So I started gathering the tools and parts to replace the timing belt on my truck (there's several parts besides the timing belt that are usually replaced at the same time while you're there) and should have everything I need by next week. All I need after that is good weather. I'm thinking that I should look into replacing the valve cover gaskets as well since the engine is leaking oil and that's where it appears to be coming from:
That doesn't seem to terribly difficult or expensive to do but I'll need to remove part of the intake and probably the throttle body. Probably add a few hours to the job. While I'm doing the timing belt I think I'll replace the radiator and heater hoses as well as they're getting rather cracked. It's very old
Once I actually start I'll post up lots of pictures and maybe a couple videos as I'll be taking lots anyway to keep track of everything.
I'm following a guide I found online as well as a repair manual my dad bought years ago when he was working on the truck:
I've done some work on cars before but nothing like this so this should be... Fun!(Scary) I've done my research so I think it's doable, and as far as timing belt replacements go it seems like this is a pretty easy vehicle to do it on. The best way to learn is to jump right in, right?
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Some of the art for my classes this semester.
Been a busy bee since October.
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Project Time!
So. We're moving! ...and there are so many repairs...
I've been excited about this all month, but we got hit with last-minute financial blows that took out our move-in repairs budget.
There's no way we can replace the broken fence right now ($15-25k!), so we need to patch the gaps to keep our pupper and the toddlebit from bolting into the ditch next door. And replacing the fragged driveway is a pipe dream, so we'll be filling the 30 years' worth of cracks. Because we need to finance replacing the 30-year-old HVAC o.o Before summer. In Georgia. Uh oh XD
We fortunately have enough to get electrical and plumbing repairs done, but that's it. So signal boosts, good vibes, and any help with the supplies here are super welcome. ♥
(I am currently adoring my new little staplegun. Thank you thank you thank you! My allergies are gonna destroy me but I can't wait to patch the fennnnnce.)
More info this-a-way!
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One of the worst feelings in the world: when you are just desperate, like claw-your-own-skin-off desperate, to create, but the only thing that even vaguely appeals to you to work on is a nebulous half-feeling that might be dreamily related to some half-formed notion of a concept. I must! Make! No thing! Only make!
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Traded the switchblade for some sewing shears 🥰🥰🥰 it was unhinged feral girlie sewing hours last night.
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heartstopper is so funny to me bc it’s like almost all young up-and-coming teen actors and then just. academy award winner olivia colman is there to have four lines a season
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“i don’t get hannibal lecter” it’s about being the worst person in the world and yet someone still loves you despite it and it’s about convincing yourself you’re fine living your life alone and never truly connecting with anyone until someone comes along and you realize you could never live without them now and it’s about caring about someone so deeply that all you want now is for them to truly see you and it’s about how your devotion is so crushing and deep that you’d go to lengths of even self-destruction just to keep them around so you can keep loving them. “but he’s a cannibal” lol yeah
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ORIGINAL MARCELINE OF THE WINTER KING'S UNIVERSE!? 😨
Is the implication that Ice King took her out with all of the other oozers or did the oozers end up killing her?? Either way, it seems that this Simon was not coping well with any of what was going on in his life. Living a life of hypocrisy & ruling a false kingdom.
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