Little Hawk
10-14-2009, 07:03 AM
After a quick overnighter up Island to Parksville from Victoria with no apparent mechanical issues with the old 'Mo-ho', I breathed a sigh of relief as I backed her into the driveway Sunday afternoon.
Now... only 4-days to Blast-off, I thought to myself.
Yesterday morning the agenda included going over the basic mechanical checks on the old 'Mo-ho' in preparation of our Friday departure for the EK.
As I first walk around the front of her I notice some coolant on the ground under the rad. 'Shiten-hosen', I say to myself.
After dumping a coupla' cans of Bars stop-leak through her I call buddy down at Lordco and he tells me I can buy a new rad for $168.00, tax in.
So me thinks - although I'm on the tightest hunting budget ever due to my contracting business having seen better times - I'd be a fool not to replace the rad.
So I buy the rad and as I'm tearing out the old one I bust one of the rusted tranny lines. As I sit the new one in place I discover it's the wrong one! Now I'm thinkin', somewhere in the world it's "Happy Hour" and grab myself a beer. Back to Lordco and another $100.00 smackers and I've got the right one, except that the nipple for the heater hose is a smaller (5/8") one than the old one. So, I buy an adapter (when I could have simply swapped hoses) and me an' Dufuss down at Lordco decide all I need to do is cut off a small piece of my existing hose to make the connection.
Back home I compare the rads' and decide I've more or less got me the right one. Cool! I grab another beer.
First on the agenda: pull off the 5/8" hose from the heater-core and cut off a small piece to make the coupling. Off with the clamp and start tugging downwards on the hose to get it off the heater core pipe.(this heater-core is brand new, installed in Aug).
It doesn't budge.
Hummmm... pull a little harder? Grunt... snap! Off comes the hose WITH THE HEATER-CORE NIPPLE! A-A-A-G-G-G-G-H-H-H! I bellow to the heavens louder than that late-season six-point who's waiting patiently for me up in the EK...
At that point another beer sounds good. I put my tools away.
Two-days to get it right... hopefully without breaking the bank!
Now... only 4-days to Blast-off, I thought to myself.
Yesterday morning the agenda included going over the basic mechanical checks on the old 'Mo-ho' in preparation of our Friday departure for the EK.
As I first walk around the front of her I notice some coolant on the ground under the rad. 'Shiten-hosen', I say to myself.
After dumping a coupla' cans of Bars stop-leak through her I call buddy down at Lordco and he tells me I can buy a new rad for $168.00, tax in.
So me thinks - although I'm on the tightest hunting budget ever due to my contracting business having seen better times - I'd be a fool not to replace the rad.
So I buy the rad and as I'm tearing out the old one I bust one of the rusted tranny lines. As I sit the new one in place I discover it's the wrong one! Now I'm thinkin', somewhere in the world it's "Happy Hour" and grab myself a beer. Back to Lordco and another $100.00 smackers and I've got the right one, except that the nipple for the heater hose is a smaller (5/8") one than the old one. So, I buy an adapter (when I could have simply swapped hoses) and me an' Dufuss down at Lordco decide all I need to do is cut off a small piece of my existing hose to make the connection.
Back home I compare the rads' and decide I've more or less got me the right one. Cool! I grab another beer.
First on the agenda: pull off the 5/8" hose from the heater-core and cut off a small piece to make the coupling. Off with the clamp and start tugging downwards on the hose to get it off the heater core pipe.(this heater-core is brand new, installed in Aug).
It doesn't budge.
Hummmm... pull a little harder? Grunt... snap! Off comes the hose WITH THE HEATER-CORE NIPPLE! A-A-A-G-G-G-G-H-H-H! I bellow to the heavens louder than that late-season six-point who's waiting patiently for me up in the EK...
At that point another beer sounds good. I put my tools away.
Two-days to get it right... hopefully without breaking the bank!