Neanderpundit

Do a pretty good job of getting all the pieces in place, and having most of what you need for the common vehicles.

And ain’t no more common vehicle than an Explorer, just about.

So the idea that something as common as a gauge sender would flummox them is amusing at best.

So I hied me hence to the local REAL auto parts store. A big Dorman display of nuts and bolts and specialty fasteners. A whopping load of starters, alternators and gasket kits.

Even the MOPAR topped stools with the chrome legs and etc.

Frankly, the only thing they were missing was the big blown pistons used as ashtrays, and the giant racks of books- now replaced by computers.

After Three trips to AdvanceZone, the guy in the refular auto parts store walked up to the shelf and grabbed the part I wanted. it was nine bucks. And now the temp gauge in the daughters’ sploder works, really the only non-regular maintenance item it has ever needed in over 400,000 miles.

I wish it werent’ such a rustbucket, I would steal it back from her and go back to driving it myself. Well, if it survives four years of college it will more than have done it’s duty.

A courteous and decent co-worker assisted me by helping to dismantle the machine while I was waiting for the cables. The cables arrived, were signed for by the front desk, who WENT INTO A MEETING AND NEVER TOLD ME. Thankfully I was refreshing the UPS tracking website like a crack monkey pushing his fix button, and I got the cables. They had to be encased in a wire braid, which I had gotten earlier.

Putting a recalcitrant 10 meter cable inside a 9.5 meter wire braid is like jamming an anaconda into another anaconda. It took four of us, and it was no fun, but we got the cables together and I went to the customer to install.

The old cables had decided to stop being magnet cables and start being weld cables. That wasn’t working so well. So I managed to get the old crap cleaned up and put it all together, seal it up with red and hit the road. Now, it’s all about getting the lawn mowed and the daughter’s truck ready for her to go to school.