It's Been A While

I know, I know. A car shouldn't be so busy that he can't write a few lines of blog occasionally. No excuse.

I'll catch up in reverse order. Last night Tom pulled all my spark plugs and gave them a good cleaning. My blow-by fouls up the right side and every thousand miles or so, the plugs need a good cleaning to get the burnt oil off them. He also replaced my oil pressure switch that had developed a leak. In order to do that he had to remove my generator and input fuel line to get a straight access for the big socket that fits over my switch. Finally, he cleaned the terminals on my battery connections.

Last week, Ariel ran me out of gas. I did what I could to stretch the fumes, but near the top of an incline, I had nothing left. Fortunately, there was gas can in my trunk, but unfortunately it was empty. After a two-mile walk, I had a gallon of gas in my tank. After some cranking, the fuel finally made it my cylinders and I was running again. She won't let the gauge needle get that low again, nor will she drive around with an empty gas can in my trunk.

About a month ago, my passenger front window mechanism broke. Tom and Ariel disassembled the door and removed the mechanism which had a broken and missing pivot pin. Without any replacement part, they put the window up and it's being held in place with a tie-wrapped 1X2 piece of wood - so high tech. Tom has since bought the bolt, washers, and lock-nut and they've put the mechanism back together. They haven't had the time to re-install the mechanism. Fortunately, it hasn't been so hot that passengers are melting (thank goodness for the air vent).

Also around then, Tom changed my oil and filter and replaced the two oil cooler seals. That will hopefully slow down my oil consumption rate.

I'm still waiting to have someone fix my two leaks so that I can stop having wet floors every time it rains. I've been glad that the weather's been so dry. I'm also glad that it's been warm because no one's replaced my heater cable - the one that opens and closes my heater box door. I don't like listening to Ariel and her passengers complain.

Other than that, I've been behaving quite well, not giving my owner much to deal with other than gas and oil.