Sometimes you just cant count on modern marvels
Ok so last night was very unexpected and shitty.Today I didn't go to work because if I did get there, I'd have been late, better late than never though, and on top of being late, well I'd have had no way home. My dad would have been at work like he is right now and my mom who is home now would already be heading to Tampa for work so either way I'd be screwed.
Im going tomorrow as my dad will be home after 8 and can take me then I can get picked up as well. I put a few quarts of tranni fluid in my car and proceeded to start it in park. It clunked and made a God awful fuckin noise and sounded like it was eating itself, Im very familiar with that noise when dealing with cars, typically all of my cars and with that said I can officially say "I hate modern inventions with a passion" that is unless they work and then I become an ungrateful bastard who uses them without a care in the world as I take it for granted, after all that's what we all do anyway.
So I attempted to start it and no go, it wouldn't start. I put it in neutral like Andy told me to do and then it started, it actually ran... No way was it a head gasket as a few other people thought and yeah they were all mechanics.They didn't have enough information to know for sure though so their educated guesses were all they had, or should I say uneducated?
Well my car ran in Neutral which tells me that the car has load put onto the wheels from the engine when it's in park which means only one thing to me, that the torque converter is frozen, fused or locked to the motor and when it sits in park it's trying to turn the wheels but cant which causes the engine to stall. It also wants to move forward when it's in neutral which tells me again, it's stuck or locked to the motor and the tranni wont back out of gear to safe it's own life. It somehow doesn't stall when in N, but wants to move forward a bit, odd, but I aint arguing ...
George And Sons Towing is picking it up and bringing it to a shop my dad called and the owner "Red" knows my dad's friend Pat and Pat reccomended we call them so it should be in good hands.We usually end up with a good mechanic when we get fucked over carwise, we have that under control thank God and are not getting raped when it comes to that.
So my car is scrapped for now, transmission seems screwed and maybe all I need is a new torque converter and flywheel, maybe I need a whole new transmission, idk, but this sucks because it's hindering me from going places such as work, to get food, to be anywhere, Ft.Myers... Anywhere! It sucks total ass and I hate how life works like this. I just got the car back in like late February, early March and it was quoted to of have a new trans put in it and now look, tranni problems, fuckin great...
I hope that the car get's fixed in quick manner and it's not expensive at all.
On a different note, it's been a month now since the 10th and being 136 or so miles from Brooke can make it or break it on the weekend as we have both found out.Sometimes things are perfect and other times things dont turn out anything like you'd have thought. So far it's been pretty good and I think this can last quite a while with the distance and while distance sucks at times, it can hold you together too. I believe it's not the best thing, but it does have it's pro's and yes, some cons as well, but we are making things work and I just want the holidays with her. I have so much to look forward to it's great, but it's not quite here just yet. I have Thanksgiving, my 22nd birthday and you better believe it's going to be drunken and filled with friends and strippers! lol hah it's gonna be fuckin nuts and Christmas is coming shortly , New Years.... Only thing is that with this new job I wont be getting the same amount of time off that I used to get with Christmas shutdown, this time it wotn be nearly the same as far as days off. I will however get more money that way so it's beneficial at least.
Well for now Im out, got nothing to do, but waste time and there is still a decent amount of that to waste before tomorrow when my dad must bring me to work, oh joy... Gotta deal with it though and until he car is fixed.
Chris..
Im going tomorrow as my dad will be home after 8 and can take me then I can get picked up as well. I put a few quarts of tranni fluid in my car and proceeded to start it in park. It clunked and made a God awful fuckin noise and sounded like it was eating itself, Im very familiar with that noise when dealing with cars, typically all of my cars and with that said I can officially say "I hate modern inventions with a passion" that is unless they work and then I become an ungrateful bastard who uses them without a care in the world as I take it for granted, after all that's what we all do anyway.
So I attempted to start it and no go, it wouldn't start. I put it in neutral like Andy told me to do and then it started, it actually ran... No way was it a head gasket as a few other people thought and yeah they were all mechanics.They didn't have enough information to know for sure though so their educated guesses were all they had, or should I say uneducated?
Well my car ran in Neutral which tells me that the car has load put onto the wheels from the engine when it's in park which means only one thing to me, that the torque converter is frozen, fused or locked to the motor and when it sits in park it's trying to turn the wheels but cant which causes the engine to stall. It also wants to move forward when it's in neutral which tells me again, it's stuck or locked to the motor and the tranni wont back out of gear to safe it's own life. It somehow doesn't stall when in N, but wants to move forward a bit, odd, but I aint arguing ...
George And Sons Towing is picking it up and bringing it to a shop my dad called and the owner "Red" knows my dad's friend Pat and Pat reccomended we call them so it should be in good hands.We usually end up with a good mechanic when we get fucked over carwise, we have that under control thank God and are not getting raped when it comes to that.
So my car is scrapped for now, transmission seems screwed and maybe all I need is a new torque converter and flywheel, maybe I need a whole new transmission, idk, but this sucks because it's hindering me from going places such as work, to get food, to be anywhere, Ft.Myers... Anywhere! It sucks total ass and I hate how life works like this. I just got the car back in like late February, early March and it was quoted to of have a new trans put in it and now look, tranni problems, fuckin great...
I hope that the car get's fixed in quick manner and it's not expensive at all.
On a different note, it's been a month now since the 10th and being 136 or so miles from Brooke can make it or break it on the weekend as we have both found out.Sometimes things are perfect and other times things dont turn out anything like you'd have thought. So far it's been pretty good and I think this can last quite a while with the distance and while distance sucks at times, it can hold you together too. I believe it's not the best thing, but it does have it's pro's and yes, some cons as well, but we are making things work and I just want the holidays with her. I have so much to look forward to it's great, but it's not quite here just yet. I have Thanksgiving, my 22nd birthday and you better believe it's going to be drunken and filled with friends and strippers! lol hah it's gonna be fuckin nuts and Christmas is coming shortly , New Years.... Only thing is that with this new job I wont be getting the same amount of time off that I used to get with Christmas shutdown, this time it wotn be nearly the same as far as days off. I will however get more money that way so it's beneficial at least.
Well for now Im out, got nothing to do, but waste time and there is still a decent amount of that to waste before tomorrow when my dad must bring me to work, oh joy... Gotta deal with it though and until he car is fixed.
Chris..