03 May, 2007

Ow, my wallet!

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This gum I'm chewing...the flavor and flaccidity go hand in hand. It now has the taste and consistency of a pea-sized lacrosse ball...

Sometime last week, perhaps the week before, I sputtered home on my truck. When I say I sputtered home, I mean that I was hoping that I would get home without pushing/towing or using a gasoline can. I didn't coast to a stop, but I may as well have. I knew that I needed some fuel. I had already been 360 miles on that tank, but I figured that I could make it from the house to the filling station with little or no problem. My plan was to have Shanda follow me with the gas can in the Isuzu, just in case.

The best laid plans of mice and men are often end up sucking. I got into the truck last night to go get gas. There wasn't enough gas in the lines to make the engine fire. I had run the tank dry. So I took my handy 1 point something gallon gasoline can to the c-store and filled it up, drove back home and emptied it into the truck. I took the truck and the can to the c-store and filled them both up. $53.00. My anoose was broken. What a pain in the gas.

It took me 18 gallons of gasoline to fill a 16 gallon tank...I've got some big fuel lines. :-)

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21 Dec, 2005

Defining DOH!

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So, one month later, (this past weekend) I decide to go ahead and fix that big ol' leak in the heater hose on the Ranger. It's a couple hose clamps and some hose...how hard could this be, right?

So, I get the truck up in the garage and I loosen the hose clamps, then I pull the hoses...nothing happens. I read somewhere that you should cut the ends of the hoses so you don't screw something up royally. I do so. In the process, I screw something up royally. Okay, maybe not so royally. I cut my finger. It wasn't terrible or anything like that. Just a small razor cut going through a couple layers of skin. (Think really deep paper cut.)

So after I get that taken care of, I get the hose on and I take it around the block to see if there's a leak. Good news is, everything is tight and the hoses I put on don't leak. The bad news is I changed the wrong hose, and the hose that had the original leak is still leaking as much as ever.

So, hopefully by the time I get around to changing the right hose, all the coolant that's leaked onto the floor will have soaked up into the newspapers I laid down.

Wish me luck for next time!
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