Andy’s Blog

So yesterday I pretty much worked on the cars all day.  I started by working on my car thinking maybe there was something wrong with the clutch fluid and/or the master cylinder (this makes it easier to depress the clutch similar to power steering makes it easier to turn the wheel).  So I completly cleared the fluid lines and replaced the fluid.  This seemed to solve the problem of the clutch not being able to engage at all meaning I can now shift my car into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and reverse.  But now when trying to take off there is virtually no power to the wheels.  There is about enough power to go 1 m.p.h. in first gear, no bueno.   So now I’m pretty convinced it’s a bad clutch which so far the cheapest place I found is $550.

Next I started working on changing the oil in Joe’s Explorer because I told him I would.  Everything is going too until I finally get the bolt holding the oil in the oil pan.  I had misplaced the bowl I was using the collect the oil (since both of our other oil pans are full) and of course the bolt was mounted sideways so the oil started spurting out sideways versus straight down where I had the bowl so I got oil EVERYWHERE on the driveway.  It was a pain in the ass to clean up even though I didn’t clean it up fully.  But anyways after I let all the oil drain now into the bowl like it should have, I went to go take off the oil filter but somebody decided to make it so tight I couldn’t unscrew it.  So now I had to wait for Kendra to get home to drive me over to Autozone since I now did not have Joe’s car to drive.  So I get the oil filter wrench and finish up.

So this morning we get some cops at the door saying we can’t park our cars on the street when the school across the street is starting or when it’s getting out because it impedes traffic and forces cars to drive into oncoming traffic endangering the lives of the children.  Where the hell are we supposed to park our cars?!  Looks like we have to be extremely ghetto and park them on the lawn well at least one of them.