4A-F Without A Cam Cover

4A-F Without A Cam Cover, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I got my car back the Sunday before I had to go in for Jury Duty.

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I'm gonna leave my opinions out of this post in regards to the condition in which it was in. I'm just gonna post what we (me pop and I) fixed.

After I got out Jury Duty (early, btw), I looked at my car and just.. I grabbed a rag and started to take off what I could of the dust that has begun to turn into crust. I also cleaned the rims. Not only that I popped the hood and also dusted what I could of the engine, filled the radiator with water and then turned the car on to try to figure out when it had begun to leak from.

Water pump was damaged. Not to mention the Power Steering pump was also dying.

So I made my way over to my dad's and parked it in the S&R area and me pop and I started to work on it. Well, after it cooled off a bit. My dad checked on the condition of the water pump while I was screwing around with the spark plug wires. I pulled out the #4 and lo and behold, it was flooded with oil. Luckly the other three were fine which meant no damage to the head.

Rag was put in to begin getting any oil that was in there.

So the oil filter was taken out, as was the oil.

That slowly dripped into the oil pan as my dad took off the cam cover in order to replace the seal. He changed all four at which point I took this picture.

After the cover was back on, the oil was put in, the spark plugs, the oil filter, the air filter, one of the gas filters (it has two, my dad added another one to it) were replaced. The breaks in the back were tightened and as I rolled out, it was discovered the right drum had crystalized. So now when I hit the brakes, it annoyingly squeeks.

And so we made plans for the rest of the car.

I was to takeout the PowerSteering pump while the WaterPump was to be left to my dad to be done on Saturday the 24th along with changing the axle on Moses' Civic.

I couldn't get the stupid hose out. My dad came home during his lunch break in order to get it out and he took it in order to get it cleaned and rebuilt. Not only that but he also took out the PS hose that I couldn't even reach.

At the end of the day, I wound up cleaning my car with a rag and a little spray bottle. Turns out the rag had wax on it. My hands turned white after about 2 hours of constant scrubbing. Save for the bottom section of the side panels, I finished cleaning the entire car (including vaccuming it) the next day. Took me about 6 hours total to get it back to something I could remotely call 'clean'.

And so I kept it clean, then it rained and I took the opportunity and scrubbed it with the squeegee I have and dried it. Sure it got wet again, but I got most of whatever dirt I hadn't gotten before. And yea, I did dry it again.

And now that school has once again started for me, I am constantly cleaning it and keeping it in as dirt-free as possible.

Oh, and it also needs a new clutch. Me father plans to have the original clutch that it had on rebuilt since it's supposedly better than what ever it has in it at the moment.

The drums were spray painted white when they were purchased.

...they're no longer white.

*Sigh*

The Sleeper, originally uploaded by thecat16.

"You're a dumbass, you know that?" said the smirking neighbor sitting next to to her during class.

"Wha? Why?!"

Shaking his head and returning to his note-taking was his only response.

Puzzled by this, she desired to investigate but was suddenly interrupted by the professor announcing that class had finished causing the entire room to become too loud to ask for any explanation.

"*sigh* I haven't done anything lately to deserve that kind of commentary from him! Jeez!" she thought to herself as she hurried to gather her stuff and follow her neighbor.

"Great. I forgot my umbrella." She thought out loud as she saw the view outside.

"That's why I said you're a dumbass" said her neighbor while pulling out an umbrella suitable for two.

Left without much of a choice, let alone a response, she walked alongside in defeat.