I Fixed My Own Car!
Anyway, I called them to say that my daytime running lights refused to shut off, even when the car was off, keys out etc. They said it would take at least an hour (60 $) to find the problem, and at least 110$ to fix it. So, 170$ minimum, plus 15% tax. I decided to look up the part on the net, and unfortunately, the part looks different and is a different spot in each vehicle. So, I spent all morning taking stuff apart and putting it back together to see if I managed to get the right bundle of wiring and the right plugs.... And I got it!!! It was nowhere near where canadian tire said it would be, but I found it, and fixed it! I look like a grease monkey now, does anyone know how to get this stuff off? I also cut my thumb a few times and one cut is full of grease and is throbbing...LOL But I don't care, I fixed my car! Yay! LOL You all think I'm nuts now right??? |
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Cool Willow, you are such a renaissance woman!  On top of all the other things you can now add, dog groomer extroidinare and car mechanic. Way to go!
I changed my altenator once, does that count. Of course, that was after watching my husband do it 10 times before that, on the same %&@# car. You watch, you learn, and then you finally learn to go get a new car. LOL 
We now have a minivan now, we only have 2 kids, but we had to have a car big enough for the dogs to fit too! They go everywhere with us, we even have places like Home Depot and Lowes letting them come in with us. Is Dancer still a frisky girl? Give her a big hug, Stormi |
| Hey Willow! I grew up with a mechanic for a father. Beleive it or not, he made me do a lot of stuff myself. He'd buy the parts (I had to pay him back), bring them home, then have ME fix whatever needed fixing. Funny- he never had time to fix OUR cars! Anyway- dish soap works great at getting out the grease. Or here in the U.S., we have GoJo, a hand cleaner made specifically for that purpose. But that smells like oil and is more expensive that dish washing detergent. And I want to tell you that your sheepie (avatar) is BEAUTIFUL! |
| Gojo Orange doesn't smell quite so bad.
Next time buy some latex gloves, and if it's a tough job, wear 2 pair. It's nearly impossible to get grease out from under the nails. TRICK OF THE TRADE::: When cleaning up after a greasy job, ALWAYS use the soap/degreaser FIRST before adding any water. Lather up with SOAP/DEGREASER ONLY, then after all the grease has melted then rinse away with the water. As you know, oil and water don't mix. Wetting your oily hands first only causes the oil to be spread by the water and rubbing. Detergents are molecules that attach to oil on one side and water on the other. The trick is to get the detergent fully attached to all of the oil before introducing the water to get the now detergent+oil molecule to attach to the water and rinse down the drain. (This is true too when washing up after contact with the oil of Poison Ivy.... Lather with the soap and fully scrub before adding the water. Using the water first will only spread the oil.) At least this is what I've read, and it seems to work for me.... But nothing beats not getting dirty in the first place. Wear the gloves!  |
| I still have some uder my nails, but I got most of it off. LOL
I used to work on cars when I was a teenager, my first car was a 68 camaro. Bought for 500$ tore it apart and put it back together. These newer cars though seem almost impossible to do anything yourself on. Things are in the strangest places and so hard to get to for the simplest jobs. |
| Wow!! Proud of you!!
Just goes to show you that anything is possible when you put your mind to it...well most things anyway! |
| Like dissolves like is what my chem prof always said.
With 5 brothers and a dad who only bought cars at auction, I have had to fix a few. Another hint for taking off the oil. Use any type of oil, cooking oil, or even powdered laundry detergent. Dab on and wipe off on newspaper, sawdust, or sand. Don't use water until you can see your skin. Use ear wipes with baby oil, cooking oil, or one of those automotive degreasers and clean under the nails, after you use an edge of the newspaper of course. The less you mess with water the easier the clean up. As far as putting things in strange places, I still haven't found where they put my Mazda MPV's fuel filter. It use to be up against the firewall....guess I will have to buy the book on it. If I can find it. And who would have guessed its instrument panel was wired up with the cigarette lighter fuses? Never lived until you hook up a faulty cell phone charger to your cigarette lighter and have the whole vehicle turn off and freeze up! Had to glide to the side of the road and find the fuse box! It wasn't under the dash either, it has moved to a side panel by the front door. Convenient, if you know where to look. Congratulations on your success. And your dog looks fantastic in your avatar. I guess I should get a new pic up myself, but Abbi needs a bit of grooming first. Sigh! |
| Try Comet cleanser on tough problems on the hands. Amazing what all comes off that other cleaners won't touch. |
Ok, how many of you remember singing...Comet, makes your teeth turn green, comet, it tastes like gasoline, comet, it will make you vomit, so get your comet and vomit today. Yes, I know silly and stupid as can be, huh. Well, that was what we sang in my elementary school days. I would say it doesn't matter that I wrote this, because I have tried posting ALL day and it takes me to a unavailable web page.....but since I have decided to post something with no information worth having this one will probably go through.   Oh, well....here goes nothing. |
| I do I do!
How about "Evrything tastes better, with blue vomit onit" Or "Winston tastes bad like the one you just had -- no filter, no taste just a forty cent waste." |
| Stormi, it sounds like you have picked up a computer parasite. Sounds like a browser hijacker to me. If you have a program that removes ad ware and spy ware I would run it, and if you are puter savy at all, it is fairly easy to go into your registry and clean out the varmin...lol... If you look in your registry keys look for anything that says Moneytree, Internet Optimizer, or Dyfuca. Those are the main ones, however, if you have picked up Zupiter, you're going to have more problems than you can imagine trying to get rid of that one.
Anyway, if you need any help let me know! 
Stacey |
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