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Mystery water loss


I too am a member of "The Old Farts Club". I think we all suffer from the RipVanWinkle Complex...went to bed young and woke up old! Haha

Memory sucks, hard to pee, hair falls off head and then sprouts on back and shoulders, fall asleep while working under truck and then can't hardly stand back up after crawling back out. Ailments are many, numerous pills but the print has gotten so small on the bottle you can't read it.

There have been Good Times and Bad Times, Happy and Sad Times and for the most part...it has all been worth it.

A GIGANTIC ditto! One other thing I find disturbing is that while I've normally had reasonably good fortune with women now they look right through me as if I don't exist. Not that it really matters as I couldn't do a whole lot even if I latched on to one.

I'm going back to working on the truck-it's more therapeutic than crying about once was
 
Certainly is hard finding a decent hobby. I recently bought a .177 pellet pistol for taking out Tree Rats (squirrels) stealthily and as quietly as possible as the neighbors are squirrel lovers. Even the subsonic .22s and bird shot are just to loud.

Anyway, having an absolute blast. Since vision is dim and fuzzy I mounted a reflex red-dot sight on it and made a cardboard target holder out of 10 layers of cardboard and now I can plink away in the garage and hone my sniper skills. Took out 4 rats last evening and now I see 7 or 8 more out there scaring the birds.

You're sure that there are 7 or 8? Fuzzy vision eh
 
Amen. The Get-up-and-Go, Got-up-and-Went! Hahahaha No Pronghorn Buck here either!
 
I catch women with a slingshot...no, wait, that was squirrels...I got to be pretty good with one...took out the back window of Jetta from 50 yards...:)
 
We're such a sorrowful lot. My Ranger still loves me though. I think
 
HaHaHa. Yep, sorrowful lot alright! We squint, we drool, we wheeze, we emit noxious fumes and we dribble a bit, but yes, our Rangers still Love us!
 
I keep looking at sling shots but don't think I could ever hit anything smaller than a Moose or the broad side of a barn.
 
I keep looking at sling shots but don't think I could ever hit anything smaller than a Moose or the broad side of a barn.

The size of the shot helps make up a bit for lack of aim. The ball bearings I was using are about 5x the size of a pellet and the only thing you need to work on is holding it steady...they shoot pretty far and pretty straight. I was able to knock cans off the bumper of the Jetta before I accidentally hit the rear window.

50 to 100 feet is probably most accurate range...after that the squirrels need to be cat size...or maybe a small cow size...
 
Way back in 1964 when M-80s were still legal we used sling shots to launch those bad boys! What fun! I am amazed that I have made it 65 years with some of the things I've done. Guess God really does watch over idiots!
 
Yeah, getting old is not for sissys. Things you did w/o a thought now take some planning and preparation. When I have to lay down in front of a bumper, I find myself turning a few times like an old dog getting ready to lay down... I then manage to get down on the floor w/o breaking stuff. Getting up is worse.

The temp gauge will screw into the block above and to the right of the oil filter if you have a 2.0/2.3/2.5. Likely the techs that did the work did not know what it was for, and damaged it. I assume it is the wrapped tiny tube, a coil wrapped for protection, that has the bulb on the end that sits in the coolant. That tube is fragile, and that's right near the area where the roundabout hose plugs into the bottom(side actually, near the bottom) of the intake manifold. Blame your local butchers. They should buy you a new one, as they last forever if not whacked. Had one in a '54 Chevy, my first $25 car, that worked fine until the car deteriorated around it. 20+ years at least.
I have a set of gauges that may get installed...one day. But I read of the plastic tube under pressure failing, and giving a bath of hot oil... makes me hesitant. Also running all the amps through the gauge... bzzzzt. Fire! Fire! .. not good. Forget what the 3rd gauge is.
Glad you got your leak fixed. I still have the original in place, and it seems fine, dating back to Dec 1984 when I drove it home.
tom
 
Geez, you've had yours even longer than me. Yes, I figured they did something to it but since they're the only garage within 20 miles it's not worth alienating them. All seems ok now though I haven't tested it any longer than a mile. Speaking of age the hardest part was trying to move about in order to run the line beneath the the dash-I'm still sore. I wisely bought a gauge from the same manu & didn't have to change the bracket or adapter for the thread in.

I did find one unattached piece of tubing with an inch long cylindrical rubber plug (kind of). I think it's been under there for some time & as soon as I can take a decent pic I'm going to ask you all what it is. Keeping in form it will be labellel "Mystery part" lol
 

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