When working yesterday one of the regular customers to the garage came in for a gas can full of fuel (Notice I'm making the transition from UK to US English). Her daughters car had run out of fuel. A few hours later she came in for groceries, apparently the car wouldn't start even with fuel so they'd got it towed back. I said I'd have a look at it on today.
I was up at about 9am this morning which, for me, on a Sunday, my only full day off, is unusual but the draw of cycling and mapping has me in it's grasp. As the alarm went off at 7am I was already thinking about which area I was going to map out today.
After a short (1hr) phone call with dad I headed out for my cycle ride.
http://tinyurl.com/ar4trb
While out I stopped to talk to some of the people that I know from the garage, they were out cleaning their cars.
When heading back I got a call from the lady with the car trouble and headed over.
Taking off the air filter I could smell fuel, trying the HT lead against bare metal I got a spark. I took out and checked the plugs, all seemed to be OK. The car had not been serviced since 2001, no oil change, no checks nothing. As I took off the cover for the cam belt the belt fell out. That was pretty much where my amateur mechanics ended. Thankfully I was just able to put everything back together (sans cam belt) before it started to rain.
Now I'm going to convert that GPS data into mapping for OpenStreetMap.org.
I was up at about 9am this morning which, for me, on a Sunday, my only full day off, is unusual but the draw of cycling and mapping has me in it's grasp. As the alarm went off at 7am I was already thinking about which area I was going to map out today.
After a short (1hr) phone call with dad I headed out for my cycle ride.
http://tinyurl.com/ar4trb
While out I stopped to talk to some of the people that I know from the garage, they were out cleaning their cars.
When heading back I got a call from the lady with the car trouble and headed over.
Taking off the air filter I could smell fuel, trying the HT lead against bare metal I got a spark. I took out and checked the plugs, all seemed to be OK. The car had not been serviced since 2001, no oil change, no checks nothing. As I took off the cover for the cam belt the belt fell out. That was pretty much where my amateur mechanics ended. Thankfully I was just able to put everything back together (sans cam belt) before it started to rain.
Now I'm going to convert that GPS data into mapping for OpenStreetMap.org.
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