82GT
07-19-2007, 04:51 PM
Been quite around here…
I’ve been having the automotive month from hell, the jeep is do for an inspection so I’m finally getting around to all those little maintenance thingies that add up.
First I went with the brakes, now pop was a professional auto mechanic and he decided to retire earlier in the year. His boss went up and closed the shop, so now I lost my only remaining automotive connection. While the jeep is down I figured I’d swap out that weeping water pump so I drain the radiator and I’m off to Pepboys to have the rotors resurfaced (borrowing the wife’s 99 VW bug) 4 hours later to cut 2 rotors and I’m on my way back home. I stop at the local 7-11 and when I get back on the road the red idiot temp light comes on, of course the car has no gauges so I have no clue what the temp is. I limp on home the remaining 1/4 mile. I didn’t want to chance running into an issue on a Sunday swapping the water pump, so I decided that can wait and I just finish the brakes on the jeepster. I did some basic trouble shooting on the VW and the fan doesn't come on. I figured it was the fan switch or controller, neither of which was very assessable. I opt to bring the bug to VW.
Monday morning off to work in the jeep and the brakes chatter something awful. I guess that’s what I get for having Pepboys cut the rotors. I got no chose but to drive it until the VW comes back.
Turns out I was wrong about the bug, the water pump broke, but hey that’s the good news its cover under the 10 year 100k mile original owner warranty.
Final get the bug back (hello A/C) and I pull the jeep rotors, drain the radiator again and go back to Pepboys hoping they would recut them, now this is 3 weeks later but the service mis-manager tells me it’s my braking system and now there to small to be resurfaced :mad:.
So I take my business down the road to Autozone and pick up 2 new rotors $29 each, shouldn’t have tried to been cheap in the first place but oh well live and learn. I’ve been sick since Friday and I never got a chance to finish the jeepster. Wednesday I try to drag myself off to work, but before I back out of the driveway the red temp idiot light goes off again!!!!!:mad::mad::mad:, now there was no way the car was even up to temp. I call the boss and tell him I aint making it in again. So now I’m in the garage with the chills and a sweatshirt finishing my brakes and filling up the radiator again.
After I get done with the jeep I start the bug, no light. I let it warm up, no light. I think the light was just a low coolant warning because the overflow looks low. It was already hot and I couldn’t check it then, I’ll double check tonight.
Hopefully things start going better, I got Dad and the brother-in-law coming over Sunday to sling the motor back into the Mustang.
I’ve been having the automotive month from hell, the jeep is do for an inspection so I’m finally getting around to all those little maintenance thingies that add up.
First I went with the brakes, now pop was a professional auto mechanic and he decided to retire earlier in the year. His boss went up and closed the shop, so now I lost my only remaining automotive connection. While the jeep is down I figured I’d swap out that weeping water pump so I drain the radiator and I’m off to Pepboys to have the rotors resurfaced (borrowing the wife’s 99 VW bug) 4 hours later to cut 2 rotors and I’m on my way back home. I stop at the local 7-11 and when I get back on the road the red idiot temp light comes on, of course the car has no gauges so I have no clue what the temp is. I limp on home the remaining 1/4 mile. I didn’t want to chance running into an issue on a Sunday swapping the water pump, so I decided that can wait and I just finish the brakes on the jeepster. I did some basic trouble shooting on the VW and the fan doesn't come on. I figured it was the fan switch or controller, neither of which was very assessable. I opt to bring the bug to VW.
Monday morning off to work in the jeep and the brakes chatter something awful. I guess that’s what I get for having Pepboys cut the rotors. I got no chose but to drive it until the VW comes back.
Turns out I was wrong about the bug, the water pump broke, but hey that’s the good news its cover under the 10 year 100k mile original owner warranty.
Final get the bug back (hello A/C) and I pull the jeep rotors, drain the radiator again and go back to Pepboys hoping they would recut them, now this is 3 weeks later but the service mis-manager tells me it’s my braking system and now there to small to be resurfaced :mad:.
So I take my business down the road to Autozone and pick up 2 new rotors $29 each, shouldn’t have tried to been cheap in the first place but oh well live and learn. I’ve been sick since Friday and I never got a chance to finish the jeepster. Wednesday I try to drag myself off to work, but before I back out of the driveway the red temp idiot light goes off again!!!!!:mad::mad::mad:, now there was no way the car was even up to temp. I call the boss and tell him I aint making it in again. So now I’m in the garage with the chills and a sweatshirt finishing my brakes and filling up the radiator again.
After I get done with the jeep I start the bug, no light. I let it warm up, no light. I think the light was just a low coolant warning because the overflow looks low. It was already hot and I couldn’t check it then, I’ll double check tonight.
Hopefully things start going better, I got Dad and the brother-in-law coming over Sunday to sling the motor back into the Mustang.