travis' brain dump

so i’m driving home from work wednesday… i notice my car is running a lil warm… ‘ odd,’ i think to myself… turn up my heater, temp goes down, yatta yatta…. so i think to myself, no biggie, this is just a thermostat issue. i get home, i pull apart my crap and drop in a new thermostat … the next day on the way to work… bam, i’m getting hot again… ‘ wtf!? ‘ so i head out of work early, get home about 2:30 and tear everything apart… 2.5 hour job. i replace the thermostat (again) the water pump and the thermostat housing temperature sensor (cranks up the fans). i take it for a drive up to get arwen from her day care and wouldn’t ya know it? overheating again… so, i think to myself, what’s the next logical thing to check? fans and hoses. so i check everything out… 3 hours later we’ve gone through the entire system. relays, wiring, switches, fuses you name it… the fans are working. the car is running great at idle, no heating issues.. ok this is good. so i go to work friday… while driving in…. heated up AGAIN! now i’m upset. so i drop my car off at Toyota and have my guy check it out… come back 6 hours later and the only explaination he can give me is that my head gasket has a leak. *sigh* wtf?! well, my thermostat (the new one with the cool locking mechanism in it) i think has locked itself open which meant my drive home my temp fluctuated but didnt get to the H. hopefully i can limp this thing for a week while i wait on parts to come in so that I can replace the head gasket next weekend. wow, talk about a crap weekend ahead. *sigh*

this weekend hasn’t been too bad. my bro Ivan came back from Iraq Thursday so we stayed up that night talkin and stuff. We threw a little gathering with the garage crew (minus Kris) last night. It was a good turnout for what we were shooting for… no way did it come close to last weeks insanity and i am so glad for that. i don’t think my house or myself for that matter could take that again. spent today cleaning and trying not to think about my car. I just wanna get it fixed, because while its screwed up i can limp it along to places, but going snowboarding is out of the question… rawr! oh well, maybe Thanksgiving weekend I’ll be able to do something! I hope so, my schedule is gonna be slammed after that due to stuff going on at work that I want to get all wrapped up before year end. I want to go into Christmas with a clear plate so that when the new year starts I’ve got new stuff to schedule out for the year.

Anyway, kitchen floor is dry so i need to go wrap up everything in there and get a load of clothes running. 🙂

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