Thursday, June 16, 2011

Light Blogging/ Automotive school for Dummies...

  Between my performance schedule and some fairly intense automotive repairs occurring, time for writing has suffered. Both cars seemed to be afflicted at the same time with some issues that a great neighbor has helped me with. I know little about cars but in the last ten days I've replaced rotors and pads, a control arm bushing, a sway bar, added freon to my wife's A/C, replaced a water pump and fixed a leaking line on her transmission.

  Ok, well I watched. And handed him things. And went to the store. LOL...

  Last night we discovered my wife's water pump was on its last legs. Pure luck as we were working on her AC when he noticed it. From experience with replacing water pumps before, I was expecting to shell out hundreds of dollars to get it fixed. A quick session on the internet and I found two at a local auto parts store, BOTH under $20.00. Ninety minutes later, the new pump was installed, the leak was stopped, life was good.

 For kicks I called the local Chevy dealer today and asked for a quote. $380.00 plus tax I was told.

 Wow...

  Back to politics tonight or tomorrow...

Take care-

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