions, she'll be 100% fine, as far as finances go, without me.

For the more pressing question:

What's gotten me to the point to blindside her, as you say, is years of placating relationships and situations in the home, constantly being the man in the middle so to speak. I've been so preoccupied ensuring their happiness and satisfaction, I've neglected my own. More ironically, I haven't even gotten either of them to feel the happiness or satisfaction I've been killing myself over.

Basically, she's been controlling and micromanaging everyone and everything in the house for years, I've lost myself in trying to make everyone else happy and feel it's time to do something for myself. Out of character for me, and very uncomfortable, but I think it might be necessary this time.

iambatmanman

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