The SX/4 money pit

[Smitty]

It appears that most of the seepage from the tranny has stopped.  I still need to do the rear seal.  Got the water pump changed and all new hoses run last night.  I neglected to pick up a new power steering belt so I will do that today.  Figured I would get all the belts in and snugged up before I slide the new radiator in.  Just a lot easier to do with more room.  Changed out the thermostat too.  I did manage to get the air shocks in but was not in the mood to lay under the car on the creeper so final cable routing for the Ebarke will be done tonight.  Besides, by that time the Yankee game was on and we get so few of them on the dish that it was calling to me. 

Closer and closer I get

[IowaEagle]

So when is your ETOTRA?  (Estimated time on the Road Again)

[Smitty]

So when is your ETOTRA?  (Estimated time on the Road Again)

Monday!!!!!

[Smitty]

OK, OK it is Tuesday and the car still is not done.  I think tonight that I will get a lot of little things done that will let me test drive and debug issues.  I have had an annoying health issue that is not getting better so it kinds of leaves me without a lot of energy.  I go next Monday to see when they slice me again to fix it.  Need to get the car done before then!!  Did pick up the EBay parts SX/4 in a deal with a couple of Nest members so parts distribution will commence shortly.

[IowaEagle]

Hey Smitty hope your medical procedure goes well and you are back to 100% shortly.  Hope there are not many bugs to get rid of.

[jim]

Best wishes on your procedure.  Is it minor surgery?
You do know the defiinition of minor surgery, don't you?
It is surgery performed on someone else!

[way2phastphil]

You do know the defiinition of minor surgery, don't you?
It is surgery performed on someone else!

Very true. Hopefully, it will solve the problem, once and for all.

[Smitty]

Managed to putter in the garage for a couple of hours tonight.  Had to stop cause of the exhaust fumes, and I WAS HUNGRY,  Grilled a slab of meat on the grill and figured I could eat and type almost at the same time.  I believe I have everything under the hood in order (but the hood is off the car, so what does that really mean  ).  The radiator is in and fluid is in the system.  It did not want to start so I had to run a bypass on the 'puter and if fired up.  Must be it is missing one of those sensors that is laying on the garage floor.  During the course of getting it to run decent I found and fixed; 2 small coolant leaks, 1 small vacuum leak, 1 LARGE vacuum leak and I had to reset the timing to compensate for lack of computer control.  Seems to run pretty good but I have not put it under load to really see.  I still have to find the wire that goes to the temp sensor as the guage does not work now.

Still left to do:
replace shifter
replace driver side shocks front and rear (Pass side are changed)
finish hanging the E brake cables so they do not drag
bleed brakes
go racing - only kidding

another night or two and it should roll out of the garage for a road test.

[IowaEagle]

Sounds like your list is getting longer.  Don't you just hate having extra parts left over.

[Smitty]

I don't mind parts left over.  Means the car is lighter and meaner    What I really hate is missing tools!  3 or 4 knee operations ago it took them 3 days to realize they were missing a clamp...... it was still in my leg.  They had to open me up again to take it out.  Military doctors (is that an oxymoron?)

[way2phastphil]

Sound like one of the 3 Stooges episodes, where one of them gets off the table, is clanking around. "Free Medical" is worth every penny. 

[IowaEagle]

Not quite as bad as Military Inteligence.  I only had one surgery, at least where they put me out, from a Army Doctor and I have nothing but good things to say about the outcome.  It was probably not so much they left a clamp in you that bothered them -- it was that the doc was afraid when it came IG inventory time he would have been charged for the clamp and you for misappropriating government property.

[Smitty]

Hope you are referring to military docs and not the way I work on Eagles  

[rmedon]

I've always been happier with the military docs skill than I was with their attitude.  That part did bother me.

[Gil-SX4]

Hey Smitty good luck on the table.
That way you can get back to working on your AMC Eagle a lot faster.