Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I washed thecar yesterday.
Ya know that place where they wanted the soccer fields? It looks like it’s a winter resort for Canadian geese.
Clare decided to take French this semester. She's lucky because both her roommates will be taking the same class, and they studied French in high school, so she says she has NO excuse not to do well.
Might be your main flywheel. I had a squeal in a car I owned once. I hosed down the hub where the shaft mets the wheel (staring you in the face when you open the hood) with WD40 and it took car of the problem for a while, then I have to hose it down again.
If you do it make sure you don’t spray the inside of the wheel/pulley area.
There’s lots of routine maintenance you can do on your own car once you have someone show you what stuff is and what it does under the hood.
If it was the flywheel, wouldn’t it squeak continually, though, and not just when idling+cold?
I know I should probably know more than I do...but at the same time, I know how lousy I am with hardware in general, so I hesitate to really delve into it. I might be able to speak with more authority, but I still don’t think I’d want to do the actual work. Not on something that’s liable to kill me if I get something wrong...
At this moment, I’d better not even attempt a response to that.
OK, I must not have been paying attention to the timing of the squeak, or is it a squeal? My van was squealing for a while. It would happen when I first started rolling, but then would stop as the van warmed up, or when I applied the brakes, so I knew it wasn’t the brakes. Turns out, it was a loose caliper on one of the brakes, and it wasn’t that expensive to fix.
It’s a squeal, most definitely, though I guess I said something else in one post. LOUD squeal. Really loud. It starts when I’m at a stop, and gets louder and louder until I move again, and then slowly goes away. Doesn’t happen at all when the van is warmed up. But it means that right now, I end up cussing out long stop lights when the van is cold.
I should just have it looked at, I know. And I will.
Cold temperature could cause the flywheel/shaft to shrink at different rates which is why you only hear it when it’s cold outside.
The speed thing may be caused by the engine being older and hitting the right vibrations at idle/lower speed to set it off, then once you go faster the vibrations change frequency and the squeal stops.
Get a can of WD-40, cheapest way to find out if that’s it.
I’m a jackleg mechanic who did not stay at a Holiday Inn last night but I did drive a few 10+ year old cars for a decade until a bought a new one last year.
Evenin’ today was crazy. Crazy, but good. My cube has a window! Actually, it’s not a cube. It’s a hemi. (in that it only has two sides...) They start piling work on my desk tomorrow, so I made sure to clean it up with some household wipes that I bought at lunch. After turning down three of the most forlorn looking hand-me-down chairs (torn, dusty, squeaky, dinged, “broken in”) I’m in the market for a good chair... but dang they’re expensive.
Do what I did. Tell ‘em you have a bad back.
That worked in my old organization. The new organization doesn’t have the budget for it. Urgh. Anyhoo. I’m taking the tape measure in, too, to measure the hemible (?? does that work as a word) to see what kind of organizing doo-dads will fit.
Ya think? lol
*resisting the urge to reach for a drink after OSU’s first half*
Either of you guys have a fax machine that could send me a test fax? Anyone?
Ah - well this may be an unfair test, because I’m not sure my fax will work. I think it got fried in the power outage, and now it initializes and then flashes “scanner failure”.
It rings... it answered, but I can’t tell if it would actually print a fax. I’ll send you my fax number in FRMail... any test page will do ;~)
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