beer, sparks, fuel, and beer

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

Yeah, that's been my evening.
1. I harvested a fresh lime from my lime tree (right here in Ontario
too!!), so that called for Corona...
2. After my spark show from the alternator last night, I scored a nice
plastic/bakelite/whatever piece for the alternator, no more sparks, seems
to be charging, whew. Perhaps my extraneous ground wire helped send the
spark away from electronics? Time will tell if it's really okay.
3. Shed no tears for my Carat, it's now an official parts car. After the
kid and I opened the childproofed back door (by force), and then jimmied
the trunk open, in order to remove the back seats, he informed me that the
fuel hatch is NOT under the seats. (AFTER the seats were out) Anyway,
removed the pump, installed it in the Cabby, and it's humming merrily in
the tank. And the "jizzle" is still there, so it looks like the main was
the culprit. I honestly don't think the transfer pump was working anyway,
now that I hear this one. SO you know what that means. Oh yay.
4. Mike's beer of choice, holy crap! 9%!!!! yeah, I'm splitting one with
the kid, and that'll be it for tonight. It's mighty tasty, but it'd kill me
in quantity. But it IS tasty.....

SO I guess I'll need a bath so I don't smell like a refinery anymore, but
it was a good evening I'd say. 
Oh, so I know, in these two pump setups, if I detach the lines to the
transfer pump, I shouldn't get a big gas bath from doing the main pump
(after the initial draining of the lines), should I? It looks like it'll be
single digits by the time I get to it, and gas is mighty cold, you know? 

Time for relaxing now I'd say.
cathy