Yesterday was a fucked day. I mean part was okay but the main problem just made me SO FUCKING MAD! We are slated for rain all week which of course is when I have bigger outdoor jobs to do.
So I dropped the boys at school then drove to the valley to my first client. She has a wall that she wants built in a bedroom to enlarge an insanely tiny bathroom that had been demoed already. The old one was 4'x4' and barely enough room for a toilet and a sink. It was to be a short visit but turned into an hour. I gave her good ideas on how big to make it and got measurements made for a materials list.
I then headed up to another client in NW Spokane where I was 15 minutes late but it was okay as I scheduled work for Monday to clean out planters in her back yard and remove a couple dead grasses.
As I was driving there the car started to have a clack in the engine. When I left I headed for home and it only got worse.... MOTHER FUCKING LIFTER CLACK!!!! I was about 5 miles from home with the cruise on and it suddenly bogged down and codes blew on it. The clack got louder and then constant at all rpm. I pulled into the property and got my car stethoscope out and saw the codes were #3 and #4 cylinders. I heard the clacking with the scope on the passenger side head. Thankfully I was not totally despondent and had the ability to focus on shifting gears, otherwise I would have started breaking things.
Having no other options I pulled the battery from it, dropped it in my truck, got it started, cleared codes, then test drove it up to the gas station and back. It managed to drive at highway speed just fine... So I transferred my tools from the car to my truck, crossed my fingers and bit the bullet. It made it the 15 miles south to my afternoon job of assembling a 20x20 carport. As is my life it began to rain as I got to work, then it began to DUMP! And continued to dump on me as I worked for the next 2 hours.
Jim is a great guy and likes to talk. The carport is nice and light weight so manageable by myself. He said I didn't have to work in the rain but I was determined to at least get the trusses all connected. I had chosen to bring my soft shell which was a mistake as it got soaked through.
Within a couple hours I had the trusses all connected with connector bars and the thing in place where it will be standing. I will go back Friday to finish assembling it for him.
I was SOAKED and chilled pretty good. I then went to start my truck and it refused. I tried my jump pack, nothing but a starter click. I had brought another battery with and tried putting cables between it and my truck, still nothing. Tried Jim's jump pack and still nothing. I figured if I turned the crank pulley it would do the trick so after borrowing a 22mm box end from Jim I got the pulley turned a bit and BOOM, it started right up. No codes showing.
So I was able to make it home just fine and THANK GOD the heater works well in my truck as it got me warming up despite being soaked.
That was the rain that had passed over and drenched me.
After @stryeyz got home I was able to muster the gumption to call Tirerama and cancel the axle replacement on the car and instead am taking my truck in to have them try and fix the "random misfire" codes that keep popping up on it. At this point I am SO FUCKING OVER car problems and am willing to pay to have others deal with my vehicle issues. I will get her car for work this week which is not ideal but it is what it is.
I will get the boys to school this morning in my truck then head into Tirerama to drop it off and then get her car. I have my session, then a quick job for a client by the golf course. My next job is way up north of Newport to change out a door lock for a digital keypad one which won't take long but it is near an hour drive each way.
I really do feel like a piece of shit with all these vehicle problems. So many conflicting internal voices doing battle in my head and this intense frustration with mechanics and my pig headedness around it. Whatever, at least the truck will be in other's hands to try and remedy. I am done fucking with the problems.
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