(written on the 27th)
I spent a good chunk of the day today working outside.
I cleaned out more Vines and dead stuff in the same area as I did on Tuesday. More burning.
Risa also came down and helped me weed where the wood chips are going to go. Since I didn’t get it all done during the Dead season, green stuff has been growing up where the wood chips haven’t been. So she helped me pull weeds up.
Spent most of the day doing that.
I also walked her over to where the spring pond is, showing her around the property a little bit. She’s a great little woman. Stevie did well for himself in choosing her.
I’ve been getting sick a bit, and it’s supposed to rain tomorrow, so I’m just calling it and giving myself a 4-day weekend.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it already, but my truck wouldn’t start. I ordered an oil pan gasket and everything, and I was going to do the oil pan gasket, but with it not starting, I might just sell it as is and get out of it. It needs a lot of work to be a nice truck. It runs and drives and all that, or at least it did until this issue, but the body is awful. The interior isn’t so great. It needs tires, four-wheel drive doesn’t work, instrument cluster doesn’t work…
It’s a mess. I put my scan tool on it, and wasn’t registering any RPMs at all while cranking, and if not getting any fuel, so I’m crossing my fingers that it’s a crankshaft position sensor. I’m going to order one, and slap it in, and hope that fixes it. I don’t really want to take the time to try and diagnose it. If it’s not the crank sensor, then I’m just going to sell it as is and get rid of it.
It certainly making a little more challenging to bring home the van that I bought and the other thing that I bought. 😅
I got the new intake hose put on the Z3, and I also replaced the brake booster hose that was collapsed. I didn’t replace the check valve, but I do have one if needed.
Unfortunately, when putting it back together, One of the little pieces came apart. It’s some kind of a valve, but I’ve never seen anything like it before, so I don’t know what it does. It’s part of the vacuum system and connect directly to the hose that goes to the brake booster check valve.
🤔
Clearly, it’s not supposed to come apart, but I took it for a test drive anyway just to see what all is going on. Fortunately, it drove fine. The lean codes didn’t come back in the brief time that I drove with it. Cross your fingers that replacing the broken air intake hose will fix that issue.
🤞
I went ahead and ordered a replacement part for that weird little valve because I don’t want my mom driving the car with that not being 100% solid, as I don’t want there to be any issue with the brakes getting harder to press if the vacuum isn’t working properly.
So it’s another $70 or something for that part, but whatever. My mom ordered the emergency brake assembly as well, so when that comes in I’ll fix that, too.
Lift the world.
~ stephen
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