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Originally Posted by cornerstone

Although unfortunate, with your skills and that fat insurance check, I'll venture to guess your truck is now all the nicer because of it. Sometimes what appear to be tragedies turn into bonuses. Back in the late 1990's my wife left her curling iron on top of a stack of towels which in turn gutted the house with fire. We were headed home from church and followed the firetruck right to our house, talk about a sinking feeling... The cat lived and all the termites didn't. Insurance check for roughly 64k fully remodeled the little house.

Thanks for your reply,
It does help when you are treated fairly by insurance, in your case with the house fire, thankfully no one was home to get injured or possibly lose their life! Material stuff can be replaced, but the loss of life leaves a permanent scar.
The damage to the truck hasn’t been fixed yet, other than ordering a new bumper and brackets. Still wrestling with myself on how& were to invest the $ into the truck. Really want a 6speed manual trans and more horse power. Just can’t pull the trigger yet.