Assorted ramblings and bolt-ons with Daniel and George

[Keiths1976]

Daniel I’m so sorry about everything and your loss . Sending my prayers that life will make its way back together or start over new

[Duke George V]

Shit went sideways last night, but all things considered, everything went way better than it could have. I got some new tires put on the wagon. I left the shop, drove a short distance, stopped to get out to take a picture of my new kicks, then had a gigantic freakout.



A transmission cooler line blew off suddenly. I got it fixed and refilled, but man, that was wild. If I hadn't gone to get tires, that could have happened on my commute this morning. That would have turned a $50 oopsie into a $2000 transmission rebuild.

[tlc1976]

Good thing you were able to catch that. One time downstate with my kid, I blew a cooler line while driving in BFE and and the car eventually started skipping. I knew what it had to be so I stopped and dumped in a gallon I had in the back. Carrying around extra fluids on trips is nice. Got me about 20 miles up the road to AutoZone so I was able to fix the line in the parking lot.

[Duke George V]

GENTLEMEN

[tlc1976]

Nice. Does that make 3 Century wagons in the stable now?

I towed quite a bit when I had my 90 6000 wagon. It did well, aside from the gas mileage being just about cut in half.

Looking forward to taking out my Cruiser, but we got a month or two of winter left.

[Duke George V]

No, two wagons. The brown one went away a couple years ago after I took parts off it. It was a disaster, not worth reviving. I still have the yellow '92 sedan though.

[Duke George V]

FUCK Interstate 40.



Potholes on that shitty stretch of tarmac completely buggered my alignment. These tires are three weeks old, with less than 3000 miles on them.

[Duke George V]

Image hosting site Imgur will be removing images not associated with an account.

Like many of you, I have been using imgur for hosting for a long time, anonymously. It will be a monumental task to rehost everything I've posted here over the years. I feel like a lot of this thread (and my old head gasket thread from 2013) will probably end up dying. I'll do what I can, but there isn't a ton of time. May 15th, apparently.

[tlc1976]

Wow that’s crazy. Michigan is always a mess between the potholes and road sections shifted by the frost. So I don’t pay for alignments, I just sight down the car and it comes out damn close. Usually mine doesn’t go that far off though. It breaks the balljoints first. I’ve gotten to where I run my tires softer than I should on all my vehicles, but it’s so cold here that my tires don’t burn up.

I remember that time I went to the show in DC. The potholes on the interstate were like craters. I blew the belts in my brand new front tires.

A month from now I’ll have had that car for 20 years. Still drive it most days when there’s no snow.