Awake: 6:20am Temp 40 sleep 6+14 temp falling overnight @ Nicktown
After breakfast, I opened the hood of our Suzuki & instantly found out why we were not getting warm air with a warmed up engine; the top radiator hose was split apart. Not a good time to have this happen; it's very cold outside! Although better here than miles away & on the highway!
We had plans to travel today but...not now. Our other car is in storage for the winter & I'd rather not go to that trouble to bring it out. Most of our neighbors are usually busy on Saturdays & visiting on Sundays, but there is (1) guy that I might call for a little help; I have the tools to replace a radiator hose but no car to go to the auto parts store to get the necessary hose.
OK, so I called John....the phone rang.... & rang, finally John answered & I explained my predicament. Here....he & his son were practically out the door on their way to Johnstown; I tried to cancel my request but he insisted he could help out by doing both.
He suggested I call the nearby auto parts stores, to make sure they have the part & then call him back. "Good idea, John" I said. I called (3) stores, (2) didn't have the part & the other one didn't answer.
Kathy & I were both looking up more nearby auto part stores when there came a knock on the door; it was John driving his truck & his boy driving his car. John knew an auto parts store in Ebensburg that has most everything; I called that number he suggested & sure enough, they had the hose I needed.
John left his truck for my convenience & they were off to Johnstown. What a guy! I made the (30) mile round trip just fine, put the new hose on, added a 50/50 mixture of water & antifreeze, drove the Suzuki around town a few times but the warm air was still not so warm. I figured there was probably some air blockage so I just let the car idle with the radiator cap loosely on.
Much later, John & his son returned; John wasn't one to wait for warm air flow. I had Kathy get my Fluke Infrared Thermometer so we could easily see the temp change with the liquid going into the heater box & measuring the temp coming back out.
John revved the engine a few times & suggested we take another ride down the road. By the time we returned, that warm air felt plenty good. John really saved the day for us. I was very grateful for the use of John's truck & the push to get the antifreeze to circulate & get rid of the air blockage.
(2) radiator hoses, left one bad, the right one very good.
Later, K & I attended 6:00pm Mass & afterward, John, who saved our day, Theresa, Kathy & I sat @ the big table in the bar & had some interesting discussions along with our beer & steak salad,& chicken salad.
Late Movie: "Red Dust" with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, etc. Robust romance of Indochina rubber worker Gable, his floozie gal Harlow, and visiting Astor, who is married to Raymond, but falls for Gable. Harlow has fine comic touch. 1932. Fairly good movie for the early thirty's.
Lights out: 12:22am.
After breakfast, I opened the hood of our Suzuki & instantly found out why we were not getting warm air with a warmed up engine; the top radiator hose was split apart. Not a good time to have this happen; it's very cold outside! Although better here than miles away & on the highway!
We had plans to travel today but...not now. Our other car is in storage for the winter & I'd rather not go to that trouble to bring it out. Most of our neighbors are usually busy on Saturdays & visiting on Sundays, but there is (1) guy that I might call for a little help; I have the tools to replace a radiator hose but no car to go to the auto parts store to get the necessary hose.
OK, so I called John....the phone rang.... & rang, finally John answered & I explained my predicament. Here....he & his son were practically out the door on their way to Johnstown; I tried to cancel my request but he insisted he could help out by doing both.
He suggested I call the nearby auto parts stores, to make sure they have the part & then call him back. "Good idea, John" I said. I called (3) stores, (2) didn't have the part & the other one didn't answer.
Kathy & I were both looking up more nearby auto part stores when there came a knock on the door; it was John driving his truck & his boy driving his car. John knew an auto parts store in Ebensburg that has most everything; I called that number he suggested & sure enough, they had the hose I needed.
John left his truck for my convenience & they were off to Johnstown. What a guy! I made the (30) mile round trip just fine, put the new hose on, added a 50/50 mixture of water & antifreeze, drove the Suzuki around town a few times but the warm air was still not so warm. I figured there was probably some air blockage so I just let the car idle with the radiator cap loosely on.
Much later, John & his son returned; John wasn't one to wait for warm air flow. I had Kathy get my Fluke Infrared Thermometer so we could easily see the temp change with the liquid going into the heater box & measuring the temp coming back out.
John revved the engine a few times & suggested we take another ride down the road. By the time we returned, that warm air felt plenty good. John really saved the day for us. I was very grateful for the use of John's truck & the push to get the antifreeze to circulate & get rid of the air blockage.
(2) radiator hoses, left one bad, the right one very good.
Later, K & I attended 6:00pm Mass & afterward, John, who saved our day, Theresa, Kathy & I sat @ the big table in the bar & had some interesting discussions along with our beer & steak salad,& chicken salad. Late Movie: "Red Dust" with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, etc. Robust romance of Indochina rubber worker Gable, his floozie gal Harlow, and visiting Astor, who is married to Raymond, but falls for Gable. Harlow has fine comic touch. 1932. Fairly good movie for the early thirty's.
Lights out: 12:22am.
Leave a comment