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So it's been a week...
So it's been a week and itching to get the ADV80 back so the kids and I can go wheelin on Saturday - YEA, A WEEKEND OFF!!!
Laguna Viejo Auto Service gave the call on Friday and said come get it!!! $2,550+ dollars for a bunch of hoses, water pump, pulleys, brackets and a new radiator and I am ready and out the door!!! The decision was made to just change, I think 8-9 of the 14-total coolant system hoses that will need be changed. I went in thinking is was going to be like $600.00 so the budget got ambushed!
Pop in the rig and drove home - nineteen miles one way from the shop to my house.
Popped open the hood to show the wife the spiffy new radiator and hoses and such.
new water pump and belts.
New hoses.
Got some new pulleys, some new belts.
Telling the wife we have some more hoses to change and that the shop showed me why the A/C might not be cooling.
Tell tell sign of why the A/C is not working - See how the dirt is caking up on the condenser... All that is going to be another very expensive expense...
As we are talking, we here a HHHHHIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS...
and a drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip...
and some steam..
The next culprits to ooze the anti-freeze and make that funky smell that is no good to smell...
burning radiator fluid dripping onto the header tubes below.
Seems the little rubber tube that goes into the firewall just decided it was jealous of all the new hoses moving in and he wants to move out. Best way I know to get kicked off the team!
These old dawgs are "FIRED!!!" said in my best Donald Trump impression. Now if I could just impersonate his Black AMEX!!!
YEA, I'm WAY UPSET!!! Just trying to maintain "cool" hahahha as I knew I would be getting into some mess!
So it's been a week and itching to get the ADV80 back so the kids and I can go wheelin on Saturday - YEA, A WEEKEND OFF!!!
Laguna Viejo Auto Service gave the call on Friday and said come get it!!! $2,550+ dollars for a bunch of hoses, water pump, pulleys, brackets and a new radiator and I am ready and out the door!!! The decision was made to just change, I think 8-9 of the 14-total coolant system hoses that will need be changed. I went in thinking is was going to be like $600.00 so the budget got ambushed!
Pop in the rig and drove home - nineteen miles one way from the shop to my house.
Popped open the hood to show the wife the spiffy new radiator and hoses and such.
new water pump and belts.
New hoses.
Got some new pulleys, some new belts.
Telling the wife we have some more hoses to change and that the shop showed me why the A/C might not be cooling.
Tell tell sign of why the A/C is not working - See how the dirt is caking up on the condenser... All that is going to be another very expensive expense...
As we are talking, we here a HHHHHIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS...
and a drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip...
and some steam..
The next culprits to ooze the anti-freeze and make that funky smell that is no good to smell...
burning radiator fluid dripping onto the header tubes below.
Seems the little rubber tube that goes into the firewall just decided it was jealous of all the new hoses moving in and he wants to move out. Best way I know to get kicked off the team!
These old dawgs are "FIRED!!!" said in my best Donald Trump impression. Now if I could just impersonate his Black AMEX!!!
YEA, I'm WAY UPSET!!! Just trying to maintain "cool" hahahha as I knew I would be getting into some mess!
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