2023-06-12 — Another Week Begins

Hola hola!

Four cars today:

The first one was a 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara XL7. Supposedly wouldn’t start, but it started just fine for me. It did have a whole bunch of codes, all of them for O2 sensors, and after lots of troubleshooting and whatnot, I found a connector that was disconnected in the wiring harness. That was causing all four of the codes, and once reconnected and secured, none of the codes came back on the test drive.

🥳

The second car was a 2006 Jeep Wrangler that wouldn’t start, and it turned out to be an issue with The fuel pump. That’ll get put in on Wednesday, weather permitting.

Car number three was a 2003 Ford explorer. They were concerned about its idle, and they just gotten it back from a shop that had redone the heads on it. They had just spent thousands of dollars, and the first thing I noticed, as soon as I pulled the dipstick, was that the oil was full of metal.

Good gravy.

Hopefully, they can get some kind of money back on that one. So frustrating how many shops do crap work and how many people just keep going back to those same shops. It’s amazing how some of these people can stay in business.

The neighbor right across the street was having some leaking issues, and the shop had told them that they needed new transmission cooler lines. They had just had a radiator put in, and now they were telling them that they needed transmission cooler lines. So I went over to take a look, and I told them I wouldn’t charge them anything just to see what was going on, and it wasn’t cooler lines that was the problem: The shop had not properly installed the cooler lines into the radiator, so it was leaking at the connection to the radiator. Clearly, the shop didn’t know what they were doing, as they added two fittings that didn’t need to be put on there, and they didn’t seal the threads properly… They would have known they would have had to seal the threads, had they actually checked to make sure nothing was leaking after doing the job.

But they wouldn’t take responsibility, saying that they needed new transmission cooler lines, and that it was going to cost them $490.

Jerks.

All they needed was to have the fitting removed, PTFE tape wrapped around the threads, and to have it tightened back down.

Which I did, after they said they were okay paying for the repair.

No more leaky.

They were an old couple, so I gave them like a 40% discount, and called it a day.

I went over and hung out with me out his shop for a while. Today was the first day with the new personnel line up, and things seem to go decently well for him, I think.

After that, it was home. I stopped by Stevie’s house to take a look at his AC unit to see what I could learn about still possibly doing the job for him. I also grabbed my charger that I had left over there for my brother-in-law to charge his battery up.

Dinner, vegging out a little bit, and then bad.

My joints have been doing decently well, which is really nice. My hiatal hernia, which is what I’m just going to say it is until I’m proven wrong, is bad–very bad.

August can’t come quickly enough. I may try and find a way to get to doctor sooner than that.

My certification for appliance, comfort, commercial, and industrial AC work came through. I did pass the test like I thought I did, and they sent me the certification to print out if I wanted to.

🥳

Love and hugs. 😊

Lift the World

~ stephen