Lost in Translation.
I can’t figure this one out to save my circuits.
That other car keeps going out dirty, smelling like dead bugs and coming back clean, smelling of fresh wax. It seems to work the opposite way with me. I’ve tried striking up a conversation with It, being it’s just us two here in the garage, but the accent is so heavy, who knows what it’s saying. All that “Der” and “Zwei” and “Ich spreche kein Deutsch.”
A little American-speak here would help.
Denied!
Got an oil check and a wipe down. They said I was going out tonight. Then I was tucked back under my blanket. NO FAIR!
Oil Change Success.
Oil change success! First ever done alone in c8r2no1 garage. I know, shouldn’t be a big deal…but isn’t the first anything a big deal? If not, shouldn’t it be?
There was a teensy-tiny scare when the car rolled an inch or so backward while the front end was sitting on the Race Ramps and I was jacking the back end up but nothing a few minutes of surveying the situation didn’t ease. Picking up jack stands yesterday proved helpful in eliminating almost all worry. Thanks to Steve for talking me down from that one.
Hours after completion, no drips, no leaks, oil level perfect. I even remembered to reset the DIC this time (though that wasn’t as straight forward as one might think).
Much thanks again to JC Motorsports for the garage training ground and Kastaway Corvettes for the awesome-y low floor jack.
Funny Car Eats Mechanic.
Better to have happen up at the lights than at the end of the strip.
YouTube link: Funny Car Eats Mechanic.
No one was injured in the incident. So, what do you think the conversation afterward included? “Sorry about that. How’s the ankles? Hey, the skin off your arm is in my intake and you broke my tie rod?”
Lovely Weather.
The weather outside screams “Driving Time” yet here I sit, waiting, waiting on…oh yeah, that oil change that’s promised me. D from Kastaway Corvettes hand-delivered the coolest of cool low-slung, race floorjacks weeks ago. (Thanks, D!) My oil should have been changed by now but no. My owner plays Safety Jane nearly to a T and insists on jack stands too (for reasons too terrible and won’t be gone into here).
But those jack stands are coming, I’ve been assured. Call me silly, call me overly optimistic (just don’t call me late for a fun-run up the freeway), but I’m a believer. There’s talk of a damp weekend and time ahead. The low jack has been test fitted for height, a bit snug, but workable (don’t hate me because I’m a ground-hugger). Two 5-quart jugs of Mobil 1 oil (5W-30 GM rated 4718M Corvette spec) sit atop the workbench alongside a new drain pan, filter, and filter wrench. What else could that possibly mean??
The New C8R2NO1 Website.
Welcome to the new C8R2NO1 Corvette Blog. The old format was, well, old and tired and who wants to keep coding the entire thing by hand when there are more important things for my owner to do, …like apply polish or change the oil or buff aluminium parts with a couple of friends of mine you may have heard mentioned: A fat tube of Wenol and the trusty old Dremel?
Yeah, I thought you’d see it my way.
A few bugs are being ironed out here so if you run across any problems or want to make a suggestion toward website improvement or just want to comment about how you noticed a few scratches here and there the last time I was out in public, by all means, email my owner. Oh, go ahead. I’ll excuse them. I’m not that tough a taskmaster.
