Today was supposed to be a day off, as it was Sunday, but I had a guy who was stranded at a hotel in Rogers who was trying to make it back down south toward the Little Rock area who is having issues with his car starting. It was Labor Day weekend in addition to being Sunday, so he offered to pay me extra if I would go out and help him, so I decided to go out and help him.
I don’t think I really ended up charging him more than normal, actually.
By the time I got there, the vehicle had already started, and didn’t seem to have any issues that I could pinpoint for sure. It was possible that it might have had an issue with his throttle body or throttle position sensor or something like that, but I couldn’t prove it. So I cleaned this throttle body, I think I noticed one other thing that was wrong that I fixed, and then sent him on his way.
Oh! And I forgot to mention that I paid Zack, One of the Bentonville AutoZone employees, to come over and help me with my projects. I’m trying to cook less wear and tear on my body to help my numerous injuries healed better, so I figured I would pay him to come over and help me with stuff. So he came over in the morning, and he helped me by trying to transfer one of the seats from my super old and beat up work van to my other work fan. If I didn’t mention it already, I decided to take ET on the road trip with us, because it would have a lot more room than anything else we could bring, and since we are bringing a couch and a library full of books to Utah, it made the most sense.
The problem is that the driver seat in e.t had a couple of broken welds, So it wasn’t safe, technically. I had been driving it that way for quite a while, but if I were ever in an accident, I couldn’t guarantee that the seat wouldn’t fly forward with me if the other two welds decided to break with a strain of an accident.
So we tried to transfer seats over, but between 1998 and 2001, they had changed the frame that the seats sit on, the 2001 version requiring an adapter, and it was that adapter that had the weld’s break on it.
Anyway, I had thought the seats would be similar, but no such luck. So he tried, but in the end, it was a no-go. But we ended up doing was swapping the passenger seat in ET over to the driver seat, so at least that one was safe, but we still needed to find something to make the seat work for the passenger side, as we needed at least two seats for the two passengers for our road trip west.
He also helped me clean up the mess of all of the doors that I had been trying to swap that was mostly a failure that sucked up hours of my time the previous day.
I don’t remember what else I did, but probably not much, since it was a Sunday. 🙃
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~ stephen
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