So I was out spraying mesquite last week end and realized I had more diesel and poison on me than I was getting on the trees...spray wand decided to start leaking like mad. Gave it up and came home and ordered a new sprayer wand and some new hose to go with it.
Then I noticed not much air was coming out of the 25000 btu window unit I have mounted in the wall. Pulled the front off and saw it was frozen up. Turned it down and it worked better, but is still freezing up and not lasting long enuf to get the house below 80 most the time.
Got tired of trying to get my ten year old, little used weedeater to keep running after it starts...acts like an air leak but fuel lines and bulb look good so I assume it must have a hardened diaphragm or a crack in it...rationali zed I should just go spend $250 on a new one instead of trying to install a ten buck carb kit in this one....somethi ng about my fifth childhood, I think.
Got in my truck to take the girl who cleans my house home and noticed a warning lite. I thought everything was reading okay so I figured I would wait til Thursday to look at it. I forgot. Then Thursday afternoon, I jumped in it to go to Angelo to look at weed eaters and air conditioners plus have dinner with my friend. Got a mile down the road and notice the oil pressure gauge was below L. Was not making noise and figured it was just way low on oil as mysteriously happens every once in awhile.
Was pissed, went home, jumped in a Buick. Figured I could at least get a weed eater. It was low on gas so I had to stop for gas and was running late. Called my friend and told her I would be late. Went and bought a weed eater that I had spent the week researching. Box was about six and a half ft long and would not fit the Buick. Stuffed it thru the window and went to eat. While waiting on my friend, I got pissed because I noticed the buick was getting hot idling. That made me determined to get the weed eater in the car and roll the window up so it would not get stolen in parking lot. Took it out of the box and got it in the car...then I started jumping up and down on the box until it crumpled to my will (and size 12 feet) and decided to allow me to bend a couple of feet over and stuff it in the car.
On Friday, I put a couple of quarts of oil in the truck, fired it up and the oil gauge went back to where it always reads. got into town to eat and noticed the needle had fallen way back. Oil was still low. Went to the station and bought some more oil, put it in, and the gauge went right up again. Got a block and it started dropping. By the time I was home, it was below L again.
Started reading Craigslist and such for a replacement truck.
On Friday afternoon, I put the weed eater together, cranked it up and it immediately snapped the lines off when it hit some tall grass. Pulled the spool off, refed the line and tried it again. Worked like a charm! No more problems. Not unless you consider snagging the phone line behind the house and ripping the line out of the wall and out of the box, a problem. Almost made me wish I had stapled that line back up when it came loose.
Decided to try the truck again. Drove it to the back of my place to turn the windmill off. Needle dropped down about a quarter inch below the L by the time I got home.
Ordered a thermostat for the Buick.
Yesterday, I started searching seriously for a replacement truck while bitching about not being able to afford one. In the afternoon, I began to wonder why I never heard a rattle out of the engine which made me wonder about the sender.
Got into the other Buick and drove it to Brady to Napa. It was closed. Went to an O'Reilly and they had one. Realized the Buick was also getting hot in town and it was also on fumes. Start pumping gas when it dawned on me that it was low because I wanted to run it low to put a new fuel pump in it. Stopped pumping.
Got home, got in the truck and drove it in the yard to my shop. Noticed that the oil pressure was holding steady. Revved the engine and the needle stayed where it should. Began to irritate me. Crawled under it to change the sending unit...no way Jose. Need a different wrench and/or pull the filter. Banged it a few times for good measure.
Cranked it up, normal oil pressure. Let it idle 30 minutes and revved it now and then...good oil pressure and no noises out of the engine other than its usual misfires and popping.
Came in the house, told my friends to cancel the search for a new truck for the moment.
Ordered another thermostat for this Buick.
Went back out and put the new wand on my sprayer...no leaks...wind blew the spray back on me and I smelled like diesel...
Today, it's 106 and I wish I had a new AC and two strong guys to get it 8 ft up in the air to replace this pos!
