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Old July 15th 05, 07:31 PM
Lanny Chambers
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In article >,
"n93332" > wrote:

> Of course, if the end was near, what difference would it make on how much to
> spend on the trip? The bills would show up after the end...


Next time the world ends, please give me a couple days' notice. I'll put
a Ford GT on my MasterCard.

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Old July 15th 05, 08:41 PM
Frank Berger
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"Eric Baber" > wrote in message
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> "Lanny Chambers" > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article >,
>> pws > wrote:
>>
>>> It sounds to me like you cheaped out on buying the ox.

>>
>> In my defense: after my earlier livestock purchases, the car maintenance
>> budget was somewhat depleted for the quarter. Still, I kept scanning
>> farmanimals.ebay.com for oxen, but I kept getting outbid by a cult of
>> fundamentalist Babylonian sodbusters from Kansas. *sigh*

>
> This reminds me of a hilarious episode that happened to me about a year
> ago. I was on holiday on a small Greek island. One day a whole bunch of
> people in white descended on the island, all Americans (myself and my
> friends with whom I was there are from the UK). It transpired that they
> were members of some cult or other who were convinced that Armageddon was
> to take place on one of the days we were there, and the only place in the
> whole world that would survive was this particular island. They holed
> themselves up in a hotel they'd group-booked, then reappeared the night
> before the Big Day and went wandering around the town. Needless to say,
> Armageddon didn't actually take place. What we wanted to know was:
>
> - How did they get back home? One would assume they got one-way tickets.
> - Once they got home (if indeed they did), did they have anything left to
> go back to? Or had they told their bosses to shove it, sold the house and
> spent all the money on one hell of a party?
> - What DID they get up to in that hotel in the few days they disappeared
> from view??!!
>
> All I can say is keep scanning farmanimals.ebay.com, Lanny, something's
> bound to turn up sooner or later.
>
> Eric
>

I'm guessing that the world as they knew it, did, infact, end for them.


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Old July 17th 05, 12:18 AM
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Not having any livestock to hand, I replaced the thermostat. When
testing the engine at idle I noticed there's a cold area on the rad I
hadn't noticed before. Fan turned on fine - but the cold area is
exactly where the fan is!

Is it worth trying to flush the rad or is that a waste of time?

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Old July 17th 05, 01:27 AM
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Any time spent on bonding with your car is time well spent!=)

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> Not having any livestock to hand, I replaced the thermostat. When
> testing the engine at idle I noticed there's a cold area on the rad I
> hadn't noticed before. Fan turned on fine - but the cold area is
> exactly where the fan is!
>
> Is it worth trying to flush the rad or is that a waste of time?
>



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Old July 21st 05, 02:02 PM
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> Any time spent on bonding with your car is time well spent!=)


LOL! Very true - I need to repair the relationship as well as the
radiator!

I might give it a go. As half the rad is hot and half cold I can only
guess the blockage is not in the individual tiny tubes.

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Old July 31st 05, 12:51 AM
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Final update on this...

Attempted to flush rad, all directions, used descaler.

Complete waste of time (apart from the bonding!).

New rad bought, works great

 




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