Woke up late didnt reset my alam from starting at 8 on Sat instead of 7. Long day of tying up ends and finishing wiring the house we where on, and didnt make it to the job we where to start today.
I was told I cant keep using the work van to get to and from work any longer, my the suspension under my Jeep came apart last Wed after my bosses funeral. Ild been to beat after work to go rolling around in the snow to fix it and my neighbor with a shop has been out of town so I kept putting fixing the Jeep off.
So I just dicided to fix the suspension but not put the driveline back in and just use the front wheel drive till I get replacement parts. No luck in that, the lower links are stripped out and would be VERY unsafe to reinstall. This is where the one good thing happened today, the stock front links are allmost the same length as the after market rear links and went in fairly easily.
I go to start the Jeep to warm it up for a test drive and not enough battery to start. I started the thing when my coworker dropped me off and it fired right up, I didnt let it run long enough to charge the battery. I do have a battery charger but it is fickle and you have to constantly mess with it to get a charge going.
So between messing with the charger I decide to wash my hands after 2 hours of dealing with the Jeep after a 10 hour work day. Guess what? No water. I grab the flash light and head around the house to the crawl access, it was wide open and its below freezing outside. Thankfully it was still warm enough under there that the water was slush and not totally frozen. I dump the ice water out of the filters and still couldnt get pressure from the tank. I started to worry I burned out the well pump. I tossed a small heater under there checked the fitting in case a full freeze had happened in one of the lines. I come back into the house for a smoke and think to open the bathroom siink so if the water started flowwing Ild know. Well I had water. I go back under the house to check for leaks and sure enough I had a leak at the filters but I didnt know where any thread tape was so I finaly got the Jeep fired and off to my local store I go. My local store had no pipe tape so I headed back home to search for something to use. Found some compound and back under the house I went. Pulled the assembly apart refit and sealed all the fittings and reassembled. Guess what, I still had a leak but on the output from the filters. Tore that apart 4 times trying to get it to reseal.
So after a bad start to the day and after a 10 hour bad day of tying up all the little things that make a job go on and on, after 2 hours of jerry rigging the Jeep back into driving condition, and after getting my plumbing working again (I hope) I was able to sit down and relax a little.
Now its time to go back outside and under the house to check for leaks.
