At least there won’t be any freezing rain mixed in or right before the snow. I drove to work one morning and found out there was ice under that snow. Fishtailed my way up a 4 mile county road. Stopped at the top to decide whether to continue or turn around but turning around would have meant trying to get up a steeper hill. Then a county plow/salt truck went by so I followed him to town.
I’ll be ordering tires Friday/payday for the new(to me) truck. Tires on it aren’t bald but getting close to the wear indicators. It’s 2wd so I’ll be putting some concrete blocks in the back of the bed tomorrow. Pallets to keep them to the back. Has dual tanks but the rear one leaks according to previous owner so I don’t get that 19 gallons of weight back there. New tank, full fuel pump assembly and then find out if the selector valve works. Someday. Meanwhile, I’m not touching that selector switch.
Looks like 3 inches total snow where I’m at with most of it being Saturday day and night. I might take the long way out Sunday morning and avoid that 4 mile county road since it’s towards the end of their list for plowing/salting. Too lumpy for effective plowing anyway. Long way is a few miles of gravel with no big hills and then state hwy that MODOT takes care of.
Battery is 6 years old but it cranked the engine right up on a 9 degree morning so 1 degree shouldn’t be much different. Been meaning to look at the brand/model of it.
Crawled under and fixed the exhaust yesterday. The cat and everything else had come off of the Y pipe. Open Y pipe was kinda loud. Was that way when I bought it. Had to flare the end of the cat around the bottom with some Vise Grips and file a burr off the top of the Y pipe to get them to start going together and used a chain and binder to pull them together more. Couple of screws to keep them together and will weld them up sometime when it’s not so windy. Nice tight, hole free cab, XLT Lariat, so I guess it came with plenty of sound deadening because I can hardly hear the engine now.
NWS has us over 7” of snow forecast now, go 50 miles south and it’s 10”, and the track keeps shifting north. Friday night / Saturday morning look roughest: Snow, gusty winds, and 6 deg. F. That’s about 20 deg. below average for us, for a low, then Monday and Tuesday mornings we drop a bit lower, but w/ light winds. Taking care of the chickens is not gonna be fun\, and our old cat (discussion in my post 374, above) is going to be a real pain.
I’m going to put the automatic charger on our Chevy Tahoe for a few hours Friday evening just to be on the safe side, maybe put the automatic lower current charger on our Outback. Daughter-san is supposed to drive up Friday - she’d better start early to beat the snow...
I have a Battery from O'Reilly automotive that lasted 6 or 7 years. Was not cheap, but it cost lest than Delco.
I see some snow right now in the area SE of Rolla. Not much snow here, but we will get cold.
Something on Ford Engines. Hope yours is a good one.
I hope that turns out to be the case. The weather guessers can't seem to make up their minds what they think is going to happen this weekend.
Congrats on the new wheels. It's nice when you don't have to worry if a trip home from town is going to be on foot.