MrFurious
02-11-2007, 04:47 PM
Ever have one of those weeks?
Last Monday the radiator in my truck gave up the ghost, so I was forced to start driving the Cherokee (usually park it in the winter so the salt doesn't eat it alive). Truck has 160k on it and it's the original radiator, so it's going south wasn't a huge surprise. Basically let to where the plastic side tanks are crimped onto the core.
Thursday the battery in the Cherokee finally gave up the ghost. It's been on it's last leg for about 6 months, as if I'd let the Jeep sit for more than 2 days without driving it I'd have to throw the charger on. Needless to say I forked over the $90 for a new battery.
Friday afternoon I drive the Cherokee down to Galion (90 miles or so) for my cousin's funeral without a hitch. Get up Saturday morning and head off to the funeral home, and about half way there the radiator lets go. LOVELY! Made it to the funeral home, let it cool off there awhile, then limped it out to my dad's place outside of town so I'd have a place to work on it once I found a new radiator. Fortunately the old man still has a spare truck around, so I was able to borrow it for a few days to get home and make it back and forth to work this week.
Little did I know though that this borrowed truck was going to be such a POS. It's a 1988 Dakota 4x4 with the 3.9L V6/5-spd with 180k miles on it, and this thing definitely didn't like highway speeds (no power whatsoever). Besides that the heater barely works, there's no radio, the exhaust has a huge hole in it making it sound like a VW Beatle on steroids, and a state trooper was kind enough to inform me the license plate lamp doesn't work. I guess I can't complain too much as it moves under it's own power...something neither of my own vehicles can do ATM.
So yeah, it's been one of THOSE weeks, and this next week isn't looking much better as I'm going to get to change out a radiator in an unheated shop and temps in the single digits.
Last Monday the radiator in my truck gave up the ghost, so I was forced to start driving the Cherokee (usually park it in the winter so the salt doesn't eat it alive). Truck has 160k on it and it's the original radiator, so it's going south wasn't a huge surprise. Basically let to where the plastic side tanks are crimped onto the core.
Thursday the battery in the Cherokee finally gave up the ghost. It's been on it's last leg for about 6 months, as if I'd let the Jeep sit for more than 2 days without driving it I'd have to throw the charger on. Needless to say I forked over the $90 for a new battery.
Friday afternoon I drive the Cherokee down to Galion (90 miles or so) for my cousin's funeral without a hitch. Get up Saturday morning and head off to the funeral home, and about half way there the radiator lets go. LOVELY! Made it to the funeral home, let it cool off there awhile, then limped it out to my dad's place outside of town so I'd have a place to work on it once I found a new radiator. Fortunately the old man still has a spare truck around, so I was able to borrow it for a few days to get home and make it back and forth to work this week.
Little did I know though that this borrowed truck was going to be such a POS. It's a 1988 Dakota 4x4 with the 3.9L V6/5-spd with 180k miles on it, and this thing definitely didn't like highway speeds (no power whatsoever). Besides that the heater barely works, there's no radio, the exhaust has a huge hole in it making it sound like a VW Beatle on steroids, and a state trooper was kind enough to inform me the license plate lamp doesn't work. I guess I can't complain too much as it moves under it's own power...something neither of my own vehicles can do ATM.
So yeah, it's been one of THOSE weeks, and this next week isn't looking much better as I'm going to get to change out a radiator in an unheated shop and temps in the single digits.