Howdy Jersey.

 

Good morning New Jersey, hope your weekend is going well!

 

we got almost 3 inches of rain last night.
this morning the 02 decided to start flashing the ABS light, speedometer is bouncing between 0 and 60, od light is flashing, brakes are pulsing, and a funky grinding noise coming from the engine when the steering wheel is turned.

 

Morning Tom. What the hell is that all about?

 

no idea on the grinding noise. the others is probably a dirty or bad VSS.

 

Steering pump going bad?

What is the VSS?

 

could be.
VSS: vehicle speed sensor in the rear axle.

 

Oh, yeah. I had to replace mine too. I forgot about that, the ABS light would come on, and the cruise control would act weird.

 

I know the feeling of the rain. Here in the north, we got a couple of isolated cells move through. The amount of rain was tremendous. We got some water in the basement. One of the gutters overflowed from a clog by the rain barrel collector. How do I know this, I went outside with a 1/4 inch nut driver and pulled everything about. There was a bunch of small debris plugging up the collector. To make it more fun, I was thoroughly soaked from the front downspout.

Then I went into the back where I was experiencing the same thing. When I pulled that one apart, it looked like I was working on an oil rig. The force of the water knocked me back a bit. I promptly cleared the rain barrel collector. The water now goes where it is suppose to.

As for the basement, I got pretty lucky with only a small amount of water. When it got really dark out, I hurried to basement access. I have 3 sand bags for this. Placed the bags down and it minimizes what comes in. The main problem is the door is about 1 inch below grade. When the front gutter overflows, it dumps into the lower parking area aka the vehicle work station. This in turns does not really run to the street or towards the house but there is a very small low spot in which some of the water will go towards the door. It use to be worse when we first moved in year ago. The last owner didn't care and had a 1/2 inch sheet of plywood for the door and no drainage away from the house. Every time it rained the basement would have about 3 to 5 inches of water in spots. I got most of it fixed. Now I just get some small amount of seepage from the door area which can be quickly shop vac'ed and pumped out without any issue.

One of my projects is to basically cut the door and jam down. Add some masonry building supplies under the sill plate. The problem is I am taking a 58 inch tall door to about 55 inches. This makes the hole smaller and harder to get stuff out of the basement when the time comes. I wish I could lower the grade of the rest of the area but the grade is already level with the street. The fun of living on a hill.

Enough about my rain water woes. TJC good luck trying to truck diagnosed and fixed if needed.

 

Man, you had a hell of an evening!

 

Good Morning All!

HAPPY NATIONAL CHEESE SOUFFLE DAY!

 

Good morning Steve and New Jersey visitors. Welcome to another Monday!

 

Good morning New Jersey soufflers, welcome back to Monday!!

 

This Monday $#!t has got to stop. It seems like it comes every week at the same time.

Happy Monday New Jersey. Just think. The official start of Summer starts on Friday.

 

Well, it could be worse. I just had two Mondays in a row, and they were on a Saturday and Sunday!