Stoneage_Caddy
09-24-05, 05:23 PM
Past few days , ive really been in a fowl mood. Between getting calls and emails from old freinds all the sudden telling me there married,got kids , new cars there whole lives changed. For 3 years aint much changed with me , hell i hadnt even dated in what 4 years now ...hell if i can remeber ....
Works been sucking ass too , I got one service writer that spends the day trying to screw with me. Dealing with that shit and getting revenge on it every day takes alot of energy out of me....I bust my ass , 6 days a week outside in the summer heat for up to 10 hours a day. I can deal with that , im looseing weight and getting a tan so im cool with it. But damn i get tired.
So , another saturday rolls around , get up at 7 to head off to work. I stop off at walgreens to get something to drink. Park Gladys in a good spot , go in and get my drink and some rolaids. I walk out to the car , theres coolant everywhere , and shes still spraying coolant right out the front headlight. At this point i remeberd i had all that radiator work done , everything in the cooling system was replaced . It was a chunk of change but it needed done. I burned the piss out of my hands opening the hood to see if its something i can patch quickly. Theres so much coolant everywhere i cant find the leak. A quick call to work and a tow truck was on the way to me.
I get to work , in a tow truck , with my car on the back. The guy that runs the show walks up and says "your late , you beatter have a good reason". I looked up said , "ive never been late , but my excuse is on that roll back". He left me alone after that , one of the mechanics walks out , asks what happend , i tell him. He says , "yup , you lost the headgasket". Explains the odd sounds coming from the engine over the past week. There i thought it was the rocker pivots.
So there i am , damn near in tears looking at my baby , with a blown headgasket. Trying to think of how im gonna get myself out of this. How am i gonna afford this , and coming up with a plan to get it done at dads house in that crowded garage of his. Start thinking of what i want to do.....At one point im all "screw it , time for a ASG 5.0 ". Then i thought about cost ...."**** it , use that damn thing as a trade in and get a CTS"...I put a call out to my salesmen freind , told him about this. He says "well talk monday".....
Then , they come out and take Gladys into the shop to get a autopsie. I walked over and asked "explain this nipple to me , stock radiators dont have it whats it for?" At this point , every mechanic in the shop walks over to the car , there is a crowd forming around Gladys , everyones coming up with a plan to save her . The mechaic i asked about the nipple says "thats supposed to be plugged". Another one , said "no way it can be a headgasket , just no way".
We plugged the nipple , filled it with coolant and fired it up , burped it ....and let it idle ....Coolant temp soars to 245 before i shut it down....The crowd forms again , more ideas , shop foreman burps it again.....Start it , idle it for 2 hours , she held 201 degrees rock solid.
Turns out the gaskets were fine , the mechanic that installed the raditor forgot to clamp the nipple plug .... shes back home , and were resting .....
what a day .....i need a vacation ....
Works been sucking ass too , I got one service writer that spends the day trying to screw with me. Dealing with that shit and getting revenge on it every day takes alot of energy out of me....I bust my ass , 6 days a week outside in the summer heat for up to 10 hours a day. I can deal with that , im looseing weight and getting a tan so im cool with it. But damn i get tired.
So , another saturday rolls around , get up at 7 to head off to work. I stop off at walgreens to get something to drink. Park Gladys in a good spot , go in and get my drink and some rolaids. I walk out to the car , theres coolant everywhere , and shes still spraying coolant right out the front headlight. At this point i remeberd i had all that radiator work done , everything in the cooling system was replaced . It was a chunk of change but it needed done. I burned the piss out of my hands opening the hood to see if its something i can patch quickly. Theres so much coolant everywhere i cant find the leak. A quick call to work and a tow truck was on the way to me.
I get to work , in a tow truck , with my car on the back. The guy that runs the show walks up and says "your late , you beatter have a good reason". I looked up said , "ive never been late , but my excuse is on that roll back". He left me alone after that , one of the mechanics walks out , asks what happend , i tell him. He says , "yup , you lost the headgasket". Explains the odd sounds coming from the engine over the past week. There i thought it was the rocker pivots.
So there i am , damn near in tears looking at my baby , with a blown headgasket. Trying to think of how im gonna get myself out of this. How am i gonna afford this , and coming up with a plan to get it done at dads house in that crowded garage of his. Start thinking of what i want to do.....At one point im all "screw it , time for a ASG 5.0 ". Then i thought about cost ...."**** it , use that damn thing as a trade in and get a CTS"...I put a call out to my salesmen freind , told him about this. He says "well talk monday".....
Then , they come out and take Gladys into the shop to get a autopsie. I walked over and asked "explain this nipple to me , stock radiators dont have it whats it for?" At this point , every mechanic in the shop walks over to the car , there is a crowd forming around Gladys , everyones coming up with a plan to save her . The mechaic i asked about the nipple says "thats supposed to be plugged". Another one , said "no way it can be a headgasket , just no way".
We plugged the nipple , filled it with coolant and fired it up , burped it ....and let it idle ....Coolant temp soars to 245 before i shut it down....The crowd forms again , more ideas , shop foreman burps it again.....Start it , idle it for 2 hours , she held 201 degrees rock solid.
Turns out the gaskets were fine , the mechanic that installed the raditor forgot to clamp the nipple plug .... shes back home , and were resting .....
what a day .....i need a vacation ....