or some crap - be forewarned - I ain't no fucking mechanic and I don't pretend to be one
So last night I start working on my truck. I needed to replace the quick disconnect for the heater hose and the thermostat gasket. The disconnect wasn't too bad, just a pain in the ass because there isn't a whole lot of room in the engine compartment. Then I moved on to the thermostat gasket. Started out OK. Figured out that the gasket is an o-ring that goes around the thermostat. So far, so good. What I didn't realize is that I needed a gasket to go between the thermostat housing and the intake manifold.
I also didn't realize that I put a electrical holder dealie between the housing and the intake manifold. Well this allowed coolant to flow like a river out of my engine. Made it about 2 miles towards work. Luckily I had a couple of bottles of anti-freeze in the bed of the truck. poured a bottle in and limped to a local mechanic. He showed me my fuck-up. Unfortunately I have an intake leak, so I am gonna let them fix it.
There goes the money I was saving to get the 750 kit for my Triumph :(
Damned USPS!!!
So I sent my gas tank to Elswick Cycles to get Frisco'ed, the petcock moved back, the filler cap moved forward and new mounting points added to it. The gas tank filler bung was in a different box. I check USPS tracking last night. The filler bung made it, the gas tank is coming back to me. Apparently even though I printed off 2 copies of the mailing address as given to me by Elswick the PO can't deliver 2 packages to the same place. That tank wasn't cheap to send and now I gotta do it again!!! Yeah, I'm a bit pissy!!!!
