Got up this mornin' the house was cold,
Checked the furnace it wasn't burnin'
Went out hopped in my old Ford,
Hit the engine but she wasn't turnin'

Cold this morning!! For some reason the furnace wasn't kicking in they way it was supposed to and the bedroom temps were 10 degrees below where the thermostat was set... Lowest bidder parts I imagine...

Got about a 1/4 mile from the house and my old Ford konked out on me, did not hear the fuel pump whirring. Now this is the 4th time I've had a problem with the fuel system in the last month!!!
Tank replaced
Fuel pump replaced
Fuel tank filler hose replaced
Now This >(

... But my son slept for an extra hour this morning :-D

Well at least it wasn't September and you were on your way to a blitz the #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& called you to join in on, lol. It is cccccold this morning. My office is in a renovated barn in the back of my property and I use one of those oil radiators and I've got it cranked up trying to take the chill off, burrr.

Tight lines.

Yah the only good thing about this is the ponds will ice over and I can fish the hard stuff. Yes I am nuts, but being outdoors watching the sun come up is great no matter what the temps. I have not wet a line for a month now and I'm looking forward to it. Hunting is over let the new season begin.

G.S. , oil radiator? with all that HVAC stuff available in your business how can you be using one of those things?

Too bad about that furnace John,welcome to new homeownership. And to think I was under the impression that Murphy guy followed MY shadow.

Happy New Year
It ain't braggin' if it's draggin'

P.S. Oh ya , strange ending to the Pats' season! And even with a lastplace schedule they have to play at Denver next year! We need Curtis back.

By golly John, sounds like the nasty ol' gremlin that visited me on Sat must be working his way south. The water pump on the family car(92 Olds Royale) started screaming like a banshee while my wife was out XMAS shopping Friday night. Hey no prob. Believe it or not it's only a $22 part. So what if nobody can do the job. I had the next four days off so I can afford to blow away one day and throw the pump in myself. Hmmmmm, it sure looks like the motor mount needs to come out as it's covering up access to the water pump. Can this be? "Hello, Parts Manager? Yes, I was wondering if.........it does?.....your kidding me?.....the hardest 3800 engine to work on, huh? " I should have known. Those four bolts holding the motor mount ot the frame were REALLY in there! Six hours later and the job is still not completed. So Sat night it was off to the relatives in my beater mobile("But Honey, I thought you said it would be fixed by the end of the day???). Fast forward to Sunday morning. The house is a bit cold. The cute pie of my life, aka Dah Grand Daughter, has flipped the switch on the Monitor heater to the OFF position(8 hours earlier). Easy fix. Moving right along to the car repair. Six more hours to complete the job. But more heater fun to come. Did I mention how cold it was? VERY A 35,000 BTU space heater pointed straight at me barely kept me arse warm. Did I mention what happens when you get too close to a 35,000 BTU space heater? But job done and still had two days to unwind. Weird how similar our situations were, huh?

Anyone live in a hundred year old house??? (only rented thank god we dont own it) that wind gets a blowing and you swear open windows would be more energy efficient!!!Brrr!

As far as the vehicle thing?? Well the hubby and I are leaving Thursday for the North East Kingdom for five fun filled days of nature via snowmobile....problem? The Diesel with TWO battries wouldn't start ! Dead! I think he fixed today...but......I worry about when we get there and temps are not uncommonly reaching thrity below! Now THAT is cold!!!! It never seems to fail does it? :(

Hey CoD, sorry to hear that you had so much fun with your wheels this weekend too. Personally, I miss having access to a lift where I could do alot more work on my own. A lift would have been good for you too as I remember that the 3800 Buick V-6 waterpump was most easily removed my removing the top dogbone engine mount, tilting the motor and pulling the waterpump off from underneath and out the wheel well... But that was 6-7 years ago so...

... At least it wasn't the supercharged version :P

Jenn, my last apartment was like that. It had 2 bedrooms because the owner converted the front porch into a skinny room that would barely fit a bed... Fortunately, heat was included with the rent which almost made up for the fact that the house was as airtight as a fish net....

'Luck up in the north country...

John> Your quite correct. Taking the weight off the mount via a jack under the motor is the method of choice. The grease pit in my garage made this an easy task. The hard part of the job was the dang bolts holding the dog bone to the frame. Whewwww, what a buggah. So tell us, what was the final fix to the Johnmobile? Yah gotta love those total fuel system jobs. I remember having to replace a fuel pump in an 85 Olds Cutlass Ciera. Lovely design. I ended up having to replace the sending unit too as the hoses could not be removed without detroying the unit. Oh yeah, a new tank went in. Lucky for me that the filter stopped all the yuck from going into the fuel rail. Way 2 much fun. LOL

Well, I must give a little history here... I bought this 92 Bronco 2+ years ago. The wife was tweaked about all the miles I was putting on my shinny green lovely (insert Tim Allen noises here) 98F150 4x4 SC Off-Road :'( , glides on the beach like an M1A1 tank in Desert Storm, pickup truck. It also smelled like fish :P , SO, i bought the Bronco and it had a new gas tank when I got it... This vehicle has seen the beach a fair amount of time and I often clean the undercarriage... BUT I never made certain to forcefully remove the sand between the gas tank and the tank's skid plate. Between the saltwater, sand, rust, and gravel this cement like creation wore a hole in the tank itself. New tank and shield $400

2 weeks later, fuel pump died - drop tank and replace pump $400 after another 2 weeks in the shop...

3 days later getting gas, the gas pump would switch off as if tank was full when it was in fact, dead empty. I forced 87 cents worth of gas (looks funny on Amex bill) and brought back to repair shop.
where they said the fuel filler hose had collapsed internally. $200 for parts (no labor) but it was there for 1 1/2 weeks waiting for all the wrong parts to come in...

Picked it up, got more than 87cents worth of fuel and the next day the guage stops reading.

Yesterday at 5:30 in the morning on my way to work, it shuts down, and I had it towed in again....

I REALLY wish I still had access to a lift and air tools >(