Friday Oct 10, 2008

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lots to say, but lots to do too and it all starts in 11 minutes.

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So the plan:
The battery in my car (resumed) dying so I needed a jump start to leave work yesterday. So this morning I was going to try to start my car if not take a near by shopping cart to the local parts store. I figured it opened at 7 and It would take me 30 min to get there so 0630 out the door it was.

Then head out to airport to take the convertable to get it's wheels aligned so I could drive it home today and work on my car over two days.


What happened to the plan:

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My car started so I drove to the parts store, found out it opens at 7:30. Walked to a gas station, bought my friday paper with TV guide waited for store to open (3 degrees above freezing). $136 later battery is bought and in my car. Head out to the airport, take convertable out of hanger, put my car in hanger, drive to mechanics.

the convertable was running as good as it seams to, I get to the mechanics, no parking spots. After a quick circle I realize there really isn't any parking spots so I go with the 4X4 only parking on some small boulders wedged next to a dumpster. The convertable makes and odd whine and stalls as I stop. I figure that it (rightly) doesn't like were it's parked. And go in.

After starting poorly and running fine for months. It doesn't want to run for the mechanic to run into the shop. I figure it is some small electrical problem that it (and all) old vw convertables are known for. I help push it in the shop. Wheels get aligned bender looses another $65. Push it out of the shop.

I can't get it to run. The problem has something to do with fuel delivery and the fuel pump relay wasn't at fault. That would have been about the only thing I could fix on the spot with no tools so I start walking back to my tools. Now day time and 5 degrees.

Grab tools, take my car out of hanger (there is a rather annoying security gate involved in this process) drive back to convertable. Test voltages and spray contact cleaner on things and decide that the fuel pump is dying/usefully dead. It's a 'new' part with like 50 km on it and they're a couple hundred dollars new.



I've decided that this is the end for the convertable. I just haven't managed to make it into a relable second car for myself to be able to pull my car off the road for a bit. and it's no where near the state where I could really sell it. I was thinking of getting wheels and tyres, a top, and some interior work done but the fuel pump going is the straw that broke the camel's back.

I just keep picturing the pile of burning twenty dollar bills it represents all two hundredish of them.

So I'll just have to get up early and work late to do rust repair and body work on my car day by day. And now the days are too cold for paint to cure correctly.


I'm done for now
druggist:
RIP convertable skull

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