Good Morning MN!

 

Good Morning FTE ..

Jake .. from the sound of it, you could have potentially had 2 "spring breaks" ... Glad you got it fixed (if at least temporarily).

The pile-o-plastic is going in at 4 today. I'm pretty sure it's something internal now. When the HPOP failed on the truck, I don't think I was going through that much oil. And that was VERY noticeable on the ground. It's clear that the car was leaking from the valve cover gasket, but not enough to make a huge mess.

Good luck today Dave.

Hope you get some work soon Mike! I know how frustrating it can be not to have work. I got to go to work, get paid my full salary and literally sit there for 6 months.

What's on tap for everyone else today?

 

Working on stuff. saturday helped with a wheel bearing, sunday worked on my exhaust on Gert, replaced the ignition solenoid on Gert, and spend a couple of hours disassembleing the Jetta in my garage.

on a side note, having air is awesome. makes things go apart and together so much faster.

sherwin-williams should be able to match the stain for you

Ditch the pile of plastic and get an escort for the wifey. Seriously, they are pretty reliable plus cheap and easy to work on (I did a head gasket with a $15 walmart toolset, and a $10 set of deepwells in a parking lot when I was in college).

like this guy. 1994 ford escort

today's docket: work, get home about 5ish, make dinner for the kids. Put the last muffler on gert. disassemble more of the Jetta. Start buying the brake parts for Gert.

 

Happy Monday everyone!

Looks like your getting your moisture Cory...

 

sitting at home now, but will be going to work later. I just don't know what time or job yet.

 

We'll see what happens this afternoon. We have a number of options. We just moved to Mankato from Good Thunder, so my commute has gone from 20+ miles one way to about 1 mile. Sometimes 3-4 miles depending if I have to drop our youngest off at daycare. We'll probably put the money into the truck and do something else for my wife. She commutes to New Ulm 3 days per week, which could be increasing.

 

I hear ya. I also happen to know where a motor is sitting in a corner of a buddy's shop for one. It happens to be within 10 feet of my snomobile.

 

Good morning Gerry!

Good morning Dale!

Good morning Michael! Sounds like the Saturn may be terminal. Just working as usual for me today.

Good morning Dustin!

Sounds like it is hard to plan anything when you don't know the time you are going to work. Almost time to get that boat out Dale! With these temps this week it is gonna feel like a guy should be on the lake.

 

Michael

If you could make a couple work. low milage realistic (IMO) price

1993 Ford Escort

not to start spending your money before you figure out what's wrong with the plastic pile, but...

My experiece with that generation escort as follows:

purchased with 91k. did cv alxe. waterpump (and I being 20 tried to baby it unsuccessfully overheated it and warped the head). and timing belt.

Other than that I didn't do any maintenance besides oil changes. The car went to heaven with 160k when I T-boned a caravan at 50-55. Had to climb out the window, but the cockpit was entirely intacked.

 

Two, yeah.

 

FYI not a very good deal. I'll stick with the 5 on 2 off schedule

 

I'll post up the links later, have them on the desktop.

 

Work is coming soon enough. Probably next week some time.

 

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Michael, It could have gone worse, but thankfully everything worked out.

For those that aren't on Facebook (cough cough Troy and Jay cough cough) Saturday night I noticed one of my leaf springs was cracked on my drivers side. I had that happen once last spring/summer too, except this one was sticking out from the rest of the springs. No one was open at this time and I couldn't wait around so I weighed my options. My main worry was that the cracked piece could jut out enough to make contact with my tire and wreck a pretty much new tire. I thought about just pulling the piece out and having that spring-less void there but I kinda figured it'd do more harm or put more wear on the rest of the springs. I decided to keep the spring piece in the spring pack and wrapped two hose clamps around the springs. I told my dad my plan and he looked a bit worried. He didn't think it would hold but he let me do it anyways. I figured If the clamps were snug, but not really tight I'd be alright as that would allow the springs to flex and do what they were supposed to do. Well, 280 miles later, the clamps held and I made it to Ely. Chalk that up as another use for a hose clamp.

Now I'm trying to decide whether I just buy a new set of springs or if I buy a pulled/used set. Any thoughts, or is it a horse a piece?