Finally, a successful day of working on the car

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

Yeah, but the car would "align itself" if you'd just get that ugly duckbill
off its nose and ship it far, far away, say, out of the country.... ;)

  Seriously, glad you had a good day, I'm way overdue for a day of
wreching, but that'll come shortly. It'll be all that small annoying stuff
that takes forever to get to. And I hear you about the crappy deck that
gives you tunes, I have the $99 CDN MP3 player in mine, ugly and horrible
as hell, but it relieved me from my authentic collection of cassettes from
the 70s at least, they were getting pretty stretched out. And I have the
Moody Blues on CD anyway.

Cathy

On 6:01:54 pm 06/28/05 GGehrke <ggehrke@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tomorrow I leave DC again on the trek to Kentucky (Home) and had a bit
> of work to do on the car before I started.  I went out to the metro
> parking lot where it's been sitting for the last week and worked on it
> a bit there, and actually left with my projects all successfully
> completed, for once.
>
> First I rotated my front wheels to the back because I had a spare
> (just an old wheel/tire, not a donut) on the front and because they
> haven't been rotated yet though I've probably gone slightly over
> mileage for it.  I wanted to do an alignment of sorts too, but that
> just wasn't feasible in the parking lot, so I am going to wait until I
> get home and can put together some hugely complicated and
> fantastically nerdy gizmo for checking it all out.  I think while home
> I'm also going to just get the car up on jackstands and make sure my
> suspension is all holding together alright - check it for problems and
> whatnot.  I'm sure I'll be asking questions in the next few days about
> all that :)
>
> I also installed my new CD player.  I got a Pyle 4x40 watt CD player
> that is an absolute piece of junk, but it was 20 bucks and it works,
> so whatever.  I had to check some of my wiring and ended up taking the
> power straight from the battery (with an inline fuse) rather than
> trying to branch it off of some of the other wiring behind the dash.
> I did pull the accessory power off the rear defog switch (I think)
> which may not be the most proper place, but it seems to work fine and
> I don't think it'll draw too much current.  When I actually rewire the
> whole car, I'm going to be sure to do all that stuff right, but for
> now I just want it to work and not start on fire, and actually have
> something to listen to on 10 hour drives.  I can hear it over the car
> idling, and I think it's going to be loud enough to hear when the car
> drives (i really hope so anyways - that sucker's pretty loud right
> now), so that, too, was a successful procedure :)
>
> -Grant-
>
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