what a day
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 3:47 am
wow, my car has been parked the last two days due to it being minus 30 and frozen, windier than hell. finally it warms up to 15 below and i get my friend over to jump start the mx3. after about a hour and half screwing around with the car we get it running. drive my mother to the doctors office then off to the government building, all of a sudden i hear thwapping sounds, i know the alternator belt is now cut. park the car and wait for mom, now she needs to go to the hospital, belt is smacking the engine, i come to a four way stop and it quits, charge light come on and one more big wack sound. just as i go i see this large black wheel go rolling up the hill in front of me.......i know its too big to be the tensioner pulley or off the alternator, oh good its the outer half of the crank pulley. so off to the shop to fix it, install a inline water heater since a block heater in near impossible to install when the motor is still in the car. after a couple of hours pulling the part off one car and trying to get it onto mine i notice the shop really smells like burning wood, there is a wood stove in the corner of the shop but it never stinks. look up to see flames shooting out of the wall, tyler just went to the neighbours to get a impact gun so i got no help. first fire extinguisher is jammed, second one works but blows back in my face huge. blast it with the third and then the first one, grab the hose and hook it up to find there is about 3" of frozen water in it, so now its time to start throwing buckets of water in the chimney and rip the wall down to put the fire out. slip on some splashed water that froze within seconds to blow my lower back out. get that all out, wall rippped apart, clean the shop and start working on the car again. finish putting the heater in, new crank pulley, no belt but did happen to have on in the blue car thats under a foot of snow and fixed the broken ebrake. get home and crawl into the shower only to have the powder from the extinguisher run into my eyes and burn like hell. nine hours later and im heading off to bed. what a day