2021-10-09 — Weekly Cleansing

Hi. 🙂

This little boy is tired. But he had his weekly shower, so he’s actually clean. 🙃

It’s Saturday night!!! I can… sleeeep!!! 😁

Good day today, and it ended even better. 🙂

There wasn’t really anything special about it. I got up… Spent a little time first thing this morning working on my mini excavator (Jim wanted to borrow it, so I did a little trade where he figured out what was wrong with it and got it greased and going, and he could use it to bury the goat that died.)

Mostly just a normal day today. Went to work… Fixed cars. Very busy.

Normal day.

First car was… uh… Oh yeah: First job was two cars: 2009 Ford Escape and a… 2008 Ford truck? Don’t remember. The Escape had a completely mutilated idler pulley, so i replaced that and the belt. The truck had a brake fluid leak that was not something I’d ever seen before. One of the brake lines by the master cylinder reservoir head cracked, and it was squirting fluid out into the engine bay. Poor guy had the paint eaten right off his truck.

Second car was a battery replacement. Nice and easy. 🙂 3rd job was a CV axle replacement.

You know, it’s funny how I raised my prices again, and I still came out something like $200 to $600 cheaper for that CV axle job than the other shops he got quotes from.

Tangent.

I was really grateful that CV axle job went super easily. Sometimes they can be a pain in the butt, but this was easy peasy bread and butter.

4th job was a diagnostic for an overheat and turned out to be a stuck closed thermostat.

Last job was one that I had started earlier in the day but needed to come back to. It was a 2003 Dodge Durango that was overheating, and it had a leaking water pump gasket. When I pulled everything apart, I realized that the mating surface for the water pump was super corroded and the metal was badly pitted. I did the best I could, spearing gasket sealer in the pitted spots and all around in the hopes that it would hold and seal. I told them that I wasn’t going to put coolant in it right away, but they could put coolant in it and bleed it tomorrow. It should sit for 24 hours before fluid is put in the system. So, given that they had pitted metal anyway, I figured it would be best to wait 24 hours to put the coolant in, so I gave them instructions for how to do that themselves.

That was the last car. I think I finished somewhere around 8:30. After that, I headed to the recycling station to drop off the cardboard that I’ve been dragging around with me all day.

The last car was the last car because I was able to put off the last three cars until later. Two of the last three cars were jobs that I needed to do underneath near exhaust parts, and the customers were out driving the cars, so that made it not realistic to try and fix the cars until they cooled off, so we just postponed until Monday morning.

So that was nice. And then the very last job that I had on the schedule postponed because they ended up going somewhere tonight. So instead of having three cars left at 8:30 p.m., I got to go home. 🙃

It was Thomas’s birthday today, so I waited around for him to get home, and then I took him to waffle House for a midnight birthday dinner. 🙂

Well, folks. I’m grateful for Sunday and sleep. Probably going to sleep in a good bit. Also been looking at some real estate opportunities. And I’m getting a B in my bonnet again about my phonetic alphabet stuff. Just wish I had a programmer. I would gladly get started on it all right now if I just had someone to do the job.

Anyway, good night to all of you! Hope you have sweet dreams.

Lift the world.

~ stephen