Friday, November 8, 2019

Damn, and Double Damn



The wiper/turn signal/high and low beam switch out of my 1995 Ford Taurus. Found and pulled one from another 1995 at the salvage yard. Mine is a sedan, the donor a station wagon. Doesn't work. Fuck!

Now I'm shopping online. More delays and frustrations.

Bitch, piss and moan.

My body keeps telling me I'm too damn old to be twisting and contorting working on vehicles. My bank account tells me my hourly rate can't be beat.

Oh well, keeps me out of bars.

11 comments:

  1. Geez....I hate working on dashboard/interior stuff anymore.

    I have a new set of carpets and a heater core for the Supra that need to be installed. Was going to do it this past summer, but got bogged down getting the bottom rear seat cushions out, which stalled me on pulling the rest of the stuff out.....

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  2. drjim
    Wouldn't touch it if the wipers worked.

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  3. I was pondering rebuilding the air conditioning system in it, and then after it got shipped here, I noticed the heater core was bypassed because one of the nipples had broken or corroded off the core.

    A/C I can live without here, but the heater NEEDS fixin'!

    It's a pretty major job to replace the heater core, but when I have the seats and carpet out, it gets easier.

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  4. drjim
    I may have other electrical issues but need the right part before I will know. Electrical has always been my biggest shortcoming.

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  5. Last time that I tackled something like that was on my daughter's Honda and it turned out to be a relay that stuck. Not a fuse, not the part itself, but a relay. Who would have thought? Price of the relay was under a buck but the trouble it caused to diagnose was damned near infinite.

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  6. The famous "$5 part that costs $1200 to replace".....BTDT!

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  7. Yeah, NOT designed to be worked on anymore... My grandpa is spinning at high RPM in his grave now. He was a factory mechanic whose job it was to make SURE the mechanics could actually work on the vehicles before they were produced.

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  8. LL
    Electrical problems are, for me, the worse. In my foolish youth I owned Italian and British cars. Simpler cars - no electronics. Then we had printed circuits, ala Dodge. Grr!

    drjim
    Ford transmissions.

    Old NFO
    Chevys that you need to disconnect motor mounts to change spark plugs.

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  9. A 95 Ford Taurus? Really?

    Those are uglier than a 1985 Dodge Aires (the original butt ugly K-car). And that's saying something.

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  10. I've seen it. It's actually a nice looking car.

    I almost expected WSF to have an old CHP car, the Ford Crown Victoria, but he's more modern than that!

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  11. Fredd
    I don't care about appearances. That body style has one of the lowest coefficient of drag of any domestic car, ever. The beautiful thing about all my vehicles since 1986 is the titles were in my file cabinet. Want ugly? My 1985 Mitsubishi Might Max.

    drjim
    Would love to have a Crown Vic. My 1994 Lincoln Town Car went 275,000 miles. Donated it. Volunteer mechanic did a head gasket job and the family that got the car is still driving it.

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