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Saturday, December 28, 2002

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I called the guy who I bought the car from this morning. I tried a few other things, the first cylander is firing -- that's as far as I got. It doesn't appear to be getting fuel - I tried the "gas pressure valve" and all I got was air, no moisture. We didn't have a ratchet that was long enough for a spark plug, so I couldn't actually look at those, but I rigged up a screw driver to the spark plug to determine if it was firing ok. I got a spark, so it's ok up to the spark plugs. It's hard to go get the things I need when I don't have a car, myself.

I got a ride to work, started my new schedule early cause I'm a numbskull. January 4th was floating around in my head... and yet I had this Saturday pinned as when I was starting my new schedule, I didn't bother to check if the dates matched up ;)
It works out better for New Years, anyhow - so I'm happy.

My brother called me last night to say that I'm not being very smart getting myself into more issues by buying another old car when I have another on reserve. I have the Probe, but I don't really want to drive it in the salt and everything else. I really don't mind, I like the experience. I need to be able to determine what's wrong with a car, basic troubleshooting. I'll pay others to fix it, but I better know what's wrong before bringing it in there, the troubleshooting is where they can take you for a ride.

I'm going to give the local shop down the street a shot, see if he rips me off or breaks anything else. If it's too much of a bother, once my AAA kicks in I'll just have it towed back up to the garage in VT and get my money back. I have 30 Days to return it if I want. It might end up getting to that point, but it's a nice car -- a lot of miles, but a nice car -- I'd hate to have to go find another, too. I'm sure I could get a lot more car around here for $700, but on the other hand pretty much everything major has been replaced at this point, so taking good care of it should allow quite a bit more use.

Labels: 2002