The blog of Michael Rice

Well my poor old mustang is dead. Im sad to report that due to me being so lazy and not taking the time to fix my car almost a year ago when it broke, and then having not even driven it in 2 1/2 years its dead in the water… I got all the money for what I thought would be a simple R&R (remove and replace) for the lower radiator hose, and thermostat; went and bought the parts, and stripped down the car to begin the repair. As soon as I got the lower hose off I knew I had bigger problems on my hand. The waterpump had a hole in it and so I knew right then I would be putting on a waterpump too. I went ahead and bought a new waterpump and pulled the old one off, and while cleaning the old gasket off the timing chain cover I see what turns out to be my worst nightmare.. I see a hole in my timing chain cover where the water jacket runs into the block. Im pissed, upset, etc etc all at the same time… Just when I thought I was going to get to drive my car for the first time in a couple years I see this job just got way bigger… My next step is to check my oil cause where the hole is at there *should* be NO water in my oil…. but there is.. So now I have started pulling the motor apart, and I guess now my 1991 mustang gets to join my junk yard of broken down mustangs with my 1989. Oh well. I will be getting it fixed someday, just no idea when that day will be… In the mean time at least I do still have my little truck to drive.. its just not as much fun as that Nitrous powered 5.0.

On a positive and unrelated note I got an 80% on my Math test that I took last week so all is not bad Now as long as I can keep that up, and pass that luck on to my networking class for my Subnetting test I will be in good shape.