In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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It's stopped raining now that I am in.
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Quote:Oh, but of course!
Originally posted by Brenda:
It's stopped raining now that I am in.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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No cause for me to start celebrating yet, but I do believe I figured out what the problem with the car is.
Finding out so late in the day on Saturday had me cursing the fact I'd been sick the last week, but things happen for a reason and the accidental nature with which I figured it out today may well not have happened had I not been sick.
Last Saturday (I don't remember if I mentioned it or not), I was holding my RPMs up to 3000 for 3 minutes (a YouTube "fix" for the CAT not clearing problem on these mid-90's model cars), and I stopped about 90 seconds in when I saw smoke coming out of the engine compartment. After letting the car cool off and checking that my temp was fine and the coolant level was good, I ran a drive cycle. I'd also driven quite a bit on Monday and Tuesday and there were no signs anything was wrong and I just forgot about it... convincing myself it was probably just some of the oil that is OUTSIDE of the engine after years of this thing being a leaky little problem.
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Today I got the air filter out and vacuumed it and the compartment for it. The filter was fine, but there were a few small leaves and helicopters in there, but I decided against bothering to change it. I was considering changing the oil despite the fact it really didn't need it, but for whatever reason I decided to try the 3000RPM thing again.
Sure enough, about 90 seconds in I started seeing the smoke come out of the engine compartment again. This time, I decided to just do the full 3 minutes and let things heat up and see if I could tell where the smoke was coming from after I stopped the car. No dice on that. I don't know enough about cars, and it seemed to be coming from everywhere at once under the hood and located somewhere near the center.
But then something made me get down and look under the car...
The damned flex pipe I'd replaced only 2 years ago had char marks on it and an good amount of smoke was coming up and out of it.
I can't say for sure yet that this is my ONLY problem, but fixing that 2 years ago was the thing I needed to do to finally get all the monitors to clear. I've already bought my replacement and need to call on Monday morning to see when he can fit me in to do it again.
Fingers crossed.
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Fingers crossed indeed!
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Yeah, thanks.
It makes sense, really. The little hesitancy that happens between the automatic shifting gears is less pronounced right now after all the cleaning treatments that I've been running through, but it was getting pretty bad there up until then.
Replacing that flex pipe 2 years ago after running similar cleaning treatments through it had all but eliminated that problem at the time, and it wasn't until around the time the check engine light first came on late summer of last year that I started noticing it coming back and slowly becoming more pronounced.
With how nice she's running otherwise right now, I'm hoping that this will do the trick and eliminate that problem again as well.
The hole can't be too big now, despite the smoke coming out of it, because before I replaced it last time the car sounded like a motorcycle and I don't notice it being any louder now than it was after the initial fix. But maybe the hole really is big and the flex mesh dampens the sound? The old one that I replaced didn't even have any mesh left on it, and other than the charred looking area toward the front and bottom the entire mesh is on and looks just fine.
Other than that, I guess my concern is why did it fail after only 1 1/2 years? I'm sure these cheap aftermarket parts all come from China, but it claims to come with a "limited lifetime warranty" which is probably meaningless, so I would have figured to get quite a bit more time out of it than I did considering how little I drive. This may be indicative of a larger problem.
Oh well. I'll worry about that later. For now lets just get her bandaged up and pass that test.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Oh, but of course!
Originally posted by Brenda:
It's stopped raining now that I am in.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I know. Never fails. Then around suppertime the sun came out.
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I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
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Dry day on the one day that I stay in.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
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It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!
Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!
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